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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Surely power lines running directly across a residential property represent a long-term exposure. (I personally doubt there is a significant risk, but if there is, these powerline easements would be quite risky to the residents in terms of
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Isn’t the entire point of this power line project to “upgrade the infrastructure to meet the new demand”?
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I am under the impression that they are not compensated correctly when their land is taken. I own the land that I do because I value it more than any other buyer/current bidder. (If that weren’t true, I’d sell it to the higher bidder
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I’m in favor of transparency (and consistently argue for that and act accordingly inside my own company). I’m against adding information that will confuse far more people than it will help. A company listing $100k-$900k per year for a role
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Almost certainly an homage to “640kB ought to be enough for anybody.” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
How many people who are considering hiring their first few employees have an idea of what the minimum they’d likely pay and the maximum they’d likely pay for those new positions? Almost all. Now how many could even tell you the rough defin
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
How do you reuse plaster or drywall walls/ceilings? I’m fairly reuse-friendly, but that stuff goes straight in the dumpster for practical reasons.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Resales of previously sold (used) goods are not included in GDP. Services to facilitate selling [auction fees, commissions, shipping, etc.] are new services and so get counted, but the underlying asset's resale is not.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
On AWS, you can enable CUR (cost and usage reporting) and get detailed, line-item billing figures that you can audit. And naturally, companies like Cloudability [now Apptio] and others have sprung up to do parts of this for you [at a fee, o
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
That’s an unusual use of “supporting” for sure.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
“The first is an apple and the second is an orange.” “The first is linked to something showing the author knows it’s an apple.” “Agreed.”
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
> We measure resources by using per capita gross domestic product – the amount of money in a country evenly divided among its entire population. GDP is not "the amount of money in a country". GDP is the monetary value of good
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Relevant in that the directly upthread poster argued there was “zero financial motivation for the state for prevention or rehab or any other activities to reduce imprisonment rates”, which I claim is incorrect.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
What’s the financial motivation for the state then?
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Are you suggesting that the state turns a net profit on prisoners, making more from their labor than the full cost of their incarceration? That seems…unlikely.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
> if the key is missing today you'll get nil as the value You can add a third parameter to override the nil if detecting the missing key matters. (You almost surely know this, but not all HN commenters will.) user> (:bar {:fo
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Most things experience higher demand when the clearing price is lower. I expect that jobs (or at least “labor hours”) would be firmly in this set. The mechanism would be some business somewhere would have thousands of hours of tasks that we
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Even if literally no new applications popped up, capacity and coverage increases for existing applications require increases in satellite count.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Wild take. They’re not born “used to them,” so at some point they quite literally need to get used to them…
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Do you ever use GPS (for navigation or time sync)? Do you ever use Starlink? Do you make use of weather forecasts? Or fly on an airliner that uses any of those three? Watch a televised program from the other side of the planet?
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Maybe we should start with a smaller prototype and test the theory on your or my assets. Still seem like a good idea?
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I don’t need the source code to randomly change bytes in the compiled Linux kernel binary either.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I’m totally comfortable going out to 12 years on tires. Beyond that, I’m replacing them. 7 seems excessively conservative for road use.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Did I just read an argument that it’s easier or safer to manually check your tire pressures rather than having the car do it automatically every time the car drives fast enough to “wake up” the TPMS units?
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Thinking that all help that you get comes at the direct (even if diffused) harm of others is a fixed-pie mentality. Everyone gets help; most everyone gives help to others; it’s essential to the functioning of our complex society and is how
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> whether [design flaw] is intentional to deter abuse or if that's something I could fix? The chance that I know whether or not it’s intentional is extremely low. If I don’t work on that part of the app, I’m not going to go chase do
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Your "source" is an editorializing HN submitter who took a one-month increase in prices while the military action with Iran and subsequent oil price shock and multiplied by 12. The BLS (and any economist) knows better than to do t
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
That doesn't the answer the question of "who is buying these bonds instead of US Treasuries?"
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> Annualized inflation this year (in the USA) is 10% Source? I think that's about 2-2.5x the figure that everyone else is using.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
The story seems mixed; you are correct that the specifically 10% raise was back in 2023, but they also implemented additional raises in April of 2026, though not the specific 10% that was tweeted/widely reported.

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