WkndTriathlete

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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
Scientific discovery is not driven by economics 101. Your dismissal of "excess supply" based on "margins" eliminates breakthrough contributions by profs that work for 20-30 years producing marginal research until one day
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
Not an apples-to-apples comparison. Take the K&R C book. It describes the language itself only - not the standard library. The Kotlin docs describe the language _plus_ parts of the Kotlin standard library which is why it appears to ha
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
I'd like to know where that is because I've watched as a lot of major 3rd-party Java libraries switch to Gradle from Maven.
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
I get the sense that the only development environment the OP knows at all is Python. With that perspective I understand why they might think that error is cryptic.
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
The shortage of PCPs is a money problem, not a symptom of a broken model. People smart enough to go to med school are (generally) also smart enough to do an ROI analysis. If I can make $500k/yr as an oncologist and pay off my student
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
> it's just plainly more efficient to have dense population centers. Sure, if we put on blinders so we only look at economic effects. Socially I estimate the value of me not living too close to anyone else at somewhere between $500,
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
To anyone. Take C++ vs. Rust, for instance. If I look at this from a business perspective: - Rust compiler can likely help confirm reference correctness, so this is a plus. - Rust language exchanges the cognitive load of memory allocation
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by WkndTriathlete 2y ago
Let me educate you on what Wisconsin actually looks like since I grew up there. 50% of the population lives in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, and Eau Claire. Those cities, respectively, are in the southeast, northeast, south-central, and n
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter. Only in Texas do things
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> ...from a non-snowbelt area ... We've got a 2005 CR-V with 235K miles on it that will need to be retired due to rust in the next few years. Mechanically, it's still dead nuts reliable. I had a 2004 Honda Pilot that was still
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
And yet somehow Google, Bing, etc. manage to return results in much less than 3 seconds.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
You're doing it wrong. Like way wrong. Use jlink. It creates a double-clickable .exe from your JDK installation, pared down to a JRE for distribution. Works on Linux and Windows.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Well, capital loss carryover needs an inflation index in a bad way anyway. It was introduced into the tax code 45 years ago and it hasn't changed since. There was a proposal a year ago to bump it to $13,000 and index it to inflation
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the IRS has rules for appraisal of assets to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> I find it absurd that the government can take your home AT ALL after you have spent your whole life paying for it. They can, but IIRC the Supreme Court just ruled that they have to give you the proceeds from the sale minus whatever lie
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Maybe on the planet Krypton where you live and everyone is like Superman you can get a steel front end to bend around you when it hits you, but here on earth hitting a person with that blunt front end is like taking a sledgehammer to a wate
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> That model doesn’t really work to fund higher education. The public won’t accept doubling or tripling their property tax. [citation needed] And I can give you a citation against . In my local municipality the tax base is roughly $1.5
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Having watched a close friend of my dad's sell at the bottom in 2007-2008 after he had retired, I understand your sentiment. However, before the advent of discount brokerages and widespread 401(k) plans investing really was only for th
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Apple Watch is probably < 1% of a market dominated by Garmin, Polar, and Suunto, so it doesn't make much financial sense to integrate with GymKit. Apple falls to Garmin in two areas: battery life and software. Sleep affects recover
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Which is stupid. If I shouldn't expect returns on my investments to beat inflation why would I bother investing in equities? By that metric I should put all of my money in TIPS and be done with it.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> making the degree easier to get You are confusing "easier to afford the degree" with "easier to learn and obtain the degree." The former does not imply the latter in any way, shape, or form.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Seriously disappointing that someone posting to HN can't be bothered to actually at least read the relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis#Regulation_in_the_US TL;DR: it's already
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
It got popular because it's far easier to read and edit hierarchical and array data in YAML than it is in XML (or JSON). Most of the time I don't need a format with support for some esoteric charset or namespaces or any of the oth
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
I'm married to an exec and I can tell you both that (a) The stress is very real, and (b) It's not self-created, it arises due to the responsibility and magnitude of decision-making coupled with having to deal with other execs that
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
At those prices in Milwaukee those houses are in neighborhoods where the houses are constantly robbed. They may be cheap but they certainly are not conducive to raising a growing young family.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> Picking one example out of thin air, I'd say AFCI breakers are overkill You need a better example. An AFCI breaker saved my house from burning down and quite possibly the four lives (mine included) within it.
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Congratulations on having completely different priorities than 99% of people that buy a house. For the other 99%, time marches on - they want to have children and raise those children in a house _within a fixed timeline_. Because of time,
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
I've read through the NY state convenience rules. They are written so poorly that Albany, in theory, can tax someone who attends on-site meetings in NY for two days out of the year that otherwise works remotely from Fairbanks, Alaska,
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
The tag is to indicate that the vehicle has paid the appropriate taxes for using the roads. If the tax on the vehicle is not paid then it should not be used on the roads. Without the tag there is no way to enforce that without the police h
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
In Minnesota drivers recovering from DUI revocation are required to use the "whiskey" plates. (Incidentally the license plate database is incomplete because it does not include the Minnesota "whiskey" plate.) While &quo

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