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by weeksie 8y ago
While I think your point is totally on the mark I am going to chime in like a pedantic pain in the arse and mention that Civ has been addictive as fuck since the early 90s when I ruined at least a month of my life playing just one more turn
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by weeksie 8y ago
Can we do Manhattan next? Haha, just kidding. The dysfunction of our city politics makes obvious life-improving policies completely untenable. Hell, we can't even change the way we collect our garbage or maintain our (totally necessary
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by weeksie 8y ago
Was it pointless? Who doesn't like to hear something pleasant said about, oh, I don't know 25 years of knowing a fun word and getting to use it in context. If praise for that bugs you then you need to find some joy in your life, b
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by weeksie 8y ago
I could have gone with Madam Tim but I worried it would be too formal. Listen, I have been on this site from the beginning and I appreciate the generally no bullshit tone. I left reddit back when it became clear that HN was the clear succes
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by weeksie 8y ago
Glad to see the fun police are still out in force here.
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by weeksie 8y ago
This made my day, sir. The wikipedia article was interesting but this . . . chef fingers
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by weeksie 8y ago
That may happen in a vanishingly small subset of instances, perhaps in developing economies where the housing stock of a desirable destination hadn't already been augmented by dedicated hotel space—since visitors would be so profitable
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by weeksie 8y ago
If vacancy rates are high enough they create downward pressure on rent.
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by weeksie 8y ago
AirBNB restrictions should be based on housing vacancy rates. In areas where either through poor zoning or historical preservation there is a restricted supply of housing AirBNB should be strictly limited. However, if vacancy rates are high
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by weeksie 8y ago
Hahaha wow, that's awesome. Thanks for the pointer, I'll have to read more deeply before forming an opinion but I love the sentiment.
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by weeksie 8y ago
It's simple: workers have less bargaining power than they used to have so they can't demand a share of the profits the way that those at the top can. I'm not a fan of unions because they have the same power-structure problems
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by weeksie 8y ago
Sure! Tokyo's actually pretty cheap (but the expense of a city has a lot more to do with its regulations regarding zoning and density). Cities just tend to have more expensive housing because they tend to have more bureaucratic barrier
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by weeksie 8y ago
Chicago and Boston aren't in the same class of city as New York. They're perfectly fine places but NYC is like London or Tokyo. The opportunities and sheer variety of experience available in NY is simply not available in those pla
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by weeksie 8y ago
Shocks me that you're getting downvoted for this because that's exactly what the results would imply. Of course that's in regard to the Extreme Programming always on, constant pair programming approach. Pair programming isn
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by weeksie 8y ago
Holy crap, what are you working on where 4kloc files are the norm? (and 1klock if statements. . . .)
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by weeksie 8y ago
I'm curious as to what story you think is being told? To me it's clear that the following things are true: * Thera are 6x the number of uber drivers on the road. * A significant portion of those are new traffic * Substantially f
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by weeksie 8y ago
That's a nice story but even if each yellow cab was operating 24/7 that's 3x, not 6x. // edit: right, 7 days so ~4x.
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by weeksie 8y ago
That's super weird, maybe I had another NYT article open. Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. No numbers at all in that one though. Anyway quick googling for 2017 numbers: https://ny.curbed.com/2017&#x2F
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by weeksie 8y ago
Unfortch Bloomberg tried congestion pricing and it got strangled in the cot. That would be my preference too. Simple, market-based, fair, etc. . . . With the ranks of uber cars in the city growing as much as they have the downtown traffic h
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by weeksie 8y ago
I would probably stick to Anki, I'm a little suss about the app. The website is https://fluent-forever.com and the book outlines a method for using Anki to learn languages. The approach is to start with pronunciation first,
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by weeksie 8y ago
Cool app! Unfortunately, I'm not sure how useful it would be for language learning. I've been using the Fluent Forever approach and whenever I've dipped back into "translation" style methods like Duolingo it feels c
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by weeksie 8y ago
Fair! Yeah, I had a kiosk software company that took it in the shorts, at least my attempts at making it work in the US. (Primary customers were real estate trusts like malls and airports and such.) I ended up selling my part and doing cons
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by weeksie 8y ago
Point taken and I agree with the advice. That said, you never know what kind of downturn this will be. 2001 was very different than 2008. The GFC was a credit-driven crash and took a long time to unwind, during which all of the scared money
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by weeksie 8y ago
Insurance policies are not the same as an iTunes TOS. The policy is an agreement with a company outlining very specific circumstances in which they pay you. I'm sure the company was garbage (they sure sound that way) but when I've
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by weeksie 8y ago
He paid £275 for 18 months of travel insurance? Well yeah, of course they are going to want to fly him back to the NHS. As a US traveller my insurance was $2600 for 12 months. When you enter into a legal agreement (insurance) read the fine
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by weeksie 8y ago
There are TONS of unfinished moai still in the quarry. I've seen plenty of unfinished, half-carved statues there. Many of the broken and restored moai were pulled down and broke at the neck, which would imply that they were not set dow
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by weeksie 8y ago
I recently read How To Take Smart Notes and have been giving that approach a whirl. I'll re-evaluate after a month or so. The approach is pretty simple and didn't require an entire book to explain. * Take notes throughout the da
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by weeksie 8y ago
Writing is a discipline. I'd expect it (like almost any other discipline) to take around five years to reach journeyman status. I think a lot of people assume that writing is a lot easier and simpler than it actually is. The folk knowl
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by weeksie 8y ago
My favorite thing about human interest articles like this is that they only exist because journalists spend so much time on Twitter. The whole take is a meta commentary on communications bubbles without realizing it.
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by weeksie 8y ago
I believe all that would do is make wealth or extreme tolerance for poverty a requirement to become an artist.

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