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by pyoung 13y ago
My guess is that the owners were well aware of the situation when they purchased the property. The owners stated that they were warned by "pretty much everyone" not to purchase the property, and the fact that the property came wi
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by pyoung 13y ago
Adding to the anecdotes[1], of the last 5 computers that I have owned, 0/2 of the Macs are still running, compared to 2/3 of the non-macs. Because of this, I refuse to ever purchase a used mac, the discount is not worth the risk,
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by pyoung 13y ago
Yup, the Samsung model. Use it for most of my work. I've got an old clunker that is x86, but that thing is showing it's age so only use it when it's absolutely necessary (when there is no ARM port for an application i need,
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by pyoung 13y ago
I like sublime, but my primary computer has an ARM processor and there is no sublime port. The sublime developers have stated that they don't have the bandwidth to handle an ARM port, and that's fair. But I find it difficult to
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by pyoung 13y ago
>The increased productivity also releases human capital and actual capital to pursue new things and create new jobs. This leads to new jobs in entirely new industries. Correct, but it doesn't necessarily result in an equal number of
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by pyoung 13y ago
Taking your example a step further (and subsequently bringing it into a more modern context), what happens to those jobs when Google (or someone) builds a mass production driver-less car? Sure, a few thousand engineers will be employed, bu
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by pyoung 13y ago
>'technology gone done taken our jerbs' followed by: >I sometimes daydream about how big you could grow a company (in revenues) without ever having more than ten people. Do you not see the contradiction there?
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by pyoung 13y ago
>...no use to the economy and thus, most probably, to society. I think you made too big of a jump there. We are already being confronted with a situation where vast quantities of people are no use to the modern economy. The fact is tec
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by pyoung 13y ago
I had similar sentiments about the vanity of blogging. But I also like to write, and found that posting something publicly forces me to take the task seriously and actually attempt to do a good job and/or follow through. I reconcile
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by pyoung 13y ago
There are some complications to the implementation of this system. If you choose to incentivize the Realtor to stay below a specific budget, the Realtor might start steering you to cheaper units (re: smaller, shabbier, poor neighborhoods)
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by pyoung 13y ago
Would it be possible to ban the re-sale of domain registrations? This way squatting would only be done for trademark protection. I could see issues where bigger companies buy up all the related domain names to their specific industry, in
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by pyoung 13y ago
The nytimes article listed in the parent, which is what sparked the 7-min workout craze, discusses and links to the study. I am not going to get into too much detail, but the general idea is that working a bunch of different muscle groups
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by pyoung 13y ago
So I believe he expressed his sentiments (that I brought up in the parent comment) in the Pando Daily fireside chat[1]. Its over an hour long so I am not going to re-watch it to confirm this. But keep in mind that when this interview was
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by pyoung 13y ago
The point of the 7-min workout isn't to keep you in as good of shape as a 5+ hour workouter, the point is to get 90% of the health benefits in a minimal amount of time as the 5+ hour person. The 7-min workout is designed for the busy
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by pyoung 13y ago
I don't really have the time to dig up a link, but I recall that Elon mentioned in an interview that his goals for Tesla were to get it up and running and then hand it off to someone else. He wasn't particularly specific about th
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by pyoung 13y ago
This is a pretty bad analogy, and even at that, it's not completely thought through. Google is responsible for a lot of the infrastructure on the modern web. Gmail, ad networks, google apps, data centers, etc... If they disappeared t
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by pyoung 13y ago
I think you are taking these arguments too literally. The issue isn't inequality in itself, it is the degree to which inequality exists. Wealth inequality in the US is at all time highs. Part of this is due to globalization and tech
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by pyoung 13y ago
A buddy of mine had a theory that the lack of acting and fashion industries (compared to LA and New York respectively) had a significant negative impact on the overall attractiveness and gender balance of the general SF population.
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by pyoung 13y ago
This is just for the pilot program. State law forbids the city from collecting more money than the estimated costs of the program.
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by pyoung 13y ago
And lets not forget SAS, Matlab/Octave, Julia, STATA, SPSS, etc... There are a ton of choices out there. While not currently in vogue, there are a lot of SAS/STATA/SPSS jobs out there. Generally it is bigger, more establis
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by pyoung 13y ago
Hmm, seems like this could be useful for more than just books. I bought some camping gear from amazon, and I recall that my biggest hesitation was not being able to evaluate the physical product, and therefore unsure of the construction qu
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by pyoung 13y ago
Probably more like ~20-30 charge-cycles per year, as it would only be used on really hot days where AC usage is high and peaker plants are needed to meet that demand.
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by pyoung 13y ago
In general, I try and make all of my purchases on one credit card, and only use my debit card for withdrawing cash at atm's. That way I only have to monitor one account for fraudulent activity. Where this breaks down, is a lot of the
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by pyoung 13y ago
"If your social views include the view that life should be easy for everyone, ..." That is a gross mis-characterization of the liberal worldview. The social contract in most modern capitalistic states is that we allow a winner-ta
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by pyoung 13y ago
I think improving the efficiency and logistics of delivery services actually qualifies as 'an important thing'. It might not be as sexy as curing cancer or eliminating poverty, but it provides a service that allows individuals th
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by pyoung 13y ago
Many of the subjects in the article had insurance. Even with the insurer negotiated discounts, the prices are still insane.
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by pyoung 13y ago
I was making some very large generalizations in my original comment for the sake of brevity and argument. Thank you for taking the time to pick them apart;) > If you keep the structure of the US government but change the electoral syste
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by pyoung 13y ago
I am strongly in favor of basic income, primarily because I think technology is going to make it increasingly difficult for many individuals to find meaningful, high paying work. But even with sufficient basic income, people are going to f
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by pyoung 13y ago
That's not necessarily true. Proportional representation often has the undesirable side effect of dramatically increasing the power of small minority parties. The reason is that in order to gain majority control of the government larg
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by pyoung 13y ago
If you need a certain drug to treat an illness and the drug company has a 20 year patent on that drug, how do you propose to get it for cheaper? If you need a rare but specialized surgery and there is only one or two surgeons in the countr

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