xxxtentachyon

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by xxxtentachyon 2y ago
That’s where I’m at. I wish my (hypothetical; future) kids could have the same church experience and community as I had, but I don’t know how I’d pull that without personally being a believer.
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by xxxtentachyon 2y ago
Oh dang this is a good take. I live on a city block that has no fewer than 300 people, but we have at least three options for third places depending on your criteria. If we had just one in reasonable travel distance, and people couldn’t sel
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by xxxtentachyon 2y ago
When people talk about third spaces, they usually mean a place you can casually show up to at 6pm (with or without family members), take a seat, and maybe chat with some familiar faces. As someone who grew up going to church, I feel like my
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by xxxtentachyon 3y ago
If that's your use case, here's another game changer (one line bashrc change to make bash_history changes immediately, rather than upon shell exit, e.g. when you end your tmux session): https://web.archive.org/web&
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
I’ve got ten years until mine starts adjusting, fingers crossed!
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Black-Scholes uses the heat equation, is that what you’re thinking of?
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
I don’t subvocalize and haven’t for many years, but when I did (and more so now), the speed-limiting factor was never the time it took to read the word, but to comprehend what’s on the page in the sense of understanding it. You can probably
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
You could, however, functionally live on the transit system if it were free (or cheap enough, or fares unenforced), as we see in New York or Philadelphia. Granted, that’s a problem of enforcement and other social ills as much as it is one o
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
That’s astounding. Are there similar figures available for other recent huge builders (e.g. China, both road infrastructure and dams etc)
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Most mortgages still get packaged and sold in the form of ABS or to Fannie and Freddie. I think you’d end up with an inability to package them unless you could convince the feds and asset managers that they can consistently survive the life
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Tax policy also acts much more slowly for individuals. Beyond that, I don’t think this is US-specific issue. Are there any countries at the moment trying to address near-term inflation via fiscal policy?
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Can you say more about not being allowed on the internet? Why and how you think it affected you? It’s hard for me to fathom someone at age 12 in 2015 with a somewhat cosmopolitan background (playing games, using an RPi), not being allowed o
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
He was one of my favorite professors (had him for CS238/AA238)! I still remember some of his project assignments fondly. I got a SISL shirt for being in the top three of the leaderboard on one of them. Inspired me to interview at Linco
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
The school is in a pretty dense area, less than 10 miles from NYC. If the cause were something that wasn’t unique to the building (such as proximity to a nuclear plant), I’d expect many thousands of affected
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Any recommendations for good podcasts in that vein?
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Yes, my phrasing was poor. I meant to say “any reform that does not go as far as same-day would be bad”
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
You can settle as quickly as you want if you’re engaged directly with your counterparty. But yes, T+2 is wildly outdated and will likely move to T+1 in the next few years. Longer term, anything less than same-day settlement both wastes capi
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by xxxtentachyon 4y ago
Yes it’s definitely less than ideal that New York was built without alleys or some other means to store large amounts of household trash besides the sidewalk, but I disagree (at least with the severity) with the rest of this comment. A subw
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
I wish I lived in a country where WRXs were that popular!
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
What do you suggest people do? Get on the phone with their congressperson and have them send in a bomber squadron? As far as immediate impact, reporting this in the hopes that it gets taken down seems about as good as anything feasible at t
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
How are you planning on collecting data? Seems hard to be a detached trial aid when your dog is in pain…
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
As you say, there are plenty in the Northeastern United States. I think the primary historical factors that separates cohesive, walkable towns in the US from more stereotypical American development are the city having been established and b
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
What do you do, if I may ask? The only roles that I'd characterize as you describe are fixed income management and some actuarial roles
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
I wouldn't really expect them to be able to solve a simple ODE with just Calculus BC. It's been about a decade since I took it, but to my memory, it concluded with basic elements of real analysis after getting pretty far along wit
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
$15 per minute seems extortionate. Is the pickup window huge or something?
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
I’m sure it did, but at that point why not automatically grant it to every citizen who can pass a background check?
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
I was surprised by this when I went in for my Precheck appointment soon after the program started. I had made room in my schedule for an hour or so, and was horrified when the entire interview was just a TSA employee taking my picture. I do
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
As someone who was 12 years old in 2006, it's baffling to me that we came so close to an effective tax on carbon so long ago, and now it's anathema to even bring it up on a national platform. The cap-and-trade system in place in C
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
McDonald’s in France is kind of a cut above McDonald’s elsewhere, even neighboring countries and very similar markets. I’ve been to McDonald’s all over Western and Northern Europe, and the McDonald’s on the right bank in Lyon will forever h
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by xxxtentachyon 5y ago
Among what populations is it near universal? I grew up in an upper-middle class bedroom community, and I only had to get first aid certified in order to be a lifeguard at a local pool. That was just about a decade ago, and I’d be hard-press

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