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by lsc 8y ago
the physics involved must be really interesting. Visually, the "sail" looks incredibly tiny compared to the size of the ship and the size of sails on sailing ships of earlier ages
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by lsc 8y ago
>If people stopped buying things from far away that aren't really really necessary, maybe that will also reduce fuel use. From what I understand, shipping long distances is super efficient per unit goods transported; the ship that
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by lsc 8y ago
I will check it out, initially, that looks like what I want.
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by lsc 8y ago
what will that be? Popular VR? My impression is that Microsoft has been falling down on the job for some time. in the '90s and aughts a computer felt slow after three years, and was nigh unusable after five, even for just word proces
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by lsc 8y ago
I actually think the root of our 'fake news' problem is that credible sources charge for content, while crank sources don't. And credible news has always spent more on content creation than niche news. The cost of content c
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by lsc 8y ago
Huh. I thought it was a nice way of saying "I don't believe you. But I would accept credible evidence." If not believing strangers on the internet who say strange things makes me a sociopath....
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by lsc 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992481 I was responding to the objection that even if we were building unlimited new housing, the new stuff would be unaf
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by lsc 8y ago
(I don't think anyone in my income tax bracket is giving up uber when drinking. I'm mostly talking about uber-as-commute rides, which is a minority of uber riders, but is over-represented in number of rides, just 'cause most
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by lsc 8y ago
The argument I'm putting forth is that raising the costs (and pay) for service work, if that could be done without raising the rent, would be a net positive for said service workers, just 'cause they spend a disproportionately lar
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by lsc 8y ago
> That’s a nice thought, but obviously you would see massive price hikes at restaurants and stores, and it’s likely that consumers would patronize them less. I dunno about the last part. I personally perceive service and food around he
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by lsc 8y ago
>This is something we all should care about if we’re not just here to make a quick buck. Long term we need teachers and cooks and waiters and artists to keep SF a desirable place to live. The problem could also be solved, (assuming build
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by lsc 8y ago
You see this in commercial real-estate, too, where there is nothing like rent control, especially in downturns. in the late aughts/early teens I was looking for commercial space. Being a capitalist, I would target places that had be
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by lsc 8y ago
Huh. In San Francisco, USD$30K/year puts you above the 20th percentile, below the 40th percentile for a household - I mean, I guess, sure, that seems poor but it's not uncommon. two people making USD$30K/yr would be
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by lsc 8y ago
If the alternative is to lie down and die, yes, it totally makes sense to grit it out. If the alternative is to get a cushy job at Google... spending a lot more time failing to run a company is often a bad idea for all involved. I person
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by lsc 9y ago
>IBEW's program is 5 years of paid apprenticeship (6 months class room, 6 months job site, repeat). Back when I looked at it (10+ years ago) they started at $15/hr and got about $1 raise a year until they hit journeyman. At tha
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by lsc 9y ago
But how are things different for the poor? The per capita gdp isn't as different as the salaries for skilled labor, so I wonder if the poor make more over there or if there is something I am missing.
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by lsc 9y ago
A SWE in London makes like the equivalent of like USD$65K or something. I think that wages are just much lower across the board for skilled labor once you leave the major cities in the USA. (I'm curious how this shakes out on the low
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by lsc 9y ago
So with global anycast bgp, people usually use it for short sorts of things, preferably single packet requests, and redirect to non-anycast addresses for longer TCP streams so that there aren't problems from flapping. The idea is t
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by lsc 9y ago
I'd expect anything dominated by skilled labor cost to be about twice as expensive in the US than in the UK... I mean, I don't know if doctor pay scales like SWE pay, but as far as I can tell, London pays software engineer types h
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by lsc 9y ago
Look at the author's "history of home prices" graph (that amusingly is from 2006) The author cites that graph, then goes on to make the claim that housing costs rise with inflation. The graph certainly doesn't look lik
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by lsc 9y ago
>But it still holds that keeping a single system up to date takes like a few hours a year max This... simply isn't true. Sure, you can just set your system to update and reboot once a week, and then when an update is incompatible wi
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by lsc 9y ago
Seems like the right thing to do for most CMS type situations is something that generates the site offline... and only uploads a static site to the web. Something like jekyll or something.
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by lsc 9y ago
> Again, unless your company is Google-sized, the only important thing about that bias is if it align with the preponderant bias (what is bad) or not. If you mean (which is bad) then I agree completely. You want your set of biases (bia
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by lsc 9y ago
>Security is an issue but it's a separate issue. Huge organizations get pwned all the time. Yahoo, Target, Equifax, OPM, it's a very long list. If the thing holding your data gets hacked, you lose. That doesn't really depe
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by lsc 9y ago
> The top 1% isn't rich. That is merely upper middle class. yeah, we can argue all day about what defines a class, and by older standards, 99th percentile still puts you solidly in the 'working class' as defined by peopl
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by lsc 9y ago
I actually think a 'magic number' is pretty useful, as a ballpark figure. Like BMI... nobody is arguing that BMI is a gauge of health for every individual, but it's a reasonable starting point, and if you want to studies of
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by lsc 9y ago
>The kids from rich families are so rare that you can treat them as non-existent not so if you are trying to get into an elite school... 15-20% of the kids going to the really top schools come from parents in the top 1% of incomes[1] -
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by lsc 9y ago
>The answer is for it not to be on their server at all. Have it be on your server. Operating a server should be as simple as operating any other home appliance. But... operating non-computerized home appliances is difficult, too. Remem
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by lsc 9y ago
>These days I rent far more often, and even being part of elite programs and being very experienced with the process it is still far more of a hassle than simply approaching a car you’ve booked online, tapping your RFID card and driving
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by lsc 9y ago
> I'd choose come to a stop vs any alternative. It's what a human would do if they lost all visibility. As a human who has driven in central valley fog? it's not what most humans do. I personally pull over if I can&#x27

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