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by rndmize 4y ago
There's actually more stuff like this than the author might think. "Prey" (2017) is a game set in a space station orbiting the moon, only for it to be revealed at the end that it's a simulation/test to gauge the hum
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by rndmize 4y ago
They do. https://www.attainablehome.com/the-best-21-modular-prefab-bu...
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by rndmize 4y ago
> meanwhile we are facing real world issues because of truck driver shortages. Not really. It feels like every few months we get another piece decrying the lack of truck drivers, only for it to gloss over issues of pay. There is no short
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by rndmize 4y ago
This feels like a rehash of older ideas I don't particularly like, eg. "A players hire A players, B players hire C players", etc. For a long time I couldn't pin down why this stuff bugged me, but I think I finally have i
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by rndmize 4y ago
No shit. As far as the Bay goes, it feels like decisions about office placement are made with things like management or prestige in mind, rather than the average worker. For all the growth in the East Bay and Tri-Valley area, it seems like
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by rndmize 4y ago
Not really sure how it's infantilization. Do super powers make a movie more infantile than not having them? Does it change the moral challenges and difficulties encountered? Is an action movie or heist movie better or more mature witho
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by rndmize 5y ago
Pretty sure that was a part of No Child Left Behind, years before Common Core. I'm also not sure how development of a set of tests and standards would be related to teacher employment - I would have expected that to be up to the states
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by rndmize 5y ago
Oddly enough, I see no mention of any specific source in the article, yet the top comment here is bashing the NYT. Is there some reason for this? Does the NYT represent the entire industry? Are they alone in deciding what is news, or its pr
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by rndmize 5y ago
This is pretty much it imo. There was some discussion on new housing and higher density in the town where my parents live a few years back, and apparently the standard "against" argument that got it shot down was "there'
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by rndmize 5y ago
I would recommend The Professional Chef - it provides techniques and how do them, and follows this with recipes that apply them after. As might be expected though, this is a fairly serious book. https://www.amazon.com/Profes
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by rndmize 5y ago
Man, I wish I could sell that logic to the county assessor.
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by rndmize 5y ago
> Unfortunately articles like this which conflate things actually make it harder for us to fix the real loophole. While I would consider that a loophole, I'm not sure it's the main problem. I feel that for all the complaints an
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by rndmize 5y ago
Arguably Tesla is doing exactly that. Solar is cheap and available these days, wind is growing consistently. The main issue is smoothing out the spikiness of these sources as they scale to significant parts of the grid. Tesla is the only co
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A List Apart(alistapart.com)
1 points by rndmize 5y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 6y ago
I find this essay frustrating for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is that it feels like a rehash of his "Inequality and Risk" essay from 2005 - except this one is less direct and buries the lede until the end ("Of co
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by rndmize 6y ago
I feel that for people paying attention to COVID news, this has always been the case; there's never been any kind of conclusive evidence on the origin of the virus (that I've read of). The article outlines three main possible orig
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Inkarnate(inkarnate.com)
1 points by rndmize 6y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Compatible Density(theurbanist.org)
1 points by rndmize 6y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 6y ago
> And yet what am I going to do but use turbo tax again. At least look into the options. Credit Karma Tax, FreeTaxUSA, 1040.com - there's a bunch of stuff out there made by companies that don't actively try to make the IRS less
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by rndmize 6y ago
> why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories? Couple reasons by my guess: * Bikes aren't cool. Cars are cool, horses are cool. Bikes, trikes, scooters, etc., aren't cool, and don't provide much besides effici
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Amazon's second great land-grab(axios.com)
1 points by rndmize 6y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 6y ago
While I agree (and would describe the issue as a kind of insularity), I find that PG's essays still have a fair amount of value – if I had to put some kind of measure on it, I'd say that for his older ones I found value in 80-90%
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by rndmize 6y ago
I expect to see Elon on Mars before there's any wide availability of Google Fiber. I remember hearing about Verizon doing a big fiber rollout with Fios, it was going to be everywhere, the next big leap... in 2005. Google's efforts
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by rndmize 6y ago
This headline is like saying "border patrol arrests extensive cartel smuggling network" after the feds grab a few dozen drug mules. The incentives are still there. The structure is still there. The opposing operating group is stil
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by rndmize 6y ago
It seems some people have forgotten the rhetoric of the time. The opposition had a wide variety of arguments against universal health care, such as government death panels[0], increased wait times for essential care[1], government control o
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by rndmize 6y ago
I bet this kind of mess is exactly what Zuck was trying to avoid when he didn't want to implement free speech restrictions or fact checking, because there's no solution to be found here - if you don't mark anti climate change
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by rndmize 6y ago
> Because I'm not really interested in abandoning my fellow citizens who lack the means or the support structures to leave where they currently are to the tender mercies of people who plainly don't give a damn about them. I&#x2
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by rndmize 6y ago
Nuttier leaders than what we currently have, you mean? As far as I can tell, the US did pretty well with less federal power for several hundred years; I don't really see how rolling back 50 years of federal policy would lead to balkani
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by rndmize 6y ago
I'm tempted to say that the uselessness of Congress is in indication of something else - we've pushed too much to the federal level. The decades-long tooth-and-nail fighting over healthcare makes me think that an effective system
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In Lockdown with a Conspiracy Theorist(economist.com)
4 points by rndmize 6y ago|0 comments

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