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by pbourke 4y ago
Wasn’t SAP mostly grown through development instead of acquisition? Oracle was the one hovering up companies.
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by pbourke 4y ago
If you think about it, all of those niches were naturally unbundled. The people who were looking for vacation rentals had no need to also look for gig work within the same product. The same isn’t true of enterprise transactions - everything
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by pbourke 4y ago
> The entire post-WWII world order has been to their benefit at our expense. The USD is the world’s reserve currency and the US has benefitted enormously from 75 years of peace in Europe.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Also, it’s not like new(ish) ICE cars won’t make it into the California market after this change goes into effect. Arizona is right next door, and cars can be imported between states (assuming that they do not prevent this from happening).
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by pbourke 4y ago
You are arguing for the perfect over the good. Transitioning from gas to electric fuel in cars is hard but achievable in 15 years. Reconfiguring the built environment for the entire country is unachievable.
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by pbourke 4y ago
I see someone taking a rhetorical device literally. The point the person that you responded to was making, obviously, is that the cost of living - and in particular of housing - is high and rising in many areas with strong tech job markets.
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by pbourke 4y ago
cannot agree more. "Hell will freeze over before I click that link, but I'm interested in the discussion" was my first thought.
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by pbourke 4y ago
> It prioritizes concision and an abstracted ideal of "readability"[1] at the expense of mental model and ease of use. That statement applies to all format strings, which are by necessity a small internal DSL. For the = syntax
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by pbourke 4y ago
“=“ has been a great addition to F-strings. It allows you to reduce duplication for labeled output. For example: count = 10 size = 1000032 area = 3.14159 * (32 ** 2) print(f"{count=} {size=:,} {area=:,.2f}") will o
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by pbourke 4y ago
> Similar experience on Ford.com for most vehicles At least for Ford F-series trucks, you must place the order through a dealer. You can build the truck online and take the build to the dealer for the order. In my experience the online b
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by pbourke 4y ago
I suspect that you wouldn’t react as strongly to a smug assertion that the USA is a basket case. It’s okay to admit that the US has done immigration well. It has. There are a great many things that Japan does better than the US. We can disc
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by pbourke 4y ago
Tougher building codes and lower prices are opposing demands. Tougher codes mean it’s more expensive to build or retrofit. Zoning is to land as codes are to structures - tougher zoning = higher prices.
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by pbourke 4y ago
I was confused about something in this article. After the natural gas is synthesized, it’s pumped into the existing NG infrastructure for heating and electricity generation? Doesn’t that emit CO2 into the atmosphere once again? Or is it suc
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by pbourke 4y ago
My n=1 observation is that these bogus listings cause me to either find a well-known brand and/or go somewhere else that has more trustworthy listings.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Once you learn the basics of pip/venv that should mostly work for everything. Make a new venv for everything and don’t pollute the global environment and it should be fine.
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by pbourke 4y ago
How is it adding utility vs the usual ways that you can access this information? (Paper boarding pass, mobile phone, public flights board)
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by pbourke 4y ago
It gets even more complicated when some areas have emergency and non-emergency converged to 911 like my county in WA does.
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by pbourke 4y ago
I don’t know why this was downvoted - it has the ring of truth. If you could wave a magic wand and do away with fossil fuels tomorrow it would bring untold suffering on the world. We have to wind the engine down while shifting the work over
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by pbourke 4y ago
Canada does not have long-term fixed rate mortgages either.
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by pbourke 4y ago
I don’t get this originalist argument. After it’s introduction, OOP very clearly evolved in a professional direction almost immediately. Why would you erase that history, and the work of hundreds to thousands of people working on object tec
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by pbourke 4y ago
I think this view has changed over time. Polonius’ advice was my late father’s favourite passage in Shakespeare. I was surprised, at university for a degree in Literature, to hear that it was thought of as a bunch of passé rambling. And now
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by pbourke 4y ago
> Construction is an efficient business It doesn’t feel very efficient, especially residential construction. My neighbor is building a garage with some finished space above. It’s sat without a garage door for literally months now - every
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by pbourke 4y ago
In the US, there is still a 30% federal tax credit for ground source heat pumps as well. Many of the other energy credits have sunset (such as solar, I think) Edit: it’s 26% this year and 22% next year.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Mini splits seem to be pretty reliable. They’re very common outside of North America. Most of the leading manufacturers seem to be from Japan (Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Daikin)
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by pbourke 4y ago
Ground source heat pumps are 2-3x the cost of air source, and require a decent sized piece of land for installing the ground loop. Vertical installations use less surface area but are even more expensive since you’re drilling holes 400’ dee
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by pbourke 4y ago
Presumably the 30 year old furnace is replaced or supplemented with a new heat pump. I have realized an approximately $500 yearly savings by replacing an older electric tank water heater with a hybrid electric (heat pump) water heater so I
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by pbourke 4y ago
I don’t know what you would consider “deeply structural,” but not having influence over the money supply seems fairly structural. Going back further, the issues are larger: not having a central bank, not having a single currency, no deposit
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by pbourke 4y ago
> While there were panics and issues before the era of active central banks, most fo the time, things were calm. Wow - this is insanely inaccurate. Before the active central bank era (call it post-WW2), recessions lasted up to twice as l
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by pbourke 4y ago
BBB wasn’t enacted, though? Are you thinking of the infrastructure package?
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by pbourke 4y ago
I wonder how many taxpayers are claiming the mortgage interest deduction nowadays after the rise in standard deduction.

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