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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Credit reporting is better in some ways than alternative systems of “vouching” for someone. It’s not better in all ways, of course, but the alternative is not “everyone gets cheap credit extended to them” but rather “people who rich people
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I’m sure someone’s desired outcome is to stop using urea or ammonium nitrate as a fertilizer. “Reasonability of X” factors into many people’s assessment of “should we do X or not-X?”
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
How many people have a print of “Starry Night” or “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in their house vs how many have a hand-painted on canvas edition (original or copy)? At some point, a significant increase in resource efficiency improves certain
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I’ve never heard a claim that heat pumps won’t work well in a climate like San Francisco and, from looking at the annual temperature patterns, it seems like both air source and ground source heat pumps should work extremely well as they do
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> There is a population of qualified workers in the software sector, and only new grads and retirement can move the needle significantly. “Qualified” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Just like the first dotcom boom and crash, there
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
And for even longer if they’re hiring 8-10% per year through normal processes.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Closing restaurants, bars, and movie theaters had a negative effect on social lives as a direct result of government mandates.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> Choosing to end thyself IS the penultimate "my body, my choice". If that’s the penultimate, what’s the ultimate?
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
My comment makes no assumption whatsoever about the ownership of the farm. It only talks about the labor of farming, not the capital. Perhaps it is your own point of view of seeing everything as an ownership problem that has you looking out
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
How many acres are you personally willing to farm to let others eat without payment “in a just world”? How many days per month are you willing to pick up trash, sit in a fire station, or teach elementary school? It’s not slavery (if you) th
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
> I genuinely don't know why I would ever generate a salary key so I can let someone know how much money I made. I value my financial privacy as well, but when I go to someone to ask to borrow a million dollars to buy a house, it se
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
Way back in the times of sailing ships with cannons? Absolutely Europe ruled the world economically and militarily.
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
Just this morning, my old Latitude failed to boot with a “this charger is only giving 20W and that’s not enough to boot this laptop” error. (I was testing a new USB-C charger that’s obviously going back.) Weirdest part was it was 100% charg
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
If you read the first line as “make a handsome profit”, I get it, but if you read it slightly more charitably to mean “this service [permanent backup] costs real money to operate, so you need a way to fund that somehow”, it seems perfectly
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
> I'd love to release a lot of it but I'm torn between releasing artifacts created with expensive software I paid for and thinking that many of those things should really be freely available to anyone Release it or not, but eit
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
This is getting a ton of hate here, but I think it feels like a pretty reasonably balanced response to competing concerns: protecting literally billions of non-tech-savvy users from potentially malicious social-engineering attacks while all
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by sokoloff 7mo ago
There are many cases where swerving will avoid an accident that braking cannot and cars unexpectedly pulling out from the side are often among these. It’s not a majority, but it’s not at all rare.
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
Firstly, I love levels and thanks for it. That said, in general for any given comp package, I’d want the lowest possible level I could take and get that package. That gives more upward runway.
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
The regulation is at least partially informed by physics though. Braking distances, road damage (scales with the fourth power of axle weight), bridge limits, etc. If the limit could safely and appropriately be 49 tons for diesel trucks righ
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
Isn't "able to sell them at higher prices" a consequence of and an indicator of the demand by buyers? Surely, if buyers didn't want these vehicles, makers couldn't sell them at high prices, right?
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
As are laser-trimmed precision resistors...
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
They already have another money printer that they’re perfectly happy to rely on, at least for the time being.
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
Agree that SMD hand assembly is easier than it looks, at least down to 0603 imperial. If I can wait the week for boards to arrive, I’ll often skip the breadboard step and go straight to a proto PCB, especially since most parts aren’t availa
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
The latter is a pretty good path towards making the former happen.
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
Ok. I did miss the line where I specifically give advice to OP that they also consider becoming a mentor to a local FRC team as a way for them to begin to learn about robotics. I thought that I left the dots close enough for people/O
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
I literally never mentioned my credentials and did say that I mentored. Did you respond to the wrong post, perhaps?
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
I started mentoring an FRC (high school robotics contest, not battle bots, about 110# mostly custom robots playing a 3v3 game) team 2 years ago and it’s really been enjoyable and rewarding to see the students grow in their capabilities and
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by sokoloff 8mo ago
I’d much rather punch myself in the face every morning than open a retail operation in retirement.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Do we really need insurance to cover $100/mo meds? Insurance already doesn’t cover OTC vitamins, right?
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
LMGTFY: Aviation and Transportation Security Act https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ71/html/PLAW...

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