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by sagarm 5y ago
EVs produce more tire dust, which makes up a large percentage of PM2.5 pollution. On net EVs will degrade public space less than gas vehicles, but car-free spaces are still much nicer to live in. https://www.greencarreports.com&#
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by sagarm 5y ago
The libraries are either header-only to permit inlining or written to operate over batches of data.
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by sagarm 5y ago
65W GaN chargers are getting pretty small, comparable with the crappy 5V USB power supply Apple used to pack in with their phones.
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by sagarm 5y ago
> nepotism is the modus operandi It's pretty clear that a huge chunk of the US doesn't consider nepotism corruption, given the complete lack of repercussions to Trump for hiring his family into the White House.
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by sagarm 5y ago
> benefits to people who pay very little tax. By which you mean Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Those programs have broad public support. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324
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by sagarm 5y ago
You can't even change the subpixel rendering to BGR on a Mac! The suggested solution is, literally, to flip your monitor upside down.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Some of this is a matter of taste, clearly. I strongly prefer having my system packages being rock solid; I can always fetch updated software for the very few cases where I want that. However, my aversion to homebrew goes beyond taste: my e
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by sagarm 5y ago
Yodlee (used by Mint and likely others) has been around for over a decade, and AFAIK nothing happened to them.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Some banks now offer proper APIs, allowing Mint to redirect you to their OAuth flow-equivalent. So it's slowly improving.
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by sagarm 5y ago
The difference IMO is that Plaid is often used for e.g. tenant applications, where the person requiring the use of Plaid and the person forced to disclose credentials are not the same. That's bad. If I choose to give my credentials to
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by sagarm 5y ago
Thanks, this was an interesting perspective. Alfalfa does seem to come up as a waste of water occasionally, but almonds seem get most of the hate. How would limits on aquifer withdrawal be enforced? In general reforming water rights seems p
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by sagarm 5y ago
Benchmarked on a single 6 core / 12 thread machine, with 9 client threads and 1-3 server threads. Language wars aside, it's hard to extract useful information like CPU time overhead on the server from these results. For the single
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by sagarm 5y ago
Ah yes that does sound painful. I'd generally recommend that data be denormalized in the warehouse so the joins don't need to be done at query time. That can make the queries more complex, however.
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by sagarm 5y ago
We need to stop subsidizing people who choose to live in the wildlands urban interface. It's a hazard to the rest of us.
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by sagarm 5y ago
In SF pre-pandemic, it was already true that a minority of people drove themselves to work. Drivers are just much more visible. A bus can transport as many people as an entire block's worth of vehicles.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Single family homes in cities will still exist. They're a luxury now -- SFH in desirable parts of SF start around $1300/sq ft -- and will likely remain so.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Politics is the art of the possible, and a bill that made those changes is highly unlikely to pass. San Francisco's state senator Scott Weiner has been leading in he charge. A few good bills have gotten through, but opposition from LA
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by sagarm 5y ago
Is _rice_ really grown in California?
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by sagarm 5y ago
Prop 13 actually passed because property owners were pissed their nominal taxes were going up due to inflation in the 70s. Renters voted for it because they were told that their rents wouldn't go up if property taxes were capped, but o
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by sagarm 5y ago
California already has a means-tested property tax postponement program: https://sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html We should expand it and repeal income taxes and prop 13.
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by sagarm 5y ago
The fight is over whether ISPs should be able to leverage their position in the uncompetitive infrastructure space to extract rents from the very competitive internet application space.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Yes, because in cap and trade the amount of pollution is decided by policy and price by the market. In this fine-based policy, the price is set by policy and quantity by the market.
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by sagarm 5y ago
> not because they have built a better alternative to using natural gas or other dirty fuels to cover this load, they haven't, but because it is unprofitable to do the required maintenance and necessary improvements. Solar and wind
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by sagarm 5y ago
If link stripping becomes common, links will start becoming unique. This performance information is just too important to running a business.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Companies can only log information about your interaction with their sites. With very few exceptions, that just means on whatevercompany.com. Basically, they only have the data you explicitly give them. In the case of some large sites that
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by sagarm 5y ago
Presumably that's specified in the contract that divides the interest in that share.
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by sagarm 5y ago
I actually already use Metromile, an insurance company that charges per mile and uses GPS tracking to measure that mileage. I'm very happy with it. I no longer have to subsidize heavy drivers, and my rates are much lower as a result. I
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by sagarm 5y ago
You have to ok sharing contacts with "normal" bluetooth pairing. For a personal vehicle most people would.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Ideas are worthless, execution is everything. If you want to prove your idea is worth something, execute on it.
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by sagarm 5y ago
True, the number of events / records is probably significantly larger than 6M. I still have a hard time believing any reasonably modern datawarehouse would struggle with queries on this dataset. If you've got 1400 analysts, I hope

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