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by tdb7893 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for the info. Though I wish it could be broken down based on income brackets but I can't find that.
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I love how when people talk about making America Great Again they are generally talking about a time where the highest marginal tax rate was like 70% (of course no one paid that but people don't pay the top rate now either). I would lo
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Theoretically the government is spending productivity for services so the argument that government spending is not creating stuff is a little weird (though obviously they are often less efficient). There are even lots of situations where go
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I think you're right that's the main practical way as an individual but I'll add that collectively there are other ways. Just as an example, one of my friends works for a place where the employees own most of the company thro
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People could be shoving square pegs into coincidentally square holes but having coded in Go for years I haven't seen this scenario in practice ever. It would take a lack of understanding of the objects you're working with combined
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Places with billboard bans don't ban all ads, if the bathrooms aren't billboards they aren't banned. If the bathrooms are huge billboards next to parks then yeah, you'll have to find other bathrooms and that seems fine.
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Hawaii also has a billboard ban. It was really jarring moving back to Illinois after getting used to not having them. It seems pretty clear that the negative impact of billboards far outweigh the benefits so I'm always hoping more plac
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by tdb7893 2y ago
My thing for any agile methodology is the self organizing team aspect really is the most important part, any time-like metric going up the chain is gonna be painful. I liked story points when the team used them to get aligned on the work be
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by tdb7893 2y ago
As someone who has done that exact sort of stripping at a previous job it's not that bad. If you mess it up your tests immediately fail but also it's just so easy to have a library that does it for you
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If I remember from my engineering classes, the efficiency is based on temperature differential and the differential between the hot part of the refrigeration cycle and the ambient temperature I don't think is that high.
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The first point I feel like reinforces my point more than disproves it. Both sides clearly see the issues but won't actually reform while they benefit. Ranked choice also has only been implemented in a few cases and generally by a ball
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Equating Trump's accusations and drone strikes only makes sense if you're not allowed to look at intent, which historically is very relevant for criminal law. More aptly Nixon would be immune from prosecution for obstructing the
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As with all reforms in the US it's not gonna happen as the party that benefits will block it. Same with implementing ranked choice, outlawing gerrymandering, campaign finance reform, etc. Systems always work to justify and perpetuate t
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Even the majority opinion doesn't agree with you. Literally the only people I've heard make this argument are Trump's lawyers in this case and in fact during the impeachment proceedings they said the exact opposite. Impeachme
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In case you didn't know, HN stands for Hater News and as the old saying goes, "haters gonna hate"
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Lmao I can't tell if this is satire or not but calling people NPCs always reminds me of this XKCD I once had up in my cubicle. https://xkcd.com/610/
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Yeah I wish I could use any major website without having algorithmic feeds trying to adict me to everything. Trying to productively use the internet while having an executive function disorder is just frustrating, I've ended up just bl
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The thing I am happy to pay for is investigative journalism. I've been very happy to donate to Pro Publica
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There are a lot of things that I was taught growing up that I used to sort of just accept but from the outside don't really make any sense (as an example: where I grew up was pretty homophobic but once I was old enough I realized that
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Yeah, if was someone who I wouldn't want to do a favor for I just wouldn't do it. I make so much money that the idea of taking money from friends for a pretty simple favor comes across as weird and miserly.
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I was just explaining this to my mom today. Our generation has a lot of luxuries cheaper but also a lot higher fixed costs (housing, education, childcare, healthcare, etc). Even adjusting for inflation my college and rent were a few times w
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I'm shocked people take compensation for that. I would've felt super weird taking money for it (not least because with how much I make charging for a favor feels like an incredibly crass thing to do)
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In this case also if it's losing money because private broadband providers dropped their prices that's still a win for the municipality. If it's losing money and prices didn't become more competitive then I would say i
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Their "do no evil" phase lasted pretty long at least compared to places like OpenAI at least. At the end of the day are there any significant companies that managed to maintain a mission that wasn't "make tons of money
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The internet already isn't truly anonymous with how people actually use it. People are logged into a bunch of accounts that are traceable to them and also rarely mask their IP. With how much stuff I've paid for over the internet t
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Social media is already a lot of spam and influence campaigns and people still use it. I think it'll keep chugging along as it has been with large amounts of spam and then AI to fight the spam.
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Default plugins is a very common pattern and often what users want. There can be technical reasons but also for common features it's way to have them as opt-out instead of 99% of people needing to opt-in to the same stuff
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Having things named the same across platforms but with significantly different features is a usability nightmare. They even created a package that does have all the same functionality but named it something different, if you're gonna c
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Docs are very useful. I liked them, especially considering how slow development could be there, It's just that in my experience they incentivized them more than they needed to. For example writing a doc while you are already implementi
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I was just a cog in a machine. The mindset didn't come from me but how they setup incentives internally and ran projects. To be clear, I ended up really resenting how it works and the advice was based on my experiences with trying to c

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