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by topkai22 7y ago
SF and San Jose metros are crazy, but the entire state has a median housing price well above the national average. In fact, it is 2nd only to Hawaii, at >$500k. It is absolutely fair to say that there is a systemic housing affordability
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by topkai22 7y ago
Pretty sure the two chemicals they are talking about in the article are in a lower WHO risk category in then bacon, salted fish, and alcoholic beverages. The FDA may be underfunded and overwhelmed but I'm not yet feeling terrible about
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by topkai22 8y ago
I must say that I think you are correct in this being the "glide path", the most likely result of inaction. The moralistic idealist in me just refuses to believe we are trapped by destiny. By writing this article you have done som
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by topkai22 8y ago
Many employers, including mine, have "no reference" policies in place (its a legal thing). It's this an issue you've encountered?
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by topkai22 8y ago
Wonderful article, but I reject the conclusion that the mass internments and violence were inevitable on principle. Ultimately, the decisions that lead to these outcomes are made by people, people who should be able to say "we've
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by topkai22 8y ago
Therac-25 is brought up I like to point out that the Therac-25, which killed 3 people), was released the same year as the Hyatt bridge disaster ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap... ) which ki
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by topkai22 8y ago
This is clickbait done right.
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by topkai22 8y ago
Because having children is rather important to the continuation of society, and (while largely wonderful) a massive financial investment by the parents.
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by topkai22 8y ago
Google pays enough technical women enough they are probably already getting that. This is more like the 27 year old associate property manager gets to stay on the path to promotion, or the $15/h hairdresser not having to have a near ze
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by topkai22 8y ago
Homes can be a good iinvestment even if prices aren’t rising (or at least aren't rising faster than inflation). You have to have shelter, so you have to purchase that some how. If you choose to rent theoretically you need to pay for th
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by topkai22 8y ago
Haven't read the book, but have read the original article. I think Graeber noticed some important trends (the rise of administrative work, the underwhelming reduction in total work hours in the US) and then tried to pull them down two
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by topkai22 8y ago
Konami is at huge risk, too, as it sounds like they were the global distributors.
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by topkai22 8y ago
@beamatronic- the median SFH in Reno is now over $380,000, and median household income is $58k. According to a quick housing affordability calculator, $58k will get you to a $280,000 house if you really stretch it under normal conditions. T
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by topkai22 8y ago
The article is all qualitative, but the quantitative numbers bear it out, at a state level at least. In 2016, the state had rough 150,000 more internal emigrants then immigrants (from census data) This is a continuation or acceleration of
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by topkai22 8y ago
I don’t think it’s how we build websites per se, I think it has to do with how just a few websites have made themselves so phenomenally useful that they’ve eliminated the need for what I’ll call the “discoverabilty infrastructure” we used t
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by topkai22 8y ago
Not sure, but my guess is because Spanx sells a brand as much as a product, and trademark enforcement is likely easier than patent enforcement.
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by topkai22 8y ago
Not really- the way H1-bs are sold the general public are that they are for “extremely hard to find” labor and requirements state you must look for us persons to fill your position before getting an H1-b visa to do so. $150k is at the 95th
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by topkai22 8y ago
Around here lego seems to be doing that, except they are the “trading card” or “loot box” style packs where you can’t see what you are getting ahead of time. This seems to be a direct strategy to further cash in on minifig collecting. And o
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by topkai22 8y ago
There is a several dozen location retail chain called bricks and minifigs ( https://bricksandminifigs.com/ ) that supports this trade. It drives me crazy to spend $15 for a Jedi Master Plo Koon minifig but when my kid has bee
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by topkai22 8y ago
Another idea- if you get enough data, it’d be interesting to see who is up voting at what age. The advice I wanted to hear at age 18 is not what I’d give at twice that age.
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by topkai22 8y ago
If you want to see what the tail end of that, where we had the web but content generation was still largely amateur, a lurkers guide to Babylon 5 is exactly as I remember http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
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by topkai22 8y ago
I saw an interesting article a while back. It looked at the benefits adjusted income of workers in the US since 1980 or so. Basically, the “disappearing wage growth” at of the last part of the 20th and early 21st century fir the bottom of t
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by topkai22 8y ago
Pretty sure it depends on the state- when I lived in Washington state it took weeks to get a car that had been abandoned for over a year to get towed from our appartmemt lot. That being said, I prefer it being hard to tow, privately adminis
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by topkai22 8y ago
It’s not all or nothing. While a takedown is bad (and illustrative of some real problems in Saudi.) Netflix having a presence in Saudi let’s them spread their media and worldview into that country/culture. Unilaterally disengaging just
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by topkai22 8y ago
Does it allow me to hit the page count of my essay even easier?
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by topkai22 8y ago
Like most of human biology, this is generally true but has significant variation. My preschooler has always gone to bed later and woken up later than my kindergartener, and neither of them naturally get up before 730a.
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by topkai22 8y ago
See “Internal Time” by Till Roenneberg, which is a very accessible book by a researcher in this field. If I remember correctly, the book gives some good evidence of a potential genetic basis for chronotypes, although not to the level of id
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by topkai22 8y ago
The survey cited is doing something weird with its measurement. It says 44% of full time IT workers do 40 or less in a week, and another 22% do 41-49. That puts the median likely somewhere around 43h. That 54h number must be the mean and in
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by topkai22 8y ago
My guess is that the cost is mostly at the edge (needing to update the thermostats, control systems, communications systems and other HVAC equipment at the 19 campuses) not the software.
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by topkai22 8y ago
Obviously assuming an avoidance of nuclear escalation, which it is very much in China’s interest to avoid- best estimates say China has less than 300 weapons, not all of which have delivery systems capable of reaching the US and many are po

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