philwelch

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by philwelch 3y ago
> Well, of course I did. I used a keyboard for many years before my formal middle school typing class and by then it was too late. My brain already knew better and typing exercises did no good because I already knew how to use the keyboa
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by philwelch 3y ago
> is it that hard to remember how compact discs, dial-up internet, laptops, multi-CPU/cores, DVDs, mp3 players, broadband, smartphones, bluetooth, wifi, flash, SSDs, GPUs, plasma, lcd, led, smartwatches, EVs took 5-10 years to hit m
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by philwelch 3y ago
Sure but that’s not how index funds work.
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by philwelch 3y ago
I’m kind of surprised that all of the top comments on this are some variation of, “it would be easier to just use Home Assistant”. I would understand that reaction on a site called “Sensible Smart Home Consumer News”, but hackers build soft
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Not to get too tinfoil hat about it, but an economy controlled by a number of equity firms one can count on a single hand, with fingers to spare, hardly seems a "free market". Is this the index fund conspiracy theory again? W
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by philwelch 3y ago
I think the better question is, why are we talking about a short term fluctuation that happened years ago and has since corrected itself?
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by philwelch 3y ago
> People that are homeless and just need a place to live because they don't make much money are one story, and that does need an alternative but common approach to homeless that are committing crimes. They will all need housing at s
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by philwelch 3y ago
Let’s set aside the gang question for a bit and stick to homelessness. Homelessness isn’t the root cause of the crimes committed by homeless people. The “invisible homeless” who sleep on a buddy’s couch, sometimes even have jobs, and never
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by philwelch 3y ago
> I hear you on homes but housing overall - apartments included should not be owned by corporations for investment purposes imho. A single apartment building (or complex) might have around a hundred tenants and a handful of employees. Th
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by philwelch 3y ago
> I mean SF or LA aren't the only cities with homeless problems. My home city Seattle has them… I mentioned SF and LA because TFA is about California. You can ask my question about any city though: for every 1000 broken car windows,
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by philwelch 3y ago
> We've done that for a long time Have we? For every 1000 broken car windows in SF or LA, how many convictions (or even arrests) are there?
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by philwelch 3y ago
> we need to get better about prosecuting petty crimes Yes, that is exactly my proposed solution.
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by philwelch 3y ago
There is a way around this dilemma that solves everyone’s problems. People who go around smashing windows etc. are arrested and thrown in jail. If they repeatedly offend, they receive longer and longer sentences, perhaps at some state penit
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by philwelch 3y ago
So a lot of corporate-owned housing is only in that state transitionally. If a corporate developer builds a condo building or a suburban subdivision, they own all those homes because they built them, but their intent is to sell those homes
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by philwelch 3y ago
You’re both sort of right. The visible homeless—the vagrants you see in tent cities under the freeway or harassing pedestrians—are more likely to have drug addictions or other mental illnesses. And the more mentally ill they are, the more v
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Billions going where, exactly? If the problems growing, and you are just sinking billions into it without making any measurable impact, where the fuck is the money going? Well, that’s simple. Most of the money goes to politically well
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Make childcare not a choice between living in poverty and not, and people will have children again. If you're a resident of a developed country in the year 2023, I guarantee you that the vast majority of your ancestors were poorer
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by philwelch 3y ago
> How much of that is social expectation? Yes, we can change social expectations and boundaries. We did change social expectations and boundaries. It was called the "Sexual Revolution" and it happened over half a century ag
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Entertainment consumers have to ask for AMD before they can scale for competition against Nvidia And yet AMD graphics cards have to be competitive against Nvidia before anyone will buy them. If only AMD had some other product family th
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by philwelch 3y ago
> One possible explanation is that when you ask for 100 example families the task is parsed as "pick the most likely family composition and add a bit of randomness" and "repeat the aforementioned task" 100 times. Yes,
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by philwelch 3y ago
From what I recall, SEL’s market share was high enough in the US that almost all of our growth was international.
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by philwelch 3y ago
It’s rsync in real life!
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Yeah but everything I hear is that new builds in the US are worse than ever in terms of quality. That's a meme. There's a lot of variability between houses (and the shitty old houses don't tend to survive long), but insu
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by philwelch 3y ago
The rationale for central HVAC is that your house is insulated. If you heat or cool a specific room, heat is going to flow from one room to another and you’re going to have to keep fighting that. Getting the whole house to a specific temper
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by philwelch 3y ago
Man, I don’t know how electricity works, I was writing test scripts in Perl.
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by philwelch 3y ago
Yeah, the story I remember being told is that power companies originally didn’t want to replace their electromechanical relays so they installed the SEL boxes alongside them and used them as fault locators. Over time SEL ended up taking ove
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by philwelch 3y ago
The relay itself is digital rather than electro-mechanical. (I went to WSU and, like many Cougs, interned at SEL.)
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by philwelch 3y ago
> The British empire stopped existing in 1998, but I’d say the end of British rule over India in 1947 was the peak for the end of European imperialism. This had nothing to do with USA. Decolonization, including the dismantlement of the B
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by philwelch 3y ago
> USAs influence over the Argentinian dictatorship just before the invasion is no secret. That doesn't imply that the US had any hegemony or control over Argentina. > Don’t you think the UN deceleration of human rights helped wit
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by philwelch 3y ago
> Turkey and Greece are two separate countries involved in territorial war of Cyprus (sometimes considered Western Europe). If you want to consider Turkey part of Western Europe that’s up to you. > UK and Ireland are also two separate

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