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by wesleyd 2y ago
I absolutely agree with this sentiment, directionally, but the “new car premium” in the US is really quite small - it takes way more than two years for cars to half in price, more like five years, and sixty thousand miles. For example, a br
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by wesleyd 2y ago
Something you have, something you know, something you are: SSN!
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by wesleyd 2y ago
Staring at the phone until it stops ringing, then texting “sorry I missed your call, what’s up?” is perfectly cromulent behavior!
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by wesleyd 2y ago
To this I would add: Not everyone who claims not to be an expert ... isn't. As you practice a craft, you build up positive knowledge - what works. And you build up negative knowledge - what doesn't work. But you also build up hu
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by wesleyd 3y ago
My mental model of historical/religious objections to usury (which in this context refers to _any_ interest at all), is it's the lack of shared downside that they hate. Presumably because without ways to escape the debt, interest
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by wesleyd 3y ago
The US did something similar during Covid - many people not working, government printed money and handed it out, saving it earned no interest, and the money depreciated ~10% a year (“inflation”). It worked surprisingly well. And, like Wörg
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by wesleyd 3y ago
Maine has right to roam, kind of, in a very american way: you can assume you have permission, unless clearly indicated otherwise. This preserves property rights, but only if you want them. Also there is a strong presumption of zero liabilit
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by wesleyd 3y ago
dotbigbang.com makes it pretty easy to (i) create games and (ii) play them with other people.
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by wesleyd 3y ago
If you’re not open to the idea of having your own mind changed, if there is literally nothing - no data, no evidence, no viewpoint, nothing hypothetical even - that might change your mind, you’re not arguing, you’re preaching. ( Is it poss
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by wesleyd 3y ago
Maybe the Chernobyl exclusion zone will become an old growth forest some day!
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by wesleyd 3y ago
So it isn’t! TY! It’s not even one and a half times the size! Nonetheless, my point stands. Bigger than Texas, a sixth the population, yet a housing crisis. I’m sure there are good reasons - like the Rockies - and managing not to sprawl is
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by wesleyd 3y ago
While I think this is wonderful, it is surreal that a province more than three times the size of Texas, with a smaller population than metro Houston could have a “housing crisis”.
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by wesleyd 3y ago
No good deed goes unpunished.
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by wesleyd 3y ago
I like to joke that the most important question in Irish architecture is: where does the water go? Similarly I love how in go error plumbing is front and center, at least as important as data plumbing, usually more important. For some probl
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by wesleyd 3y ago
I wish there was a cheap process for making methane or propane from excess solar. Unlike hydrogen, we have a lot of experience using and storing those.
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by wesleyd 3y ago
My understanding is that many/most modern cars [0] have an electronic parking brake, and soon enough all of them will. Of course, a headline such as “car with electronic handbrake breaks down mid-turn…” wouldn’t have had the same clic
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by wesleyd 3y ago
It was such a great filesystem at the time. There is somewhere out there a synopsis of linux filesystems from quite a while ago that describes reiserfs as no longer being actively developed as its creator is "pursuing other interests&q
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by wesleyd 3y ago
One of the fascinating challenges with HVDC is that a circuit breaker - an off switch! - is a surprisingly complex and expensive piece of engineering. If the poles aren’t separated quickly enough, an arc can form and current continues to f
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by wesleyd 3y ago
My understanding here is that the saving comes from needing fewer cables, although I’m sure there’s a lot more to it than that.
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by wesleyd 3y ago
Dad, good news! The airbags work!
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by wesleyd 3y ago
> An honest manufacturer would only advertise the amount of capacity you can actually use day to day, rather than the capacity that is there but you really shouldn't use unless you want your battery to die young. Toyota do this. In
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by wesleyd 3y ago
The best tweet of all time is Takei's: 'Watching people meltdown over a Black Santa in the Mall of America. "Santa is white!" Well, in our interment camp he was Asian. So there.' https://twitter.com/
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by wesleyd 3y ago
A thing I tell junior programmers is that their job isn't so much to solve problems, as to help figure out what the problem really is, and solve that. When somebody asks for a thing, don't go silent and go and build precisely that
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by wesleyd 3y ago
Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. But what sort of sad bastard has nothing to hide?
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by wesleyd 4y ago
On my first trip to the US, early 2000s, my business partner and I were slowly driving around (I think) Palo Alto on a Saturday admiring the houses and he suddenly asked “WHERE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN?” I couldn’t unsee it. This pristine subur
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by wesleyd 4y ago
I assume it’s to give you plenty of opportunities to lie. Revoking naturalization or a green card involves a huge legal effort, but if it can be shown you lied on the application, that’s a much easier case. Many US laws seem to be designed
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by wesleyd 5y ago
Another side to this problem is that so many online services are structured as a contract between one person and the company, when what I really want for family photos and documents is something much more family-focused. In particular,
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by wesleyd 9y ago
I recently learned about "commuter" green cards, which let folk live in Canada or Mexico: https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0...
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by wesleyd 10y ago
I've just signed up for sonic.
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by wesleyd 10y ago
It still amazes me that here in silicon valley, no available electricity tariff reflects the timing of the supposed solar glut.

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