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by topkai22 6y ago
So we just bought a house in the same zip code we currently own in. You are right, it is a bit like picking stocks, but there are some general rules you can follow that might help. House prices are ballooning for two reasons right now- COVI
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My mom went to the ‘64 worlds fair almost every day (according to her, she had an uncle that worked there.) She told us stories about various exhibits when we were kids, but the thing she remembered the most was the video phone- that she sh
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by topkai22 6y ago
Just the requirement that one have valid payment mechanism deanonymizes most people, at least to the newspaper. That should tamper most of the worst behavior. The holdout jerks can then be banned in a way that sticks.
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It’s the right move rhetorically- the issue is too emotional and tied up with identity, at least in the US. This article delivers a message that could be treated as supporting climate denialism in a package that lets people on both of the i
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by topkai22 6y ago
To be clear, I’m not defending the collection of the data; that’s stupid, and is a good example why there should legislative minimum fines for data breaches and bond requirements to process certain types of data, as well as standardized pri
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by topkai22 6y ago
>> Is it so hard to set up a game between your kids and others? Yes. Yes, it is actually reasonably hard to coordinate 18+ kids and thier familes (thats the minimum size for two baseball teams), have an experienced adult coach them, a
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by topkai22 6y ago
Those colorized equation explanations are amazing! I’d love to be able to point a tool at an equation and get an explanation like that.
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I find the whole concept of the case to be off. The author is concerned that applications can’t take advantage of the increasing parallelism of computers because of the difficulty in writing fine grained parallel tasks, but misses that 1) t
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not quite this, but I think the enforced discipline of parenthood has made me a better worker overall. My ability to procrastinate hasn’t been eliminated, but every moment available to work feels more precious so I’m much better about just
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by topkai22 6y ago
This analysis chooses to ignore the cost of employer benefits, which is unfortunate because it explains a large portion of income inequality as measured by this analysis. Basically, because health insurance costs have exploded and it costs
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For sure- One of the best junior developers I’ve mentored placed top ten in the Miss America competition.
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I suspect there will definitely be concentrations and branding around charging stations. As I wrote above, users of fast charging stations will likely be heavily oriented toward those that put the most miles on their vehicles everyday- comm
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by topkai22 6y ago
60% of US housing is SFH and another 22% are in townhomes, mobile homes, or apartments of 4 or less units. As EVs grow in popularity a huge portion of those housing units are going to adapt, because charging your car overnight is just so mu
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by topkai22 6y ago
It’s the same in much of the US- the majority of services rendered by fire stations are medical in nature. Most fire stations I’m aware of require all professionals firefighters to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians) and include at leas
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by topkai22 6y ago
I had to start running my DNS traffic through a kid safe filtering service after someone searched for "pictures of brown bunnies"...
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by topkai22 6y ago
I suspect that “image search with safe search turned off” is taken as a signal of intent...
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by topkai22 6y ago
On ageism- it exists, but there are also other explanations on why we see relatively few older people in IT. One is just the rapid expansion of tech in general. In 1997 the number of people working in "Computer, Mathematical, Operation
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think you are right that Google isn’t taking it seriously, but one of the futures of gaming is subscription streaming, for basically the same reasons as video. Streaming can dramatically improve user experience by making it trival to acqu
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by topkai22 6y ago
Amazon created or published some very good mobile games for the fire ecosystem way back in like 2013 or earlier. They also had a prime benefit called "actually free" games for fire that effectively gave you a unlimited currency in
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by topkai22 6y ago
I've been in the consulting / field service part of a major tech company for 10 years. I've been remote for 6 of them and remote with minimal travel for 4. I started remote because we wanted to move closer to family (and ende
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think the electric f-150 and hummers are going to be huge for adoption in the US. Not necessarily because they'll sell a ton initially (although the f-150 might) but because they make electrics "safe" for a large portion
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by topkai22 6y ago
I agree it's probably not so bad even for retrofits - 70% of housing in the US is SFH or a duplex ( https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/housing-statistics ). Getting a charging solution for those units seems a
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by topkai22 6y ago
The government is not an individual- appropriate morality and responsibility at scale are different then as an individual. Additionally, if insurance / the government agrees to pay for a procedure that serves as a form of confirmation
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by topkai22 6y ago
Dentists and doctors are not all of one mind about treatment effectiveness or necessity, so the tails of the bell curve matter. There may very well be some small percentage of dentists who believe that procedure X is beneficial in almost al
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by topkai22 6y ago
There are many enterprise web applications that have large amounts of internal state, so I think OOP techniques work relatively well there. Game programming is a lot more fun though.
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by topkai22 6y ago
From the perspective of someone who leads an engineering team- I’m genuinely happy and proud of my team when things are going well. I’m not blowing smoke when I say something like that- it’s all true. Now I will call out a bad sprint, and I
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by topkai22 6y ago
I unfortunately don’t have much perspective on software development on Europe, but one of the differentiators I’ve observed in the US between high salary SWE jobs/regions and lower SWE jobs/regions is that engineered in the higher
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’m unaware of any big companies that do less then two weeks a year of vacation for their salaried employees. There might be some, but it is uncommon. Across all workers in the U.S., the average after 5 years is 15 vacation days, with 8-10
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think there needs to be a distinction between information seeking and passive interaction. If I go onto twitter and go to DPRK News ( https://twitter.com/DPRK_News , quite a good parody account) it's clear that DPRK N
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by topkai22 6y ago
Right- it's well known that discriminatory algorithms can evolve unintentionally. It's quite possible to accidentally create a feed that almost never shows black people white potential roommates and vice-versa. I don't think

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