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by hapless 7y ago
That didn't take very long.
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by hapless 7y ago
Maybe we'll get some Apple products that have features other than "Now 1% thinner"
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by hapless 7y ago
It depends on the state you live in, but by and large, it is not the same. For example, in my home state, reneging on a rental agreement on a piece of property worth more than $100 is "Misapplication of Property," a misdemeanor.
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by hapless 7y ago
Because Ubuntu is very hacked-up, and you will likely break your aystem
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by hapless 7y ago
Only a very small fraction of the people involved actually break the law, but those bad actors are a surprisingly large fraction of the total nights booked through AirBnB, so the company wishes to conceal and defend them. For instance, rent
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by hapless 7y ago
It's not a "zoning problem." It's much simpler than that. * Airbnb flophouses are not obliged to conform to fire, health, or safety codes, and they don't pay taxes. Right off the bat, they're scads cheaper th
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by hapless 7y ago
You could try _enforcing_ zoning laws and arresting the people running illegal flophouses. That would be a start.
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by hapless 8y ago
Fisher's later work on smoking was funded by the tobacco industry. He was paid not to properly assess anything. (Not to mention, Mr. Fisher enjoyed tobacco himself.)
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by hapless 8y ago
The MTA and Port Authority are the best funded systems _in the world_. The problem is that they waste money profligately. What takes other cities millions of dollars and tens of weeks takes New York billions and decades. The reason no one
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by hapless 8y ago
Fraud, waste, and the worlds worst purchasing work. NYCT workers are well paid, but that is only an explanation for high operating expense, not obscene capital expenses. Operating expense is really fairly well managed, albeit with unusually
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by hapless 8y ago
The L train has been fully automated for many years. The reason that only the L was improved was that it is largely separate from the rest of the system. There are extremely few rail connections and none that are regularly used.
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by hapless 8y ago
I can't speak to SF, but NYC's big employers aren't just FAANG -- the big financials employ tens of thousands of software developers. Publishers employ thousands more. Compensation is, broadly, very generous. They're co
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by hapless 8y ago
Startups pay like shit. Which is why they attract marginal candidates who could not get hired elsewhere.
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by hapless 8y ago
First off, $125k is the entry level wage in NYC and SF. That's what you pay fresh grads out of college. The author massively understates the wage gap between the core job areas and peripheral cities. Any recruiter offering a sen
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by hapless 8y ago
The microvax was two levels removed from mainframe land. The original VAX systems, occupying 2 to 4 cabinets, were similar to the 1401. They were both "mini" computers -- smaller than a mainframe, but considerable and interesting
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by hapless 8y ago
The museum 1401 is insanely cool, but a mainframe it is not. The 1401 was more of a service processor for a mainframe. You could use a 1401 to order jobs and manage card sorters and things of that nature. The 1401 was occasionally sold as
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by hapless 8y ago
“None of the news that’s fit to print”
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by hapless 8y ago
Is ASP rising faster than the cost of goods sold?
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by hapless 8y ago
CompuServe had their own pet PDP-10 vendor after DEC discontinued the line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Concepts They were still running PDP-10-compatible systems from SC up until the original Compuserve serv
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by hapless 8y ago
You are thinking in terms of city limits, not the size of the metro area. "London" city limits were expanded to contain all of its suburbs (and even some un-settled farmland) in 1965, so the present-day city population of ~8 milli
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by hapless 8y ago
Perhaps counter-intuitively, the suburbs of NYC are much more expensive than the outer boroughs. You can rent an apartment in Queens or the Bronx for _half_ as much as Westchester or Long Island, due to horrifying zoning restrictions on mul
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by hapless 8y ago
Kingston is a charming town, but it's bucolic. It's not a great place to network or recruit.
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by hapless 8y ago
NYC, Chicago, and Tokyo are all more than double the size of London. All three are also much more affordable than central London. London just has a very screwed up market.
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by hapless 8y ago
The "normal" way to do this in the technology industry is via either an H1B or O1 visa. You do not qualify for either one. An H1B typically requires a specialized degree. You don't have one -- your BFA will not qualify, esp
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by hapless 8y ago
Given that this is Albany we are talking about, you know with certainty that someone is receiving "consideration." Probably _several_ someones. Steve Hawley probably didn't get his beak wet, and it annoys him. Which is why
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by hapless 8y ago
You ticket the driver.
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by hapless 8y ago
The only compelling reason to migrate to GTK 3 was the deprecation of GTK 2.
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by hapless 8y ago
Today, it's hilariously illegal to put this kind of thing in an official employee communication. No government agency would even dream it. Even in the 1960s, that kind of overtly religious appeal would have been very, VERY controversi
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by hapless 8y ago
a frying pan to fire situation, huh?
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by hapless 8y ago
I think the implication was that he thought it sucked 20 years ago, so it is surprising that it has continued to suck for 20 more years

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