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by lsc 9y ago
I always really enjoyed the "fix random broken mechanical thing" part of the "IT guy" job. "Hi, I'm Luke, and I fix things."
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by lsc 9y ago
Yup. I ditched my car because of uber/lyft. the problem, from a business perspective, is that I live in silicon valley, and still have the expensive parts of owning a car; there's still the parking that came with my residence, an
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by lsc 9y ago
You're not wrong, people are just objecting to your bombast. Also note, 2008 was unusually dramatic; one of the big projects in downtown sunnyvale went bankrupt and changed hands several times before completion. Yes, declining home
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by lsc 9y ago
So, I've also been told that rich Chinese people were buying up condos and letting them sit empty. That's the thing, though, I kinda don't believe it. I mean, sure, people from China buying US real estate; I can totally bel
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by lsc 9y ago
In silicon valley, at least, a maid service that comes once a week is going to be north of USD$100/wk, and most of them say they don't do laundry for some reason, (though they can be talked into it) so a machine that could do what
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by lsc 9y ago
You are downvoted, of course, because we all know what side our bread is buttered on. When the revolution comes, many of us here will probably not be friends with John Connor.
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by lsc 9y ago
>clearly, Hans Monderman has never driven in Mumbai, India. I'm reminded of my time in Berkeley. Now, in spite of what Fox News might tell you, Berkeley is one of the most ridiculously upper class places possible. But, it's r
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by lsc 9y ago
yes, if we take away the "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" incentive[1] people will work less. Is that good or bad? depending on your ideology, it could be either one. Do you think that it's ethical to threa
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by lsc 9y ago
My experience has been that when you are looking for a job working for other people after being self-employed is that the boss thinks you were "self-employed" - you have to get over this idea (in the mind of the hiring manager)
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by lsc 9y ago
I think the standards on HN are higher (for the same money) and in general, the standards for remote work are higher (again, for the same money.) - From interviewing people for sit-down in-person contracting positions at big companies in s
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by lsc 9y ago
That was somewhat different, just because it was a great power waging war on a small and (comparatively) powerless country, rather than a great power waging war on another great power.
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by lsc 9y ago
I think I agree that you are more correct, especially as I specifically said 'workers' and not 'people' - syndicalism, as I understand it, is mostly about the workers in a particular industry (or factory) controlling sa
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by lsc 9y ago
>One argument against such programs is that they could allow people to have a lifestyle where they choose to never work, yet live a comfortable life and have lots of children. It seems like this could cause extreme population growth, but
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by lsc 9y ago
eh, You can have a very strong welfare state that provides minimal food, shelter, medical care and clothing to everyone who needs it without having a planned economy. They really are different issues. there's a big difference between
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by lsc 9y ago
Fundamentally, I do think that focusing on the technology end of the problem, making solving the problem cheaper, is a totally valid way to try to help, especially if you are better at technology than politics. But I toatally agree that for
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by lsc 9y ago
The shocking thing to me is that this is the side that won. This is what victory looks like, even when the other side doesn't have nukes.
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by lsc 9y ago
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you KEEP IT A SECRET!" A rational player would only put effort into a retaliatory strike capability to the extent that actually having a retaliatory strike capability st
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by lsc 9y ago
my implication was that this is (to my knowledge) the first round of silicon valley biotech startups, and if it's like the first round of webapp startups, there will be a lot of failures, but the seeds will be planted for greater succe
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by lsc 9y ago
Buying datacenter bandwidth is that way. 3-5x variance and sometimes 10x between the first quote and what you pay. Interestingly, servers seem to be only 1.5x, and if you buy your servers in parts, the variance is even smaller.
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by lsc 9y ago
So, I came of age right in the middle of the first dot-com boom. My observation is that back then, no one with money knew what they hell they were doing. My observation during this dot-com boom is that a lot of the people who did well las
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by lsc 9y ago
To be clear, my mentioning of dense urban cores was only because they make public transit more practical. Many dense urban cores in America don't choose public transit. You may be correct about the authors intent; I maybe should have
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by lsc 9y ago
I personally think that the most realistic way to fix this is to just increase insurance minimums up to a reasonable level, enough to cover a car full of statistical lives. This, if enforced, would internalize the externality of injury into
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by lsc 9y ago
right. but... some people feel it is more ethical to take chances with their own lives than with the lives of others.
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by lsc 9y ago
but we tolerated a lot more (early) death from all causes in those days, in part be cause we didn't have technology to mitigate those risks. The argument I am trying to make is that we have technology (public transit) that would miti
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by lsc 9y ago
most US metros don't have workable public transit; most people drive to get from point a to point b even in our dense metros. Perhaps because even our metros are not dense enough, perhaps for other reasons. I would be open to dat
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by lsc 9y ago
>What is more dangerous on highways is differential speed. That sounds like an extraordinary statement to me, by which I mean that you need to support it. First, let me make a distinction between crashes where drivers lose control after
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by lsc 9y ago
I think that the lesson of the article is not that weirdos or strangers make the world a dangerous and ugly place, but that we, the regular people who vote for and move to areas with zoning densities that make public transit impractical, wh
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by lsc 9y ago
Yes, I understand that there is some scientific evidence that D3 is important. I'm not contesting that evidence. My point is that scientific evidence and "common sense" are very different sorts of things; in common use, &q
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by lsc 9y ago
I'm not saying you are wrong; I personally believe vitamin D3 is important, too. (I'm also not a medical professional) I'm just saying that the importance of vitamin D3 is not something that can be figured out by common sen
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by lsc 9y ago
It's true, of course, that "just eating less" will cause you to lose weight. That part is not controversial, if you discount the fringe. However, there is evidence that this is a lot harder than it sounds, which is why we

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