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by lacker 3y ago
Cheapest motel in Soledad (near Pinnacles) looks like $110 a night right now. Plus there is a lot more demand for a campsite in Pinnacles than for a hotel room along the 101. I think the real value of that Pinnacles campsite is more like $2
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by lacker 3y ago
The nice thing about fees is that if the website doesn't work, then Booz Allen doesn't make any money. I know one local campsite that doesn't use recreation.gov; you have to call them to make a reservation. Often nobody picks
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by lacker 3y ago
The price of everything on recreation.gov is already so cheap, honestly I don't care about their fees. It's like, ten bucks in fees for staying a night somewhere in the San Francisco area. Far, far lower than Airbnb fees. The prob
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by lacker 3y ago
That seems like good analogy to content moderation. You have to ask "is the forbidden content actually on the site?" For example you can have a rule like "no sharing pornographic content", but then are people allowed to
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by lacker 3y ago
That makes sense. My main experience with "study drugs" isn't in the academic system, it's with software engineers. It seems like the main effect isn't that they make you a much better programmer, it's that the
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by lacker 3y ago
I would probably give Modafinil a try if I could just buy it over the counter at Walgreens.
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by lacker 3y ago
Personally I wouldn't want to isolate the effect of the drug from the effect of the participant knowing what the drug is supposed to do. If I am considering taking a study drug, I would know what it's supposed to do, right? Comp
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by lacker 3y ago
I can understand how people come to this conclusion. Anecdotally, I know several people who regret ever using Adderall. To be fair, I also know a number of people who regret ever using caffeine. Compare to, for example, I don't think I
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by lacker 3y ago
I want to preface this by saying that I am not a supporter of study drugs, except for caffeine. I don't find these studies to be convincing. You give people a pill, they don't know what it is. These people don't know what to
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by lacker 3y ago
The way I see it, California extracts plenty of money from its citizens via taxes. When they decide to extract this money via a lottery instead, all the overhead of the lottery is just a complete waste. That includes advertising the lottery
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by lacker 3y ago
It seems like there's a lot of lower hanging fruit here. For example, we could let people in the US take any drug that has been approved in any of the EU, England, Canada, or Japan. A drug isn't really "unproven" if one
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by lacker 3y ago
Here in California, the state government itself advertises gambling, promoting the California Lottery. I find this extra frustrating - my tax dollars are being spent to encourage dumb behavior by other citizens.
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by lacker 3y ago
The most common use of noncompetes is just to discourage an employee from quitting their job. "Oh, you want to go for for unrelated firm X? Actually, legal says they're a competitor, because we're a huge conglomerate. So, you
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by lacker 3y ago
I think it's too late to consider removing the gil from the main implementation. I think it'll happen one day. Is Python going anywhere? Give it 20 years. The 2 -> 3 switch will be like the Y2K bug, only remembered by the old
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by lacker 3y ago
Taking their calculations at face value, they estimate the fatality rate of Tesla's system as 11.3 deaths per 100 million miles. That is more than a standard car, but it isn't the most dangerous thing we allow on the road. For exa
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by lacker 3y ago
Good luck lobbying YouTube to make their API free. I'd love to have a version of the YouTube app that didn't cost me any money and also didn't have ads.
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by lacker 3y ago
The nature of dating is that the people who have a good experience dating get married, and so they stop dating. People who have only bad experiences keep dating. So the people who are eternally struggling have much more experience at it and
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by lacker 3y ago
In software engineering, some companies have much higher standards than others. I'm just guessing, but often this situation happens when you are trying to step up from a lower quality employer to a higher quality employer. Money is mor
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by lacker 3y ago
Why is this rate absurd? From the article, it says Reddit would charge Apollo $2.50 per user per month. Right now, ad-free YouTube costs $12 a month, ad-free Twitch costs $12 a month. I can't buy ad-free Twitter at any price. Is it rea
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by lacker 3y ago
I can only really speak to astronomy, but the biggest problem is generally not hosting the raw data. The problem is maintaining the process of analyzing the data. When you are doing science, you often do not just have a single standardized
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by lacker 3y ago
This seems like an extension of the replication crisis. In many fields, most published research is already bogus. The idea that peer review is enough to ensure that research is valid is perhaps not scaling well. It would be great to have th
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by lacker 3y ago
Yeah, I was going to put in a plug for Kinesis. I used to love the Microsoft keyboards and now use a Kinesis split mechanical keyboard. It's $200 which is not the cheapest keyboard but if you type a lot it's worth spending money o
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by lacker 3y ago
The issue "SSDs vs spinning disks" is such a big one, I feel like you should understand the differences there before digging into anything else. An SSD is just a completely different beast from a spinning disk. Spinning disks are
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by lacker 3y ago
I think the big issue is whether you give all the kids a laptop or not. If you don't, some of the kids won't have a computer at home. How are they working on, say, a writing project, then? Only at school? The well-off, computer-sa
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by lacker 3y ago
From this parent's point of view, using laptops in school doesn't have much to do with computer science. My kids in elementary school use their Chromebooks for all homework. It seems very good for their computer skills. Word proce
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by lacker 3y ago
For a long time IBM's AI strategy has been to do normal business, and claim it's AI-related in order to make themselves sound cooler. This is the same thing. Any layoffs happening today don't really have anything to do with A
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by lacker 3y ago
It would be pretty fantastic if this could go San Francisco to Los Angeles. A traditional plane flight takes so long at the airport, it ends up barely worth it. High speed rail in California would also be great, but they've been workin
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by lacker 3y ago
This opinion piece is a little light on details - I thought this was a more useful article: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10076136-athletics-reach... Basically the plan for the stadium is $1.5B, with $400M of tha
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by lacker 3y ago
The article suggests that "Some suggest that these flashes could be messages from alien civilizations possessing technology far more advanced than ours." but that is a pretty fringe view among astronomers. FRBs are broadband signa
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by lacker 3y ago
What is someone who owns a house but has reduced mental capacity supposed to do? The house is worth $500k, someone offers them $300k, the person doesn't have the mental capacity to shop around... I'm just not sure what the right s

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