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by memonkey 3y ago
I hate the sweetgum tree. Those balls are the most annoying things ever. Pretty tree, but the Western Sycamore is better and native. Ideally there is a balance between native trees and plants that help cool the environment for one's la
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by memonkey 3y ago
That sounds awesome. How do you do that?
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by memonkey 4y ago
Learning is good to whom? Knowledge is good to whom? Even if all the research says it is good for economies and countries at scale doesn't deter others from saying otherwise.
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by memonkey 4y ago
I just looked it up, according to usgc.gov, Californians use on average about 181 gallons of water per day. There are about 22 million Californians. That's several billion gallons per day. Just pointing that out.
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by memonkey 4y ago
a cool extended feature of that would be to have pre-built unoptimized cities with a budget to update existing metro areas to more walkable and efficient metro areas (with metrics that track things like CO2 emissions).
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by memonkey 4y ago
Who is saying that?
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by memonkey 4y ago
I want to make a StumbleUpon clone again.
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by memonkey 4y ago
Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with this: > Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. He was educated
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by memonkey 4y ago
One of the absolute best websites out there for getting native plants. I use it every single time I go to the nursery.
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by memonkey 4y ago
i have been working professionally with ruby on rails for about 3 months now, coming mainly from a javascript ecosystem. im still struggling. there's a lot of magic happening. i'm not bad with the ruby language itself. but i"
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by memonkey 4y ago
Here's my real life example: I bought a house in 2009 @ 3.75% for 480k fixer-upper 1922 craftsman home in East Los Angeles area. My monthly payment was about $3200 because I could only afford ~4% down so we had to get PMI. At the time
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by memonkey 4y ago
> And if you don't see reasons why giving very powerful, authoritarian regime full access to huge amount data about people is a problem - well, history books can show you some. Curious, are you referencing IBM and The Holocaust?
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by memonkey 4y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree. I've watched a couple and they ask pretty good questions if the answers he gives require some additional research/critical thinking/knowledge of history. The last documentary I watched, Hypernormalizati
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by memonkey 4y ago
Ah, yes, the ol' write your congresspeople. Part of the problem is that for years they are running on these platforms saying they will help the people but end up not doing any of the things they say they are going to do.
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by memonkey 4y ago
Americans pick and choose which media to listen to. And the media across the spectrum is aligned on one thing: China Bad, US Good. However, if you listen to NPR, it _does_ matter that we're locking up immigrants in the South. But did y
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by memonkey 4y ago
Absolutely great article. One thing I always see missing is why front-end applications can't use sessionStorage or localStorage? Why is this generally frowned upon?
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by memonkey 4y ago
ZOMBO.COM
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by memonkey 4y ago
You can memorize a lot of them and forget everything in a year.
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by memonkey 4y ago
This resonates with me. Waiting for people to message me. I have had so many issues trying to figure this one out. Zoom fatigue, slack fatigue, etc., etc. Maybe that's all it is just killing my energy.
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by memonkey 4y ago
They're only barely being subject to society's laws though I think is the point.
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by memonkey 5y ago
My own anecdotal and I'm sure many others have experienced this before, but getting the culture right for remote work has been a great experience. I get to know people at a meaningful level. I remember being younger in high school and
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by memonkey 5y ago
Is it irrational to care about/for your neighbor? I don't think so.
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by memonkey 5y ago
Isaac Asimov wrote a great critique on 1984 which includes a few thoughts on Animal Farm: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
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by memonkey 5y ago
Did you expect HN to have that same drive for countries like Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine?
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by memonkey 5y ago
This applies to people who are gamblers. Most people who are the poorest are usually the ones who know exactly where their dollars are going. They can tell you exactly how much a carton of eggs and milk are.
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by memonkey 5y ago
Uhh, this is a model minority myth. https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/article/the-model-minori...
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by memonkey 5y ago
Thanks for writing about your experience. It's kind of nice to see some wisdom being dropped about the current/long term affairs of what makes many company experiences very similar. It seems extremely difficult to find something t
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by memonkey 5y ago
You know, I think you can interpret Nietzsche's slave morality as the process to master morality. For example, the enlightenment was supposed to free society up from faith-thinking and introduce rational thinking, but (and he right cri
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by memonkey 5y ago
$20 for skilled labor in this industry seems very low. The bump to $22.13 when CEO gets a bump in the millions is really throwing the finger to workers everywhere.
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by memonkey 5y ago
Think the difference is who is explicitly signing contracts.

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