jonahrd

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by jonahrd 4y ago
Genuinely curious, are you pointing this out as a case of "very protected"? To me this seems absurdly low. Losing a dwelling is much more difficult than losing a job. It can be absolutely traumatic, and set people back financially
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I tried filling out my "career octopus" once. Maybe that could help you? https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
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by jonahrd 4y ago
This is objectively false. It's a well documented fact that women's health is severely underfunded compared to men's health. [1] https://fortune.com/2021/03/09/womens-health-research-fda-tr...
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I would say the lifetime of a piece of software is different from the lifetime of the process running it.
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by jonahrd 4y ago
> "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true, Last year Apple switched from USB-C charging to a new MagSafe charger on M1 Macbooks. USB-C was first introduced in 2018, moving away from the old Mag
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by jonahrd 4y ago
How easy it is to bring bikes on trains or public transit?
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by jonahrd 4y ago
Imagine if during road work they created a "temporarily shared space" between car and foot traffic. This is still a systemic issue due to poor urban design/planning. The kid was injured because the city didn't properly s
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by jonahrd 4y ago
This video came out yesterday and talks about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pcAfeGCrUc
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by jonahrd 4y ago
This article is about the ideas from a psychologist who died in 1937. In modern psychology, there is plenty of research into trauma based on way more than just Freud's theories, with actual measurable evidence.
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I'm a US citizen, Canadian permanent resident. I think it has to do with the fact that historically much of Canada's lands/provinces were literally just land owned by very massive British crown corporations. Massive corporati
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by jonahrd 4y ago
I have vivid memory of a forum thread named something about "shitposting" in 2009, and I know it didn't feel like a novel concept at the time.
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by jonahrd 4y ago
There's something extremely depressing about how popular this attitude of "college is a bad ROI, do something else with your time" is. For sure, in the US currently there aren't many alternatives, so this might be practi
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by jonahrd 5y ago
Great article! Now all I can think about is putting a "thinking hat" on my dog and recording everything he does, and then playing the process in reverse when he's dreaming!
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by jonahrd 5y ago
This article is also operating under the assumption that all "work" is equally fulfilling on every level of Maslow's heirarchy. But much of what we work on nowadays has very little attachment to the actual physical sphere of
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by jonahrd 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work on the team at Google responsible for the open source translator engine that runs under WebGL (ANGLE) WebGL on Linux requires the OpenGL backend until eventually Vulkan is supported well enough. Apple's WebGL2-on-Met
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by jonahrd 5y ago
Just for fun I did the math. An 80 year lifespan is 700,800 hours. 0.01% of that is only 70 hours. I think most people have sex for more than 70 hours in the course of a life time! The point still stands though.
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by jonahrd 5y ago
But it's humid cold! Hence more brutal. You're right that the actual temperatures are pretty similar.
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by jonahrd 5y ago
Montreal has even more brutal cold, yet has a bustling downtown worth walking around -- because it was designed for people. Another anecdote to refute your point: LA has the best weather in the world, but a completely dead downtown that mos
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by jonahrd 5y ago
He has a video about Calgary on his channel :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8F5hXqS-Ac
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by jonahrd 5y ago
This is actually also discussed by Nassim Taleb in his book which I assume the parent comment is referencing. He says Toyota is one of the few examples where just-in-time was not distorted and warped. So Toyota implements true just-in-time,
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by jonahrd 5y ago
Just an anecdotal response: In Quebec there is a pretty proud history of a much different style of ketchup, which is much sweeter with bigger chunks of tomatoes. It's not uncommon to see traditional-style ketchup options in restaurants
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by jonahrd 6y ago
I totally agree with you. We were talking about the US. In some cultures, the aspect of giving every single person inalienable rights and equality isn't explicitly valued like it is in the west. I wouldn't want to impose western v
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by jonahrd 6y ago
Again, even people with privilege can have a really hard life. But you do in fact have the privilege of driving a car without the threat of being pulled over for how you look, or walking down the street without being asked questions, or boa
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by jonahrd 6y ago
I'm not trying to diminish the experience of your ancestors, mine were also Irish. But in most contexts, white privilege doesn't care about your actual ancestry. A 2nd generation black immigrant from Africa to NYC will face some o
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by jonahrd 6y ago
Just to provide some balance, you can add to the bitcoin side: - Mining metals for GPUs and other devices that run proof of work - Manufacturing those devices - Transporting those devices - Building shiny glass bitcoin cafes. I'm aware
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by jonahrd 6y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but this "Top 50 Brands" graphic... Where does this data come from? Where on earth is Coca-Cola??
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by jonahrd 6y ago
For some reason I find these quite disgusting to look at. I wonder why!
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by jonahrd 6y ago
First, your re-wording is doing much more than paraphrasing. There is legitimate science involved in calculating environmental impact that goes much further than just whatever tax governments implement to disincentivize using carbon. Second
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[Feb 2020] Forbes: Coronavirus: There Are Better Things to Do Than Panic(forbes.com)
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by jonahrd 6y ago
And here is a (poorly written) article saying that "top bankers" say WFH is falling apart: https://montrealgazette.com/executive/careers/top-bankers-so... We'll see whose opinions matter more when t

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