bdastous

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by bdastous 11mo ago
> He is freezing rents only for select controlled units 45% of apartments in NYC
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by bdastous 2y ago
Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!
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by bdastous 2y ago
A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.
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by bdastous 3y ago
Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.
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by bdastous 3y ago
I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.
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by bdastous 4y ago
They should rename it KSD.
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by bdastous 4y ago
“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.” It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.
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by bdastous 4y ago
"I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now." Good luck with compilers...
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by bdastous 5y ago
100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.
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by bdastous 5y ago
This assumption strikes me as ageist.
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by bdastous 5y ago
Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.
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by bdastous 6y ago
One could just as easily say that the two classes of software engineer are those who care about business problems and those who don’t.
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by bdastous 6y ago
If Facebook made it this hard to cancel, there would be a New York Times article about it.
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by bdastous 6y ago
AintPods
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by bdastous 6y ago
Before the advent of Windows XP, keeping your PC fast and reliable meant reinstalling Windows at least annually.
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by bdastous 7y ago
It’s the New York Times. You don’t even need to read their Facebook-related stories to know what they will say.
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by bdastous 8y ago
Yet more anti-tech hysteria from the New York Times.
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by bdastous 8y ago
I concur on the MIT edX Probability course. I spent at least 15 hours a week on the exercises but it was well worth it.
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by bdastous 9y ago
You mean the gentrification brought on by restrictive municipal zoning laws?
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by bdastous 10y ago
Similar to your third example: "Without loss of generality, [ our argument can proceed with the following assumption... ]
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by bdastous 11y ago
This seems analogous to a perpetual-motion machine.
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by bdastous 12y ago
I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/ Disclaimer: I work on the back end services for the app.