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by pwinnski 4y ago
In pursuit of a joke, you didn't actually answer the question: have you looked in the folder labeled "Spam" in Gmail? You might be receiving more spam messages in your inbox than in the past, while Google continues to block 9
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Or install the Kindle app on any phone or tablet.
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I agree with everything you said! I didn't choose to leave PHP for comp alone, I was surprised at the dramatic shift on comp after the fact. I certainly don't think I've said anything that suggests tribal warfare. PHP can mak
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Or `brew install double-commander` which grabs a dmg from SourceForge. You'll have to right-click and Open it in the Finder's Applications folder to get past the fact that it's unsigned, but it seems to work an M1 running Mac
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Consumer demand should dictate what kind of housing gets built, not naive central planners. And yet all across America, zoning restrictions laid down by "naive central planners" eliminate options, suppressing options for cons
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American apartment buildings are built incredibly cheaply, making noise complaints real and terrible. Dense living in well-built buildings is amazing, but hard to find in the US.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Manufactures could probably band together to acquire these at arms length and ensure they get the first, and largest allotment of special vehicles. To my rough recollection, that is also not allowed by law. The US government once acted
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That's how sampling works, not everybody writing Java, Go, or whatever else is filling out surveys, either. I know I haven't. I haven't looked recently, are there a lot of remote positions for US employees writing PHP for $20
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They're not. Just as "everyone" was saying that those particular real estate assets were incredibly risky, so too is "everyone" saying that all crypto assets are incredibly risky.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There are legal issues with cutting dealers out, it's protectionism all the way down. Tesla gets away with it (sort of) by having zero dealers anywhere. Even so, they can't currently sell cars within Texas, despite having moved th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My current salary is 10x my first salary as a computer programmer. That said, it has been 30 years.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I know the received wisdom is to always keep moving, and never accept counter-offers. You've found happiness in staying in place. I've done both at different times. I think everybody has to make judgments based on where they are a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Humans almost always and almost everywhere in almost every context make the short-term choice with immediate consequence with very little concern for the long-term effect which is usually much more diffuse. Person A going out to buy a Chine
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because insurance requires reporting for coverage? In small towns and cities all around the world, people don't report crimes for a variety of reasons. It's not clear why that would be more true in NYC than elsewhere.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I understand the impulse here, and even respect the motivation, but "we all play by economic rules set by men" in a world where Marilyn Waring was an MP in 1975 seems... self-contradictory? We all play by economic rules set by ot
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, and I subscribe to a number of newsletters that dig into issues like that regularly. I just didn't see enough information on the linked site to make it clear that is what was happening. My question was an honest one: if the point
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Is the point to demonstrate how trivial some stories end up being three months later? Or... I'm not sure I get the purpose of covering the introduction of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 three months after it has started killing people
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Great news, just a couple of years too late to help me.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
History time: In 1972, David Parnas wrote a paper about "Information Hiding," and a few years later Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man-Month , possibly the most influential book about software engineering, which largely discounte
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by pwinnski 4y ago
When I write a private class, I'm declaring to the world: These are the methods now available, their expected inputs, and their return types. Anything I do inside that class that isn't marked public is an implementation detail, an
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Maybe 5-10% of the big trucks I see in and around Dallas, Texas, are doing anything that requires a truck. The rest are smooth and shiny, with empty beds, sometimes lifted, sometimes not, sometimes with garish aftermarket lighting, sometime
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I love that my current rental car (a Kia K5) has lane-keeping and collision-detection features. If it tried to label those "self-driving," I'd never use them. I think you're right: companies like Uber and Tesla are pushi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Public Transit in the USA, truly nationwide public transit, would cost more money than exists, or has ever existed. And that's if you solved the issue of people not wanting public transit! As I type this I'm in the New Orleans cit
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sentinel values are too often found in real data eventually, which is why they're most often used in academic environments, and by fresh grads. First or second time the sentinel value that could never possibly be found in real data is
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It doesn't go nearly as far is it should, indeed, and at least in Texas, you can't claim the homestead exemption the first year you own a property. So I bought a house from someone who had been claiming the homestead exemption and
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by pwinnski 4y ago
His experience would also likely have been very different had he been a she, in which case "raver tomato" would have been much preferred.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The index fund approach doesn't suggest that index funds will always do really well, it suggest that it will always do better over a long period of time than individually-selected stock. Any conditions that cause index funds to do poor
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is not true, though? Or rather, banks can indeed shut down, but that's what the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is for. The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per customer, per bank. So there is not much safer place to keep emergen
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember 2008 and several other recessions as well, and "feeling prepared" works exactly like that. Not all jobs are secure during a recession, but job security is relative--and often knowable. Emergency s
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by pwinnski 4y ago
DAE think that reddit content should stay on reddit? Flagged.

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