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by lsc 7y ago
Do you have a good reference or example or explanation of the FTC for folks who are learning calculus?
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by lsc 7y ago
>The Tesla truck thing has always surprised me a bit since it feels like a misreading of the audience. I watched the stream. My impression was "someone made a truck, designed and marketed it based on my preferences when I was 19.&qu
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by lsc 7y ago
>it is almost beyond belief what high quality engineers can earn by simply changing jobs. (and not just top engineers; just about everyone benefits from competing offers. If you haven't gotten a competing offer in the last year or
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by lsc 7y ago
>The noise has gotten bad enough that I'm considering quitting my job and running away to a small town. so, uh, my own solution? requires money, but is probably cheaper than giving up the big city wages (depending on your situation
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by lsc 7y ago
>half of the breakage in modern cars seems to require interfacing with the computer to at least clear an error flag. Yes, you need an odbII tool. they are not expensive by the standards of decent '80s automotive tools (the cost of
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by lsc 7y ago
Fake books are a problem too. I mostly see publishers complain about it, but that probably has more to do with my social circle than with the proportion of people complaining https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/
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by lsc 7y ago
>For many products and people that will just be the visual appeal, and advertisers target their widest audience. I... think this is usually unwise. If you attempt to appeal to everyone, you appeal to no one. I personally think one of my
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by lsc 7y ago
>This is more complex than financials - displaying an advert leads to a bi-directional association in the consumers mind between the entity being advertised and the entity advertising it. It is beneficial to advertise products that have
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by lsc 7y ago
huh. I will look more into the Oura ring. In budget, but not in "buy without research" budget.
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by lsc 7y ago
I'm mostly concerned about reading in bed 'cause I assume if it can't detect that, it can't detect, you know, staring at the ceiling. (though I guess I'm a lot more likely to fidget while staring at the ceiling.)
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by lsc 7y ago
Do you have a source? Like, I'd pay money for good sleep tracking, (especially if it's fitbit-level money... I would pay more) but everything I've seen thinks that if I'm in bed and quietly, say, reading a book, I&#x2
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by lsc 7y ago
Eh, it sounded like the person I was responding to was trying to avoid flames? I mean, if you are trying to get into it about religion, that's a different thing. I'm just saying this was something I stepped in by accident and th
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by lsc 7y ago
I actually had no idea that the catholic church permitted an english translation so early.
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by lsc 7y ago
so, uh, you probably weren't aware of this (I know I wasn't until fairly recently when I made a similar comment and a jewish friend pointed this out) but many jewish people consider speaking casually about how the new testament i
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by lsc 7y ago
I think you can do a lot worse than random meetups. I have enjoyed the toastmasters debate club[1] though I haven't been going lately. I think work friends are good sources of friends, too. I mean, work friends are work friends, and
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by lsc 7y ago
Maybe... but can you get world-class universities without a culture that values education? I mean, I guess it's one of those chicken and egg things, as a world class university both requires and attracts people who value education. Bu
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by lsc 7y ago
> A tenet can easily do $100k worth of damage in less than a year. A whole lot of the housing stock in silicon valley (and it seems most of what is owned by this type of landlord) is essentially teardowns; stuff built more than 50 year
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by lsc 7y ago
so, uh, I thought the kjv was... not recognized as valid by the catholic church? Like, the KJV was authorized by the church of England, a, uh, rather different body from the Vatican. I thought a lot of what made the KJV important was that
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by lsc 7y ago
I think there's a big social component, too. I personally would pay rather extra to live here in silicon valley - extra even net additional earnings, just because I fit in ways I don't fit anywhere else I've been. (I me
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by lsc 7y ago
I think educational infrastructure is almost a trailing indicator... Silicon Valley is special 'cause it prizes the sort of education required to do this sort of work. Especially when I first came here in the '90s, it was amaz
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by lsc 7y ago
>Wouldn't this mean that landlords are effectively leaving money on the table? Yes. >If it's not rent controlled, couldn't they just jack up the rent whenever they felt like it? I was talking with a guy who I work with
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by lsc 7y ago
>But I wonder if a city could ever follow the model of Atlanta and try to build a "new Silicon Valley" from scratch with aggressive policies that lure companies/employees from existing tech hubs? It's totally possible
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by lsc 7y ago
> Is there some hidden reason that companies like this insist on staying in the same area despite the many potential advantages of looking elsewhere? the long term root is that there is a huge productivity advantage to clusters of worker
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by lsc 7y ago
I've been working in industry since '97... and I've dodged so many layoffs. That doesn't mean I wasn't impacted, though. There's always at least as much work to be done, and fewer people to do it, and a a l
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by lsc 7y ago
Huh. that's an interesting point I hadn't thought of; I always attributed the difference in quality to just, you know, the stricter housing code and better building tech in general... but that's not the only factor at work i
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by lsc 7y ago
for me, i personally find that the construction of the apartment matters a lot more than how noisy my neighbors are; I moved from a duplex in a very quiet neighborhood in sunnyvale to an apartment right under the SJC flight path, but the
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by lsc 7y ago
Huh. It wouldn't occur to me, really, to connect the two, but I also am a huge fan of Jablokov.
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by lsc 7y ago
>Granted I prefer hard sci-fi, but the novel’s focus is really on style over science fiction. It’s IMO somewhere between space opera and fantasy. How I looked at Gibson's work changed completely after I read "pattern recognitio
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by lsc 7y ago
>I would slowly acquire a recommendation network of people like me, effectively crowd sourcing the content-finding to a bunch of clones! But I don't want recommendations from people like me. I want recommendations from people with
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by lsc 7y ago
makes sense. I've been reading Gaitskill's "little hammer" - it's a collection of essays, but... like half of them are book reviews, so now I'm pausing to read some mailer. For that matter, it is pretty com

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