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by neilparikh 4y ago
I don’t think upper-middle class programmers were donating much before EA. Obviously AMF has been around before EA, the big difference is the additional amount of money it’s been able to deploy. I personally know many people (including me!)
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> Effective Altruism The practical version of Effective Altruism for most people is essentially "if you're well off, you should donate a chunk of your income to buying anti-malaria bed nets/deworming medicine/direct c
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Are we reading the same thread? I see tons of comments here criticizing Stripe for this layoff.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I don't see how you can infer anything at all from that video. It's not like she's going to show her screen while she's typing away at an email (I hope it's obvious why...). There's also no timestamps, so the v
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by neilparikh 4y ago
And also payroll and gross receipts tax.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> The organization derives resources from the rising value of its properties, which is a consequence of skyrocketing property prices in San Francisco. To make it explicit, this is a very perverse incentive, because essentially, the housi
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by neilparikh 4y ago
University of Toronto has a similar policy of buildings being open to all during business hours (or at least did a few years ago), and it's right in the middle of downtown as well.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I think with the rise of online communities, it's not as applicable anymore. Gladwell says you're only comparing against yourself against your peers at your school, and not the world, but for me, I've absolutely compared myse
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by neilparikh 4y ago
If you use Ctrl-R a lot (and even if you don't), I recommend trying out https://github.com/junegunn/fzf , makes it a lot easier to use for me.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> If you suddenly built more housing in SF. You’ll actually just get more people who can afford to live in SF moving there. That’ll drive the prices right back to where they were. Even if we take your theory as true, this still seems net
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I liked this article, what a nice story :) Did you get into your "hobby teaching" through your school sysadmin job?
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I talk about this elsewhere in the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33139416 ), but for me, looking at more notifications is still net positive if it leads to less total time spent on the phone. Without a smart w
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> Maybe the notifications are the major problem For me notifications are the main problem, and that's exactly why smartwatches have helped reduce my phone time. I still carry my phone on me when I have my smartwatch, but even then,
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Local mutability is not particularly difficult in either Haskell or OCaml.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> I'd wager that astronomical housing costs are the biggest factor in these absurd salaries, followed by healthcare. The causal relationship is in the opposite direction: high salaries cause high housing costs. Law of rent gives a t
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by neilparikh 4y ago
In theory, yes, but the last few decades show the opposite is happening: property tax rates are limited in many states (CA prop 13 being the prime example), and income taxes and sales tax fund more and more. For example, the federal govt&#x
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> Most of us have to pay taxes on property we own every year, pay for many of the public services (water, sewer, trash, etc.), and the benefits returned from taxes (like roads and police) are generally not worth the amount paid in a stri
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> This doesn't mean we should prefer "new safe technologies", it means our recruiting should far more stringent and our education far more formal (as in an actual useful programming degree). I think the ironic thing here i
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by neilparikh 4y ago
https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/thoughts-and-prayers-ke...
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by neilparikh 4y ago
It doesn't apply here, but there are a few app ideas I have where I don't really care about payments or discoverability; I would need use native just because the features are not supported in iOS Safari. For example, here's a
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> Its all in there. Nitpick: the normality of pi (that every possible number is "in there") is still a conjecture. It does seem true though (from a layman's perspective).
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Would be neat to have eye gaze be literally controlled by where you look using webcam tracking! Not sure how accurate it would be though.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I enjoyed http://deadlockempire.github.io/
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Nintendo has mostly not fallen into this problem, at least on their consoles (their mobile games are a different story...). Some of them have paid DLC, but I haven't seen any Switch games with IAP or required multiplayer.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
It's not a "Zach-Like", but Eliza by Zachtronics is on the Switch. It's a visual novel with an interesting story about AI and the gig economy. I recommend it highly, I really enjoyed it.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
As far as I know, if you have a dev account, apps installed yourself will be valid for a year, instead of 7 days. I've never done it myself though, so this is just based on what I've read.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Yes, but unless you pay $99/year, you'll need to reinstall the app every 7 days.
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by neilparikh 4y ago
The misconception you have here is that the cost of the housing is driven by how "high tier" it is. It's not, it's driven by land costs. That's why even a fairly old plain apartment in SF is still very expensive to
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> The YIMBY approach to homelessness is just a modern form of trickle-down economics Trickle-down economics is the theory that giving money to people with lower propensity to spend it (the rich) will somehow lead to more economic activit
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by neilparikh 4y ago
GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving is one that I'd consider fairly important as well.

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