sujNansnam

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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Higher density construction makes more room for low density everywhere else.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
If a company is spending some revenue as wages, they aren’t paying taxes on that revenue at all.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
So there’s some need to take a vision test periodically. You actually don’t need a professional for this, you can print an eye chart off the internet. Even so, the need to get your vision tested is often not related to the need to replace y
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
The mistake you’re making is thinking there is a such a thing as “50 cents a month” of content. HBO was never going to sell you Game of Thrones for 50 cents. Netflix was never going to sell you House of Cards for 50 cents. They are selling
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
You may feel this way, but the society you live in does not. http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Gricean_maxims I find it unlikely that you really abide by this stated disregard of implicit assumptions - it would make
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Somebody tested you in the past and you got a pair that works fine. You still have the numbers from last time and you want another pair.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
It’s easy to get glasses without a prescription.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
What your comment suggests to me is that good composition requires an agent with a world model and generalized task-solving ability, along with a personality. I think developing the world model and task-solving will be the hard part, and if
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
If you want a high end old tech TV you can easily get one for free on Craigslist - demand for these is so low you can’t give them away.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the second point? I don’t understand how banning gay marriage controls reproduction.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
> There is no database of PR spending, but it’s telling that a study conducted by Edelman, the worlds largest PR firm, found Tech to be the most trustworthy sector. A cynic might say they are pandering to an important client base. Survey
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
I set up auto scaling for a kube cluster and it didn’t feel like switching on a feature that was included, it felt more like building a semi-custom solution out of some publicly available parts.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Google pays their engineers a lot and they’d need to recruit a lot more of them if they were going to keep running everything they ever killed. That, or stop launching so many new products.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Do you have any pointers to those studies? I’ve been taking a lower dose of methylphenidate (10 mg of 8-hour extended release) to try to avoid risks of tolerance and addiction, in addition to skipping it entirely for tolerance breaks. I fig
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Communication and technical implementation are skills that exist on two separate axes. You might find that many of the best implementers are not also the best communicators, and vice versa. It seems to me that the whole software industry is
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
It’s one of those things where you’re only going to notice it as a user when it’s broken.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_bribery TLDR: it’s a felony in most states. There’s no federal law prohibiting it explicitly but it often falls under mail or wire fraud.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
I don’t think the head pressure feeling is something the brain automatically adds to silence. I get that feeling from noise-canceling headphones but I don’t get it from a sensory deprivation tank.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
If you have central air, you can put a good filter in your air return. If you don’t, you can buy a standalone air purifier.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
Safari’s reader mode works well in this case.
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
It’s interesting that when Mitt Romney said 47% of Americans don’t pay income taxes, the Times pointed out this was misleading because many of those people do pay payroll and other taxes. It seems they are guilty of the same sort of decepti
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by sujNansnam 7y ago
I have halos after LASIK and they don’t bother me. I understand how they would have a negative association because you experience them at the same time as a migraine, but they don’t cause me any suffering. They’re just... things that in my