mercutio2

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by mercutio2 13y ago
Ah. I interpreted your statement as "we had 4.1% inflation in the last decade". Your intent was "it's as if we 'd had 4.1% inflation, not much more than actual inflation". I completely agree that nominal gas ra
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Where do you get 4.1% inflation from? CPI for the USD hasn't gone up by that much in a single year for the last decade, annualized inflation is closer to 2.5% over that period.
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S.F. to impose fees on tech shuttles(sfgate.com)
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Did you never get cash for birthdays or Christmas? I had a sizable number of friends growing up who claimed to "get no allowance", but they spent a shocking amount on frivolities. Turns out their annual gifts-received line item wa
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Speaking as someone who lived happily for many years in an income-sharing commune (not all modern US communes are full-on income-sharing), this is a lovely way to explain the "control of a few budget lines" system. My plans for my
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by mercutio2 13y ago
That's how I read that sentence the first time, too, but you can parse that sentence so it's true: Two USB ports which are electrically identical are superior to two PS/2 ports, one for keyboard and one for mouse, which are e
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by mercutio2 13y ago
> I have to clarify one thing for you though. Having a > family IS extremely gratifying but it doesn't come at the > expense of freedom. Simply put, your priorities change. > What may seem like a loss of freedom to you now,
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by mercutio2 13y ago
That’s odd. I know highly literate people from all of the above, and I’ve never heard any of them misuse less. Usually the highly literate folks misusing less are from Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia. It’s jarring when I hear or see
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by mercutio2 13y ago
This is a fascinating comment, encapsulating all that I disagree with from opponents of BI. There's the guess that market wages for jobs less desirable than touring with your band would trend much lower, which seems unlikely. But more,
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Nit: not "in programming". I would replace that with "when programming in languages with c-style syntax". If only pascal had won that particular syntax battle.
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Holy cow, I think I may be your neighbor; I bought one of those houses, judging from the brand new Porsche I've been seeing when I head to work in the morning. Do you have a link to the shoot out? Except my half of the Berkeley two-on-
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by mercutio2 13y ago
> They're ugly It's challenging to find an objective arbiter of taste on cars. I happen to like the look. > slow I presume you mean something like "doesn't have as much power (and thus less acceleration) as my pref
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by mercutio2 13y ago
This has never, not once, worked for me from an iOS device. With or without cookies disabled. WSJ articles are always black holes to me.
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by mercutio2 13y ago
I suspect you are operating under the misapprehension that anarchist means no structure. It doesn't. It means self-organizing. Newby anarchists tend to have more meetings than any other group I know, because they often have a hard time
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by mercutio2 13y ago
That's a fascinating question! Do you know many vegans? I know a lot of them, and I'd say on the order of 75% of them went directly from omnivore to vegan. They hadn't thought about the ethics of meat before, when they did, t
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by mercutio2 13y ago
Since we're using accounting terms-of-art, you almost certainly don't mean that you would "net 500k", you mean gross 500k, right? The popular culture seems to use net to mean "total in the income category", but
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by mercutio2 13y ago
I keep hearing this. It has never once worked for me, on any device and the WSJ pay wall. What browser are you using? Do you have cookies disabled?
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by mercutio2 13y ago
"Dearth" means scarcity. I had to read your post over a few times to understand that you (probably) meant an abundance of poor business ideas. An enjoyable word to use, though!
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by mercutio2 14y ago
Wow. That article was awesome. The video was cool, too, although it didn't hold my interest like the story did. The thing is, I don't doubt there's lots of interesting content on YouTube. I just can't conceive of browsing through it for fun
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by mercutio2 14y ago
Really? Why in the world would they do that? Effectively zero of the smart people I know browse YouTube. Most of my programmer friends listen to podcasts, but I honestly have no idea what smart people do with YouTube.
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by mercutio2 14y ago
Hmm. In the US it really depends on your insurance. I was annoyed when my excellent therapist's copay went up from $15 to $20... I don't know anyone in my social circle who feels any stigma about therapy, it's fantastic!
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by mercutio2 14y ago
How do you remotely log in to one user account on an OS X system while another user is logged in at the physical machine? You don't... This ceased to be true in the past year or two, FYI.
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by mercutio2 14y ago
I am in deep agreement with the thrust of your argument, particularly parents job in relation to "the tyranny of their own desires". However, I can't agree with "Perhaps the hardest thing to do is to realize that the way your kids turn out
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by mercutio2 14y ago
That's not how English vernacular works, sorry. LEGO is welcome to market its brand as an adjective, and English speakers are welcome to call them Legos, as every Lego-loving child and adult I've ever known personally does.
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by mercutio2 14y ago
Yes, I agree completely that even very technical people often have a surprising blind spot, thinking either we can put the database/facial recognition/cheap cameras genie back in the bottle, or alternately that leaving no digital trace is a
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by mercutio2 14y ago
I'm fairly confident you mean "The Transparent Society", which happens to be one of my all time favorites. While its true Brin advocates giving up the illusion of privacy and (especially poignantly) that we should stop screwing around prete