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by volkl48 7y ago
You are partially misreading the graph, although with their poor presentation I can understand why. Each bar on the graph looks to be a certain population count/census, and presumably they were conducted less often in the first part of
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by volkl48 7y ago
Music looks poised to be as profitable as it was previously, possibly more so for the labels. Whether or not artists see that money is a different question. The music industry is doing pretty decently. Streaming revenues are significant a
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by volkl48 7y ago
> good luck finding a non-remote tech job if you live north of Concord There is a modest amount of tech work in the Upper Valley. That said, cost of living there isn't much lower then Boston metro.
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by volkl48 7y ago
Doesn't handle well is not equivalent to "is uncontrollable", though.
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by volkl48 7y ago
Long-term trends - I agree. I would note that over the past year though, that wages have been ticking up for the poorer groups at a solid pace (~4%) and inflation has remained low. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05&#x2F
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by volkl48 7y ago
Prime age (25-54) labor participation has been climbing steadily since 2015, and while not 100% recovered, it is quite close to pre-08 numbers. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060 The graph people like to ci
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by volkl48 7y ago
No/little activity for 4 years and then 3 posts on the same topic in 24 hours is more than a little suspicious, though.
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by volkl48 7y ago
What we can basically dub the "idiocracy hypothesis" is becoming less true than it was in the past, not more true. Take a look at the second section for 1995-2010 changes: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes&#x2F
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by volkl48 7y ago
I certainly start planning the next one before starting the ones I've booked. Every trip I'm considering/planning on taking in the next year or two is in a spreadsheet and I've got various things set up to notify me as d
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by volkl48 8y ago
The problem with Vista largely wasn't the OS itself. It was: - They changed the driver model from XP and a lot of 3rd parties either didn't have compatible drivers out at launch day (or anywhere soon after), or had buggy, unreliab
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by volkl48 8y ago
A drive thru employee works a scheduled shift and when it's over they're done. I don't see how that example works with this topic of overtime/overwork.
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by volkl48 8y ago
Torrent sites aren't hosting the content though. They're just hosting some tiny files to connect you to the hosts of the content (seeders/peers) The content (and associated bandwidth demands) comes from those seeding the torr
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by volkl48 8y ago
Yeah, but these are all a certain cultural bubble where they are vastly over-represented. EV's were 2.1% of new-car sales last year in the US. That's nearly doubling the 1.2% share from last year, and that is great growth. But
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by volkl48 8y ago
Those instructions are for a 12" Macbook (not a 13-15" Macbook Pro). My commentary was only directed at the MBP's, I forget the 12" models exist with how rarely I see anyone actually using one. Taking apart a 12" MB
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by volkl48 8y ago
That is incorrect. You have essentially 3 discrete major components that can be replaced separately on the laptops in question. Display - Self-explanatory. Top Case - Keyboard, upper shell, trackpad, battery, touchbar (if applicable). Logic
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by volkl48 8y ago
Recent book came out arguing fairly persuasively that we're basically there and you're going to see unprecedented depopulation in many areas by the end of the century. Title is Empty Planet - the shock of global population decli
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by volkl48 8y ago
Except that is false. A person living in a big city uses drastically less resources and energy than a rural person does. Less/no driving, smaller more energy efficient dwellings (apartment blocks = way more efficient heating/cooli
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by volkl48 8y ago
The US airlines all purchased some/all of the "optional" safety features that would have made it obvious to the pilots that the system was malfunctioning.
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by volkl48 8y ago
I think the basic disconnect being expressed in the widly varying opinions seen in this thread is: You can design an open office to work well. You can design an open office to be a sweatshop fitting in the maximum number of employees at the
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by volkl48 8y ago
My understanding is that most people are not actually traveling coast to coast, but on shorter segments of the overall route. I don't think you're likely to be next to the someone for 3 days.
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by volkl48 8y ago
Sales taxes are collected by the business conducting the transaction. AirBnB is that business. I see nothing unreasonable about requiring them to collect said taxes. If they were Craigslist, where they were actually just a passthrough for t
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by volkl48 8y ago
Perhaps you should try stating the reason it was shut down.
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by volkl48 8y ago
Many of those places you are referring to aren't "building car dependent sprawl", they're just growing far faster than their planning/infrastructure can keep up with and slums are spreading in every direction. They
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by volkl48 8y ago
No? Most vendors have gotten their online experience in reasonable order at this point. (In some ways, better than Amazon, because many aren't on the "marketplace" model and I don't have to sift a sea of crap). That is:
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by volkl48 8y ago
It's worth noting those graphs are about what power is generated in-state, not what power is consumed in-state. In VT's case, they shut down a nuclear plant with no in-state replacement for the power, and now they buy 60% of the
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by volkl48 8y ago
The Idiocracy hypothesis you're basically expressing is false. I only follow US data somewhat closely, so this is a US-centric claim, but I suspect the same is true elsewhere. Teenagers, the poor, and the less educated are seeing much
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by volkl48 8y ago
Look at the beer market. Total beer volume sold is falling. Employment in breweries has doubled since 2010. Why? Because the market is fragmenting to smaller operations who employ more people per unit of beer produced. You can argue that fr
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by volkl48 8y ago
Sure, but eventually places age and develop their own character and audience. In the same vein and more my crowd, you can't just open a (good) dive bar, it takes years to develop the community atmosphere they wind up becoming.
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by volkl48 8y ago
It also matters because of flight connections. A high frequency mainline flight + a low frequency regional leg = You can get a short/optimal connection time with at least one of those mainline flight choices. But if both flights are lo
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by volkl48 8y ago
Doesn't seem to have hurt Boston much even with Logan imposing strict height restrictions over large sections of the city. I will also point out that if you develop in a properly dense, urban fashion, you can create a large amount of s

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