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by joshka 5y ago
Sydney over Melbourne - nah
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by joshka 5y ago
Legislation link: https://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx... Interesting parts: > The Proposed Ordinance would also prohibit county administrative offices and executive departments from issuing any p
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by joshka 5y ago
Yep - the weather is terrible. It rains all the time and the people are frosty too :D *Sydney gets more rain per year than Seattle
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by joshka 5y ago
Many countries have higher tax rates than the US. Australia is one of them
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by joshka 5y ago
Seattle is the answer there to avoid the CA state tax, cheaper rent / cost of living. Check levels.fyi for entry level SDE1 jobs / salaries. $160-190K USD total comp. Rent (usually your biggest expense) for a studio / 1BR is
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by joshka 5y ago
Write down what you want to start back on Monday. Don't look at that until Monday.
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by joshka 5y ago
LOL
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by joshka 5y ago
So reading the actual paper suggests that the article's summary and title is poor / clickbait. This paper does not go into much testing of changing the wake time. Instead it looks at correlations of life-long earlier wake times an
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by joshka 5y ago
An "uber for friends who you can ask for favors" app could be a solution, but I'm not sure if your friends would be classed as employees or contractors. </satire>
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by joshka 5y ago
Did the same sort of move in 2015 with a Suitcase, a backpack and a snowboard bag. Extremely liberating.
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by joshka 5y ago
> Lots of tiny functions kills readability. I've heard this argument a lot, and I've found generally there's another problem that causes lack of readability than the small functions. >Assuming your language supports thi
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by joshka 5y ago
> I know how to do it, I just don't always think it's worth it. Agreed:) Generally no problem with this method other than it's difficult to at a glance see what each item will get set to. Something like the following might
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by joshka 5y ago
>If you split it into 10 functions 10-lines-long each now you have 10! possible orderings of calling these functions (ignoring loops and branches). And since this ordering is separated into multiple places - you have to keep it in your m
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by joshka 5y ago
* Valhalla DSP Blog - so many good articles on the real world idea. https://valhalladsp.com/blog/ * JUCE for making VSTs. https://juce.com/ * ELK Audio for hardware / audio. https://elk
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by joshka 5y ago
Is there a Godwin's law for Firefox yet?
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by joshka 5y ago
While not exactly what the article is suggesting, a fun thing to know is that in a room of 100 people, with normally distributed IQs. If you want to have a 50% chance of being correct that you have a higher IQ than everyone in the room, you
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by joshka 5y ago
How does this viewpoint square up with the partisan divide over $15 minimum wage?
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by joshka 5y ago
And the counter example on that is that disproportionate taking of POC adult males from the community has a destabilization effect on that community / family.
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by joshka 5y ago
> It seems like any rational person could see the connection between drugs and the dystopian aspects of the Tenderloin. There seems to be a correlation vs causation issue there though. An equally plausible rational explanation is that th
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by joshka 5y ago
To be clearer - given Jones asserts that the reversal of satanists/globalists is good, are there examples of where such a reversal has had positive measurable effects on a society? I'm looking to understand perspectives opposite t
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by joshka 5y ago
I'm talking just human nature here. If something is forbidden , illegal, subjectively immoral, etc. then it's difficult to both admit and seek help with that thing. I don't have any data to hand to back my assertion that crim
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by joshka 5y ago
Thanks - as a non-American living there, this is pretty helpful to further my understanding. I wonder whether there's any actual examples of the values being brought back from a point where they have disappeared.
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by joshka 5y ago
> this is really just telling you what the ceiling is That's a useful piece of info to know when performance tuning a real world app with auth / data / etc.
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by joshka 5y ago
> I’d actually flip this around—I don’t see any reason Hey couldn't and shouldn't just be an email client, which works with any existing service. This is the main thing that keeps me from even trying it. But also the lack of im
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by joshka 5y ago
> Why can’t these programs exist while also having drugs be illegal? How would you make that work? Consider if drugs are illegal, then getting medical help / detox requires admission of guilt. This seems like a fifth amendment probl
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by joshka 5y ago
What would you do instead?
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by joshka 5y ago
The idea that treating drug problems with criminal punishment rather than medical care is effective for solving the drug overdose problem without data to back that viewpoint sounds more emotionally driven than the converse view. I'd an
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by joshka 5y ago
>American Values ... normal rural Americans are outnumbered in Oregon What sort of logic supports that American values are those held by a minority of Americans. What possible values suggest they are the normal ones? > 3. Low Tax The
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by joshka 5y ago
Do you have rational data that would present this viewpoint as otherwise? How about helping us liberals understand the conservative viewpoint better if you have insight on this. Edit: please don't downvote based on disagreement - write
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by joshka 5y ago
To save others a little time, 89-2 vote. The nays were Cruz (Rep TX) and Lee (Rep UT) https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

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