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by jeffbax 9y ago
There's a lot of market dynamism in China, but businesses don't generally do much without a permission slip -- at least once they reach a certain size. Business in China is very tied to government… so capitalistic, but generally o
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I think you should take a look at their looming pension crisis... California is already taxed to hell, and their balance sheet is not something to be optimistic about.
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pour one out for Bleemcast!
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It "worked" but as someone with a 3Dfx at the time I'm not sure I would call it performant. I'm not sure N64 emulators were close to performant until I had a Geforce 3 Ti or so...
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Fucking this https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ar... "Build baby build" / reforming zoning and the massive influence disparity of current homeowners is the only way to fix ho
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Don't blame libertarianism for the state having broken the market so badly that wealth inevitably gets funneled to the few. Crony capitalism is not libertarian, rabidly competitive markets are. The natural end of that is generally goin
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Probably because it's a dangerous place to be in long term. Storage is going to get cheaper and cheaper from the big guys. Already for me there's no point to paying for DropBox when I can pay for iCloud for similar prices and get
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Uber has it's faults, but the degree they had to fight tooth and nail in every municipality over something that was so demonstrably better than what was there before is absurd and should be a lesson for every other industry. And yes, v
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Time Machine has been a reasonably good option since 10.4, and hopefully anyone on this site has an online backup service by now…
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This is a pretty shortsighted view of things. The various economic theories all have their insights and shortfalls… and there's no one theory to rule them all. Recommended: Marginal Revolution's "Game of Theories" https
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Doctors have a hard time, but you can't lower US healthcare costs without lowering the salaries of those involved (which is why it is so hard). The fact of the matter is that they are high for reasons both justifiable and other less so
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Without hesitation, seems like a very worthwhile tradeoff (for any language IMO)
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"So I don't think one can generically fault 'regulation' for a poorly performing health market in the US." Well articulated counterpoint: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse
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This is the same misdirected claim repeated over and over about Catalan, but turnout is boycotted by those who do not want to secede. The politics of integrating Puerto Rico are likely impossible to make it happen anyway.
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You pay $5 for Tweetbot, and they work delivering updates for years before asking for another (usually b/c of many new features or hard work updating the UI for modern iOS) It's one of the most polished apps around. You don't
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Maybe, but even at the end when it was Trump vs. Cruz vs. Kasich Trump polled well ahead. I don't think that quantity really was the determining factor -- I think Trump is just the natural end state for the way America seems to be at t
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*macOS ;) For me, the UI paradigms are certainly more cohesive… but most importantly I don't think any platform has the quality software that OS X has when it comes to attention to detail/usability. Like many with Sublime, I'
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I think they were meant to release earlier, but had to "go back to the drawing board", so to speak https://www.technobuffalo.com/2011/10/27/android-before-and-...
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Just started a new job at a Ruby shop and really wanted to use VS Code… but the plugins just aren't there. RubyMine is miles ahead of the free stuff right now. Maybe one day!
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Bringing people out of low-productivity environments is good for everyone, even though there may be some transition struggles (probably the number one concern for people who favor restricting immigration). It is also most likely the thing t
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LA, and most US cities, need to be more like Tokyo -- which has much better zoning/building regulations (as in, less onerous). > Here is a startling fact: in 2014 there were 142,417 housing starts in the city of Tokyo (population 13
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Harping on the eternal boogeyman that is Citizens United, after an election where Clinton almost lost to Bernie's small donor army and Trump overcame her significantly higher spending seems a little… much. That so many people latch on
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I don't think its comparable to Apple. Apple is trying to make the user experience of existing content better (where it is located) Google is taking the content and serving it themselves. The problem is sites being slow in the first pl
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They are owned by Pinterest, so unlikely.
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I thought Alexa recorded all the time, maintaining a buffer so that it seemed to respond faster once it caught you saying the magic words
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Ahem, https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ Safari does pretty good I'd say. "The new IE" was pretty overblown. Safari is my go-to daily driver for speed, OS integration, and battery life. I us
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Supply is the only way to get out of the problem facing US cities today, and it's entirely a regulatory problem: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/lai... http://noahpini
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Same, I use DDG, but fall back to the > !g bang quite often when I need to really find something
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Is Apple news more than a feed spec like RSS / is the content hosted by Apple directly, like how AMP pages actually live on google.com?
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Its literally the behavior for 99% of scroll bars across iOS. I don't know how you made it this far without it, it's in almost every application.

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