grigjd3

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by grigjd3 8y ago
The cost of housing is driven 100% by demand.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I wonder how much of this is having free time and a lack of mobility.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
In truth, it generally takes significant time to arrive at fundamental theories. Most people don't realize this because in a physics class, at best, you might get taught when so-and-so published an equation.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The minimum wage doesn't drive costs in housing, healthcare, and education.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Good discussion. My only critique is that a discussion of what is the best kind of failure should always start by discussing how different situations mean different preferences on the kind of failure you get.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Anyone who goes so far out of their way to state that they don't push values is clearly trying (feebly) to mask their own motivations, perhaps even from themselves. Perhaps more incriminating is how thuroughly self-referencial this per
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by grigjd3 8y ago
WeWork's product is handling landlord and broker negotiations for you. They are giving more power to the tenant as WeWork is large enough that they often carry significantly more leverage into a negotiation.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
You ever see the way artifacts are treated at the British Museum? Despite all the signs, people can't help but put their hands all over everything.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I always thought of the apple-tax not as the cost of the product but the additional costs, like fifty dollar dongles because the new version doesn't use the same connectors as the old, or being forced to use iTunes, itself a montrosity
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by grigjd3 8y ago
People often mistakenly try to map space time onto an ether-like flat background, treating spacetime like a drawing where the paper is the background. It's not an uncommon kind of fumbling as someone tries to grasp these things.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
We refine oil for a lot of countries.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I don't know of any employer I've ever had that would be ok with me sharing strategic information. This sounds entirely normal to me.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I think you're assuming more meaning in that statement than was intended. I somehow doubt that "timely" as used here implies that untimely means fixed.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I recognize the ideal there, but as stated, I had to support my family and I needed the income. I was not exactly in a place where I could argue. I realize this would likely get thrown out in court, but that people get put in this position
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by grigjd3 8y ago
When I was given an nca, it was on my first day and I was put in an empty room with the materials and told I can't take them from the room. I tell you, when you're needing the job to provide for your family, there isn't much
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The 50% that most people note includes healthcare, or at least it did from 2009 to 2011.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
A lot of companies build something "more usable" on top of open source software and sell that.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
So you're asking someone else to do that work for you. Look, the user has a few choices: 1) find a work-around (maybe unwind his or her own mess) 2) manage a fork 3) work with the existing process I've worked around people doing a
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I think the conspiratorial tone the author takes to this is a bit over the top but there are definitely organizations that have glommed onto some pseudoscience or another because a naive person may find it supporting some unscientific narra
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I somehow doubt Mark Zuckerberg is worried about how to pay for his kids' college tuition (if he has kids, I really don't know).
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Italy's relationship with science is mired in corruption, enough so that Italian scientists often move away to find jobs.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The Wikipedia article you link even has a quote of an analyst saying this machine will establish the operating system for the home computer market.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
With hindsight, this article has all the pieces for understanding what happened with home computers but didn't quite put it together. The article is correct that software was going to drive computer sales and that you had to depend on
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Your town doesn't have a bus?
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I don't think this matters in big software nearly as much as in other fields. Every new hire needs to be trained up - even the most experienced are going to require at least a few months before they are useful to the company.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
I don't give a rat's ass what makes the most money. You're shitty app needs to earn my attention, rather than annoy me into giving it attention.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The first time I heard the spotlight analogy from a neuroscientist, I asked for what backs this up and the response I got was, "it's been shown" with a tone that made it clear no argument or discussion was allowed. Later I fo
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Well, as an eagle scout who has influence in this (they actually listen to their eagle scouts), I know many of us have been pushing for a wider view of what is meant for spirituality to include atheists, just like we pushed to allow in gay
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by grigjd3 8y ago
You really should not generalize about athiests. I'm an atheist and I see no special athiesm-based reason to do anything. I promote critical thinking, but that isn't because I'm an atheist. That's because I'm a litt
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The BSA now allows openly gay members and leaders. It took a while to get there, but it happened.

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