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by nutshell89 5y ago
The hand-drawn version feels less "mechanical" to me. It's hard to explain, but it's like watching an anime where the artists switch from 2d to 3d animation for complex or repetitive scenes in a way that feels cheap or j
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by nutshell89 5y ago
Masking up on transit. Along with learning about subway air quality, I don't think there's ever going to be a flu season where I don't wear a KN95 mask on a train.
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by nutshell89 5y ago
I think there's more to the winner-take-all economy than the rate of technological change though. In theory technology should democratize information and power, but we've seen the opposite in recent years. It's probably what
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by nutshell89 5y ago
Even the NBA avoids "perfect meritocracy" at the margins of the league; there's a player's association, the NBA has had a pension since the 60's, there are salary caps and luxury taxes (to prevent super-teams from f
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by nutshell89 5y ago
I think what's key in the author's musings is that meritocracy on its own can lead to sociopaths, bullies, and tyrants controlling society because the institutions at bay sort individuals according to merit, not morals, or subject
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Epic Game's Brian Karis Runs Unreal Engine 5 PS5 Demo on His PC(youtube.com)
5 points by nutshell89 5y ago|0 comments
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by nutshell89 5y ago
I wonder if / how this sort of thing might be implemented in video games (like classic micro console releases or video game remasters).
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by nutshell89 5y ago
Arguably $30k isn't a meaningful wage increase to the people surveyed on Blind — especially if the users are heavily weighted towards the FAANG / SV / SF crowd with high housing / cost of living expenses.
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by nutshell89 6y ago
There are cargo bikes ( https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/12/03/breaking-city-to-anno... ) A single car lane can move 600-1600 people per hour while a two way bike lane of the same size can transport 7500 people
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Converting an office tower on East 38th Street in Manhattan to apartments(curbed.com)
1 points by nutshell89 6y ago|0 comments
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Breakbot, Ed Banger Records roster in general.
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Wikipedia lists the demonym for nearly every major city. San Franciscan San Francisqueño
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Sort of a counterpoint to renting vs. owning housing, I've rented for the last 8 years. I don't have to worry about the constant home-ownership surprises my parents have had to deal with (renovations, pests, upkeep), I've bee
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by nutshell89 6y ago
The access to cheap credit drives up the price of the underlying asset. You can see it in auto loans, where the average price of a new vehicle has ballooned to over $40,000 in recent years while loan payment periods stretch to 5, 6 and eve
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by nutshell89 6y ago
The problem is that not only is there zero appetite to phase out housing-as-investment boosting policies like the mortgage interest deduction, imputed rent exemption, and cap gains exemption at the federal level, en vogue affordable housing
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Wouldn't electrifying the manufacturing process (perhaps with solar and / or nuclear) and shipping process eventually reduce total emissions?
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Curiously enough, New York State has flirted with the idea of "State Citizenship" [1]. On currency NY could in theory issue their own (maybe even a cryptocurrency), but there might be some issues with the constitution's Supre
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by nutshell89 6y ago
$2000 x 8.4 million residents would be nearly 20% of the NYC's budget is why.
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by nutshell89 6y ago
It's also a bad example of density for a major North American city. Toronto (4,334.4/km2) has lower pop. density than San Francisco (7,255.12/km2), and Boston (5,531.93/km2) and its nearest comparison is probably Chicago
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Mine was 22-24 minutes each way on the subway — just enough time to read a few HN posts on the phone, listen to a quick podcast episode, or blast through an offline Spotify playlist. I think the best part of my commute was that it provided
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Make Blue America Great Again(slowboring.com)
3 points by nutshell89 6y ago|0 comments
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by nutshell89 6y ago
I wonder what this would look like for adults. I'm imagining a pedal assisted electric mini bus.
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by nutshell89 6y ago
This film will cover the first half of the first book in the saga.
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by nutshell89 6y ago
I've done biweekly yoga before the quarantine and have continued to do so online. I agree that it's hard to remain engaged in a group class when most of the participants keep their webcams and microphones turned off and the instru
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by nutshell89 6y ago
Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4QyCt3Wnx0
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Aeon Must Die devs quit despite trailer being shown at State Of Play(twitter.com)
2 points by nutshell89 6y ago|1 comments
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by nutshell89 6y ago
This another case that seems intuitive to me (I can't read the rest of article) since: * Cities basically serve as a multiplier for economic output, enabling economies of scale (because of lots of people live near one another). * That
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by nutshell89 6y ago
I think businesses that benefit from large amounts of auto-generated content (namely video games) will also benefit from GPT-3. Some of what breaks the immersion in an open world game like GTA is repeated conversations among NPCs, so automa
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by nutshell89 6y ago
The top response's chart where: Quality of Hire [31%--------------] Retention Rate [23%---------] Time to Hire [21%--------] Cost to Hire [7%----] are listed as priorities in the 2018 Jobvite recruiter nation survey, would prob
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by nutshell89 6y ago
I guess this is the biggest argument for breaking up the tech giants - not only are there clear examples of each company either abusing public trust or using their size in anti-competitive ways, but their wealth shields them from having to

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