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by fjp 7y ago
I'm mid-20s and everyone I know has like 6 food delivery apps on their phone. I'm somewhat of minimalist with trying to keep a low number of apps on my phone but whenever I see my friends phones they have hundreds of apps
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by fjp 7y ago
But if they offer an equal or superior product at lower price, they would have a fundamental advantage: people/businesses would be more incentivized to switch to them when money gets tight, when previously it may not have been a priori
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by fjp 7y ago
Each of these systems is degrees of the other as well, and that seems proper for the exact reasons you mentioned - not including desired externalities in pricing/market dynamics. There are a few things that I believe only work in a mor
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by fjp 7y ago
Oh it still is. Capitalism is not exactly equal to "free market". There's still a hell of a lot of market under socialism. I'm just pointing out that you have to regulate SOMETHING. Regulating nothing = people amassing w
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by fjp 7y ago
It's not purely "free market" to restrict housing supply, but the freedom to influence politics to your own advantage (like NIMBY's restricting housing supply) is absolutely an effect of the free market system.
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by fjp 7y ago
Interesting, I guess they don't get spit out to the console by default. Overall Python has really good stack traces, but the hyper-dynamic nature of so many common libraries does make it tough to grok sometimes. I usually end up reachi
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by fjp 7y ago
This just gave me the thought... if exception stack traces came with the argument values of each method call, they would be 1000x more helpful. You wouldn't even have to attach a debugger and step through in many cases.
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by fjp 7y ago
This is how it should be done, I'm such a fan of this page: https://www.psycopg.org/docs/errors.html Edit: by "this" I meant to agree with parent: Getting a useful, well defined exception is how it shoul
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by fjp 7y ago
I think when people talk about this, they mean to push back against the fact that people will often to be biased to hire someone they think they could be casual friends with, share interests with, etc. I like my coworkers and I find them pe
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by fjp 7y ago
I’ve found asyncio to be a very simple model to understand, using the aio libs: aiohttp, aiopg, aiobotocore, etc. Basically just slap “async” or “await” in front of everything and understand that anytime there is a network connection being
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by fjp 7y ago
Oh I agree it's a radical change from what we have now (Although the resulting system is one many countries have already succeeded with). I was merely pointing out how if the program - and the tax to support it - is not truly universal
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by fjp 7y ago
The important issue with Warren's "plan" is that it's essentially a $8,000 per year per employee head tax, so it's a regressive tax. An afterthought in the expense of hiring a very highly-paid employee, but a not-in
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by fjp 7y ago
Agreed, the one thing I have promised myself is to never have a commute over 35 minutes. I even found a 35 minute commute to an internship in the suburbs disheartening when it was mostly spent sitting in traffic. It's insane to waste t
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by fjp 7y ago
Not to mention that the internal Exxon-Mobil climate predictions matched up with current public scientific consensus forty years ago and nearly exactly predicted the level of warming we had today, as well as the need to combat the public
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by fjp 7y ago
I'm struggling to find a source, but I was taught in school that some large majority of the total beer consumption is by a core group of beer drinkers that average > 3/4 gallon (around eight cans of beer) per day
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by fjp 7y ago
The people I know who have done this (called microblading) were putting on their desired eyebrows every morning with makeup. Now they save themselves 10 minutes and worrying about getting it right every morning. It's just semipermanent
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by fjp 7y ago
I never wrapped my mind around the Promises API, but I have always async/await is much easier to grasp in any language
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by fjp 7y ago
I think it comes down to preferences. I have never enjoyed reading, podcasts, or whatever else on cramped public transit, but I do enjoy the alone time of driving and I generally enjoy driving if it's not stop-and-go. That said, the ov
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by fjp 7y ago
This source has average historical S&P 500 returns, including dividends, at over 12%: https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns
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by fjp 7y ago
Yes this is exactly it. And just like the circumstances we are discussing now, Jesus found himself and his following in conflict with existing leaders who had amassed wealth and power, and who tried to delegitimize him by saying that his te
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by fjp 7y ago
Or you could just run the subways in LA more often/not full. Then the experience would be enjoyable and living near the lines would become more desirable, and the more people take the transit and then oh look spread starts to contract
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by fjp 7y ago
I'm doing exactly this - excited about the speed and screens on the new ones, but waiting for the longer travel keyboard to come back. I can get along with my 2015 for now, but I really miss the Retina display and it is pretty slow for
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by fjp 7y ago
The very existence of insurance allows this insane inflation to occur. It completely obscures the need to to price things accurately.
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by fjp 7y ago
What was so unorthodox/upsetting to people there?
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by fjp 7y ago
Gentrification! Just less local
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by fjp 7y ago
I highly recommend the book The Good Mothers. Even if you think you know about the mafia, the scale that they are operating on will blow your mind. The Calabrian-based mob control a medium-to-large country's worth of the world's m
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by fjp 7y ago
I meant this to imply that my experience likely did not include the new data or experience or whatever they updated. I’m always cheering for a really good G Maps alternative and will give Apple Maps another shot
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by fjp 7y ago
Anecdotally Apple Maps is still really bad. I have tried using it to drive and walk around major cities in the last two years and it just completely misrepresents where some roads are, it doesn't catch up with construction, etc. etc.
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by fjp 7y ago
I will have to try this! It's been awhile but I was just using whatever was default or suggested for VSCode. The "refactoring library" was named rope, and I always figured that was the source of my issues.
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by fjp 7y ago
Ah, I see. I would have to imagine full Visual Studio is even more resource-intensive than PyCharm though I haven't done development on Windows in several years.

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