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by voodooranger 6y ago
here’s a different article that’s not paywalled: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-news-trevor-milto... (btw when i cancelled my wsj subscription i had to call and be put on hold. there’s no way to cancel onli
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by voodooranger 6y ago
> Removal of Nashorn JavaScript Engine anybody know why a javascript engine was ever included in core java in the first place? seems... niche. and yet core java never included a simple web server (officially).
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California housing bills run into wall of union resistance(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by voodooranger 6y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 6y ago
TRL == Technology Readiness Level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
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by voodooranger 6y ago
double click the edge of a window to expand it to the edge of the screen. hold alt while double clicking to get the opposite edge to also expand.
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by voodooranger 6y ago
username checks out :-) seriously though, i’m glad they were able to tie their profession in by sharing their story, i really enjoyed it. if i were to embark on this kind of thing i’d probably end up writing some software to help with the e
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by voodooranger 6y ago
I will continue to use Apple but I pulled both of my apps from their app store years ago due to maltreatment. I don’t use their app store as a consumer either. IMO it’s a wasteland. Unpopular opinion but I also think it should be completely
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by voodooranger 6y ago
maybe. but they’re getting better at building the machine that builds the machine that builds the machine.
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When Women Don’t Speak(magazine.byu.edu)
2 points by voodooranger 6y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 6y ago
> If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psycholo
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by voodooranger 6y ago
i don’t know what the automakers’ stance was or is but i believe the organizations that have fought direct sales have been the national and state dealership associations.
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by voodooranger 6y ago
if the sun, which is huge compared to the earth, were the size of a pea, the nearest star would be ~120 miles away to scale. this is a typical distance between stars and it’s why when andromeda collides with the milky way there is little ch
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by voodooranger 6y ago
Price ceilings cause shortages. Every time. Let’s not use Venezuelan-style economic illiteracy as a model for how to incentivize the flow of critical supplies to those who need it most during a crisis.
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by voodooranger 6y ago
Excellent point. What is 3M for example — an American company — doing? Are they attempting to ramp up production in the US or have they determined that it’s not feasible because PPE prices are are not permitted to rise because of anti gougi
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by voodooranger 6y ago
the ones that i know are former engineers. they also have excellent verbal skills and seem to be the smartest people in the room. may or may not be the best coders — i don’t know — but they are very impressive in person.
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by voodooranger 6y ago
a housing slump may be coming but then so are pay cuts. in fact they’re already here for many people. prices are also falling for energy and lots of other commodities as aggregate demand collapses. all of this amounts to textbook deflation.
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by voodooranger 6y ago
why not sedate a patient who’s suffering like this?
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by voodooranger 7y ago
I highly recommend listening to Duke professor Mike Munger discuss price gouging on this episode of Econ Talk: https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/ It’s very entertaining and enlightening.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
breaking news from 2018? there’s nothing new here, including the deceased driver’s alleged complaints.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
If your fridge were really smart it would infer both your household’s disposable income and technical acumen based on its location and overheard conversations then tailor prices, failures, and replacement policies accordingly.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
Raising taxes is not going to increase the supply of housing.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
I have a Mazda 6. I would say that Mazda is a mature manufacturer. Yet the Mazda, which I purchased brand new from the factory, sight unseen (big mistake), shook at high speeds (I found out later due to a warped brake rotor), sounded like t
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Man arrested in $24M scheme to sell bogus laptop batteries(apnews.com)
2 points by voodooranger 7y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 7y ago
fantasy Association Football rather than Gridiron Football. apparently Soccer comes from asSOCiation.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
i don’t think hydrogen powered cars are the future but the next mirai looks much better than the current one https://www.motor1.com/news/375766/2021-toyota-mirai-fuel-ce...
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by voodooranger 7y ago
should read “get caught driving drunk...”. i don’t know how many times you have to drive drunk to get caught doing so but it could be a lot.
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by voodooranger 7y ago
in the aggregate if you devalue a currency so that it’s worth half of what it was, won’t prices in that currency double?
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by voodooranger 7y ago
so if there’s a chinese product that i like and it costs 100 yuan before devaluation, and say 1 dollar == 100 yuan. after devaluation, the product might cost 150 yuan but now 1 dollar == 150 yuan. so my dollar still buys the same amount of
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by voodooranger 7y ago
i don’t have a strong opinion about free speech but i think the argument is: who gets to decide what’s “in the public interest”. if you don’t like somebody’s book, pamphlet, blog post, comment, or tweet, just declare it “not in the public i
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San Bruno seeks housing, then rejects it: ‘I don’t know what you can get passed’(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by voodooranger 7y ago|2 comments

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