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by joshe 10mo ago
I, for one, favor having a .1 cent piece, a third the size of a penny about the size of a shirt button. Because San Francisco sales tax is 8.63 and something the costs 1 dollar is really 1.083. And I would like 91.7 bach cents when I give 2
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by joshe 10mo ago
What's sad is that unionizing will accelerate whatever the decline of the company is causing the dissatisfaction. Wiser for employees to just jump ship or found a new game studio when this kind of decline happens. The chances of a comp
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by joshe 2y ago
I stole a lot of books too, reading them and all. Just integrated them into my worldview, and don't pay a license fee when I use the ideas in new contexts. Sometimes I even quote from them. A lot of them I didn't even pay for, I b
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by joshe 2y ago
Very excited about this. I've been flying curious for years, but haven't actually done it. Some of the cons that have held me back... A few of the places I'd want to travel to have consistently bad crosswinds. Crabbing looks
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by joshe 2y ago
I dearly wish Apple would just publish Dark Sky again. Let the Weather app be whatever super clean design hero you want, just give us back this perfect information dense weather app to use day to day. There have to be dozens of devs in appl
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by joshe 2y ago
No, it's painful.
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by joshe 2y ago
An excellent unintended consequence of forcing builders into modular housing might be a much more robust modular housing market. Sort of like Tesla starting with higher cost Roadsters and Model S cars until there is scale to compete at volu
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by joshe 2y ago
What a great update, thanks for posting!
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by joshe 2y ago
Context is important, this is targeted at journalists. They are usually trying to make a point to casual readers. For readers with more interest or who are numerate in their day jobs (engineers, finance, or economists), dual axis charts can
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by joshe 3y ago
Nah it's fine. Arizona doesn't use more water than it did in 1957. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme... and 74% of that goes to agriculture. Western water does need to be
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by joshe 3y ago
The problem is that average sms security is higher than email, but email CAN be much more secure. So for mass market accounts sms makes a good login confirmation and improves security. But if you've bothered to have somewhat secure ema
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by joshe 3y ago
I'll second that for Waymo. Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollards, many pedestrians, and homeless people wandering down
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by joshe 3y ago
Nah, it's failure mode is to slow down and pull over. It would be amazing if drunk humans did the same.
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by joshe 3y ago
Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollards, many pedestrians, and homeless people wandering down the middle of streets. It did gr
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by joshe 3y ago
A quote from Tyler Cowen I read this morning... Tyler Cowen: Uncertainty should not paralyse you. Try to do your best, pursue maximum expected value, and just avoid the moral nervousness. Be a little Straussian about it. Like here's a
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by joshe 3y ago
Sorta surprised at how badly people dislike the Cybertruck.
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by joshe 3y ago
Harvard's actions are also consistent with her not doing good research. Note that she was not snapped up by another institution to be faculty, just a "tenure track position". One red flag is that the reporter cites all the ti
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by joshe 3y ago
10 years ago, I thought it was important have newsrooms reporting on current events. But now it's so schlocky, even on things I agree with them on, that I think they do more harm than good. Really anyone who has to come up with somethi
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by joshe 3y ago
Yes! Saw that and was relieved I have nothing on them :-)
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by joshe 3y ago
A problem for me building on this is that Google Cloud has no coherent strategy. So the price could easily be double or quadruple Amazon in 2 years. Google Maps is the key lesson here. 10 to 20 times price increase, just because someone had
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by joshe 3y ago
Advances are always welcome, but it's worth noting that desalination works economically right now. In the last 15 years large scale desalination has become practical. It's one of the great engineering feats of our time. We can now
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by joshe 3y ago
Add Visionect to hacker unfriendly devices. They forced a change to subscription service. Ask me how I know :-(.
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by joshe 3y ago
I did read it, this was a counterpoint. The article is lying. A small minority had a bad time, they did nothing like a comprehensive counting of everyone who left. Remember that a greater number of people who stayed would have died as miser
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by joshe 3y ago
Nice that social media is providing a clear pathway out of towns like this. Sad for the people left behind but the answer is for them to leave, not for everyone to be trapped there. And note the Eastern Europe is doing great at the country
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by joshe 3y ago
Any chance you could not be vicious tech haters? There's a hole for Michael Arrington era TechCrunch reporting which just focused on factual information about companies and people. What the innovation is, how far the company has gotten
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by joshe 3y ago
Finally Linux will get the same respect Mac gets from gaming publishers.
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by joshe 3y ago
Unclear from the article, but maybe they can just pay $8? An expensive enterprise account is mentioned, but no linkage as to whether they would be forced to use it.
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by joshe 3y ago
The prices in for flats in areas like this are higher per square foot.
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by joshe 3y ago
No. Psychology is the worst. It is encouraging that an insurgent group is taking replication on but it feels like only about 20% of the field. Some results do replicate. Big Five personality traits, general classification of mental illness,
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by joshe 3y ago
She was right about her book title "Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life." Committing fraud paid well. HBS professor salary is about $220K per year. Ten years of salary is a $2 million payoff. Big incen

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