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901.
by sulam 8y ago
That's true, cable TV is almost as common as refrigerators.
902.
by sulam 8y ago
Both of those things sound imminently reasonable compared to the alternatives, at least to me. Both of those things are a product of choices that a market-participant made. The alternative pre-Prop 13 was that a non-participant was financia
903.
by sulam 8y ago
To me a "great" system would be independently verifiable. As in, you appraise your house and you then find you can sell it within 5% of that number. This is not how it actually works, though. The appraisal is often spot on the o
904.
by sulam 8y ago
Poor people would be very surprised to hear that they all have washing machines. So would Laundromat owners. They may have TVs, but they can't afford cable so it's OTA only. And while they have a fridge, they can't afford foo
905.
by sulam 8y ago
Forget older Californians, you can get priced out of your house just from property value increases in the last decade! Also keep in mind that there's no great system for appraising houses. As someone who has bought two houses and sold
906.
by sulam 8y ago
Player of Games is the book I recommend to people to know if they'll like all of his books. It's kind of a set piece for all of them. So I can say with some confidence that you probably won't like many of his books.
907.
by sulam 8y ago
I love the outdoors, fished plenty as a kid, but don't do it anymore. I'd rather be backpacking, climbing, paddling my kayak -- anything that gets me outdoors _and_ gets my body and brain in sync with each other. Fishing just does
908.
by sulam 8y ago
You can't know that a priori, though. The cops should not get to say "I want to track this cell phone, it's being used for a crime" without filing a warrant. That is pretty much exactly what warrants are for in other con
909.
by sulam 8y ago
He was filing fake tax returns. That probably exposed his IP in logs on government servers.
910.
by sulam 8y ago
Exactly. We forgot how to do a thing and invented better. The “lost” knowledge isn’t really worth much to us today. And that will be true of essentially everything we forget in the future as well — the forgetting is the sign that it wasn’t
911.
by sulam 8y ago
We have been forgetting things for thousands of years. Last I looked, we still don’t know how to make Damascus steel or Roman concrete. People will reinvent the things they need and maybe never even know that it’s a reinvention. I reinvente
912.
by sulam 8y ago
> online debates Great, happy to stop debating.
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by sulam 8y ago
"Well, the defendant was clearly present at the time of the crime. It is clear he might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent." That statement (unmoored from the climate change context) in its most l
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by sulam 8y ago
As you have pointed out, good "faith" is in short supply in this conversation because there are extreme elements that will go to great lengths to maintain the status quo, despite all the evidence that it is long-term unmaintainabl
915.
by sulam 8y ago
When you write: >humans might have something to do with it you come across immediately as a climate change denier. The science of what humans are doing to the climate is well established. We _have_ something to do with it, no "might
916.
by sulam 8y ago
I think ambient carbon capture has a genuine chance to improve the situation. This isn't to say that we should stop doing other things to reduce emissions. We are very much in the thick of the struggle -- anyone trying to tell you othe
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by sulam 8y ago
It's not so great on the other end, either. My house has a gate to get to the front door. The gate is very easy to operate and never locked. A driver (I have to assume Flex) instead _threw_ a 20lb box with an ice maker in it over the f
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by sulam 8y ago
Yeah, the stories from environments like that make for interesting “ghost stories” for your co-workers once enough time has passed. But man living through it isn’t nearly as fun.
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by sulam 8y ago
I tip 10% for counter pickup, 20% for table service and 15-20% for delivery. At Souvla, the food is really good and I tip the 15% default IIRC.
920.
by sulam 8y ago
> I still do not understand what kind of problem the iPhone solves Did you try smart phones before the iPhone? It solves the problem they promised to solve but it actually delivered. High fidelity web browsing in your pocket is probably
921.
by sulam 8y ago
On the list of "most ambitious humans", Elon Musk is probably near the top of the list. (Of course it would have to be some kind of blend of ambition and accomplishment, the most ambitious person on the planet could well be living
922.
by sulam 8y ago
Which may mean that all the statistical techniques ML would use are fairly rudimentary for them.
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by sulam 8y ago
As someone who is contemplating what I do after I am done with a full time, “9-5” job, it’s amusing how much we as a culture equate “doing well” with a job at a company. Not a criticism of your statement, just an opportunity to point that o
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by sulam 8y ago
I’ve managed people who were paid an order of magnitude more than I was making. I currently make more than most managers whose compensation I know at my current employer. (I technically make a LOT more than my manager, but special circumsta
925.
by sulam 8y ago
... to your knowledge.
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by sulam 8y ago
They probably offered that to him.
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by sulam 8y ago
There is a very clear right answer here provided you consider promotion from a clean point of view. A promotion is a _recognition_ that you are _already_ operating at a given level. It's an acknowledgement by TPTB that you deserve a gi
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by sulam 8y ago
The flip side is that they’re on the same roads as cars, which means exposed to the same congestion. And to the degree they get some people out of cars, they get other people into them.
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by sulam 8y ago
FWIW I subscribe to the WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Economist, and New Yorker. I buy books and music (I think I might be one of the few left who still buys albums despite listening to them on Spotify, too). This move is very concerning to me. The best
930.
by sulam 8y ago
Socially permissible is code for things that people approve or disapprove of as a general rule. Your business will not do very well if you do these socially impermissible things. People will not want to work for you if they have other choic

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