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by shawnee_ 7y ago
> The Kennebec hadn’t run free here since 1837. Interestingly enough, it was Thoreau's inventory of species in these very streams and tributaries as documented in _The Maine Woods_, which can tell us how we're doing with the re
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
Rascoff explained that Zillow really has “no skin in the commission game” when it comes to what real estate professionals get paid, comparing Zillow to information provider WebMD. Not accurate at all. For one, Zillow could do about 1000
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
> it’s so similar to programming on a higher level. Indeed it is. The logic of the `results` has to stand out relative to the result itself. A programmer can hide the logic without too much pushback; an accountant must not only unhide
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
It doesn't, really. Since there are umpteen ways to do things in GNU/Linux, developers often end up with less-than-ideal implementations for what they are trying to do using a single user account. The single-user approach creates
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
> They failed the test and without this key innovation performing to spec I no longer have faith that Mastadon is any more than a technically complicated open source Twitter. Maybe instead the question you should be asking is: who has th
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
> The next crash will be student loans. Yes, and it will be ugly. It was already getting bad before the tax code overhaul, but now that the payment of interest on student loans is not deductible (by anyone, namely diligent debt-paying lo
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by shawnee_ 8y ago
> little by way of tool chain integration Have a look at nGraph: http://ngraph.nervanasys.com/docs/latest/optimize/generic.ht... Co-design for hardware+software is tough, for sure. But the reality is that
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Massive roundups of wild horses on public lands called for in Congress report(sltrib.com)
2 points by shawnee_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
The best thing about Google News (the old Google news) was that it was like being able to search microfiche of all the old-school news publications (but digitally): articles written by journalists for publications that happened to also be
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. What I meant, is that one cannot start a discussion of such things without being willing to lose lots of points and karma. Observations that AirBnB might be doing more harm than good to cities having "housing cris
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
The obvious thing you are missing is that it is developers who want to build rent-producing "income HOAs" ... they are the driver creating the problem. Who else would be lobbying for the kinds of restrictive zoning that creates
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Well HOA fees go to things like maintenance of roads, maintenance of community-owned spaces (landscaping, parks, etc). When HOA fees are high covering all these things the city's taxes would normally cover, the cities have less money
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> it seems clear that either a dense arrangement or the countryside (if working remotely) are preferable to the burbs, where you get high costs and poor access. HOAs are primarily to blame for the high cost and poor access of suburbia.
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> if you share the "correct" viewpoint, but unpopular views have to be exceptionally polite to avoid biased moderation Where HN has been falling short (lately, in my observation) is where discussions about the ethics of certain
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
It's hard for me to agree with much of anything the author states here. This snippet is why: > I don’t teach network programming and haven’t tested these specific ideas. But, in my specialty of software design and code quality, I us
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Stock market forces can be modeled with a quantum harmonic oscillator(phys.org)
9 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|3 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> I don't understand how cash-settled futures are meant to provide price stability to a market. Interestingly, thrash and volatility provide stability (and profit) to the entities that take a cut of every transaction with a transact
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> So, because you cannot trade apartments without spending significantly more money, there's a couple of hour-long commutes instead. Here is where the analysis should happen. All of the "significantly more money" aspect b
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
The "lucrative" aspect of many of these businesses results because they register themselves as 501c3 orgs; yet they clearly operate for-profit enterprises, with active solicitation at jails and courtrooms. This is AKA the body bro
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Paraphrasing, but it doesn't matter. I'd applied because I admired it as a company that could help you find answers for pretty much anything. I wanted to be a part of that. Yet clearly was it the intent of the email to inform me i
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
they’re an algorithm company, not a product company. As a result, their core, algorithm based, functionality is successful, but they fail at new product design over and over, creating and retiring flawed products ad infinitum. Interesting
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
They opened up the archives (free) after announcing it would be ceasing publication: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pu... If you don't care to click on the OP's pay-per-download lin
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
"Pardon me" but rental income is deductible more than it is taxable; everything to do with owning a property and generating "investment income" from it is incentivized to be deductible; it's a great and super fast w
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> taxing wealth is probably the single most efficient way to do it. It's not taxing wealth so much as taxing the mechanisms that create undue inequality that would work: yes, I'm talking about taxing rental income. The numbe
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
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Homeless explosion on West Coast pushing cities to the brink(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
But the very existence of their project raises an important question: If two volunteer data science students who are barely out of their teens can figure out how to hang out Twitter’s bad-actor bots, why doesn’t Twitter do the same? Twitt
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
What makes you think it's hyperbole? It's not hyperbole; it was my experience, as a female attempting to make a living while working in technology, living there.
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Not anymore it isn't; this goes 100X for women. Women being paid less means they are forced to live in the crappier parts of towns: the squalor, the commute and the danger are significantly more. When that movie "the Social Networ
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
While agree that the pricing is not beneficial to startups themselves, churn is exactly what WeWork wants because it's what their business model is founded on. All predatory leasing systems are designed this way. In WeWork's case

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