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by stakkur 6y ago
I just finished reading this book a few weeks ago. I can't recommend it enough. There is so much to learn here, and it's not just a shot of positivity--it's that we're fundamentally wrong about human nature, and much of
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by stakkur 6y ago
1. 'Random' as I develop a new direction. 2. Aiming for twice-weekly. 3. Regular web host w/WP. In the interest of 'stop playing around with tools/static sites and just write'. 4. https://jamesgill.n
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by stakkur 6y ago
Glassdoor is, of course, manipulated. It's revenue is three main sources: 1. Job postings 2. Job ads 3. Corporate branding You'll notice that 'accurate reviews' or 'helpful information for free users' is not on
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by stakkur 6y ago
You can remove existing snaps and disable snaps, because Linux. It's fairly quick and easy: https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...
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* Like Stories of Old * Mike Zamansky (Emacs) * Podcastage (How to podcast) * Stumpy Nubs (woodworking) * Alliterative (etymology) * Better Than Yesterday * After Skool * patrickJMT (math) * Dr. Tracey Marks (mental health)
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by stakkur 6y ago
I'm honestly baffled by the downvotes. Do readers not know that what I described is what led to what the article claims as the cause ? To simplify: it wasn't who guaranteed the loans that was the problem, it was the expansion o
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by stakkur 6y ago
It's a factor, but I disagree that it's the root cause. That distinction goes to the quiet destruction of aid by Ronald Reagan. The rapid shift towards loan-based support is directly linked to Reagan's targeted policies--an
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by stakkur 6y ago
> We had a simple workflow going, we changed a file and then committed it directly to trunk, before we went to UAT we created a release branch. Life was simple and things worked really well with SVN, you edited a file, committed and that
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by stakkur 6y ago
I don't think so, short of setting up robust ad blocking. Start with Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin, for example.
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Along those lines, this is more or less where I was trying to get: https://ecolabsblog.com/2010/11/29/data-information-knowledg... Basically, these are the same as the building blocks of library and informati
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by stakkur 6y ago
But knowledge is understanding. We often mislabel 'information' as 'knowledge'. But information is just information. A 'knowledge base' is no such thing; it's an information base. Knowledge is not '
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by stakkur 6y ago
I'm a ham. I don't think there's hard data on the 'average age' of hams--it's very anecdotal. Nobody really knows that, and the ARRL or feds don't have the actual age of licensees documented. I agree that
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by stakkur 6y ago
Full, complete Linux support.
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Tokyo condo prices approaching 30-year high: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Property/Tokyo-prop... "The average price of new condos in Tokyo was 71.42 million yen, or about 642,000 dollars, in
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by stakkur 6y ago
I figured there'd be a lot of Googling for counter-arguments and some ridicule. Despite the inherent difficulty in comparing different countries, I do think Tokyo is an interesting place to study. If you've dug deeper on why Tok
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by stakkur 6y ago
From the article: "The trend, however, is indisputable: Greater compactness increases housing costs." The 'compactness index' they're talking about is centered around density (and the impacts of that on transportati
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by stakkur 6y ago
>>And growth shouldn’t be used as an input to an estimate of demand because growth itself depends on supply This is famously untrue with housing. Because it's so hard to match units demanded to units built, housing growth nearly
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by stakkur 6y ago
The intention of the zoning reform linked to here is increasing density in existing low-density areas. Here's (only) one example of analysis of the density<->housing affordability relationship. Spoiler alert: density always incre
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by stakkur 6y ago
I agree, it's a difficult problem. I don't have a brilliant alternative.
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by stakkur 6y ago
I have a master's degree in urban & regional planning. I'm a Portland native, and went to college here and studied the city fairly intently. But I'm not writing a paper here on HN.
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by stakkur 6y ago
I live in the area. Proponents have couched this as a 'progressive' vs. 'nimby' effort, which like the rest of life is not true at all. Housing is complex, not good vs. evil, liberal vs. conservative, urgan vs sprawl. If
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by stakkur 6y ago
I'm not a fan of squatters, but it's a complex problem. I'm not sure we can ban 'squatting' or 'scalping' per se. What we could do, however, is limit the maximum price a domain can be bought and sold for
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by stakkur 6y ago
A very good article on a topic rarely faced head-on. Science is not truth; science is the neverending pursuit of truth. It reminds me of a Carl Sagan quote: “Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in t
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by stakkur 6y ago
I use Matomo with WordPress, and it's great: https://matomo.org/
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I think it's fair to say that Kush has never been 'forgotten'--in fact, it's been heavily researched, documented, debated. This article title is a bit clickbait-y, and hinges on the current fad of 'Europeans are all
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by stakkur 6y ago
I accomplish this with Emacs + Org-roam. And it's a 'forever' file system, all text. https://www.orgroam.com/
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I've heard this exact response in interviews--we want to know if we're 'in the ballpark' so we don't 'waste time', which is another way of saying either 'this is our budget' or ' we don&#x27
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I disagree, and that's a common reply. Making decisions and taking action are not the same as 'attempting to control' anything. And the idea here is obviously not 'limitations are not real', the idea is 'you ma
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I generally disagree with these kinds of models. Not because motivation, triggers, etc. aren't real things, but because they couch the problem as being either outside of us, or quasi-genetic (ADHD, etc.), instead of a choice that we ma
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I do (say) two things, whether it's a third party, HR recruiter, or interviewing person: 1. "It's too early in the process for me to discuss compensation. If we both decide it's a good fit, then I'm sure we can work

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