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by mactrey 4y ago
Isn't it weird to use the word "sprawling" here? A world where major cities are affordable would be more dense . It would be easier to preserve land for its natural beauty. The US today is sprawling.
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by mactrey 4y ago
Two ways to think about why I'd rather have $1,000 today than $1,000 a year from now: - I could invest the money today and have more than $1,000 next year - I might die before next year and never get to enjoy the money
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by mactrey 5y ago
Some people have complicated taxes (need to itemize; IRS is missing information). Some people have simple taxes (standard deduction; IRS knows what they owe). Why should the second group have to pay for tax prep software or fill out forms b
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by mactrey 5y ago
So why not just invest in Bitcoin outside of your tax-advantaged accounts?
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by mactrey 5y ago
Er, so can you show any numbers to the effect that Covid is deadlier than the flu among some Covid-vaccinated subpopulation? Even if it's true that Covid "scales" (becomes deadlier) as a function of age more steeply than infl
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by mactrey 5y ago
Starcraft I also discouraged death balls of ground units with the terrible pathing..
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by mactrey 5y ago
Or perhaps having the experience itself ("I survived the jump") is a significant contributor to their not regretting it. There could even be multiple mechanisms there: "turns out being that close to death is really scary,&quo
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by mactrey 5y ago
You make it sound like those studies were bad because the sample size was too small. In reality bad study design or having an unrepresentative sample are more common issues.
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by mactrey 5y ago
Any benefit is earned with a suitable definition of "earned"...
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by mactrey 5y ago
Did Vancouver pass limits on foreign purchases because that was the underlying reason for the high cost of housing, or did they pass limits because that was easier than actually building new housing?
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by mactrey 5y ago
To me suicide is an reaction to this thought: "things are bad for me, and they are never going to get better." If you think your life might get significantly better in the next couple of years, you probably aren't likely to c
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by mactrey 5y ago
I'm so attached to starting all my where clauses with a TRUE (1=1 since SQL Server doesn't have boolean literals) that I do this when I need some OR clauses: SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE 1=1 AND (1<>1
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by mactrey 6y ago
A 32 is still 96th percentile, or a little better than "okay" for most Americans. In the future if you want to argue that ACT doesn't predict academic success it might be more effective to leave your own score and academic su
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by mactrey 6y ago
There are no two ways about it: the Syrian refugees who were planning to buy RTX 3060s for mining are going to be hurt by this announcement.
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by mactrey 6y ago
OP is referring to Nintendo cancelling a Splatoon tournament because competitors were using the #FreeMelee hashtag https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/12/nintendo_cancels_s...
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by mactrey 6y ago
That's true, I generally don't care about the welfare of apple sellers, and I'll take a deal when I see one. But, and I hate to stretch this analogy to its breaking point, it's more like the overwhelming majority of Amer
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by mactrey 6y ago
This ignores any effects of market power. Amazon is not bargaining with its workers in the way that you are bargaining with Alice for her apple - a lot of these workers have very few other options to sell their labor. And sitting at home an
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by mactrey 6y ago
This is interesting and it makes me really want to see the 5 4000+ puzzles...
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by mactrey 6y ago
I'm not a biologist but I'm not sure that follows. It could be that the experimentally-derived structure is 100% accurate to the actual physical structure but getting 90% of your predicted residues to match that is enough to get a
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by mactrey 6y ago
I'm guessing that because sweaters are not money, and furthermore are actual physical objects that have to be sent to a physical address, criminals aren't attempting to convert stolen identities into sweaters at any rate the feder
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by mactrey 6y ago
Sitting on billions of dollars in stock in a publicly traded company isn't really all that different from having a swimming pool full of gold coins. The day-to-day functioning of that company is not going to be affected if the billiona
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by mactrey 6y ago
Do you live in or near downtown Portland? Because I do, and I can assertively state that the rule of law had not broken down prior to the arrival of federal agents. Walking around downtown recently and finding little more than a single brok
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by mactrey 6y ago
> "hate speech" is a made up word Most words and phrases were made up, at some point. "Hate speech" still has a coherent meaning. > and neither illegal Nobody said it was illegal. YouTube is free to ban content cre
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by mactrey 6y ago
Index investors are not really tossing money blindly. They are investing in a diversified portfolio and then constantly re-weighting their investment by market cap. The alternative to that, before the rise and acceptance of index investing,
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by mactrey 6y ago
I don't know much about bikes but why wouldn't the blue one with the solid wheels be rideable?
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by mactrey 7y ago
People in the market aren't expecting inflation: https://www.clevelandfed.org/our-research/indicators-and-dat... So I don't know why people on HN so often are.
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by mactrey 7y ago
Yields are low because bond prices are high. It's not a bad time to be selling down your bond portfolio right now.
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by mactrey 7y ago
Another one: the Japanese brand 無印良品 "mujirushi ryouhin", which essentially means "Quality Goods Without Branding." Of course it's developed a little following behind its "brand" because the goods are most
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by mactrey 7y ago
Wikipedia's rules on notability and article length prevent it from growing infinitely (in theory). So my point is exactly that - all that "low-hanging fruit" is mostly gone, and most of the actual writing work that's lef
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by mactrey 7y ago
It's impressive that it's stable considering there's probably a lot less to do on Wikipedia today than there was in 2007.

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