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by jogjayr 8y ago
I think they meant that it would have been scarier in the 70s because NYC had a lot more crime back then.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
How would you even identify tourists to charge them extra? Make everyone show address proof before buying a ticket? Who's even a tourist? People living out of city limits or the state? That rules out large swathes of daily NYC commuter
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There's no such thing as "biodegradable" plastics. Plant-based plastics only biodegrade in commercial composting facilities. This is not something that's commonly known.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> Citizenship is at least opt-out in general. Only if you're able to obtain another citizenship. I don't think any country will allow renunciation if it leaves you stateless.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> GMail doesn't have a single meaningful feature that other clients didn't have before That's an objectively incorrect statement. It had: 1. 1GB storage when every other email provider offered like 50 MB at best 2. Superio
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by jogjayr 8y ago
There wasn't much effort on my part to be born to highly-educated parents who valued educating their children well. I didn't work especially hard for my mother, a maths PhD, stay at home so that my father's career, which requ
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by jogjayr 8y ago
They're also only compostable in commercial composting facilities. And most people live in cities where there isn't any curbside composting program to send these materials to commercial composting facilities. See my other comment
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by jogjayr 8y ago
A lot of people don't know that "compostable", "biodegradable" or "corn/plant-based" plastics ONLY break down in commercial composting facilities where temperatures are maintained at 60˚C for a month
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I won't lie, it sounds like an interesting process and I wouldn't mind participating once if I'm qualified. I wonder if you could answer some more questions about it. Sorry, I know it's asking a lot, I understand if you
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> The other 99% except hardcore algorithmic optimizations, like structuring code, creating simple code, naming variables, splitting code into classes/functions and refactoring? No clue about any of that. So...you're saying a st
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> I've seen a few interviews in my time. On the order of 5k of them) That's actually pretty cool. May I ask how? > Because "knows DP" is pretty much the only bit of information you get Yes if the candidate meets w
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> If someone can learn to solve just DP problems by practicing in leetcode then DP is a useless metric or proxy of someone’s ability to reason mathematically. I'm not a fan of DP but I don't follow this logic. Does practicing m
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> Candidates who have learned DP in school usually find them really easy, and candidates who haven't usually don't even have a chance at solving them is directly related to > DP comes up almost never in the real world If you
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Are you saying charging high tuition is responsible for making US universities better? Correlation alone does not equal causation. Is there any evidence for this statement?
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> dairy prices in Canada are several times what they are in the U.S. I visited Ontario earlier this year and it didn't seem that way to me, at least in milk prices. I bought 4L (approx 1 gal) of organic milk in Real Canadian Superst
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Three objectively wrong statements in that comment: 1. Climate change isn't a "lame career/political cause". It's not like they're putting off children until net neutrality is enshrined in the US constitution.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
People who choose not to have their own children can still adopt and raise educated, moral people.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Name-calling is uncalled for. It's not "goofy" to not want to bring new life into a world that is slowly dying - it's perfectly rational. Frankly it's heartbreaking to see people suppress their biological drive to h
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Women who refuse to have children until climate change ends(theguardian.com)
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by jogjayr 8y ago
For someone making median wage after graduating (>= $55k) that $30k student debt should take no more than 5 years to kill - $10k taxes, $30k living expenses (and I'm being very generous with this), $5k savings, $10k loan payment (nu
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Implying that it's not possible to do both?
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by jogjayr 8y ago
No one's proposing to build a sewage treatment plant on this land. It's just more housing, in a city where people go without a roof over their head because it's too expensive. There's no "nuisance" here, only l
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by jogjayr 8y ago
H1B-holder: earns $80k/year "Cheap labor! Exploitation!" H1B-holder: earns $500k/year "You greedy bastard! You want a green card on top of that?!" H1B-holder: shocked Pikachu face Sorry for the Reddit-sty
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by jogjayr 8y ago
If UBI is funded with carbon tax, it's revenue-neutral i.e. the government can't spend it on general expenditures. No perverse incentive. You can also replace "UBI" with "per person tax credit" that's eq
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by jogjayr 8y ago
It offers a way to offset the regressive nature of carbon taxes. Poor people don't have to pay much net carbon tax for heating and gasoline, but rich people with massive houses and heated pools will pay more.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Carbon taxes can be offset with a per-person tax credit. This makes it revenue neutral while ensuring that big consumers pay more taxes. They do it in British Columbia already [1] 1. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content&#
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Your example of the egg company is insane. I wonder why they don't simply use cardboard containers instead.
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Easy. Don't put it in the fridge until you know you're going to drink it later that day. Or quick-cool it by dunking in ice water for about a hour.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I'm sorry I'm not sure I understand. How is a retirement account that you control, and whose investments you direct, the same thing as a pension? I always thought that a pension was defined as: "Contribute $A/month for X
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Get rid of the 401k entirely and let everyone use IRA/Roth IRA with the increased contribution limits. Make contribution limit a percentage of income rather than a fixed amount (e.g. Canadian RRSP allows 18% of last year's income)

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