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by rsj_hn 5y ago
150K is not anywhere close to the poverty line. In fact median household income in San Francisco is 112K. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocitycalifornia Honestly this comes off pretty elitist. "Well,
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It's transparency that tells you whether that $31 Billion is an actual surplus, or whether there are huge off-balance sheet liabilities hiding in that state budget -- e.g. future pension obligations and the like, as well as mandated sp
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I guess that depends on how much they develop and how ubiquitous the tech is. Cell phones, for example, are widely used in developing nations. Tech in general has been the best at reducing costs over time compared to things like food and en
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I really enjoy history civilis! https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis Great animated history videos that really go into a lot of detail and provide useful information, especially ancient Rome.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think it's great to realize when you are not getting enough from open source and should focus on software you are paid to write. The benefits of open source are basically three fold: 1) mentorship opportunities and learning different
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is known as the "pareto principle" but it was observed long before then. In terms of scientific sources, what sources do you have that everyone makes the same contribution? Of course 80/20 is a rule of thumb, but a small
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, that's a good example.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> This is a negative stereotype of unions—based on some real-world examples, to be sure, but a stereotype all the same—that has been aggressively pushed as anti-union propaganda for decades. It would be interesting to see examples of uni
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Unless he is eating less and less, it should control for that.
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Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year(bls.gov)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> It's more about giving preferential treatment, power, or advantage to the wealthy "trickle down" is a slur against a set of economically liberal policies. It's not a "theory". It's not an economic mod
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Exactly. So many times making your own framework/language/library is how you get promoted.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The fundamental truth of software is that it is much easier to write than it is to read. So it's often better, from the developer's perspective, to reimplemement a solution than to maintain refactor an existing legacy solution, ev
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Proximity Fuze(si.edu)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes he makes this case in the blog, supported by some recent discoveries. It also has a good overview of population flows in the region up to that time. Really a great blog with lots of references.
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The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks(nemets.substack.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think this is part of the love for the machine, and is a part of hacker culture I find endearing even if it's not necessarily rational. I'd put tweaking your Linux windowing system into the same category :)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I would imagine that excavation in Tel Aviv would be a huge pain, and previously there were a lot of security concerns with bunching people up in a metro. Perhaps now things have quieted down but the land has gotten very expensive.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
There are a lot of sophisticated problems dealing with enterprise software even in higher languages and even in situations where things like performance or resource usage is not a primary concern. For example, how do you handle authorizatio
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> And yet wages have not been keeping up with inflation, Hmm. Over the last year, real wages declined by about 1%, but that's the inevitable result of our covid policies. Look, you tell a bunch of people to stay home and not work, s
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I've used google hangouts and then Meets at my work and it's fine. It does not require any special training to use, it works as you'd expect, and basically gets out of your way. I've used Zoom for online classes (as a st
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Isn't inflation/deflation about purchasing power? No, that is the exact opposite of inflation/deflation . Inflation/deflation are about nominal prices of goods and services. If you want to talk about the price of a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The linked article is a bunch of yelling about a perceived drop in what amounts to the second derivative of per capita GDP. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is not in the habit of doing a bunch of yelling. This is a scholarly report, and
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The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis(bls.gov)
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Pope Joan(en.wikipedia.org)
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BuzzFeed Suffers Wave of SPAC Investor Withdrawals Before Going Public(wsj.com)
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Tunnels Found in the Jungle Were Created by Prehistoric Creatures(bolt.newsweek.com)
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Congo Hold-up: Africa’s biggest leak reveals corruption(pplaaf.org)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is a pretty cool database of visual ornaments published in texts during the Yellow Nineties movement (1890-1899). See also https://1890s.ca/ In the DB you can enter a term, like "head" in the search box and g
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Yellow Nineties Database of Ornament(ornament.library.ryerson.ca)
4 points by rsj_hn 5y ago|1 comments

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