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by hibikir 3y ago
Extremely unlikely. The main reason most companies used to have offices in large metros is not because they were expensive, but because they offer great access to workers. This became even more important as women's labor participation
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by hibikir 3y ago
In downtown St. Louis, ATT tower sold for half of that, right there in the middle of downtown. Sold for 200 million in 2016. So, if we go by office buildings that have sat unoccupied for a while, SF is still maintaining good value.
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by hibikir 3y ago
I am in my 40s myself, but it's difficult for me to not separate the very little utility we actually were seeing from NFTs with the utility I get from AI today. It's things people have in production, with millions of users, which
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by hibikir 3y ago
You are mentioning accurate points, but I suspect that the real change is caused by trying to handle the fact that they now compete with dollar stores. Traditional math on supermarkets is that the green grocer's, meat and milk aisles e
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by hibikir 3y ago
Yeah, the gamble only pays off for a company that has a growth so strong, and a plan so safe that the downside is quite low. They have to give you more options because they know they are worse than RSUs, so the pay really can end up being h
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by hibikir 3y ago
The trick of the current plans, which wasn't the same back in the day, is that hospital and ER costs after the fact are nor covered 100% after deductible: Most plans say 90%. So yes, we might be better off with the plan that covers les
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by hibikir 3y ago
A lot of ideas aren't absurd until they meet reality. The arguments that defend an idea don't really matter in the long run, if we can later see that the outcomes they provide aren't good. I look at one of our local private u
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by hibikir 3y ago
Yes, and it gets even more fun when the source is summarizing your page, and feeding it to their AI assistant, so they stop sending you much traffic. The business model of links + ads is going to be more in peril in the future than it is to
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by hibikir 3y ago
Did you ever read on the early parts of the war, during the race to the sea? Both sides were extremely low on ammunition, as they realized that their ideas of how much ordinance would be used in a real war were completely wrong. It took a r
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by hibikir 3y ago
Not unlike with vaccines, massive production ramp ups are possible once the suppliers know that they aren't carrying any significant risk of losing a lot of money for overbuilding capacity. As some of us learned in the pandemic, increa
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by hibikir 3y ago
You'd be surprised. Joseki are corner shapes, which might interact with other corners in the medium to long run, but whose interactions are way too difficult for any human to understand well. Therefore, you have 4 corners, and it'
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by hibikir 3y ago
The defensiveness has absolutely nothing to do with better computers and the improvements in play that came with it, but with tournaments where risk taking is an economic disaster. As others have said, there aren't massive numbers of t
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by hibikir 3y ago
The median home price is under 400K, so a 120k salary is not really stretched. Now, median in the Seattle metro, or in San Francisco, sure. But 120k in, say, St Louis is still going to get you an intermediate dev, no problem, and they can a
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by hibikir 3y ago
I could see this coming weeks ago: My local dealer was cold-calling existing owners to try to get them to buy the updated model 3, which isn't a very significant update at all. They had a bunch on the lot that weren't selling. We
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by hibikir 3y ago
I've seen a couple of successful ones, but there were extremely good reasons: Most of the time we don't need scaling, but when your target Mongo cluster has a couple hundred machines, and your queries really are very simple, NoSQL
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by hibikir 3y ago
I used postgres in the 90s. The biggest complaint was that postgres's default config needed a change so you could connect to it remotely, as the default, wisely at the time, decided that allowing connections from any IP by default befo
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's $15 a day: $300 if you commute 20 days a month. That's not a small price change. I find that tolls are a good idea, but suspect that we'd have significant complaints situation if the MTA decided to raise the prices of th
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by hibikir 3y ago
Nvidia was selling cards with hardware acceleration since 1997. The first one I own is from 1998, and its advantage wasn't that it had superior compute, but that it also included the non-3d circuitry of the rest of the video card. So i
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by hibikir 3y ago
I've faced that problem before: Someone claimed their autoscaling algorithm had to be working correctly, as he had written a proof and had a working simulator behaving perfectly. And yes, the code matched the algorithm as written, and
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by hibikir 3y ago
While I can't quite say how big each effect is, it's undeniable that a big part of the difference in autism diagnosis is just the fact that we test at all. I grew up in the 80s, where the level for someone to be diagnosed with aut
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by hibikir 3y ago
You might have a long lunch break, where people go home, eat and come back, making the end of the work day pretty late. But siesta is easy to understand as a southern thing when one notices summer temperatures, and imagines physical labor o
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by hibikir 3y ago
Ah, if it was just jobs. Imagine you have a very smart kid that goes faster than grade level. In a rural area, your option is home schooling. In a small metro, there might be enough kids to have some sort of gifted program that works. In a
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by hibikir 3y ago
Traffic is just cars times miles. If all your cars are parked far away from their final destination, all you are doing is adding total miles traveled. Those don't just have basic operation costs, but create yet another kind of traffic:
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by hibikir 3y ago
Many racers, but not all. A schoolmate of mine got pretty far in his racing career after doing well in the local cart circuit. He wasn't dirt poor, but not rich by any standards. It did involve a lot of work by his father, and finding
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by hibikir 3y ago
This works well for a while. But eventually you get big, and have little to no idea of what is in your downstream. Then every single format change in any event you write must be treated like open heart surgery, because tracing your data dep
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by hibikir 3y ago
There are agricultural products where price per bushel has to do with some grading, which is tested along in the supply chain. If I can easily, quickly, cheaply test for any trait, its value can be priced in. See how much apples have improv
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by hibikir 3y ago
IMO you have way too much faith in state agencies' ability to keep secrets. It's information the world would like to know, so it's a hard secret to keep. On top of that anyone with access to the keys of big wallets would be v
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by hibikir 3y ago
St Louis county just did some of this for their property declaration system. It used to set right there in the website: An ugly set of forms, but perfectly functional. Apparently they ordered a rewrite to yet another contractor, and now you
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by hibikir 3y ago
Back when international phone calls were a real thing, messing with answering machines that had default settings was a typical fraud vector. People would change the message to say 'I accept' a couple dozen times. Then, they'd
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by hibikir 3y ago
My favorite anecdote on the topic involved a codebase like this, handled by inexperienced programmers. I came into the team, and realized that a whole lot of careless logic could be massively simplified, so I sent a PR cutting the codebase

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