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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Just a note: this was posted on April 1st (may show up as Mar 30th for Americans).
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
A bonus is that you can build out server features a LOT faster when you only have a single app to worry about: you can couple your client and server implementations, and know by just testing on your one client that you haven’t broken it wit
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
To my knowledge it only requires sharing the salary range with people once they have an offer in hand, if that person asks for it. It does not require making that range publicly available to anyone seeing the job listing.
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Under your own definition, everyone can have: - housing - education - health care Unless you’re saying that somehow it’s impossible for a society like the UK or US to ensure everyone has access to the above? Even for your “negative rights”,
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Wait do you mean? As in, the highways proposed in 1955 weren’t built? I’m not sure how highways going through SF would make it easier to drive in SF (outside of the highways): wouldn’t that generally increase traffic and conflicts?
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Well the US every hundred years or so has a tradition of revivalist movements (starting back in the 1740s), basically where some evangelical preachers preach some common message across denominational lines. So there’s a lot of cross-breedin
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Exactly. $15/hr with $2k/mo of rent is entirely unaffordable (that would mean $2,400/mo in wages, or 80% of total pay). And that’s less than half the median wage nationally. That makes the argument that NYC is unaffordable ev
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
A broiler typically goes to or above 260°C. A pizza oven can pretty easily get above 400°C. Not sure why anyone would use nonstick cookware in a pizza oven, but people make bad decisions frequently enough.
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Why is requiring each property to have a named, non-LLC owner not feasible?
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It seems reasonable that the carjackers are the ones who are responsible for paying out. But as Uber created the transaction between the two parties, it also seems reasonable that Uber should be responsible for getting recompense from the c
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
In many places and for certain purposes (the US and the EU for instance), geographical regions have one vote, regardless of their population size. It’s unclear that an age-based distribution instead of geographic distribution would be worse
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
This doesn’t make sense to me. You’re saying a water heater that uses N joules to heat water by 0.5N joules is 33% efficient? That would be difficult for most people to translate: I use 100 wh to get 50 wh of heat, which should imply 50% ef
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Only if you can ensure no one ever replaces what you wrote with their own solution. You become critical in the short term, but also critical to the business to replace in the long term, in the same way that a vendor tripling their price oft
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Considering Gibraltar has a grand total of 34,000 residents, it’s more similar to a rail crossing splitting Palo Alto. Which is the case. Similarly, probably as many people a day use the Fremont drawbridge in Seattle, which yields to boat t
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Don’t we run into problems of low level carbon dioxide poisoning, if we hit the levels of “the only way to keep the planet habitably temperate is to reflect sunlight”? At around 1,000 ppm we’d hit the point where everywhere outside you’d be
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
I switched to FreshDirect during the pandemic, and I am probably never going to depend on a large grocery store again. FreshDirect is my weekly delivery, and the nearby bodegas have what’s needed when I need a couple things. Every large NY
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
There’s a road between those views: people are sometimes free agents, but often do not actively choose their own path. So while we should allow people to make their own choices when they’re actively choosing them, we can do a lot to make th
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Note this happens all the time to people who vest stock, and then before the next trading window the stock tanks in value. The employee owes income tax on the stock they vested, at the time the stock was granted, then have capital losses fo
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Why do we tax property more (outside California) when it increases in value? Didn’t the owner of it rightfully make a smart claim and stake out a great piece of land? Why should they be penalized by paying more when the land becomes worth m
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
> What if I want to keep that diamond but cannot afford to because of the taxes? Then you have to sell it. This is no different from game show awards, where the “car” you ein is taxed at the car’s value, so unless you have enough savings
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It’s probably reasonable for an organization to choose not to conflate the civil liberties they stand for with amendments. In an ideal world the people would happily eliminate or modify laws that do harm, and of the existing US civil libert
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Yes that sounds right: everyone should probably be given a ration for a guaranteed allotment food each month. In NYC during the pandemic they opened up free meals for everyone, regardless of income. A society where enough food is provided b
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It’s bad news for farmers that are farming in the middle of a city, yes. But farms in rural areas will hardly get taxed at all, because the land couldn’t be used for much else, so has very little intrinsic value. Land value taxes adjust bas
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
You can brute force this without knowing Bayes’ theorem (see the grids in the article as an example of iterating through every possible solution then counting to arrive at the right probability).
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Could probably set it up to do checks on departure. End up in the wrong country without your passport? Just take the next train back to the last destination in the other country. Would likely need a special treaty in place so Americans trav
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It’s a little absurd that a trip of less than 400 miles takes 11 hours on a train. That’s a terrible average speed. With pretty reasonable high speed rail, that should be no more than a 4 hour trip. At which point it is very competitive wit
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by mjmahone17 6y ago
Your shock at 600k is understandable, but note that the people pulling those numbers mostly don’t need to exist at smaller or less tech oriented companies. It’s primarily either senior engineers who consistently have outsized business impac
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by mjmahone17 6y ago
An electric trolley plane? Basically add a rail in the runway that powers the plane through take off, with the batteries engaging once in the air.
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by mjmahone17 6y ago
This is really cool! I love seeing GraphQL back in its roots as a way of improving the developer experience for native iOS apps. From what I understand, this project tries to solve one clear pain point that isn't solved elsewhere: Swif
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by mjmahone17 6y ago
> And what exactly would that have told you about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for the people at risk, those who are neither young nor healthy? So if the goal was to reduce transmission, you can save a lot of lives of thos

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