mortehu

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541.
by mortehu 11y ago
Norway uses an alternative strategy to get housing to the poor called the "housing allowance"[1]. Instead of paying developers to build lower quality housing, money is given directly to poor people for the purpose of paying rent.
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by mortehu 11y ago
Note that he did the music, not the video itself, which is taken from the demo "Spin"[1] by Andromeda Software Development. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqMnVDIuvc
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by mortehu 11y ago
> if that were the case, we should see evidence of entities within the universe that also "exist without cause", and we don't. Why don't quantum fluctuations count?
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by mortehu 12y ago
> Nothing about using credit cards in the US is significantly different than anywhere else in the world There is one big difference: the widespread use of credit scores. If you never use a form of credit that reports to a credit score a
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by mortehu 12y ago
Usually startups using this kind of domain end up moving to .com once they get funded. I do data mining for a VC, and see this all the time.
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by mortehu 12y ago
Historical rank of the Foursquare app in the App Store's "free apps" list, which ranks by download count: https://i.imgur.com/djd7gmr.png Its present day rank is better than at the beginning of 2014.
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by mortehu 12y ago
There are several versions of the S&P 500. The version used here is the price index, which doesn't include dividends. The total return index, ^SPXTR[1], does account for dividends. https://ycharts.com/indices&#x2F
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by mortehu 12y ago
> The US has an extremely inefficient government fiscally. I saw this old blog post recently, supporting your assertion: https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r... Basically, undergrou
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by mortehu 12y ago
Here's what it used to look like, for those who had never heard of this product: https://i.imgur.com/uIHcEN4.png
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by mortehu 12y ago
> The whole of northern Europe is pretty much built with wood Wooden construction for buildings over a certain size has been outlawed in Norwegian cities and all of Norway historically, so it's actually mostly concrete and stone, al
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by mortehu 12y ago
I think you may have failed to think of freelancers, who are often employed by their own company. Secondly, the specific effects of repealing a tax doesn't make it any less real.
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by mortehu 12y ago
Apple and Android devices connect to fixed URLs[1][2] to verify the connection. Some captive portals whitelist only those URLs, so you only see this behavior when the captive portal creator wants it to happen. 1. http://www.appl
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by mortehu 12y ago
I thought so at first too, but here it is on my AT&T branded Moto X: http://bitraf.no/~mortehu/skrot/attwifi.png
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by mortehu 12y ago
> northern Canada and Northern Pole had a common shore What do you mean by this? Doesn't it every year? Here's this winter's maximum: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/
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by mortehu 12y ago
Add the ~8% spent by the employer for Medicare and Social Security, and the 31% effective rate becomes ~39%, doesn't it? For income above $200K, there's also an "Additional Medicare Tax" of 0.9%.
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by mortehu 12y ago
> Baltic states have around 20% (?) of their population non-resident: moved to other schengen states. I actually didn't think of it from that angle. I guess it could be argued that poor countries shouldn't enter reciprocal ope
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by mortehu 12y ago
The Syrian refugees are there because their cities are being sieged, not because they were seeking greener pastures. They're mostly in temporary camps, so I wouldn't say they have migrated in the sense I was thinking of. They wo
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by mortehu 12y ago
> Modern infrastructure can't handle massive population migrations. Even when migration is allowed, people don't just move to better off-areas en masse. We see this with US states and countries in the Schengen Area. Somehow e
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by mortehu 12y ago
> Plenty of websites document "laws" like "it's a misdemeanor to walk your dog on Sunday within 100 feet of a church" I recently learned that these are actually mostly jokes, and have never been real laws anywher
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by mortehu 12y ago
> It's pretty common for Americans to argue against things that are actually good for them. The dis-information campaigns funded by billions in contributions are very good at convincing people universal healthcare, etc. would actual
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by mortehu 12y ago
One way to alleviate this problem is to treat all failures as having a fixed cost equal to an expensive successful request. E.g. treat all >= 400 HTTP status codes as having taken 500ms. This works well even if there's a stable st
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by mortehu 12y ago
> Google returns over 600,000 results Tip: The result count estimate on the first result page is often off by several orders of magnitude. Often it's possible to navigate to the end of the results pretty quickly, and the number dro
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by mortehu 12y ago
> the person who writes 1,000 lines in 2 hours of code that is buggy and unmaintainable > the person who gets the same assignment, does nothing but sit in his cubicle thinking for a week. And then over the course of a day writes 100-2
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by mortehu 12y ago
Do they have the code for both? In that case, and if they're written by the same person, this can be very easy to determine, e.g. due to code reuse across projects.
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by mortehu 13y ago
> until you send them an email. It's not "until you send", but "until you receive a reply".
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by mortehu 13y ago
Oakland and San Francisco are not in Silicon Valley. San Francisco is the second most densely populated city in the US.
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by mortehu 13y ago
> I've never seen one idling at a muni stop. Here you go: http://www.sfbg.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Full_325_...
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by mortehu 13y ago
> for some reason having a tech company behind you means you're above the law. Which tech company is behind Academy of Art[1] and UCSF[2]? When I lived in San Francisco half a year ago, I saw far more of these than the tech company
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by mortehu 13y ago
I think this is only true if you don't consider trillion-fold cost reduction as an option.
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by mortehu 13y ago
Nope, already was: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-365-and-google-apps-fa...

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