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by hibikir 3y ago
In fact, in the US, there are situations where marriage is a penalty: See old people divorcing because one needs expensive long term care, and Medicaid only takes over after all the marriage's assets have been completely drained.
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by hibikir 3y ago
In large parts of the US, suburban distances and very bad biking weather make e-bikes cover relatively few use cases: When a shopping trip is a 15 minute car drive, and a typical commute to work is 40 minutes, the e-bike doesn't win at
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by hibikir 3y ago
It really depends on workloads. Imagine you need massive spikes of compute for, say, flash sales, or people watching the superbowl in your streaming service. Buying all that hardware for just the spikes might not make sense vs just scaling
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by hibikir 3y ago
I don't think it's necessarily 1 class of statistics vs 1 class of calculus, but the fact that your typical calculus ladder is 4 semesters worth, most of which being about symbolic solutions. Handling integration and derivation o
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by hibikir 3y ago
50 million is still not an 'I have staff and a house in every major city' kind of thing. But once you get to the billions you have an 'I can make significant changes to the world' button. Want to redevelop North St Louis
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's not necessarily even status, just feeding themselves: Publish or die, and you aren't publishing if your conclusions aren't positive and strong. In medicine it's especially tough, as testing is among the most expensi
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by hibikir 3y ago
My issue with this has nothing to do with purism, but with how often the results are just no good, for reasons that have nothing to do with the sensor, but the choices of whatever model they run. Does it take a picture at night? Yes, but it
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by hibikir 3y ago
Given that the damage to roads is linked to miles, and then the square of the vehicle's weight, it'd not be difficult for a state to stop putting the road maintenance related taxes on gas itself, and instead just measure those two
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's ultimately about practice: Spain's first high speed train was massively over budget, and seen as a boondoggle. If building had stopped there, it would have been a curiosity, but the government kept asking for more track, and
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by hibikir 3y ago
All the efforts to get computers to play chess mostly like humans do were made to look insufficient by a large enough neural network that took zero knowledge of human position evaluation, which just played against itself an outrageous numbe
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by hibikir 3y ago
I don't think he was cheating, if just because he was playing a series of players far, far lower than his standard level, and he proves that level in tournaments that have far superior anti-cheating requirements. However, could he be c
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by hibikir 3y ago
The old version of this was even worse for performance. Stripe has had an internal dashboard like this, open to anyone on the VPN, for at least 15 years: Started on a hackathon IIRC. One, serious view had a month-long by-the-minute chart, l
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by hibikir 3y ago
My teenager has screens, and he is a total nerd. When we are in our sea of US suburbia, where there is absolutely nothing to do, and no neighbor kids that share much with him, he just chooses screens at all times. But come summer, I take hi
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by hibikir 3y ago
I don't think it's a matter of telcos or not, but about how the problem, as is, makes discrimination a natural result one has to actively fight against, in ways that are often economically detrimental to everyone. The shape of Ame
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by hibikir 3y ago
It definitely isn't: There is little repeat business, and realtors do a lot of the recommendations. So you absolutely can end up paying top dollar for an inspection that appears thorough, but is nowhere near good enough. It's just
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by hibikir 3y ago
Competent authorities don't ask for technology to be added to the car to deal with very dangerous spots: They redesign them. The dangerous spot was designed by an engineer, and approved by an official or eight. If it's that danger
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by hibikir 3y ago
The idea is that a land value tax would have a far higher rate on the value of the land. The empty lot, dilapidated building or surface parking lot, right now, pay far lower taxes than a big building sitting next door. With a land value tax
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by hibikir 3y ago
The US has fewer residency seats per capita than almost anyone else in the civilized world. Are American students less capable than everywhere else? Are Europeans dying in droves because getting into med school is marginally easier? Looking
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by hibikir 3y ago
Those kinds of movements aren't new though: Entire generations in many a country ended up emigrating across the sea, back when it was far slower and dangerous, to make their fortunes, as their home was too poor to handle more than one
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by hibikir 3y ago
Teams that have very poor work-life balance lose more people than are actually high performance. This means they get more openings, and more people bounce out, continuing the pattern. Unless there is money and glory in landing in a badly pe
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's not quite so easy. I was born and raised in Spain, and live and work in the US. I have plenty of family still there, and travel there often enough. Does Spain have significant advantages in social services? Sure! Politics are a li
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by hibikir 3y ago
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/03/20200302-ghsa.html It's unsurprising when you think about it: America is full of larger trucks which have to meet o on the laxest of regulations to minimize pedestrian
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by hibikir 3y ago
That's absolutely true, but the direction in which public policy fails the will of the govern is predictable. Reforma that hurt a few people a lot, and help most people a little, tend to fail in politics. Things like tobacco legislatio
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by hibikir 3y ago
Spain has had them for a while, but they have disadvantages. The main reason we want to wait for red lights isn't that it'll illegal: It's because it's indicating that not stopping is quite dangerous. Keep going, and you
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's an industry of booms and busts, we've all heard about the head of Xbox discussing the risky model of large publishers, making expensive sequels until the well dries, and everything collapses. Selling to the largest companies
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by hibikir 3y ago
Interesting examples you have there. The Last of Us is 10-15 hours long: Short by full-price standards. There's 100 hour games out there, many made in Japan. The issue with replayability is that the story is better than the gameplay, a
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by hibikir 3y ago
Welcome to climate change: Citrus trees take a while to bear fruit, so uncommon weather patterns lead to bad harvests. Something similar happens with Spanish olives, and with them, olive oil. Most Olive groves are not irrigated, because the
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by hibikir 3y ago
I'd argue that the productivity boost is mich higher for the lower end developers than for the best ones. They are best at the simple tasks in the most verbose programming languages: Easier to think of them as higher quality auto-compl
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by hibikir 3y ago
There are many ways to do this, and most lead to some dark incentive nightmares. -If a dev get a percent of total company revenue, then you really don't want to hire many! -If you have a basket of revenue for developers, and then they
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by hibikir 3y ago
In the US, it's part of the curse of the suburbs: When there are fewer people living near you, going to see anyone involves far more minutes. I think of where I grew up: A very dense city, where streets are narrow, easy to cross, and p

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