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by lkbm 7y ago
Many service workers are getting a lot less money per hour worked than before because they're tip-based. A lot of employees also just lost their childcare as schools and day-cares closed. Getting half-pay and being free to take care of
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by lkbm 7y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think part-time employees can collect unemployment. I'm guessing part-timers were the most effected, since that includes most restaurant workers.
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by lkbm 7y ago
I believe Romney's proposal was $1000 per month. I spend more than $1000/mo in Austin, but my essential costs (rent, food, utilities) have always been <$1000/mo. $1000 won't cut it for everyone, but it will be enough
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by lkbm 7y ago
> "Or, multiply it by less if you want to take into account various amounts of social distancing we're all doing. I'll cut that number above down by a huge amount – 90% – on the assumption that we all learn to stay home an
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by lkbm 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by lkbm 7y ago
He is, but it's not. He explains here: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1238132866682359813 (He also has a comment above, but this has slightly more detail.)
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by lkbm 7y ago
Seems like it doesn't matter since the website source is open source: https://github.com/antirez/redis-io EDIT: I guess env could matter.
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by lkbm 7y ago
It worked for me. Could you have it set to Never Ask? (I'm using Firefox Nightly on Mac OS.)
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by lkbm 7y ago
I find that my hand goes between my webcam and my face reasonably often. It's still a brilliant idea and I love it, regardless of its limitations.
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Classifying scifi based on ship types(jalopnik.com)
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by lkbm 7y ago
> Right but people buying F-150s are not buying Teslas. The use case is quite different. Have you been to a Texas city? They're full of F-150s driving around a single person and an empty bed on paved roads. Sure, farmers and contrac
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by lkbm 7y ago
Easy answer: As someone who's used Vanguard for index funds and the like for a couple decades now, I had no idea they had an app or commission-free trades. They don't market this at all. As a secondary answer, normal, mainstream b
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by lkbm 7y ago
I recently amazed several non-tech friends by mentioning that I, personally, have edited Wikipedia. It's not something a lot of people think of as something they can even do. They're not fixing typos, let alone making substantive
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by lkbm 7y ago
> Vinyl, CD's, tapes, whatever: you had to collect them and physically go to stores to get music, video or any content. The content revolution is mind-boggling. I used to sit by the radio, ready to hit record if a song I liked came
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by lkbm 7y ago
Yes, Americans will go to the doctor and demand antibiotics, even if that's not the optimal treatment. But that's when they go to the doctor. A lot avoid going at all. When I suspected I had strep throat a couple months ago, I w
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by lkbm 7y ago
Giving What We Can has a section on climate charities[0]. One listed is Cool Earth, which I thought Givewell had recommended in the past, but I'm not seeing it in any of their archived recommendations. (It's also worth noting th
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by lkbm 7y ago
If this risk area is of interest to you and haven't already, you might want to look into some of the "x-risk" effective altruism stuff going on. My favored branch of EA is about solving global poverty, but it's also got
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by lkbm 7y ago
OKCupid has a graph of reported height for men[0]. It's both shifted 2 inches to the right of average, but also slightly flattened at the normal peak of 5'10". It's not nearly as pronounced as the graphs in this post, bu
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by lkbm 7y ago
I worked at a charter school for a while, and had access to the test scores and demographic data (including dob and ssn) not just for our students, but for every public school student in Texas, past and present. Data security is a myth.
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by lkbm 7y ago
I liked the optimistic twist on this, Kernighan's Lever: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/ Kernighan's Law means that you're continually forcing yourself to level-up in order
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by lkbm 7y ago
In the lab for my second or third CS course, the professor was walking us through intro Unix usage, but he didn't take attendance so it ended up being just 2-4 of us showing up. After a few weeks, he cancelled the lectures and told us
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by lkbm 7y ago
You can just replace captcha.nsa.gov with www.google.com to see what it used to serve up: https://www.google.com/logos/2019/loteria/rc2/loteria19.html...
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by lkbm 7y ago
That's nice, but would I move to follow my company? Probably not. I'm pretty sure most of my coworkers wouldn't either. Would you?
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by lkbm 7y ago
I assume that's a lot more expensive. It might pay off in increased productivity, but it's not as simple as "just don't do it". Where I work, I believe it would be tens of thousands dollars more per month in rent.
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by lkbm 7y ago
Yeah, it is to some extent. (Also, the OP actually said "personal vehicles", which is definitely way broader than I'm meaning to argue. Bicycles are personal vehicles.) A better formulation: Cars in their current form and pre
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by lkbm 7y ago
> We need them some places
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by lkbm 7y ago
I frew up just outside a town of under 10000 people, and I still agree. We need them some places, but they've infested everywhere.
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by lkbm 7y ago
You don't need cops. You need more aggressive cyclists. People will turn onto Market Street for two reasons: 1. Somehow they missed that it's a car-free zone. They don't need a ticket; they need to discover their mistake and
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by lkbm 7y ago
Were you travellng the opposite direction of most commuters? Green wave only works in one direction. fwiw, that's one benefit of one-way roads -- they each can be programmed to ensure a green wave for all cars on them. I never understo
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by lkbm 7y ago
If it gets more people to bike instead of drive, it still has those benefits.

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