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by idontpost 2y ago
Maybe? Thatʻs fairly obvious.
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by idontpost 2y ago
It doesnʻt matter if they raise the rent to cover the fees. As another comment noted, THAT is a major win for price transparency. That would be a big improvement by itself.
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by idontpost 2y ago
> Inspection codes protect those people Inspection codes are supposed to protect those people. As currently implemented, they often don't because they force people into ... alternate living arrangements due to strangled housing sup
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by idontpost 2y ago
> making employees personally liable for business debts would wreck the US economy Letting employees loot the company for their own profit isn't any better.
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by idontpost 2y ago
Athletic are all solid 7-8 out of 10 IMO. Not "this is so good you have to try it", but better than a lot of real beers.
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by idontpost 2y ago
I now alternate between regular beer and NA beer. I get to drink as much as I want, I do enjoy the taste, and I don't get drunk or hungover.
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by idontpost 2y ago
It's not better than any of the developers I work with. Trying to talk it into writing anything other than toy code is an exercise in banging my head against the wall.
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by idontpost 2y ago
> Seems like society should try to figure this out.. if attitude is so important, why can’t we cultivate it systematically? We do. It's called culture. But culture doesn't optimize for something so narrow since it exists in a
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by idontpost 2y ago
> If you can process "offline" for an hour and then cache the results, CPU inference is fine. > GPUs are expensive. Depends on the GPU. I've found T4 GPUs to be cheaper than CPU compute on AWS when testing throughput p
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by idontpost 2y ago
No, and if you could you would win a Nobel prize. But a century of experimental and observational data proves that it is. At this point it's generally just taken as a fact that the speed of light is constant for all observers. The exp
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by idontpost 3y ago
> What should we do? Systematically disadvantage and discriminate against Asians TBF that's exactly what Harvard did.
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by idontpost 3y ago
It used to be 10x.
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by idontpost 3y ago
I switched from a Surface Book to a Macbook Pro + Ipad Pro combo. I preferred the Surface Book from a device ergonomics perspective -- but I finally got sick of trying to do dev work on Windows. So I paid 2x as much for the same functionali
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by idontpost 3y ago
> I see where this is coming from but making platforms fully liable for user content will make it impossible to start a business that includes (semi-) public user interaction at all So? What value have these platforms provided that just
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by idontpost 3y ago
> But Twitter is/was not a utility The way twitter was used by local governments during emergencies absolutely made it equivalent to one. Fortunately at least my area has moved away from twitter and towards SMS based notifications f
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by idontpost 3y ago
Because improvements aren't taxed. So if you add improvements (read: more housing), you don't pay taxes and you become more profitable (more rent, same taxes). So you move all tax to just the land value at a higher rate than pres
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by idontpost 3y ago
It would also be two deposits of $5k or 10 $1k deposits, etc.
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by idontpost 3y ago
> My gut is that the majority of hydrogen proponents are oil and gas lobbyists or funded by them I don't understand how any one looks at the electric car charging situation and thinks it makes sense to scale that out to 100% of vehi
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by idontpost 3y ago
It's the new peerage system. Once you're made a peer of the realm, you are not longer in the group of commoners.
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by idontpost 3y ago
Maybe if the university presidents and deans weren't looting the coffers for themselves, the publishing unit would have funding?
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by idontpost 3y ago
> This is the only explanation that doesn't depend on a source of dumb money that can never learn buying this debt. No it isn't. A simpler explanation is that the people making the decision aren't the ones paying for the
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by idontpost 3y ago
Seems like it's still on arXiv.
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by idontpost 3y ago
> AM radio is basically dead (as is FM radio) This is pretty out of touch. Drive-time AM radio is still a HUGE market in certain places. Think Rush Limbaugh et al. Although, that might be what you mean by "overt foreign propagand
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by idontpost 4y ago
Stop worshipping the machine. It's sad.
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by idontpost 4y ago
Stop worshipping the robot. It's kind of sad.
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by idontpost 4y ago
I don't know how it is where you grew up in India, but where my wife's family lives in the Philippines, poverty is very different than here. They are much poorer than us, but at the same time, much more secure. Losing a job is n
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by idontpost 4y ago
Hey look Jimbob! The consultant says if we added obnoxious paperwork requirements, there'd be fewer broken traffic lights! I don't know how that's possible, but by-golly it worked!
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by idontpost 4y ago
At minimum I think most people (the bottom ~90% dating-success-wise, both men and women) in our society would be better off with arranged marriages compared to our current cultural hellscape. The problem is no one thinks they're in the
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by idontpost 4y ago
Do you think the people who play the ATS game are doing it because they don't want to work at the place they're applying to? That's a pretty specious conclusion.
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by idontpost 4y ago
> Being anti conspiracy and overly trusting of certain (cough cough) fields of science denotes an inability to rationalize. That's some word salad right there.

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