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by xienze 3y ago
And when I was at IBM (left ten years ago), they had just put in a change to the 401k match where they didn’t contribute the match every pay period but rather all at once on December 31st... assuming you were still employed on December 15th
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by xienze 3y ago
> People feel sick and they go in and just say "I'll take whatever is strongest" and they get overcharged for these weird formulations that are sort of kitchen-sink type things. Well, it doesn’t help that most states requi
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by xienze 3y ago
> How many of those houses are on the fringes, and how many are in the CBD? Take a look for yourself[0]. This is just outside of the downtown area. Loads of vacant lots. This is theoretically prime real estate, and would be ripe for d
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by xienze 3y ago
I think you might be underestimating just how bad parts of Detroit are.
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by xienze 3y ago
Do you think this would actually happen in a place with as inefficient and corrupt local government as Detroit? Be honest.
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by xienze 3y ago
> LVT addresses property speculators that buy land to sit on it for 10 years and do nothing with it. Didn’t Detroit raze the lots in the first place, since they considered an empty lot to be better than one with a decaying house? I real
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by xienze 3y ago
If you’re going to tax gas into oblivion, you better have an affordable alternative fully ready to go or people will lose their minds. And no, “just buy a $50K electric car” isn’t a viable solution for a large segment of the population.
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by xienze 3y ago
But you’re talking about something completely different. You can judge bad/good resumes in the absence of information about the applicant’s gender. If your goal is (for example) to achieve a 65/35 male/female hiring ratio a
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by xienze 3y ago
Not sure if the poster is talking about Google’s hiring practices in this case, but similar things have been tried during hiring elsewhere and quietly abandoned for approximately the same reason, because it didn’t result in more female hire
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by xienze 3y ago
> and idk if Apple even supports this kind of industrial use. While it's a quality product the Mini isn't really designed for the datacenter. I think they know of it and tacitly approve of this use case, as evidenced by the Mac
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by xienze 3y ago
I hadn’t heard of these N100 systems before, but in a minute’s worth of searching I found this: https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Intel-N100-Computer-Desktop-D... Faster processor, 16GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD, with case. $165!
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by xienze 3y ago
Yeah, exactly. They’ve been playing up how the latest iPad/iPhone/etc. is just as powerful as <some previous generation console> for years now. And I don’t doubt that. But it doesn’t do much good when barely anything appr
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by xienze 3y ago
Right. I think a lot of foreigners are completely oblivious to how little people with good jobs have to pay for insurance premiums and max out of pockets. Everyone seems to think it’s nothing but $100K bills for having a paper cut.
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by xienze 3y ago
> How come you construe more housing as being a government responsibility? Well, official government policy is creating immense housing demand and adversely affecting citizens. If you want population growth via infinity immigration, you
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by xienze 3y ago
Canada is committed to absurd levels of immigration relative to population. The crucial difference between population growth by birth versus by immigration is that you get ~20 years for housing supply to catch up to every new person. With
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by xienze 3y ago
Too many people get hung up on the “house” being the thing rapidly appreciating when in areas like major Canadian metros it’s the _land_ sitting under the house that is becoming more and more valuable as the Canadian government is importing
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by xienze 3y ago
Article is not clear. For instance: > In October, shortly after taking Twitter’s reins, Musk laid off more than half of its employees, promising most at least two months’ salary plus a week’s pay for every year they’d worked at the firm
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by xienze 3y ago
> Do you understand how the US legislative process works? Do you? > Only for a short time during the Obama administration did they actually “have control” and they used that time and political capital passing the ACA. Why are you arbi
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by xienze 3y ago
Again, at anyone point in the last several decades when Democrats had control they could have pushed it through. Your quotes don’t change that reality.
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by xienze 3y ago
> There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad. The more painful tax preparation is, the more sympathy they find with this narrative. I’m gu
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by xienze 3y ago
Inflation’s bad but it hasn’t gotten _that bad_ yet. If you’re spending $1300 per month for groceries for _one_ person you’re surely getting high end, organic everything.
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by xienze 3y ago
> How much moonshine do you drink? That question varies depending on where in the country you ask it. There’s a huge cultural aspect to moonshining and a lot of people in the south drink it.
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by xienze 3y ago
> Specifically with alcohol, anyone can walk into a treatment center without fear that they'll be arrested for the mere _use_ of a substance. Are you under the impression that cities like SF, Portland, Seattle etc. were arresting dr
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by xienze 3y ago
Isn’t the whole point of decriminalization that we won’t have to spend as much money enforcing laws and locking people up? Funny how you never hear anyone sound the alarm about lack of funding in the early stages when everyone’s talking ab
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by xienze 3y ago
> The concept of a cube is a mathematical construct that does not exist in reality, and any attempts to manipulate or rotate it would be impossible. This is hilarious. Did someone accidentally add "cube" as a synonym for &quot
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by xienze 3y ago
There seems to be this mental block for certain people about genetics when it comes to anything brain-related. Genetics have an impact on your athletic ability? Of course! Genetics have an impact on your intelligence? Impossible!
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by xienze 3y ago
You’re pitching email as the only viable alternative to a fax. It’s not, you can use something like Docusign instead.
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by xienze 3y ago
> Not sire why the personal banking does not do this already. Bank of America used to do this. It was a flash program that generated the numbers and of course once flash was discontinued they didn’t care enough to port the program over
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by xienze 3y ago
I think what we'll likely see is that it's (relatively) easy to get PS5 games running in a PC emulator, but running them _well_ will take ages. Primarily because PCs will have to be able to out-horsepower the PS5 by a wide margin
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by xienze 3y ago
They’re releasing a “volume 1” collection of MGS games soon, which contains up to MGS3. Presumably MGS4 will be in volume 2.

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