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by sbov 8y ago
Your link's lowest datapoint has the average/median square feet per person at 500/550 square feet, back around 1973. I'm at 392 square feet per person. I'm not sure I'm on a hedonistic treadmill, but if it is
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by sbov 8y ago
I could do without the yard, but I couldn't imagine having much less than what we have now (1962 sq feet). 3 kids (1 a surprise - yay twins for the second pregnancy) plus a home office because I work from home.
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by sbov 8y ago
Looks like New York State did a terrible job at fiscally monitoring them then: https://theislandnow.com/featured/nassaus-fiscal-crisis-bord... It reads like that county is a complete shit show and not necessarily indic
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by sbov 8y ago
We live in a cul de sac and it's been great. The kids all come out in the evening and there's 6-10 of them. The one concern with our location is that the connecting road is 35mph, branched off from a 45mph road, plus its downhill
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by sbov 8y ago
I don't know a single American commuter who thinks nothing of spending 1-2 hours in traffic each way. Every commuter I know balks at a single way commute of more than 30 minutes. Any commuter I know that has ever spent more than 1 ho
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by sbov 8y ago
Not just health insurance, but healthcare is crazy too. Spent a total of 36 hours on the phone with the hospital to figure out how much something would cost because I knew I had to pay out of pocket. And they weren't even right when th
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by sbov 8y ago
Probably the reason why the jogger screamed and "fainted".
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by sbov 8y ago
It's popular because math and stats are always right. Even if you've hacked your A/B test to the point of where you should have zero confidence in the results, you can still point to them and say "math says this is the
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by sbov 8y ago
I just think machines are good at some things, and people are good at others. If it really took billions of samples in related domains we wouldn't develop nearly as fast as we do after being born.
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by sbov 8y ago
I spent most of my time in 2018 getting a deeper knowledge in pieces of tech I already use: Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, Postgresql, and Javascript. Did a lot of documentation reading. And source code reading. Built a suite of exa
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by sbov 8y ago
Software is roughly the way we take ideas that cannot be made in a physical form and put them out there in the world. The idea that 'software' will some day stop transforming the world is just as weird to me as saying physical ma
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by sbov 8y ago
The florist example reads as the most egregious: https://ij.org/report/blooming-nonsense-2/ You have to pass a written and practical test (aka subjective test) - administered by other licensed florists (aka your c
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by sbov 8y ago
New technology is scary, old is not. With the third party doctrine the only way to really protect yourself is to not participate in modern society in any way.
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by sbov 8y ago
> The '30% of rural Americans still not on broadband' point is, understatedly, one of the most important points of the article by far. I didn't care for the metric. How many rural Americans are there? Is it 1% of the pop
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by sbov 8y ago
> The majority of the work that gets talked about here, by software and tech startups, will not be effectively built using HTML/CSS or server-side rendering. The majority of work that gets talked about here is technical work which i
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by sbov 8y ago
We've been sending our email through our own servers since the early 00's. In my experience it's never been that bad if you are a good actor and follow best practices. Hell, even if you're a spammer and follow best pra
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by sbov 8y ago
I like both. The problem I find with surface level knowledge is you make a lot of mistakes. When I have a surface level knowledge of a piece of tech and make a decision based upon that, then talk to someone with deep knowledge it's pr
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by sbov 8y ago
Nor regulators, apparently, which is why at least some on the right oppose them.
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by sbov 8y ago
> To put it bluntly, I don't understand the tone of entitlement people have when they demand FB/Twitter/etc fix their individual problems. Individual problems caused by the platform. If something or someone is causing a p
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by sbov 8y ago
I expect the people who make agreements with the Serbian government to have. That's why they do the job instead of me.
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by sbov 8y ago
If you find requiring the president to sign and congress to approve a treaty convoluted, what DON'T you find convoluted? Putting together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is more conceptually complex, but I'm pretty sure that d
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by sbov 8y ago
Keep in mind they've been compromised for 4 years. For that time duration it's not just about protecting data at rest, it's also about protecting data as it is processed inside your systems.
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by sbov 8y ago
The digital world does not require my physical presence which means that even if you detect me, odds are you can't even identify, much less apprehend me. Bank robbers have no such luxury.
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by sbov 8y ago
> If only I realized how much time I had in the before-time.... Funnily enough, I feel like I get more done with kids. Before I had them I was a huge procrastinator. Now I have the focus and time management skills (because I HAVE to)
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by sbov 8y ago
I wish people would stop comparing programming languages to Hammers. It's a meaningless meme. Yes, they are tools, but comparing them to Hammers is 100% ridiculous. A language is not a hammer. It is a tool. You know what else are t
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by sbov 8y ago
> If you give your children unfettered access to youtube, that's your own fault as a parent. Unfettered access, or maybe you turn your head for 5 minutes and your kid clicks a recommended video next to the one you set them up to w
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by sbov 8y ago
Disclaimer: unless you're the police.
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by sbov 8y ago
Not really true. In networking throughput vs latency rely on two different things. When it comes to moving huge stone blocks they rely on the same limited resource (humans).
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by sbov 8y ago
There's way more unpleasant things than voting the populace is forced to deal with and yet the government still manages to deal with their ire. Like filing tax returns. Or jury duty. You may as well ask them how they deal with dog sh
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by sbov 8y ago
Doesn't work that way in the US. I have a choice of two ISPs where I live. AT&T and Comcast. Some have more. Some have less. I've never lived somewhere that had only one choice though, so I'm not sure how common it is

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