notJim

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by notJim 7y ago
Literally said that to myself out loud as soon as I saw the name Moviefone.
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by notJim 7y ago
It's great, because each approach has pros and cons, so as long as you primarily focus on the pros, it's a win every time.
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by notJim 7y ago
Indeed, the marxist argument is that the productivity gains of the industrial revolution would allow unprecedented human freedom, if not for their capture by the small class of people who own the means of production. The labor movement has
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by notJim 7y ago
Yeah exactly. Early in my career, I loved working at startups, and aside from compensation would prefer to do so again, but the opportunity cost now is way too high. The one advantage I see at a startup is that if you pick one with a decent
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by notJim 7y ago
I do find there's a lot of benefit to flexibility though. If I'm in the zone at the end of day, and don't have anything else to do that night, I'll often work an extra ~2 hours (or until I feel like I've lost it.) B
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by notJim 7y ago
I was curious for context on this, and honestly didn't find much in my brief search, but apparently it's thought that for professionals, the hours worked has gone up, while for the working class, it has gone down. I didn't re
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by notJim 7y ago
I don't get it, what is the mechanism by which you're proposing this would happen?
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by notJim 7y ago
If this is true, it would also be futile to raise the minimum wage (which I, and most leftists I know would support), because landlords would just capture the extra wage. I don't think this is supported by data from places where the mi
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by notJim 7y ago
As others say, one reason is that busts happen. I was reading the union contract for one of the local government unions (like you do…) the other day, and noticed they had a lot of provisions related to lay-offs. How much severance people ge
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by notJim 7y ago
This is such a good, succinct way of putting it. One of the worst code-bases I've ever had to work with was largely so because of so many single-caller functions and far too granular abstraction.
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by notJim 7y ago
I think this comment is accurate just from a logical standpoint. Backyard has two possible meanings here: * Literal backyard: in this case, then maybe one could argue that if we accept the premise[1] that YIMBYs aren't homeowners, then
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by notJim 7y ago
Also a homeowner, and I'm a YIMBY (or PHIMBY) for selfish reasons as well. My neighborhood is mostly old white people, because they bought their houses years ago and stayed put. Not that I have anything against them, but I'd love
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by notJim 7y ago
What does "turning it into Los Angeles?" mean? Everyone replying seems to know what you're talking about, but it's totally baffling to me.
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by notJim 7y ago
> Apartment dwellers demand far less water It is also obviously far cheaper (and better for the environment) to water a single building than to water a bunch of dispersed SFHs.
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by notJim 7y ago
Ahh the classic NIMBY move, whether it's homeless folks or just people who want bike lanes: "These people aren't from here!"
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by notJim 7y ago
The difference is turnout. It's way easier to turn out for one single election (electing someone who will pre-empt this NIMBY nonsense) than it is to turn out to dozens of local meetings most people don't even hear about where the
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by notJim 7y ago
Isn't SF building two new subway lines right now? I agree it should be faster and better, but I don't think it's true that nothing is being done. Also, in this case, they have the infrastructure, the NIMBYs are just hoarding
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by notJim 7y ago
It's not just prices, it's also "character." Basically it's about maintaining a small town-ish feel while living right next door to a major city. Frankly I think a lot of it is about parking and traffic.
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by notJim 7y ago
> They need the California State Government to overrule local zoning limits Yes, California and other places with housing problems need as-of-right policies as the article suggests. It's not simply zoning, it's removing all abi
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by notJim 7y ago
I immediately went to do this quiz, but then I couldn't help but wonder if this might be one of those Cambridge Analytica style "quizzes" where they're harvesting psychological data for unknown purposes. I'm not sur
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by notJim 7y ago
Those graphics are gorgeous. So crisp!
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by notJim 7y ago
Me too, I'm trying to get over it. It's kinda silly to worry about mildly inconveniencing someone, and it'll be nice once it's the norm.
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by notJim 7y ago
Portland, OR, but I never saw anyone use it in Brooklyn, either. Though NYC is incredibly backwards as far as payment technology goes, and most places strongly prefer cash. I still get your reaction sometimes, or that look that says "I
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by notJim 7y ago
I thought that you had a fixed number, but Apple generates some kind of unique code, which is sent to the terminal. I.e., the terminal doesn't see your actual number.
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by notJim 7y ago
I honestly love Apple Pay, but I don't use it super often because it makes me self-conscious. I feel like a bit of a dick for some reason. If you try to do something "weird" and it doesn't work, people get annoyed, or it
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by notJim 7y ago
A big part of this is that apparently US credit card companies decided not to include contactless when they switched over to chip cards, in order to save money. Ironically, contactless was becoming fairly common before the move to EMV, but
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by notJim 7y ago
I have my budget in a spreadsheet. Top line is income, then the rest are expenses. The spreadsheet is really just for projecting what fixed costs and savings I can afford, I don't follow it strictly. The key thing is the way all my acc
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by notJim 7y ago
You can't start with the strike though. One person striking is called a sick day. You have to start with organizing, which necessarily means that you're going to be working at a place whose practices you disagree with.
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by notJim 7y ago
Okay, so we're all at the sausage factory one day making sausage. We notice that we're shoving an awful lot of rat shit into the sausages, but the boss says it's more profitable this way. We get together and tell the boss, lo
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by notJim 7y ago
Ha yeah, I literally attempted this and ran "a few steps" before face-planting.

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