kitten_mittens_

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by kitten_mittens_ 7mo ago
When did upper middle class start meaning upper class? Something like 90% of Americans identify as middle class now.
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by kitten_mittens_ 7mo ago
U-3 Unemployment doesn't include people not actively looking for work, people making less than they'd like, or working less than they'd like. https://www.lisep.org has alternate measures that try accounting for ta
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by kitten_mittens_ 8mo ago
Turning transparency off significantly improves the look and responsiveness imo.
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
In the US, at least, there are some utilities that charge based on maximum kW (demand) and total kWh used (energy). ComEd in Chicago is a utility with a demand rate plan option.
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
Idaho Power’s local generation is quite clean. But…during the summer in Idaho, almost a third of energy comes from Wyoming and Utah where coal is still a substantial part of generation.
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
If you look at the all years view on electricity maps ( https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/all/yearly ), 25% is share of generation from coal in MISO. I'd be curious to test the GP's po
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
I agree vision zero hasn’t been particularly effective in the US. In Boston, we have roads like Jamaicaway where the speed limit was lowered to 25mph and people regularly drive 50. Speed limits are functionally unenforced. Human behavior as
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
There seem to be two competing nomenclatures around strong/weak typing where people mean static/dynamic instead.
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
Doesn’t BYD have a bus factory in LA already?
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
Why are em dashes a giveaway? They’re auto inserted on Windows for two hyphens still, aren’t they?
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
I updated to avoid paying the new American tariffs. The advertised AI features were decidedly underwhelming.
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
If you’re interested in a what an analog clock in decimal time might look like: https://decimal-time.netlify.app/
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by kitten_mittens_ 1y ago
On the northern edge of Jamaica Plain (east of Brookline in Boston proper), there's a pretty stark example of Brookline's accumulated advantages. On the Boston side of the pond that separates the two, there's Jamaica Way. It&
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
Massachusetts has a state level Transit Police, at least.
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
Some of parcels in the doc on page 58 (K) in particular are interesting. The city ended up widening the road there pretty significantly. When they built https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yVzp4vm72Js3w618 back in '22, there was
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
At the time, Romans would have said they spoke Roman (Romaic[1])--not Greek. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Greek
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
My parents spent $18K on rooftop solar in the Boise metro area. One Tesla powerwall battery and install on top of that will be another $15K.
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
Neither of these terms seem to exist on wiktionary.
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by kitten_mittens_ 2y ago
A good chunk of the English lexicon was foreign at one point or another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
> who...will they sell the juice to? Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to other states.[1] [1] https://www.eia.gov&#x2F
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
When the pandemic hit in the US, and people were hoarding a bit, I had several times where I had to carry groceries home in a fruit box.
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
> From mid-14c. as "to pain, torment." Of tight shoes, from 1570s. Meaning "to steal" in English is from 1650s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/pinch#etymonline_v_16335
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
I lived in northern Germany (55°N) a few years after living most of my life at 42°N in the US. The lack of natural light in the winter was brutal.
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
With enough fricatives, some languages still manage. See the Serbian for Serbian, srpska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska .
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
Nytimes gift links only work for the first person that uses it, I believe.
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
It’s much more difficult to do traffic enforcement by sweat and blood in Boston where narrow roads are more common. Bots for traffic enforcement would free cops up to deal with less rote work too.
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
In places like Massachusetts, traffic cameras are illegal, which is unfortunate.
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
I agree with your point. On > Anything with a `then` method can be awaited, and so native Promises aren’t actually all the special or sacred. Invoking await on an expression involves no extra machinery, only that a Promise-like object is
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
Cabrini Green is the more infamous example, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes
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by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
Income tax when I lived in Germany ('17-'19) was 42%. The Soli tax was another 5%. Transit was relatively expensive compared to Boston, where I live now, but in much better shape. Transit coverage in the suburbs seemed much better

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