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by jbay808 4y ago
(I'm not the GP but I think there's a fair reason why someone would feel differently about loan forgiveness than other subsidies) Normally a subsidy is established in advance to incentivize some behaviour, like... manufacturing
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Everyone chooses their own goals and priorities of course. Where in Canada would you recommend for a young EE?
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> word "spirit" in my video title (it was part of the name of the vehicle itself) Just going to guess... Was this vehicle the Spirit of Australia II ?
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The housing market has a lot to do with it. In Canada, average home prices (all types) are up ~6x since 2000, and in specific cities like Vancouver and Toronto, even more so. Compensation has not kept pace. Back when I was a high school stu
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The article doesn't seem to mention it, but the clocks were each offset to compensate for the propagation delay. It's a static correction, so easily done by just offsetting the minute hand position. (I can't seem to find the
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> Streaming services generally avoid producing content that doesn't play well with their video compression And yet, Netflix still produced Dark ...
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This would suggest that delivery would be even more impractical in countries with very low wealth inequality, like Japan, but my experience is that's not the case. If anything, the service quality is better there.
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> Labor in the US is too expensive for sufficient number of people in the US to afford it How does that work? Naively, I'd expect that the more expensive labour is, the more disposable income labourers should have available to spend
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Gas is pulling up the CPI right now, but it's always volatile. Shelter is slow, strongly linked to monetary policy, and the highest-weighted component in the CPI basket, and it's up 5.6% YoY, with a lot of inertia to keep growin
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Yes. It should say: "inflation rose to 9.1% in June".
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This is very helpful. I'm using Delaunay triangulation on a project (implemented by a 3rd party library) and this really helps understand the natural data structure to use when doing manipulations. Much better than my own naive attempt
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Even if it's consistent behaviour, I'd consistently answer the same way, treating it as honest ignorance. Tasks always look simpler from the outside. If that conversation is happening with senior management, it can also identify s
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Sometimes they legitimately don't know. It's a good opportunity to help them understand how much work goes into what you do. I recommend not default-reacting to "why does it take so long? Isn't it just A, B, and C?"
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Canadian interest rate hikes and QT are proceeding at a comparable pace to the US, perhaps faster.
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I mean trust in a communications sense: the amount that a listener believes your message when you say something. The purpose of communication is, ultimately, to change minds. If your audience has lost all trust in you, then your message wil
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While we're here, does YouTube search support date range specifiers? I sometimes want to find a video I remember being published in, say, 2014, but the title might be hard to search for or get buried under similar names. YouTube's
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Sturgeon's law applies of course, and not everyone can be Miyazaki, but I think Attack on Titan is a masterpiece of the 21st century and will definitely be inspiring western directors.
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I'd expect the browser to behave the same way it does when the device is in airplane mode: display a message about being offline, while still letting me play with the UI, adjust settings, navigate to local files and cached pages, and s
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Trust, which is instrumentally valuable, is the wage earned by honesty. Even a pathological, amoral entity will find value in being honest, unless they assign no value to being trusted.
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I'm not sure how subnormal numbers are relevant. For binary floats, the only duplicate values are (+0, -0) and the NaNs, and in both of those cases it's really up to you to decide if those are really representing the same value or
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This is exactly the reason I love Robertson. You can install screws one-handed or in hard-to-access areas very quickly because the taper locks the screw to the driver. Torx and hex drives don't have this important feature.
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In the '90s when you wanted to order delivery, you'd open a phone book and pick a restaurant. Some would pay extra for a big, extra-visible listing in that phone book. Uber, Doordash, etc get away with charging such premiums not b
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Sure, but the context is that the message wasn't something that the org permanently documents to refer back to, like... an API or a list of deliverables or something. It's just run-of-the-mill workplace interpersonal communication
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> automatically wiped of messages older than two weeks How do you determine historical truth in a potential conflict scenario, where a manager says "why didn't anybody tell me we'd be running a test at the customer site?&q
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As I commented when that article was posted to HN last time[1], it's important to recognize that there is an important distinction between accepting an argument and contemplating it as a hypothetical. As long as one is able to main
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> if heating water first would help with real world situations like having ice cubes ready in time for an event. If the mechanism is that 10% of the water evaporates away, allowing the remaining 90% to freeze smaller by virtue of its re
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For "gift-grade" fruit, like melons, that is indeed how it's done. They prune all but the best 3 candidates, then after they grow a bit more, select the best and prune the other 2 away so that the plant is producing only one
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Here's an example of a very useful comment: # using heapsort instead of quicksort # because we care about the worst case heapsort(data) Code alone cannot tell the reader why heapsort is chosen, nor whether that's how
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Very nice. This reminds me of the game Chair the Fed , published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: https://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/chair-fede... Unfortunately, they took it down abou
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I find the FreeCAD shapebinder system for external references is a lot more stable and maintainable than, say, external references in SolidWorks. It takes more clicks and more work though.

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