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by owyn 8y ago
It's not that they're suing directly, but getting laws passed which block municipal internet. You don't have to sue if you can write the laws. This has happened in 20+ states already. There are lots of citations: http:&#x2F
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by owyn 8y ago
It's a good investment at the right time. Most of the time it's a place to live. If you're over leveraged it could be bad. Of course it depends. But the potential rate of return can be pretty astounding. Anecdotally, I bough
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by owyn 9y ago
Looks like mainly an upgraded A9->A10 chip, and the support for the pencil. Since it's the same price, it's probably worth waiting (or getting an older one when the price drops)
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by owyn 9y ago
You don't have to own a car. Everyone gets sick at some point, and everybody dies of something. Whether that's cripplingly bankruptingly expensive or not is partly the point. Although I suppose if the singularity happens, that wi
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by owyn 9y ago
I would totally run that experiment on April 1. Run a multi-armed bandit to pick the best UI and voila! The perfect crowd sourced user interface design.
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by owyn 9y ago
It's also 1 block from one of the famous under-freeway homeless encampments. One more anecdote, since part of this discussion is about rent control and how it affects peoples choices living in the area. I currently pay ~ $2150 because
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by owyn 9y ago
Not sure where that stat comes from but I suspect that median value would include rent controlled apartments. My 1908 era 6 unit apartment building on the edge of the mission is about $3900 for a 2 bedroom place which is 3 empty rooms, a b
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by owyn 9y ago
I had this problem too once the weight got up there. liquid chalk really helps, it's cheap! Also (I think someone else posted a link) I realized that I was gripping the bar wrong. It should really be mostly your fingers that hold your
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by owyn 9y ago
slashdot had that years (decades?) ago. For such a wild west porto-reddit type of site, it really did have some good tools to manage trolling. Moderation flags have a "type" (funny, troll, redundant, offtopic, etc). There's
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by owyn 9y ago
There are a few. flynn.io does this (it's a bit like heroku, using git push as a deployment action and a web ui to manage things). caveat: i hasn't used it...
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by owyn 9y ago
I have done this. Print out a page of code and review it with a candidate. Have them explain what it does, or how they might go about figuring that out, and what kinds of improvements they might make. Include some glaring bugs or code styl
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by owyn 9y ago
They're military grade toys, and therefore expensive... Found an article which says they cost about $50k each.
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by owyn 9y ago
You have not yet begun to work. It's one life time and the universe doesn't care, so figure it out. You can stay on a treadmill of 1-2 years where you find a new project and get bored and move on. You can pick a project to work on
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by owyn 9y ago
Thanks. I did read all of this and I'm pretty sure I get most of it. :)
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by owyn 9y ago
If things on earth get to the point where we need a "backup earth" I'm pretty sure one of these things will be true 1) If we can live on mars, we can live on whatever state earth would be in, even if it was mars-like. 2) If e
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by owyn 9y ago
I applaud the level of detail, and I don't understand any of it, so I'm not sure if it counts as a useful explanation to someone with a very general question about the energy->gravitation relationship expressed in the parent co
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by owyn 9y ago
Yep. I believe it was.
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by owyn 9y ago
Exactly. There are so many things wrong with this, on a biology level, on a computer science level, and on a philosophical level, and even going back to the Monodo 2000 days (which is back on line by the way http://www.mondo2000
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by owyn 9y ago
Dave Arneson was the other creator of D&D and in retrospect, I think he was the one who really drove the RPG and world creating aspect of it. Gygax was more interested in designing the rules, but Arneson created the first campaign (Blac
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by owyn 9y ago
Do you have any examples of an application which is written this way (as dynamic functions?)
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by owyn 10y ago
Inequality sure is.
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by owyn 10y ago
In California/SF the net take-home is about 8k/month on that salary. Average 1 bedroom rent is about $3000. Knock down another ~1000 per month for average things like a car, parking, phone, internet etc and your spendable take h
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by owyn 10y ago
Oh, it's just that easy? And I can do it whenever? I just need a nest egg? What is that exactly? Oh, but I also need a passive income source? That's all? So explain how exactly does "anyone" pull this off, or explain
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by owyn 10y ago
It was so easy to register weird domain names back then. Our contribution was satan.com. The guy who owned the domain name eventually sold it and it goes nowhere now. For a few years in the late 90's the entire site was just a badly d
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by owyn 10y ago
Sounds like an interesting architecture. What UAV project is this?
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by owyn 10y ago
FP is more like: drink(sazerac(garnish(strain(shake(absinthe(bitters(whiskey(ice(glass))))))))) Ultimately it's the same result? The difference is when you can reuse and compose functions.
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by owyn 10y ago
I picked the $10 value for UBI at random (well, because that was the wage in the article). I should have probably thought about it a bit more. As you point out, it's a bit expensive. Maybe we could pay for it by mining diamond astero
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by owyn 10y ago
That's not a realistic choice, so it's not a compelling argument. The workers in this case don't "prefer" cash, it is the only option. However, if there was a basic income in this country, I think workers in a situ
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by owyn 10y ago
So this investment group managed to find value in a company which previous managers had not, that's fine. But they also captured all the rewards, which none of the actual workers could do. 2.3 billion divided by 1200 is about 2 million
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by owyn 10y ago
Well, whenever I'm confronted by some kind of management thing like this I try to think about it from the manager's perspective. First, it seems like this is something that matters when a "10-point bump on engagement scores&

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