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by hpkuarg 6y ago
> a national park that cuts through the middle of the city Come now, you aren't suggesting that the National Mall counts as "proximity to nature" ;-) I've spent some time in all three cities and live in one; none of t
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I'm curious, where else have you lived with such a great balance of everything?
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
It took a village ;-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
> over a decade to get fiber internet in the middle of Silicon Valley This is not a physics problem. This is a local government problem.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Not really! What would one do in a gap year during a pandemic?
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Do you have a source I could read on the Paris Agreement and its signatories' emissions increase? That is interesting.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Yeah, 99% of companies that need software developers can (and should) get away with boring CRUD solutions using boring persistence like an RDBMS. You could probably go a little fancier on your choice of language, using a nice functional lan
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
And technically named after his father.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
> there is more of a culture of enjoying some downtime with iced tea in the shade in the South This might be purely due to humidity differences between the Wasatch Front and the South. ;-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Yeah, that's roughly 99.99% availability, which sounds reasonable for most anything you want to depend on.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
As a young kid I always dreamed of flying in the upper deck of the queen. I fulfilled it a few years ago, in one of the last Delta flights on the 747. I, too, share your feelings.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
The Fed isn't buying equities. You could maybe argue that the bond ETFs that the Fed bought are "equities", but they aren't really. They're just working to keep interest rates low across the board, from the federal
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Over 70% of adult Americans are overweight or obese, according to BMI. Of course, BMI is an imperfect measure, but you're quite right to bet on the average American male having gotten fatter, not taller.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
There must be a way to come up with an (almost) universally applicable metric of city-ness, regardless of the adminstrative boundaries, that can be applied to situations like this map. Something like, the area in which the population densit
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Right, I'm not saying those things don't happen, but the example you gave is exactly what the IRS should be looking for -- transactions between insiders and related parties. Of course, they've been trying to gut the IRS...
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
By definition, charities (well, U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations) cannot have their assets or income inure to insiders. Can Buffett's charity pay a salary to his children? Sure. Can it pay them an excessive salary? Maybe, but the IRS will
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I'm not a native speaker of English, either, though with perfect American fluency. I find myself switching to "international English" in those contexts. Actually, the word "international" is a good example -- in my
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
An in-place upgrade from 6.1 to 12.1 without major issues? That is indeed tremendously impressive.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I run an OpenBSD router at home. I'm not sure if that would satisfy your security requirements.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
It's a civil tort, not a crime. Amazon would presumably have to serve process to the California resident ex-employee, who would need to show up to court in Washington or send representation to present their case.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
A moral argument against the time value of money? Isn't that like legislating that the value of pi is 3?
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
The more disconnected the hiring process gets from the people who will actually be working with the hire, the more farcical it becomes.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
"Science isn't about why, it's about why not!"
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I dream of the day that a land value tax, and only a land value tax, covers all government services. In fact, one could argue that the size of government that a land value tax supports is the maximum size.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Very interesting. Anthropometry is fascinating!
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Cannot second this hard enough. The best way to learn this stuff is to tinker, and the best way to get started tinkering is to do it at home.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Even in large parts of the US, you could get away with $200/mo with roommates.
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
The screen on my MacbookPro13,1 (late 2016) recently gave out. I needed a replacement but I was not convinced by any of the current Apple offerings -- I can't stand the stupid touch bar on the Pros, and the new MBA didn't sufficie
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Funnily enough, my 3-year-old Macbook Pro just died, and times being what they are with your usual build-to-order options being severely backordered, I stepped into a local store and bought a laptop off the shelf -- an LG Gram 17. It's
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Not the GP, but "mild" probably actually means mild. Given that only (highly) symptomatic people are tested, we don't know how many people contracted the virus and only had mild cold symptoms. Developing pneumonia would alrea

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