malandrew

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by malandrew 2y ago
Everyone of the things you've described are afflictions that are happening in the other two countries I have citizenship from (one of which is where I was born in and lived as a child). One is in South America and the other is in Europ
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by malandrew 2y ago
Bullshit that there is no such thing as American culture. I don't even understand how someone can say that with a straight face unless they've only ever lived in the bubble of a major US city that has a lot of immigrants. 29 years
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by malandrew 2y ago
One more thing I would add is if we don't address the training and skill issue of Americans, that isn't a racial issue that impacts only those of European descent. Every immigrant that comes here and has children will have to deal
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by malandrew 2y ago
I voted for Trump and an immigrant and I'm mixed on immigration. I've been in the US for 29 years now and I'm a US citizen. I'm more American in attitude than most Americans I know. I consider myself a nationalist. Immig
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by malandrew 3y ago
Lol. This sounds like my house. My spouse and my nephew (who lives with us) cannot for the life of them ever close any kitchen cabinet doors. They both always leave them ajar, never leaving them fully opening but never fully closing them. I
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by malandrew 4y ago
It doesn’t work like that though for publicly traded companies. Even if you bring in more revenue that they be are paying you, it can be attractive to fire you to juice the stock price on Wall Street.
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by malandrew 4y ago
I’ll often quickly go back and forth to an app I’m crafting a reply in to make sure that iOS doesn’t evict it from memory and cause me to lose my progress while I look things up in another app. Bloody annoying.
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by malandrew 4y ago
I’ve been commenting to my partner all day that it’s crazy how little this has shown up in social media without me actively looking for it by searching on Twitter. I think I saw maybe on post on FB all day and maybe 2 in my main Twitter fee
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by malandrew 4y ago
The only solution is to aggressively defund until there is only budget left for teaching.
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by malandrew 4y ago
Oh, didn’t realize that was Turkish.
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by malandrew 4y ago
Why?
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by malandrew 4y ago
Most sailing dinghys should have weather helm and will turn up into the wind, causing the boat to end up in irons (mainsail luffing and depowered)
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by malandrew 4y ago
I know with sailing you want your boat to have weather helm so it turns up into the wind and eventually ends up in irons, but if you have autopilot engaged, you can’t forget that. Do you know if any of the newer autopilot systems will head
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by malandrew 4y ago
IMHO aUrooj inflated life jackets generally make no sense for kayaking. It’s too easy to end up in the drink casually and it’s like $60+ per re-arming kit. Are those fishing kayaks so stable that they have very little expectation of going o
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by malandrew 4y ago
I have. Only once or twice this egregious. Most of the time however it’s explicit diversity incentives for executives if they want to hit their perf targets. If you can’t get the hires, the other way to game it is to shrink the denominator
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by malandrew 4y ago
Major cities would better serve the homeless and mentally ill by spending those dollars outside the city in low cost of living places. First their dollars will go further and they’ll be able to either support more people or they can support
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by malandrew 4y ago
https://gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsown... Required reading
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by malandrew 4y ago
The problem I have with mini splits is that they are an architectural eyesore. Are there any high quality ones designed to be built into walls discretely like cove lighting has done for lighting?
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by malandrew 4y ago
I have a love-hate relationship with runbooks. I see them as tech debt for things you haven’t yet automated or made clear enough. If someone needs to go read a doc to understand what they need to do, you’re already behind.
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by malandrew 4y ago
It does to me. These are likely people that are living in lower quality housing with more people packed in per square foot of housing out of necessity. I don't have actually data to back up this assertion, but this has been my personal
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by malandrew 4y ago
> In countries with state pensions, some of the taxes are saving for retirement. It's only saving for the retirement of government workers at the expense of the private sector. That's pretty clearly theft. There should be absol
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by malandrew 4y ago
Some taxes are the price of civilization. I don't know how anyone can look at our current taxation scheme and how it is spent and make the argument that what we're subject to in the US is civilized. Just look at how much of taxes
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by malandrew 4y ago
I pay my taxes, not because I want to but because the state has right to licit first use of force and can throw me in jail if I don't. I personally have too much to lose so I comply. There's nothing moral about paying taxes becaus
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by malandrew 4y ago
Yeah, it's still a problem, but the problem is with the powers that be that set the rules for what it means to live officially. The wages are less of a problem here than the theft by government of the fruits of ones labor. The wages pa
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by malandrew 4y ago
This raises the point that I don't think gets enough attention: taxes for many are a barrier towards life goals. For some like the folks you mentioned, it's a barrier to putting a roof over your head or buying your first home. For
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by malandrew 4y ago
If it’s so little of GDP, it shouldn’t be hard to make a reasonable off to buy out the water rights.
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by malandrew 4y ago
They did cause it by moving there and building a life there (including building their gardens). If the city had remained a small backwater town, this problem wouldn’t exist because the farms are 75% and the 25% consumed by the city today wo
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by malandrew 4y ago
Hollywood also had more days of great weather than anywhere else and this was especially important for maintaining production schedules.
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by malandrew 4y ago
It’s easy to imagine it moving. The people doing the work are the ICs (individual contributors), and up until recently, SF was the only place to go to have a top notch career in tech. People sacrificed to live in SF as junior to mid level e
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by malandrew 4y ago
China is also expected to see population collapse. They are rapidly aging and there’s no sign that that is reversing.

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