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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
I wonder what that looks like versus Purchasing Power Parity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) My salary in Germany (€60K) and apartment in a not great neighborhood was €900 a month. Here in
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
Thorn isn't archaic in Icelandic. þink of the Alþing.
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
I'm from the mountain west, and I'd say anti-California sentiment has been around my whole life (born right after the Wall fell). Even from my Appalachian migrant parents.
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
Q1 of 2022 is just shy of $430K according to the St. Louis Fed.
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
That's where I was going, yeah. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=OBTh only has data for median house prices from 1963, and household income from the mid '80s. The spread growing isn't heartening.
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
This comment reminds me of https://www.theonion.com/new-study-finds-most-of-earth-s-lan... .
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by kitten_mittens_ 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but what was the median house price v. the average?
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
> Canada has more housing supply per-capita than the US and many other western countries... Even in the Vancouver and Toronto metros?
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
When I lived in Hamburg in Germany, there was an arterial on my way to work where cars definitely _did not_ stop for pedestrians. The street was 2 lanes wide with an spot to stand in the middle.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Can't push changes at the moment.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Pretty much. It'd get below freezing some days when it was clear and then snow. But that only happened a handful of times. I think Berlin is probably colder than Hamburg. Most of the Fall/Spring was 8C and raining in Hamburg.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Having lived in both Hamburg (55deg lat) and Seattle (46), I can say that northwest Europe daylight hours are _brutal_ in the winter. The first winter I was in Hamburg, I think we got 10 hours of sun all of December.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Makes sense. I made a decimal time clock here https://github.com/wegry/decimal-time where I used `requestAnimationFrame`. Admittedly, it probably uses more CPU than it should. I think I had an issue `setInterval` simil
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
How hot is it there and how much does it rain? I grew up in Idaho, where in the summer it'd get to 42-44C relatively regularly. And there was at most 200mm of precipitation a year. Most of the grass in my parents' neighborhood was
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
If the time portion of the view isn't using `requestAnimationFrame`, it probably should be. Otherwise deferring to `setInterval` sets a weird cadence for the time changing.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Weapon-Rise-Sanctions-Modern... makes the point that sanctions tend to have unintended consequences and originally were used as a weapon of war.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
As an American, I think that arguments about outsourcing that boil down to ability being all over the map don't feel right. Plenty of American engineers are all over the map. The biggest difference is distance, the time zone split, and
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
How Finnish is Karelia still?
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
iOS Safari? Seems to load fine in Safari 15 on macOS.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Ah, yeah, I cross by that in my route from the West End to Seaport (I think it's Winter/Summer Street?). About as much paint as grade seperated spots and a share row on Cambridge St. is the fairest spot until you get to South Stat
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
It's definitely improved noticeably since '16, when I moved out here. Which Washington Street? I live by North Station, and biking to the Charles River Path is a little scary, but once you're on the path, it's pretty eas
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Hispanic isn't a race according to the Census Bureau. > The United States Census Bureau uses Hispanic or Latino to refer to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin rega
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Cities in the US can be very steep too. I have a ~50 sq meter apartment that runs ~€3000 in Boston. When I lived in Germany, my salary was about half what it is here in the States. Taxes are much lower, my effective tax rate is closer to ~2
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
My first introduction to Canadian English being slightly different than American was a physics professor my sophomore year who in the first lecture kept saying zed. I thought it was a tic. Later I moved to Germany, I finally figured out th
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
I've been using https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12 with my ultra wide I got for work. I like that it lets me do things in thirds.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
American weeks are only 5 days long if you use employer accounting when evaluating an offer. I have "3 weeks" but it's only 15 days.
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Wikipedia has the surface temperature of Venus at 464C, would SiC be able to handle that?
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
I think this is why I usually see `[A-Za-z]` for ascii. My previous employer decidedly ignored "non-english" text. `[A-z]` -> https://regex101.com/r/IlhPiD/1 `[A-Za-z]` -> https://regex1
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
Might be https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/407177/windowserve... ?
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by kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
My 42sq m German apartment had concrete walls. So quiet. In Boston, I have stick walls, but the building is built in such a way it's not too bad. I've lived in some very loud stick built buildings though. Americans seem to love to

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