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by lsc 8y ago
You say lazy, I say possible. potato, potato. (I mean, I agree that reducing miles driven is also a good goal. I'm just saying, making safer cars is a lot easier than talking people into allowing higher density construction and citie
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by lsc 8y ago
>If your concern is terrible drivers killing themselves and others, what you should be arguing for is much stricter standards for obtaining a driver's license. Or for keeping a drivers license. >Probably removing 'full cover
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by lsc 8y ago
I think it's still close to the most likely cause of violent death for an American; Neck and neck with gun deaths, if you count the self-inflicted. I mean yeah, compared to medieval statistics, it's great, but in comparison to t
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by lsc 8y ago
Pretty sure the 'No Spoilers' is a joke, sort of how people would joke about how they are ruining the titanic... "The ship sinks" I mean, just like how we all know, in broad strokes, the story of the titanic, most of us
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by lsc 8y ago
Really, I think the argument is weaker on the other side; I mean, there are a fair number of revolutions that were lead by the elites; the American revolution and the ACW to name two; I mean, the latter a lot more than the former, but e
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by lsc 8y ago
I mean, there's some causality there; when the active investors try to take their money out as cash all at once, it does tend to have negative effects on the market. but... I think that, generally speaking, the goal of your activ
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by lsc 8y ago
>If you know your history, it's the "middle class" that has directed just about every non-marxist revolution. One can make a strong argument (even from marxist sources) that even the marxist revolutions were mostly directe
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by lsc 8y ago
>I look upon this idea skeptically. In my experience, the content delivered to me is as divisive as the videos I've already watched. If someone is getting divisive content, that's probably the content that they want to watch. J
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by lsc 8y ago
>In a certain sense, though, most serious adult business still boils down to people seeing an ad, installing an app, buying a product, attracting investors, or teenagers clicking a like button. I mean, yes, I'm part of the machine,
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by lsc 8y ago
Colony ships would be massively difficult. Maybe even impossibly difficult? but the impossibility would be in the details and the effort. We'd be designing a very complex, very touchy system full of parts that could break. But...
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by lsc 8y ago
See, I think we could make generation ships with current-ish tech, and travel the stars, really really slowly. I mean, it would be a huge effort; it would be a really difficult engineering problem, and the ships would be easy to wipe out,
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by lsc 8y ago
>From there, anyone with $25M can probably just lease a bunch of vehicles, software, parking space and routing software to launch a regional TNC. Given a single region focus, these new regional TNCs should be able to outcompete Uber&#x2F
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by lsc 8y ago
For me? the kicker would be insurance. Is the company wiling to insure it? I mean, like enough to cover my lifetime expected earnings? then sure, I'll get in the car. Driving is very dangerous, and most drivers don't even c
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by lsc 8y ago
>It's what separates Emperor Norton from a random homeless guy. This, I think, is the key to the whole thing, and the disconnect between you and many of the others here. I mean, yes, if you are the sort of person who values appearan
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by lsc 8y ago
It's a problem, sure... but the problem is that we're not funding schools. If we spent some tax dollars on our education system, academia would be more independent from business, and could focus more on the sorts of long-term and
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by lsc 8y ago
>The notion that branches of Mathematics don't use computer resources is absolutely laughable. The best right out of school sysadmins I've seen were failed physicists. Apparently they run some moderately large stuff.
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by lsc 8y ago
do you know of an e-ink device that runs a fairly standard and up-to-date (google play store compatible) version of android? such a thing would be pretty useful for me.
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by lsc 8y ago
>If Kindle doesn't adopt a given technology, it won't be commercially viable in the US. For the people who don't buy their e-books from amazon, I think the market is quite competitive. I mean, if you are reading PDFs, un
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by lsc 8y ago
They're paying customers, seems like they have as much a right to sit down as anyone else. For that matter, they occupy that seat for a shorter period of time than someone eating would, too. Most of the 'full' places in Amer
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by lsc 8y ago
I always thought that historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite; the idea behind letting "scholarship students" in is that if the children of the elite are going to run the world (and they always have
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by lsc 8y ago
>If you're having employees track the time that they work, it's weird to ask them to clock out before doing a little bit of end-of-day work. "weird" isn't the word I'd use. There needs to be a word for frau
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by lsc 8y ago
>High rents convinced the world this some how was a good idea. Maybe, but I think the causal chain is complex. I mean, even at $5/sqft/month (which is really pretty nice office space) that's a tiny percentage of what on
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by lsc 8y ago
+1; the open plan office in which I work has something like that (only less... symmetrical?) hanging from the ceiling. it helps, compared to other open spaces I've been in, and you can still see the ductwork, power and ethernet. T
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by lsc 8y ago
That's why I was suggesting that you live on (pay rent from) your base salary, which is quite doable, and invest or save for a down payment out of your bonus and stock.
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by lsc 8y ago
Note; as someone who has done a lot of tech support, I think it's important to tell people "that worked" when they give you tech support and that support leads to the problem being solved. Paid or not.
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by lsc 8y ago
Paysa claims the median SWE in mountain view makes around $190K total comp, with like $65K of that being bonus and stock. (that's lower than I would think from talking with people, but a lot of my friends are mid to late career and wor
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by lsc 8y ago
>I'm not sure why maximizing income in the Bay Area is worthwhile. The pay here, while much higher in nominal terms, seems to level off well below my level of comfort for standard of living so, assuming you are a medium density type
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by lsc 8y ago
Thanks for the support. Your instructions work, and I can switch back to the mobile site by closing the window and navigating back.
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by lsc 8y ago
Why would you want an iOS app for linkedin? Unless you are a recruiter it's just not a daily use kind of thing. I don't really understand why most people use apps for things that are essentially websites that don't have unus
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by lsc 8y ago
The problem with second-tier cities, as I see them, is that you have to move every time you get a new job, if you are maximizing your income/career. (I mean, not doing that is totally valid, but it's important to factor in the &qu

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