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by temp-dude-87844 8y ago
I first heard about this book a month ago, when an essay [1] tried to connect some vacuous dissatisfaction with social networking with deep insights about the powerlessness of people who work, in a pivot I found odd and unconvincing [2]. It
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People will find ways to diminish others, but a recent manufactured home on a well-kempt lot just looks like a normal house, even if it has a simple roofline and is conspicuously devoid of brick above the floorline. In much of rural America
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The difference between a blob storage system that implements an "S3-compatible" API, and AWS S3, is that no one is mistaking the other offering for S3. Dozens of libraries that implement the S3 API as a client, and offerings that
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This blog post is laundering history. The choice quote: "With smartphone apps now common, we sometimes forget how hard it once was for developers to build apps across a wide range of different platforms. Our 2008 release of the open-so
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Machine learning, as well as human learning, largely work off of correlations observed in the source data. In some cases, the data itself is a flawed source for the learning it's being used for, because human biases have already influe
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This "just right" kind of balance is sensible on its face, but in the real world it manifests as mediocrity, when hundreds of other destinations exist for those most willing and able to relocate, inevitably leaving behind those wh
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The transformation in the article is the usual one we've seen for the last several decades in other service industries like foodservice, retail, home system service, and even transportation. An uneven patchwork of limited-region small
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Hurdles everywhere you look. Too much barriers and tariffs on imports, too little enforcement of rules, too much uncertainty with logistics and politics and occasionally, threat to life, money, and product. Governments have long had to walk
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The LinkedIn angle doesn't contribute to the other points, and even as framing it doesn't help. While the stuff put on there may be fictitious and the interactions with it are just signalling, it doesn't relate to the observa
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They're largely just desperate. The report here doesn't separately address local subsidies vs. state subsidies, but even with natural constraints on site selection, by the report's own reckoning the competition is often betwe
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Both the author's own words and the quoted ones use big words to make the writing appear more intelligent and insightful that it really is. The gist of the concept seems to be that a utopian future predicted long ago never came to pass
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Car mechanics also experience a surge in volume during longer holidays because even at normal volumes, customers frequently have to leave the car there for a day or several. Being out a car is disruptive on a workday, so losing the car for
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They bought mass-produced, disposable goods because that's the kind of product that was in stores. Stores themselves were fairly new. Not that long before, goods were artisanal, produced in low volumes by skilled craftsmen. Obtaining s
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Modern platforms enable the rapid and wide spread of information from peer to peer, whether truthful or false. But if foreign provocateurs can successfully sow discord and fan the flames to the point that there's riots in the streets,
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Yeah: plan for long-term personal mitigation. Move to a country with a strong military and rule of law, but geopolitically a place that wouldn't make for an attractive target for invasion. Find a job that's well insulated from cli
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Well, the hyperbole helps in the sense that it's an opinion shared by much more people, including some pundits, academics, and commentators with an audience, than ten or twenty years ago. This alone ought to explain, if not necessaril
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This sort of fear-based hypercorrection, a misguided but not necessarily ineffective form of risk avoidance, happens in many walks of life. The same calculus is at the root of non-lower-class whites (as well as nearly everyone of high statu
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I don't disagree with this sentiment, but it's worth pointing out that nearly all transportation projects from the "old days" around the world were done by private companies, and often met a swift end in bankruptcy. Cred
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This is not that different from the people who are told to post on Insta and FB after they've received a service: styling at a hair salon, nails, makeup; it's not even that far from posting on their own accord after they've b
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This kind of world gets built by some people who are excited to work towards this goal, but also by a much larger group of people for whom meeting their daily needs outweighs the abstract, distant drawbacks that they can pretend to rational
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The "best states to send your kids to school" and the "how much value are students of our state deriving from my tax contribution vs. in other states" are almost mutually exclusive, because in the second case you're
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All good points, and clarifies my wording about Texas doing a good job (relative to other states) of educating Hispanic students that suggested otherwise. But the widely divergent results between the aggregated and disaggregated view isn&#x
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Disaggregating the results by race is real cute but also misses the point: blacks and asians and hispanics are residents of the state too and so leaving them in to evaluate the state's overall achievement (relative to other states) in
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I'm doubtful it will, because that conversation is rarely productive. In the US, opting out of consumer credit is a privilege of the wealthy or an inadvertent misfortune of the unbanked poor. A determined person can attempt to follow t
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It's bizarre for a few passionate women, subject to survivor bias of having survived an allegedly women-hostile education-to-CS pipeline, to paint Reges as a part of the problem. One would naturally expect them to vehemently disagree o
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This is pretty shallow for an "inside" look, rattling off one-liners about various big money actors feverishly scrambling to hinder Trump or help progressives or Democrats, and how none of them seemed to have a lasting impact, but
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As with most things, engineering a blunt policy solution will lead to unintended consequences. If this proposal goes into effect, by clobbering local zoning codes, anything with sufficient money behind it is going to get built. This typical
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The author's musings about this are good fun but they struggle to make a coherent point that delivers deep insight. In this post, he considers the points that commenters raised and tiptoes around the possibility that maybe some bureauc
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The higher density seen in the upmarket development isn't necessarily an indicator that land values in the area are high, or that space is at a premium. Rather, it correlates with the developer's belief in achieving a higher retur
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It's amusing and/or alarming, depending on your mood, that someone like Cowen, a believer in the market's solutions, can sound so similar to Stallman on this issue. Stallman pounds the same talking points over and over, but h

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