tgrass

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by tgrass 3y ago
Seems historically similar to the 70s/80s when automakers started positioning an alternator in such a way that it required removing an axle to replace it.
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by tgrass 10y ago
I was a Civil Engineer in hydrology. I built out a web app that integrated some local, clunky disparate software solutions so one could design detention basins in a matter of minutes to the local code ( http://www.drainagebuilder.
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by tgrass 11y ago
I studied civil engineering in college, worked in the field for six years, and got my PE. It bored me. I slowly studied programming and left the civil field for software. I now make as much designing for the web as I did designing bridges.
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by tgrass 12y ago
Google makes money (via ads) by showing the results the user wants, not by showing the results the user should want. If I want to go to an anti-vaccination site to reinforce my pre-pre-existing beliefs, it's hard to imagine Google will
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by tgrass 12y ago
Mike Munger suggests that ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/07/michael_munger.html ) by allowing Uber/Lyft the local government is committing a regulatory takings by devalueing the existing medallion
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by tgrass 12y ago
I think there might be some selection bias there: if you are iretired from above, it sounds like you are choosing women based on appearance alone. While a fine pursuit, it won't necessarily lead to intellectual conversations.
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The Ternary Calculating Machine of Thomas Fowler(mortati.com)
47 points by tgrass 12y ago|6 comments
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by tgrass 12y ago
http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
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by tgrass 12y ago
I always respond with "Find the money." That is, find a buyer today for the simplest version. THOUGH, this did not end well when after many drinks I met a guy who runs (presumably illegal) gambling out of his house and wanted to e
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by tgrass 13y ago
Your timeframe is critical to the decision though. Most of us will not live in our home for 20 years, let alone 30. Some of us will move to other towns to take pay raises that (a) we could not have discovered in the town of our current home
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by tgrass 13y ago
I agree, that the firm might benefit from transparency; but the article stresses the need for regulation in the interest of the consumer, not the firm. This is how the price mechanism is supposed to work: it communicates inefficiencies over
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by tgrass 13y ago
As I understand it, Uber's prices are listed prior to contracting for a ride. Uber's market is clearly the middle to upper income brackets. If it's understood that the price is time and conditions-variant, I fail to see how t
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by tgrass 13y ago
There's a great interview with Mike Munger on Econtalk about the price mechanism during an emergency: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/munger_on_john.html
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by tgrass 13y ago
Also, for truly deep insight into his literary thoughts and themes, read his essays in Farther Away: http://www.amazon.com/Farther-Away-Essays-Jonathan-Franzen/d...
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by tgrass 13y ago
To filter for those managers who will never be happy with anyone's work ask: "Who is your favorite employee? Why? How do you motivate them?"
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by tgrass 13y ago
Additionally, and to my mind most critically, the university degree signals that you play well (enough) with others. It says you have learned that sometimes power is capricious and when it is you can keep your head down long enough to survi
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by tgrass 13y ago
I recommend: Two Cheers for Anarchism (Scott) and Why Things Fail (Ormerod)
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by tgrass 13y ago
Understood. No offense, just being goofy.
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by tgrass 13y ago
For more on patio11's thoughts on pricing and conversions, please listen to his MicroConf lecture: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...
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by tgrass 13y ago
This is my gut reaction. And yet time and again you hear from the likes of patio11 et al that one should leverage email as an engagement tool. For anyone with experience in this, does it just come down to weighing the benefit of gaining a c
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by tgrass 13y ago
An economist and his friend are walking down the street when the friend sees a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk. “Look,” he says, “it’s a ten dollar bill”. “Nonsense,” says the economist. “If that was a ten dollar bill, someone would have pi
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by tgrass 13y ago
No I saw it. Effing clever, so points for that. It has plausible deniability and has an Oscar Wilde wit to it. Touche.
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by tgrass 13y ago
Thanks for the edit, zalzane.
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by tgrass 13y ago
@ntumlin: when the issue is explicitly gender based and is referring to "using one's girlfriend"...there is a great deal of baggage that comes with the word whether the writer intends it or not.
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by tgrass 13y ago
"Whore" is inappropriate.
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by tgrass 13y ago
Downvote for unnecessarily derogatory language.
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by tgrass 13y ago
Apply for other jobs.
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by tgrass 13y ago
Noted, thanks.
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by tgrass 13y ago
Just to fill out the first four pages a little more: [Edit] In the US [/Edit] your home and office are most likely already set outside the floodwaters of the 100-year storm. New roads are typically designed to convey floodwaters at no more
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by tgrass 13y ago
From the comment guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." I accept that natural disasters are frequently politicized; And I love analytic discussions of politi

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