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by xvedejas 5y ago
As a Russian learner, it seems a bit wrong not to transliterate that as "vsevo Vam drobovo" even though I understand that's not how it's spelled originally. For whatever reason, that's what my brain is expecting.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Hourly job with zero savings, sure. But is six-figure debt really common? I can find that the mean indebtedness is five figures, surely the median (amongst those without mortgages) is much less than that?
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by xvedejas 5y ago
There isn't any debt involved in paying rent (are you thinking of mortgage?) and the bank isn't taking any risk, isn't guaranteeing any rent payments. I'm not even sure that a bank strictly needs to be involved in someon
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by xvedejas 5y ago
One of my favorite counter-intuitive things about mass transit is that well-designed transfers tend to reduce overall travel time for everyone, even without timed transfers: https://humantransit.org/2009/04/why-tra
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Sacramento too, I think (and maybe other parts of the central valley)
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Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
> Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language. You should consider removing this claim, since it is a flat-out lie, or at least a willful disregard for the language that other people use. If you want to communicate what
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Not just the large chains here -- my local bodega has had, for years now, teenagers rushing in, stealing a bunch of merchandise, and leaving. This was happening pre-pandemic. The shopowner said then that he doesn't bother filing police
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by xvedejas 5y ago
This is a cool little algorithm. I've heard about it first in the context of "nightmarish interview questions" though, where a programmer was meant to derive the technique from thin air :)
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by xvedejas 5y ago
There's clearly _some_ push-and-shove that happens some of the time, officials get fired for ethics violations, laws get changed, politicians lose re-election. I don't think it's worthwhile to be reductive, there's got t
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Most neighborhoods are not the mission or tenderloin. I work in a rough part of SF, but live in a neighborhood a few miles away that is both one of the more affordable and doesn't see much homelessness. This is not to excuse any ignora
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by xvedejas 5y ago
The board of supervisors has most of the power in SF government (despite that, the mayor traditionally takes most of the blame). It seems that Breed's hands were tied until a situation where the board's majority would cooperate. T
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I'm not sure how to figure out which situation results in more scrutiny and due process. I can buy that private corporations are under-policed, but I'm not sure the government would police itself either. Maybe the best is a kind o
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by xvedejas 5y ago
What would that accomplish? The goal is for these cars to self-drive in locations where people live, and that does include mapping those locations over many drives. Autonomous vehicles still have a good safety record, and California's
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Violent crime is down, property crime is up. It's almost as if the causes for the two might be subtly different?
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Pedestrians are the majority where I live; and even car drivers end up as pedestrians some of the time.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Is it? I thought it was as standard as and on pretty much equal footing with BSD and Apache licenses. Is it substantially different?
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by xvedejas 5y ago
No, although I don't know if I ever will, so "yet" seems like a weird way to phrase it. I do have friends in Massachusetts attempting it in a situation that should be more amenable to families, but it's a whole other lev
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I bought a house in SF with some friends, it's going pretty well, but I guess we're only a few years into it so far. I'm also buying a rural place this year, and I'm hoping that having a foothold in both urban and rural
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by xvedejas 5y ago
There should also be strategies for the choice of center to be invariant even after re-selecting the rotated set of shapes. You should be able to do this by finding the two points farthest from each other, and choosing the midpoint between
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I think you're right, the oxygen would be sourced from water and water is also one major product of hydrocarbon combustion, which can be easy to forget.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Voters voting strategically are known to adjust their thresholds in approval voting to have the largest effect they can on the output, assuming they have some idea of the support base of candidates. That said, Range Voting is sort of a solu
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by xvedejas 5y ago
if X is a fixed number, then it's not approval voting. In approval voting, there is no limit, either minimum or maximum, on the number of candidates you can vote for. If X is limited, then you get something a bit more like plurality vo
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I think they would, but mostly just because of selection effects. There aren't so many minorities in rural areas, and the ones that end up there probably had better-than-usual reasons to end up in rural parts.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Plenty of cities have greenways that lead into parks considered "part of" the city. Such parkland might not feel like the inner city, indeed ideally it has minimal street intrusion, but still can be part of the fabric of good city
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by xvedejas 5y ago
You're taking about neutrinos, but the original comment was about neutrons; I think that must add another layer of infeasibility (or was a typo).
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Radio waves already travel at the speed of light, I'm curious what speed-up you're imagining? A shortcut through the earth is the only option I can think of to beat radio's latency.
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I'm not convinced this is true. A simple grammar can express a whole lot of information. I think complex grammar is desirable in some cases because a lot of ways we choose to make grammar more complex are ergonomic. Binary infix operat
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If I may call BS myself: there's a combination of greater opportunity on the coasts and lack of landowner rights, so that it would make sense to work on both at the same time. Make building housing a right that landowners have, and we&
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I guess normally, sitting from the US, you'd say "in the lower 48 states"; but if you're writing for an international audience, the USA is not the only country made up of many states (see the nearby country named the Uni

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