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by gascan 8y ago
As a motorcyclist & car driver, what I've observed is in a car you can hear loud pipe bikes- but only when they are in front of you, i.e. with the tailpipe pointing at your face. Behind or beside you- in other words, in your blind
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by gascan 8y ago
This is only speculation, but initially when unions were just getting started, all that concentration of power was probably required to wrest any control away from the company. Then by the time the scales began to tip, the unions suddenly h
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by gascan 8y ago
Nah I think what you'd really want to look at is something like YOY GDP growth vs hours worked, or something like that. If a country is experiencing large gains in output, working more hours is paying great dividends and raising everyo
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by gascan 8y ago
Yeah, I've read a handful of conservatives who proclaim that the one thing that makes America great is a 'strong institution of property rights'. What I can't tell is whether they really believe it, or are advancing th
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by gascan 8y ago
terrible analogy. Ask a fruit grower how stupid this is What about the fruit rotting on the ground? That's one of our favorite analogies.
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by gascan 8y ago
The catch is it's hard to measure & value the experience the older engineer brings to the table.
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by gascan 8y ago
I'm a hw guy, FWIW that reaction you see might owe a lot to the periodic castigation directed our way over things like, (paraphrasing) There's a clear need for a Ruby-to-gates compiler, the only possible explanation for why there
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by gascan 8y ago
That one is usually regulated at the city level. You might talk to your city council. There are many, many good reasons to disallow that kind of lighting, it could be it just hasn't been on your city's radar yet.
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by gascan 8y ago
Human reaction time is always there, but driving a stickshift generally teaches you to be more observant & plan ahead more- to anticipate and try to avoid extreme braking or acceleration situations. I drove stick for years, and your p
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by gascan 8y ago
There definitely seems to be a couple of functionally optimal road sizes, where extra pavement dramatically improves flow and by doing so at least appears to greatly improve throughput. In our town, the city has been switching from tight
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by gascan 8y ago
It's true that roads convey people & permit economic activity. But that road down the way that is so congested right now? If we expanded it, and it could convey more cars at the same level of congestion- where did they come from?
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by gascan 8y ago
because there are no open-source cores for even simple things like USB3.1 controllers or Thunderbolt Those are hardly that simple. There exist entire companies whose function is designing such cores (and licensing them).
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by gascan 8y ago
It also re-illustrates what we already knew- improved hardware leads to/permits code size & runtime bloat.
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by gascan 8y ago
Not trying to be condescending, but your buddy might not understand how marginal tax rates work. taxB > taxA $salary * (1 - taxA) = take-homeA $salary * (1 - taxA) + $raise * (1 - taxB) = take-homeB take-homeB > take-home
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by gascan 8y ago
It's a uniquely American problem because these policies were the product of racism So America is the only racist country?
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by gascan 8y ago
I do wish I had more fixed, casement, awning, & hopper windows in the US. But supposedly the popularity of sliding windows has a lot to do with the popularity of really, really big windows, especially with large contiguous panes of glas
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by gascan 8y ago
US cities are uniformly car-centric Amen. I live in a US locale that is routinely described as one of the top 5 bike friendly towns in America. I bike around, look around, and all I can think is, are you kidding me? Narrow shoulders, aggr
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by gascan 8y ago
It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist I grew up in the Bay Area. I see the same thread talking to people who still live there.
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by gascan 8y ago
Right, so instead of simply moving to the place where they can have the lifestyle they want, they should suck it up and buy a car like good Americans.
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by gascan 8y ago
There's ambiguous stuff to be sure. But I'm talking about people who throw food scraps, furniture, car tires, ash, bbq coals, construction debris, etc in the recycling. Yes, I've seen all of those things go into the recycling
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by gascan 8y ago
Depending on where you live, it might already (mostly) exist, minus the NFC part. Grocery co-op in my area has a big back room of bulk goods, sells durable containers too, run by hippies and has been around for decades. The real hurdles wit
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by gascan 8y ago
Some recyclables are really valuable (metal, quality cardboard), but others that we really want to recycle aren't particularly (plastics, glass). Also, morons throw shocking amounts of obvious trash into the recycling stream, which i
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by gascan 8y ago
Yeah, but that comes out of someone else's budget, so who cares right?
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by gascan 8y ago
Rooftops are also conveniently close to the demand.
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by gascan 8y ago
Sounds like a further argument for per-panel microinverters
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by gascan 8y ago
Only so much bare roof area, but to say there is plenty left still would be an understatement.
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by gascan 8y ago
Real wage increases tie to rising productivity. Or at least it's supposed to, but some think it has become decoupled: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
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by gascan 8y ago
I use to ask my father why he bothered using a desktop email client. It seemed like useless overhead, and webmail was the future. Well, webmail is indeed everywhere- but I now use a desktop email client daily. Outsiders don't tend to t
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by gascan 8y ago
I would wonder if it was something more like: having chores when young was the biggest factor (after we controlled for wealth, class, race, etc)
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by gascan 8y ago
we are going to have to somehow subsidize the recycling of waste Our recycling would be worth a lot more if we could train consumers to stop throwing junk in the recycling. Supposedly, junk in the recycling was a big part of the crash in

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