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by slyall 5y ago
The three examples you cite, Education, Medicine and Housing are the three areas where prices have increased greatly in the last 20-30 years. There are very few others. Part of the problem with inflation calculation is giving the right weig
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I asked Mike Brown this on twitter earlier this year and he said it will have cleared out it's orbit so that won't be a problem. " definitely clears! " https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/143
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Those mega cities are a lot better for the environment than villages or suburbs.
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I would suggest you take a close you at how much you local governments spend on roads vs how much they bring in via road/fuel taxes. In most places the cost of roads (especially local roads) is being partially covered by general taxes.
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Scripting languages of the future(jntrnr.com)
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So what is this car paradise city you live in where everyone can get where they need with "with no wait times, no schedules, no stops, with higher travel speeds" and I assume no parking problems at your destination? Cause all the
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No time to die: An indepth analysis of James Bonds exposure to infectious agents(sciencedirect.com)
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Asking for Bay Area level pay gives up a big advantage if you live elsewhere. If the going rate in SF is $200k then if I want the same I have to be better than somebody local. Whereas if I am working for $100k then that compensates if I&#x2
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I remember when I first read it I found the periodic "mass panics" unrealistic. As in about 10 times in the book the entire world population goes nuts. Then I remembered Chinese history.
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I posted a similar article by the same author a couple of years ago called "An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling" but it got flagged to death https://knowingless.com/2018/11/19/maximizing-your-sl
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When I worked at in an in-store Supermarket Bakery years ago the target gross profit was 70%. So a $1 loaf would have 30 cents worth of ingredients.
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Even if they have "no input", if the interviewee did or said something really extreme it would be reported back.
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“I regret ever Open Sourcing Java – mostly since my daughter is now coding.”(twitter.com)
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Maureen Pugh, a New Zealand member of parliament, has been struck by lightning 3 times. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/09/national-mp-...
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You say "top-tier" and "very best programs" attendees get the jobs. But plenty of students study at other schools under the impression they also have the same sort of chance. I've heard about places that have progra
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Exactly 23 years ago Google signed its first datacenter contract(twitter.com)
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OOps. Thats what I get for not reading carefully. Still recommend the book though
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A good book about the early days of Google maps and the Keyhole company that originally built it is "Never Lost Again" by Bill Kilday. The author was one of the founders[1] of Keyhole and stayed on when the company was bought by g
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Even if you don't stop using them completely then the fewer services you use then the lower this risk. eg If you don't use photos or storage then zero risk that they will cause you to lose your gmail account.
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I actually submitted it a couple of days ago (and only got a couple of upvotes). This was before the other one that made the frontpage. But looks like this one got pulled off the backlog and re-animated which reset it's timestamp.
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I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots(twitter.com)
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A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”(usenix.org)
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That depends where you live. Some areas (ie New Zealand) have a a much higher percentage of cows spending time outside and getting their feed from grass.
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Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?(ramblemaps.com)
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https://archive.ph/a0tm3
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+1 on this. You really need something to tell you what "normal" looks like. Things like what the busy times are each day or what the normal number of requests/errors are. If you have no feel for what normal looks like on you
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Just today (possibly related) someone else tweeted: Sooo, #Apple has pics of my boobs. During a discovery thing 3yr ago, legal forced me to hand-over all my texts. They refused to let me delete anything, even "fully personal," ev
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Realtime Fastly logs with Grafana Loki for under $1 a day(tech.loveholidays.com)
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Learning from incidents – Formula 1 car repaired on the grid with a 17m deadline(incident.io)
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For the majority of people solar noon does not match civil noon. Today solar noon at my location was at 12:27. If you live at the equator walking 500 metres east or west will put you a second off solar noon. That distance is reduced the fur

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