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by pappyo 5y ago
You're not capturing all the expenses to car ownership: Insurance Fuel/charging Excise tax Parking Maintenance Cleaning And most importantly, the hassel to deal with the above.
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What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us about Religion(bu.edu)
1 points by pappyo 9y ago|0 comments
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The Crack-Up (1936)(esquire.com)
1 points by pappyo 9y ago|0 comments
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Geometry of Redistricting: Summer School(sites.tufts.edu)
1 points by pappyo 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook safety check helped spread false reports of explosion in Thailand(theguardian.com)
3 points by pappyo 10y ago|0 comments
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Goodbye Democracy(medium.com)
2 points by pappyo 10y ago|0 comments
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by pappyo 10y ago
Any cognitive advantage that is abused will be seen as manipulative, absolutely. The way to make "the illusion of choice" work is to be selective about it. You start out by giving the 4 year old the illusion of choice (the jacket
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by pappyo 10y ago
I wonder though, how much influence fake news had on people, not help people choose who to vote for, but to dissuade them to vote at all. A sort of unpropaganda, if you will. This election got so far into the Tyson Zone[0] that the headline
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by pappyo 10y ago
You said you were a financial adviser to blue collar field owners. I'm presuming past tense (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm curious as to when your experience with blue collar professionals happened if not currently. I say tha
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by pappyo 10y ago
Oh heavens...where to start. > I feel like many HN readers may have a non-normal view of reasonable wages...Those figures you quote (50-80k) are starting right at the median income Probably, although that ignorance cuts both ways. Like i
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by pappyo 10y ago
Right, and I think you've pointed out the real problem...impending inflation.
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by pappyo 10y ago
> But no one seems to want them, and the reasons have nothing to do with low pay, poor benefits, or a lack of available training. This is laughable. The average plumber makes around $50,000 and will top out around $80,000[0]. And those
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by pappyo 10y ago
I haven't had the opportunity to have a seven bone chuck steak. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks!
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by pappyo 10y ago
> The top of the SUV analogy is nice, but realistically most burgers are not terribly subtle flavor experiences coming from the brilliance of the meat substrate. Are we talking about fast food burgers? Then yes, flavor country lives in t
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by pappyo 10y ago
Ho! A learning opportunity. I know you're a vegetarian, but maybe this might interest you...or someone. The chuck sub-primal cut is the shoulder of the cow. As you can imagine, the shoulder gets a lot of use while the cow is alive, so
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by pappyo 10y ago
I know why chuck, I was just being snarky. :) I'm not going to sit here and pretend to know what, the good people of Impossible Foods, are doing. Way over my head. What I do know is recreating nature is hard work, with limited success.
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by pappyo 10y ago
Meat enthusiast here. There is no one who wants a viable meat alternative for meat eaters than me. The bleeding heart (pun intended) in me cares about the sustainability of meat and the sheer cost of ethical farming. Fact of the matter is t
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by pappyo 10y ago
Not what I'm saying at all. Although...maybe at some point in the future, a CS degree will be useless. It's certainly not now, nor will it be in the near future. But it certainly could happen. Regardless, I'm pointing out the
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by pappyo 10y ago
Right, so my hypothetical was more to show the lack of ability for the average person to predict the future...not actually predicting it. And that's the biggest flaw I see with a vocational education. It's preparing yourself tomor
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by pappyo 10y ago
I think you just pointed out the problem with vocational education. Going to law school is a vocational education, as is getting an education to become a mechanic. Vocational educations take years (sometimes almost a decade) to complete. Fr
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by pappyo 10y ago
As it turned out, a lot stayed with me. I got the basics down so I know the general plight of a programmer. I understand how long things can take to fix. I know what it means to be working with someone else's code. I run a linux machin
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by pappyo 10y ago
Because you've turned a "neighborhood" into an "investment property." Neighborhoods develop culture. Investment properties develop nothing other than capital that leaves the neighborhood. What happens when the Silic
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Short Term Rentals Ruin Neighborhoods(fsjna.org)
3 points by pappyo 10y ago|0 comments
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by pappyo 10y ago
Here's what I don't get. In previous versions of HN, my submission would be directed to the original. Why doesn't that happen any more?
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Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals(theringer.com)
40 points by pappyo 10y ago|43 comments
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by pappyo 10y ago
There is something to be said for in person peer to peer learning. My biggest problem was, I'd get hung up on a problem in some bizarre way. Often times when I'm learning in teacher to student only environment (or machine teacher
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by pappyo 10y ago
I agree, but we as a society should still have a say in how we curtail our wildness. It would appear that our say has been taken away, or at least hijacked, recently.
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by pappyo 10y ago
I had two problems while teaching myself how to code; I'm not that passionate about it, and learning technical disciplines on line is not how I learn. I viewed coding as a means to an end. Learn to code-->start a business-->get i
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by pappyo 10y ago
TLDR; The modern school was built in accordance with an industrial age mindset; children are raw materials and a school produces a functioning member of/worker for society. However, this institution stifles the child's "wildn
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Faking It (2007)(nytimes.com)
2 points by pappyo 10y ago|0 comments

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