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by jnwatson 4y ago
The first time I built anything to survive outside (a ramp to a shed), I learned this the hard way. Even with a decent amount of planning for the elements, it lasted 3 years. It really makes one appreciate how special it is that this lump
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Zelle should be avoided for almost every transaction. There is no fraud protection.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It is new construction. I put the deposit down in October.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
We already have rationing. My (expensive FAANG-funded) health insurance said no MRI without 4 weeks of PT. Yes, technically I could pay the couple thousand dollars out of pocket, but in most socialized health care systems you can do that
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I’m closing next week, so I gander this is the top of the housing market.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Back in the day many mortgages were “assumable”, like taking over someone else’s car lease. That’s the only way my parents could afford to buy a home in 1981. Interest rates were above 15%.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Interesting. I‘ve been taking a glucosamine supplement for several years since I saw a study that correlates it with overall reduced mortality.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I paid $3k for a PowerMac 7100 in 1994. I remember paying $1600 for an extra 32 MiB RAM around 1996. I also bought L2 cache (an external module back in those days), and then a G3 upgrade. It lasted me a good 10 years.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Average maturity of US debt is sitting at 65 months right now. The treasury borrows at several maturities for various practical purposes, including that shorter term maturities have lower rates. Most of the current debt will have to be refi
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Sriracha didn’t exist before the (Vietnamese-) American sauce.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Regardless of the value of crypto itself, it does impact the job market, especially in the security space. A collapse would reduce demand for security professionals.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Active/passive are just reasonably close English equivalents. Acts that were seen as subservient were deemed feminine.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Another way to put it is “revenge is a dish best served cold”.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Not even theoretical. An early capability based OS called KeyKOS worked that way.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You’d be surprised how boring it gets at a poker table when you don’t get good cards for a hour. Folks get bored and play suboptimally. Part of what poker teaches is patience.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Excellent. Indistinguishable from parody.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The latest BMWs have a feature where you can have the cruise control speed automatically adjusted to be the current speed limit. In the US, that is an almost universally useless feature. Standard freeway speed is 10 over the limit.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
This is largely debunked by a paper posted on HN a while back I can’t seem to find right now. Even our pets are getting fat. Previous experiments both natural and manmade indicate that homeostasis prevents long term weight gain in situation
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Right but it happens to our pets too.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Typing words is faster than symbols for most folks even without an IDE. Typing `&{% takes way longer than “static long foo”.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The author found a relationship between Linear B (the script) and Linear A (the script) to the point of being able to approximately pronounce Linear A. The actual language written in that Linear A script, Minoan, is still unknown, but this
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Yes. Most of the generals in the Air Force are former pilots and many of the executives at Big Oil are chemical or petroleum engineers.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Still, an outside observer would be able to tell you faked it, because the endorsement key certificate would be signed by you and not a “real” manufacturer. I wonder if Windows checks it though.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You’d have to bug the TCG to add it to the spec.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It is almost as if money laundering were a crime.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
From the environment in which early humans evolved, it is far more disordered to eat 3 square meals a day.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Instead of an invisible tax on low-skilled-labor intensive industries, we should advocate for UBI. It directly provides for folks, regardless of whether they can hold a job.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Searching “By industry” doesn’t make a lot of sense. Do you mean “within the same industry”? Mispelling “higest” in tab. A convenient tool. I’m restricted from trading in my employer’s stock. There are no rules about trading in a highly c
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by jnwatson 4y ago
An important point that’s missed is that working in an office is dramatically worse now than it was when I started my career in the late 90’s. I had my own office as intern. When I needed focus time (which is a lot of time as a developer),
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by jnwatson 5y ago
In most US areas, grade cutoff is around August, so before college starts. Most students start college at 18.

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