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by rovolo 7y ago
Family and friends are a part of affordability. They can provide housing, food, childcare. Also, how long do you expect it would take to find a job in a new place? You'd need to cover living expenses until your first paycheck, which is
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by rovolo 7y ago
Sorry for clipping out the 'neighbors' bit, but my point is that "stopgap measure", "couch cushions for change", and "is a distraction" imply that the size of the PFD is insignificant compared to stat
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by rovolo 7y ago
I think that you're underselling the size of the PFD relative to the state budget when you say "akin to digging through [the] couch cushions for change". Here's a comparison of the numbers: // (expected -
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by rovolo 7y ago
The "Slate Presents: Charged" podcast [0] claims that in NYC, stricter gun laws are replacing "Stop and Frisk" as a go to method for racist policing. [0] https://slate.com/plus/charged-podcast.html
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by rovolo 7y ago
I'm guessing 1 flip to pick Heads or Tails, and then 5 flips to get a 'good' p-value (2^-5 = 0.03125 < 0.05)
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by rovolo 7y ago
Just a side comment on your "soft, lazy, and fat" terminology; young POWs in the Korean War were also called "soft" for not escaping and for dying at high rate (38%). > What struck Major Anderson most forcibly was the
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by rovolo 8y ago
From this other source [0], I see a min/max historical Guilder in 1600-1700 to 2016 Euro rate of 1 guilder to 8-18 Euro. That would be 800-3200 Euro per year for a laborer, which is comparable with the poorest nations today. That seems
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by rovolo 8y ago
I would argue against the "straightforward" part. I would call him a blunt rambler. Here's an example post where someone goes through a Linus email and rewrites it for clarity: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x
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by rovolo 8y ago
I think that you're correct using common terminology. The government takes in money as taxes, and creates money through printing: spending = taxes + printed money new money supply = old money supply + printed money But, I believe that
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by rovolo 8y ago
I think that depends on how you explain it. It's hard for people to understand problems in environments they're unused to. For example, ask someone the following question. You have cards with letters on one side and numbers on the
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by rovolo 8y ago
Sure, if you're looking at the specific event. But you could consider Freddie Gray part of a trend. Maybe the keg wouldn't have caught fire if we hadn't kept putting gunpowder in it?
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by rovolo 8y ago
From that source, it looks like the story depends on the region though (for desktop). In order of decreasing use of firefox: * Europe: Firefox overtook IE in 2011 with ~40% * Africa: Firefox overtook IE in 2012 with ~40%. It looks like Fire
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by rovolo 8y ago
Unused working lawnmowers can rust and stop working.
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by rovolo 8y ago
The author's basic complaint with the Javascript switch statement is that it's essentially a structured series of 'goto' statements. They think that each 'case' should behave as an 'if-else' where ea
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by rovolo 8y ago
Spotify's "play queue" won't let you scroll the list with your scroll wheel while you're rearranging songs. The only way to scroll the queue while you're dragging and dropping some songs is to put your mouse ne
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by rovolo 8y ago
For those curious how to create the "virtual head" in C: struct entry { int value; entry * next; }; entry * head = NULL; void remove_entry(entry *target) { long offset = (long)&((entry*)0)->next;
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by rovolo 8y ago
You're mixing per-month and per-year. * $300 (/person /month) -> $3.6k (/person /year) for your estimated Lyft Line. * $290m (/year) bus salaries / $3.6k (/person /year) lyft subscriptions = 8
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by rovolo 9y ago
Fun fact: Island was never pronounced with an 's'. The silent letter was inserted to make the word look more like Latin. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island#Etymology
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by rovolo 9y ago
You're referring to the 'Productivity Paradox'[0] as summarized by Robert Solow in 1987: "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." Summary of possible explanations from the wikipe
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by rovolo 9y ago
The paper aims to categorize how people met rather than how their relationship developed. This is how they describe their criteria for categorizing relationships (the paper is focused on internet dating, but the same criteria would be used
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by rovolo 9y ago
According to 'Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary' (2010) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122412448050 , around 10% of (hetero) couples met at wor