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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It's a fine idea if good candidates for conversion can be found, but shouldn't they fix up their dilapidated public transit system before inviting more density into their urban core? Just today, one of their rail cars caught fire
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Simple: capex and economies of scale. Suppose that I have an idea for a widget which market research indicates could sell for $20/, but probably not $50/. I can hit the $50/ target with small contract runs, which would cost a
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
In the words of John Oliver's character on Community , "It's just that the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Is it? A vehicle lasts for decades. $10/mo * 20 years = $2400. That's almost an extra 5% you get over the purchase price, nicely hidden away at the time of sale. You also self-select for the sort of customer who will put up with b
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly. Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly. What's up with the sad CNC mac
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Abrahamic religions in general - Jesus was also not a fan. >Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold pigeons. H
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s. "Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels. One of the simplest examples is a voltage divider: if you
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Tough to say, information about the systems is restricted and hard to come by. I'm pretty sure they have hooks into audio systems for wireless emergency alerts, but could be wrong.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
They may have access to backdoors in the baseband firmwares. The baseband is an opaque binary blob that operates outside of the phone's main OS, and its contents are usually considered a trade secret by the manufacturer since it handle
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Landscaping materials? You can get things like sand and mulch for like $30/ton. You just have to provide your own transportation.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help. to = 2; while (!request(timeout=to)) { to *= 2; } I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon cap
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
A good real estate agent can provide a lot of value, especially if you're a first-time buyer. * They've seen a lot of houses, and know what to look out for even before you commit to calling in inspectors. * They've seen a lot
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It feels like a common paradox. Why should lawyers discipline lawyers? Why should cops discipline cops? Why should lobbyists advise legislators? Why should banks help to shape financial regulations? Why should corporate aircraft engineers p
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It would be neat to have a fundamental "money" primitive alongside int, float, string, etc. It might not be simple to implement, though. Off the top of my head, * Can you confidently say that $100>¥10 in an offline environment?
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Just wait until you can't see a restaurant's menu, in-flight announcements, traffic advisories, etc. The pandemic opened the door to making a piece of technology a mandatory requirement to participate in society. It used to be pos
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Not usually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea You can definitely be convicted of one, though!
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Write it into the law that self-dealing to evade taxes is fraud, if that even needs to be spelled out. Also, vacant properties would count as vacant whenever they are not productively occupied, even if there is an active lease. Have a city
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Those things are bigger than an old F-250, and they only have a 4.5' bed. They're also not really pickup trucks, underneath they have the same SUV unibody as the Bronco (yikes) and the Escape.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Of course it's wrong. We are able to do easy work with flexible hours for high pay, while more important professions can barely scrape by. That injustice stems from a system that we cannot meaningfully change, though. Our cages are lar
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Maybe a property tax adjustment based on how much time the property has spent vacant over the past N years? Something like, every year the property owner pays: property value * (average vacancy % over N years) If your property is o
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Good point. I, and I suspect many others, would still pay $40K for a specialty base model which would only cost $30K if it sold in mass-market quantities. Large companies in oligopolic positions won't try to produce those sorts of prod
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Cars aren't like governments, though: the Toyota Corolla doesn't hold a monopoly on anything. Why don't we have more specialized vehicles catering to small, passionate niches? A modern Jeep or Land Rover looks just like a mod
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
To quote the CBS reporter who recorded an earlier journey with them, as he read the waiver form¹: >...An experimental submersible vessel, that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
From whom? Your average voter neither knows nor cares about the DMCA. We've all got things to do, people to see, and computing is just one industry/hobby. Influential companies prefer predictable systems. They are thrilled that th
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
>You would think large corporations would do the same against internal troublemakers, competitors, etc. They certainly do! Here's a recent example, although it ended in prison time for the executives: https://text.npr.org
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Could it also be a reflection of Google's lawyers advising that using LLMs trained on masses of unvetted source-available code is probably tantamount to copyright laundering?
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
You might enjoy the classic philosophy novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: some people are much easier to deal with face-to-face. I don't know what it is, but there's a sort of personality type which seems common among technical roles. Text communication is curt, feathers get ruffled e
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Borrowing to buy it isn't necessarily more expensive. You could pay $50k for an average new car, or $10K + $40K over 5 years at 5% (~$5k extra in interest) If you put that $40k into the stock market, average annual returns for the S&am
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
>what good does it really do to prevent him from being able to function on the outside? From whose perspective? Part of the problem is that some powerful groups are incentived to keep people coming back to prison. Private prisons reap pr

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