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by superuser2 10y ago
I'd imagine the documents aren't worth anything since they don't correspond to any database entry. Just a way to scam people for fees.
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by superuser2 10y ago
I expect my lights to turn on when it's dark or cloudy outside. Fusion facilitates that, solar doesn't (unless we also get breakthroughs in battery tech).
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by superuser2 10y ago
The route to the ferry is only ~10 minutes faster by car, and the Bay Bridge is (infuriatingly) not passable to bicycles. I'm looking into motorcycling.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Yeah, it's the Bay Area. East Bay to SF. There are things other than roommates I could compromise on in order to live closer or go faster (standing on crowded, lurching public transit vehicles, sqft, building quality, neighborhood safe
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by superuser2 10y ago
You might be interested in the Treasury blacklist: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/...
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by superuser2 10y ago
I find it really depressing to live with roommates. I spend 8+ hours a day in an open office subject to other people's opinions (and carelessness) about what should enter my ears. To endure that and then come home to someone watching T
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by superuser2 10y ago
People who stop living with their parents are quite likely to move to California (and New York).
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by superuser2 10y ago
Perhaps because while most people don't own cars, they do depend on them (even if only in special circumstances) in the form of cabs.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Redundant Array of Independent Trucks?
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by superuser2 10y ago
The interviewer is most certainly looking at your computer screen if you are using it during the interview. I will probably never be in a situation that comes close to the staggering power asymmetry of someone deciding whether or not I wi
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by superuser2 10y ago
All of this information is available to an interviewer in person.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Nope, that is the problem that mounts and shared volumes solve. At that point you can argue there is no point in using a container, but your statement is false.
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by superuser2 10y ago
That'd be nice, but I see it going in the opposite direction: the internet becomes too hostile for casual operators. The only way for an average company to survive is to hole up inside the datacenters and on top of the walled-garden pl
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by superuser2 10y ago
An apartment lease is functionally the same thing as a loan: you need to pay $x every month. The landlord has a legitimate interest in how likely you are to do so.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Yes. Credit scores measure the extent to which you repay your debt. China is talking about measuring your loyalty to the state.
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by superuser2 10y ago
You protect existing tenants from new tenants . Existing units leave the equation for people moving or coming of age, who face much higher prices than they would if they were allowed to compete with existing residents.
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by superuser2 10y ago
"Oversupply" at $3000+/mo, haha. We can start talking about oversupply when they're more like $700.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Rent control still leaves people who want apartments without them, it simply changes the allocation strategy from "willing to pay market price" to "was here first" or, in the case of designated affordable housing, lotter
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by superuser2 10y ago
If you subscribe to the notion that a gift should be something that will bring the recipient joy, but that the recipient wouldn't buy for themselves, I'd say VR headsets, drones, and 3D printers. If it's an Apple household wi
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by superuser2 10y ago
In general, the effort is not wasted if competition drives the products to be better and/or cheaper in the end. Uselessly duplicated efforts due to secrecy are the problem patents were supposed to solve, btw.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Personally, quiet train with comfortable seat > driving > nearly everything else > standing on a loud, packed train.
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by superuser2 10y ago
>it is near impossible to use it for anything worth while if you're stuck driving It's also impossible if you're stuck standing on a public transit vehicle. You need one arm for the overhead rail and another for the back
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by superuser2 10y ago
If you want volumes that can be dynamically attached to any machine, you're not buying a SAN, and you're not in a cloud provider with a portable block storage abstraction, what do you propose? About the only thing I can think of i
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by superuser2 10y ago
Exactly. It's a doable workaround, but doesn't make sense when "just buy a Pixel instead" is an option.
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by superuser2 10y ago
I have almost $1000 invested in over-the-ear Sennheisers and custom fitted in-ear Shures. I don't think I'm going back to the audiologist to spend more hundreds of dollars a second pair that only works with iPhones and not my Mac
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by superuser2 10y ago
It also matches San Francisco in terms of "insane housing prices." You can't win.
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by superuser2 10y ago
>I don't see what San Francisco's appeal is People in tech want to be in the Bay Area because the most intellectually, emotionally, and financially rewarding tech jobs are concentrated here. Although some are also scattered aro
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by superuser2 10y ago
"It's just economics" will make sense when there is by-right authority to build arbitrarily dense housing everywhere in the city. As it stands, existing residents can't afford to buy out all potential high-density develo
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by superuser2 10y ago
It's extremely risky if you are laid off in an economic downturn (when you are most likely to need an emergency fund). He advocates using a HELOC as your emergency fund, but that only works if you have home equity.
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by superuser2 10y ago
>moving bits does require physical materials which are limited Physical materials limit concurrent throughput, not monthly transfer. ISPs oversell their throughput and then hope that monthly transfer limits will dissuade users from actua

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