tomcar288

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by tomcar288 3y ago
the material standard of living has been dropping and it's now getting to the point where people can't afford shelter any more and thus no more kids. CA's birthrate has already plummeted to a level lower than in the great de
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by tomcar288 3y ago
i was playing word games with it, got some funny results and decided to debug it.. I asked it which letter position is the letter o in the word hockey and it literally told me the word "Hockey" does not contain the letter '
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by tomcar288 3y ago
well, those new tricks are going to bite you, later on down the road.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
Don't blame yourself. Software engineering tools are supposed to serve the programmer, not the other way around. If a tool is too hard to use, then you're using the wrong tool. Tools should serve the developer. I would recomm
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by tomcar288 3y ago
They said SF's budget is 14 billion!! holy crap, that's more money than the GDP of entire countries! and it's still not enough.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
personally I try to grow as much clover in my grass as possible. it has so many benefits: it uses a bit less water and stays more green without nitrogen inputs and can even help fix a little bit of nitrogen in the soil. then I use both th
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by tomcar288 3y ago
Also, GDP is inaccurate because the CPI is innacurate. compare the CPI with any realistic way of measuring inflation such as case shiller, the big mac index or the price of oil in barrels and you'll quickly see that the CPI is underco
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by tomcar288 3y ago
i've learned from reading glassdoor reviews, that you have to read the review rather than go by the star ratings. the star ratings often don't reflect what written in the review. for example, you'll see lots of amazon revie
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I think it's okay to pursue economic efficiency and productivity gains/GDP but not at the expense of happiness, not at the expense of health, not at the expense of worklife balance, not at the expense of the environment. It'
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I'm just glad people are starting to realize this is a reality. If you look at all the projections, right now, most people still think everything's gonna keep going up in that exponential growth curve. As for economic growth. Th
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by tomcar288 3y ago
all i can tell you is he's interviewed experts with deep extensive knowledge of how oil is used. there's one interview with a guy where the guy explains in details how all the parts of oil are used for over 45 min! most of it wa
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I didn't realize this until I came across Nate Hagens work on Oil/Gas, etc. He's got a PHD and extensive research expertise on oil and natural resources of the world. He's telling us, oil is absolutely pivotal for glo
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by tomcar288 3y ago
60 - 80 is much worse than 40.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
Yup. Nissan Leaf, chevy bolt and upcoming equinox EV are my preferred purchases. I will never buy another IC car again.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
i don't see why this was downvoted. It's entirely correct that the impact on the russian economy was far less than hoped for. One youtube documentary I saw stated -2% GDP, whereas the expected amount people wanted and expected w
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by tomcar288 4y ago
UBI in itself won't help anything without many other changes. I've run the numbers many times: there simply isn't anywhere near the amount of wealth needed. In order to help people we need to find ways to drastically cut cos
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by tomcar288 4y ago
Over the long term, All these excessive forms of travel are going in the wrong direction. It's not even a matter of ethics or morality. Peak oil is here (Source: Nate Hagens, Shell, etc ~ all predicting less and less oil available).
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by tomcar288 4y ago
FYI: i heard about that in a news article, I didn't actually read the bill.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
It's worse than you think. This bill isn't really about Tik Tok. Read the fine print: people caught using a VPN could be thrown in jail for 20 years! It's about giving govt unchecked authority to throw people in jail.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
And, in the very very long term 200yrs+, it's one of the few truely sustainable forms of transportation.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
Should banks and financial platforms decide who is and who isn't doing illegal things? The more we expect financial institutions to take on this task, the more they need to crack down on anyone who even looks like they're doing s
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by tomcar288 4y ago
That happens to me all the time. The vast majority 99%+ of the stuff that is advertised to me misses the mark completely. It's stuff I don't want or need. they give me ads for newbie programming after I've been a SE for 20
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by tomcar288 4y ago
Absolutely! You can't possibly say you own something if you have to pay rent on it to keep it. and not allowing someone to even own a home is basically tantamount to taxing their right to live. And, you can always have a tiered syste
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by tomcar288 4y ago
I find the mainstream ads far more offensive than the ones that are accurately targeted towards me.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
i don't understand the hate towards ad tech that learns about you. the alternative is ads that are completely irrelevant to you, ads that treat you like some anonymous user in which case you'll get endlessly irrelevant ads for ma
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by tomcar288 4y ago
it's got to be some GDPR or some other crazy law thing.
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by tomcar288 4y ago
housing doesn't need to be unaffordable. 200 years ago people paid of their houses in 10 years or less! this issue isn't mortgages. the issue is houses are way too big and land is too costly and regulation drives up the cost to
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by tomcar288 4y ago
and not just table scraps, you can give them all kinds of stuff growing in the garden, even some weeds. or have some cabbage that didn't work out, give it to chickens etc. sadly, there are so many HOAs that crack down on this kind of
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by tomcar288 4y ago
i wish we could get the EUV! it's way big enough for all our family needs. unfortunately, my wife has been conditioned to believe that an large SUV is what our family needs. gosh, advertisements are effective, either that or most peo