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by st26 8y ago
Right, so the key is California's housing stock is rather old on average, at least from what I can tell.
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by st26 8y ago
Plant based vitamin D & B12? Do tell. I don't eat a lot of fish or anything, but empirically it is shown to be a healthy thing to eat (well, certain species at least)
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by st26 8y ago
But a smoking crater the shape of Taiwan is not that useful to China. A big part of why they want Taiwan is for the businesses, which you don't really get if you nuke the island from orbit.
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by st26 8y ago
I thought Samsung was sort-of competition, not being a dedicated foundry like TSMC & GloFlo, but making some designs for other companies.
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by st26 8y ago
the non-literalness of assembly is a useful hinge point allowing CPU designers to evolve their implementations while retaining a stable interface Case in point, we have already seen a few times how unanticipated NUMA or thread scheduling
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by st26 8y ago
You could switch to longline-caught fish, which is a good thing for other reasons too.
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by st26 8y ago
It only makes sense, with how cheap debt is right now. E.g., 0% auto loans.
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by st26 8y ago
Well, consider you pay the dealership $80-120/hr for the mechanic's time, but the mechanic gets only $30-40 of that.
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by st26 8y ago
Of course the plots generally seem to have been much larger. None of this sixteenth of an acre stuff. And that's where all your money is going, to buy that sixteenth of an acre. The house itself is only a very small part of the cost in
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by st26 8y ago
Back in the mid 1800's a mine started polluting a drinking river somewhere above Denver. Suit was brought, and the mine said "yeah we are responsible but it would be too burdensome to not pollute the river". Plantiffs lost. L
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by st26 8y ago
The Bill of Rights is a list of transgressions the federal government may not make against its people. It makes no guarantees about the actions of an independent lion, nor imposes consequences.
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by st26 8y ago
How can you just ignore the water rights system in the American West? It's half the country and really has allowed abuses.
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by st26 8y ago
Might come down to things like, how efficient are cranes & conveyors & so forth, vs water pumps & hydro generators. The nature of each material leads to different techniques which could have very different efficiencies.
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by st26 8y ago
If party A makes unreasonable demands and party B accepts, responsibility does not lie solely with party B.
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by st26 8y ago
In the beginning unions were heroes & did great things. In the end they were doing fewer great things and more negative things. Many people alive today were not around to remember the beginning stage, they only read about it in history
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by st26 8y ago
on balance, we do better when workers have actual bargaining power. I don't know, look at some of the cities around the country going bankrupt as the bill comes due for union-imposed obligations. I'm not against collective barga
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by st26 8y ago
Sunlight. People go crazy if they live in darkness everyday. I'm pretty sure this was discovered & studied in the history of American east coast cities.
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by st26 8y ago
To me, preventing this seems like exactly the sort of thing the NSA ought to be for.
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by st26 8y ago
The idea (I'm not particularly for or against) is that a victim of a disease can seek help & compassion; a morally bankrupt individual can find only scorn. Then it just comes down to whether you think help & compassion helps pe
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by st26 8y ago
That sounds very anecdotal.
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by st26 8y ago
Don't forget 4) Companies are buying large, expensive chips because they are being used and delivering value, but hype has occluded other more cost effective solutions. See the articles about, 'you don't need deep learning&#x
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by st26 8y ago
Not OP, but- I grew up deeply steeped in a culture that prized being the best . At something, anything, as long as you were the best. Second was worthless. In retrospect, it's just, why ? Ok, so you become the best. Now what?
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by st26 8y ago
There is absolutely no saying what the likelihood of a recession is. Agreed, unlike every other random event that exists in the universe, recessions are the one thing whose likelyhood cannot possibly be expressed.
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by st26 8y ago
Right, so the million dollar question is "what species of bird are we talking about". rmason didn't specify.
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by st26 8y ago
The irony being, entirely possible the birds are providing valuable services in the form of pest control. In other words, maybe they really do deserve a share, & everyone is the better off for it.
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by st26 8y ago
FWIW, I recently read the observation that intelligence seems to be correlated with brain volume relative to body volume, rather than absolute brain volume. Who knows why- but think about the animals we know to be smart. Elephants, whales b
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by st26 8y ago
Clearly an economically rational animal can still be influenced to a certain behavior, if you make the reward attractive enough. It's not like crows are not willing to work for food. They have been documented breaking open stubborn mol
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by st26 8y ago
Sorry. My comment was specifically talking about, why all the vitriol? But I suppose that's just another comment in the sea of the flamewar.
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by st26 8y ago
As a driver and a cyclist, it seems to me simply that many drivers have a tremendous sense of entitlement. Everything else stems from that, otherwise poor behavior would just be an annoyance instead of triggering actual murderous rage.
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by st26 8y ago
With the rate tuition has risen (e.g. it rose 30% every year I was in college) it seems clear it's decoupled from the fixed costs & overhead.

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