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by gcheong 6y ago
Further to the point about pivoting, it’s interesting to note that both Flickr and Slack came out of attempts to make MMOs.
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by gcheong 6y ago
No, I'm really enjoying my long hair. For now.
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by gcheong 6y ago
I’ve done similar with sous vide the difference being of course much lower temps and that it’s over days but it’s basically hands off for the whole cooking time and you can get a fairly decent crust by smoking it for a couple hours before s
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by gcheong 6y ago
By what definition? In the lambda school case you only pay back if you’re in a job that pays >50k/year, it’s a percentage of income, and it’s capped at 30k. Indentured servitude requires you to do basically anything for your indentu
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by gcheong 6y ago
Something in a financial services or similar large, bureaucratic, corporation where your job is to maintain an ancient system that everyone is afraid to change too much because all the greybeards that originally built it are gone but the co
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by gcheong 6y ago
Has the playing field leveled between Tesla and all others in terms of an accessible and reliable charging network now? That's still the main reason I would buy a Tesla for anything other than a city commuter but I may be behind the ti
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by gcheong 6y ago
# 2 is what gets me. There seems to be some rather odd idea here that having any portion of ones taxes go to supporting people who can't afford health insurance otherwise, even if it means that people would pay less overall for healthc
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by gcheong 6y ago
It would depend heavily on the reactor design. Smaller more modularized reactors can probably be built much cheaper with economies of scale by widespread installation. Renewables have hard limits as to how efficient they can ever be and the
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by gcheong 6y ago
Grew up in Astoria (70’s - mid 80’s) and never saw that many at once. Would be interested to know where your spot is :). Although I’ve never seen them I’ve seen pictures of Snowy Owls at the South Jetty. https://www.jack-n-jill.
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by gcheong 6y ago
There's some video on YouTube of Golden Eagles pulling young mountain goats off mountain cliffs to kill for food. On the flip-side, seeing our "majestic" Baldies scavenging for food at an Alaskan trash dump like a common seag
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by gcheong 6y ago
Garage burglaries and package thievery is fairly common in the area I live judging by NextDoor posts about it. Considering how relatively inexpensive they are I think they are useful in a few ways: A visible deterrent for crime, video evide
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by gcheong 6y ago
My cynical take on this is that eventually ageism in tech won't be a thing with the combination of wfh and everyone being a young 20 something tech person online.
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by gcheong 6y ago
If they opt not to pay then the bug gets fixed according to severity and priority in the regular development cycles. It's possible it will never get fixed. I see your point with paid support contracts that don't give you anything,
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by gcheong 6y ago
Have you tried to negotiate the salary up at all? I don't think it will affect your future job salary but it might at least be worth trying to negotiate this job. You could counter offer something along the lines of "55K seems qui
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by gcheong 6y ago
What’s interesting to me beyond the invention itself is all the technology that was developed around it. For example my friend’s Dad had a Nakamichi cassette player that would physically flip the cassette to play the other side. And on the
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by gcheong 6y ago
Absolutely agree that we need to move off fossil fuels so that to me is a given. And you're right that the problem is vast and will require a vast effort. But that is also the central problem. Renewable prices are coming down due to ec
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by gcheong 6y ago
21% is rather significant if we're hoping to scale the installation of wind along with other renewables to entirely replace fossil fuels and nuclear. And of course there is just the regular mining of all the other resources needed to p
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by gcheong 6y ago
But at what true cost has this “victory” come at when we know China is more than willing to look the other way when it comes to the environmental costs of mining those resources at least in the short term. https://e360.yale.edu&#
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by gcheong 6y ago
I'm just not convinced that renewables are going to live up to their promise as a total solution sans nuclear. I think having some investment in nuclear is inevitable and I would rather build out excess capacity and be wrong and not ne
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by gcheong 6y ago
Fair enough and we can have that discussion but at least I know what I'm getting (at least in part) when we build a nuclear plant.
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by gcheong 6y ago
Fine then provide the subsidies. We spend trillions on boondoggle military projects without concrete return to society. I think the livability of the planet is basic to having an economic system to point to as an excuse.
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by gcheong 6y ago
False choice. Bitcoin mining isn’t going to replace military force as they address different problems.
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by gcheong 6y ago
There was a guy who regularly brought out his Dob (11" I think) in the Sunset district of San Francisco near Parkside Square as part of Sidewalk Astronomers public outreach. Good views of the moon, saturn, jupiter some nebulae, etc. an
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by gcheong 6y ago
Nightwatch by Terrence Dickinson is a good book to get started with.
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by gcheong 6y ago
I think the term is pedantic.
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by gcheong 6y ago
Some but that’s what I mean by almost nobody. Even within that group I would say their concern about animals most likely takes human existence for granted.
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by gcheong 6y ago
More specifically they mean human life. Almost nobody cares about an Earth incapable of supporting human life.
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by gcheong 6y ago
When I was working in Tokyo in the 90's, English technical books were somewhat hard to come by and fairly expensive so co-workers would often pool together to do bulk purchases. There was one book site that I don't remember the na
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by gcheong 6y ago
I would surmise they mean that by giving people cash you don’t have them dependent upon any programs that dole out benefits depending on various eligibility factors. For example right now if you need food support in the US you can apply for
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by gcheong 6y ago
Maybe there is a difference between active and passive retina stimulation in terms of ability to correct myopia? From the article it sounds like they are still determining if they can actually cure myopia and how long the effect lasts. Of c

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