zanderz

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by zanderz 4mo ago
And yet, Thorsten Veblen was American. Have we mellowed out since his observations about "veblen goods"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by zanderz 4mo ago
An analogy I saw once: can 9 women make a baby in 1 month?
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by zanderz 5mo ago
It was decent, we shipped one but switched to .net because of high dpi scaling issues IIRC
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by zanderz 5mo ago
Part of the reason was that WinRT was aimed at tablets and other low power devices, where unrestricted Win32 API use could drain the battery too quickly. They were trying to put the genie back in the bottle to have more control in this new
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by zanderz 6mo ago
Yes, this was needed for civil engineering and city permits to replace a retaining wall that holds my driveway up and (hopefully!) keeps it from sliding onto my neighbors fancy expensive house. All licensed and by the book. Quotes from othe
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by zanderz 6mo ago
Maybe they need to put a traffic circle at this intersection.
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by zanderz 6mo ago
Not only that, if 2 people talk at once they can cancel each other out and neither can be heard by anyone else. Much of aviation is still based on pre WWII tech and practices like this and people underestimate how slow and difficult it is t
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by zanderz 6mo ago
I got a survey of my residential property, 1/2 acre on a rugged hillside, from a guy who used a drone equipped with lidar. It was $4,000, less than traditional methods, but it would be cool if a drone could just be dispatched from a ne
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by zanderz 7mo ago
For anything more complex than a shower head, a made in USA label often implies some trickery with final assembly of imported components, like the crossfire example above. Researching the supply chain for every single purchase is too tediou
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by zanderz 8mo ago
I learned on here that this has been happening to a degree with maps. Several big companies have been cooperating to improve open street map data, a rare example of a beneficial commons. This is probably some unique accident of incentives a
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by zanderz 9mo ago
It was a major reason Grey Davis was recalled and we got the Governator
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by zanderz 9mo ago
The person who wrote this Spotify p2p software also wrote uTorrent, which was bought by the company bittorrent after they struggled to make a C++ client on their own. The original bittorrent implimentation was in python, but they re-skinned
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by zanderz 1y ago
Ha, yes, agree. How many trips to the office should it take to prove you are real meat?
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by zanderz 3y ago
The name "grapefruit" always seemed a little puzzling when compared with grapes, and it seems nobody is quite sure how the name got started, only that it is from Barbados. One interesting theory is that it is named after the &quot
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by zanderz 3y ago
Prescriptivist in the streets, descriptivist in the sheets!
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by zanderz 3y ago
Agree. Hindsight is 20/20. A conservative CEO who pulls back and doesn't lean into a growth cycle will be criticized even more for leaving money on the table. Whether the entire economy should be structured to incenivize all this
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by zanderz 3y ago
Some consider the emphasis on hard work and striving for its own sake to be less a default or inevitable value as an arbitrary confluence of history and Protestant/Calvinist doctrine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by zanderz 4y ago
"In other words, the record business became the only entertainment industry in the world with no plan for technological innovation." Hasn't this been true since people started listening to the radio instead of buying sheet mu
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by zanderz 4y ago
slogging across that giant parking lot doesn't help...
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by zanderz 4y ago
A shoulder mounted anti-tank rocket was once turned over at a gun buyback in San Francisco: https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-gun-buyback-bazooka-guns/... I think it is probably worth a lot of taxpayer money to get
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by zanderz 4y ago
Some have argued in the past that a large part of the economy is money laundering for Russian oligarchs - hence the pejorative "Londongrad" nickname. Might a slowdown of this activity be affecting the economy as well?
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by zanderz 4y ago
"...those reductions are about what could be expected with conventional aerobic exercise..." "It could be beneficial for people who are unable to do traditional aerobic exercise ..." Title seems a little misleading
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by zanderz 4y ago
San Francisco has had all the problems being blamed on the DA for decades. Things got worse during the pandemic in most cities, regardless of what DA they had. People act like Boudin personally emptied out the jails and stopped prosecuting
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by zanderz 4y ago
All the comments about how it will be too expensive and difficult to source unusually sized parts make me wonder how they make something like the Hammerhead Karoo for $400 - an android device with a 3.2" sunlight readable reflective sc
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by zanderz 5y ago
Surprised the article didn't mention that you are generally welcome to use the restroom in a Japanese convenience store, which will usually have a spotless toilet with fancy robotic bidet features. At least in Tokyo a few years back, i
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Vox Media, BuzzFeed, and others working on alternative to Google’s AMP format(9to5google.com)
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by zanderz 5y ago
Many don't realize that Prop 13 also protected commercial real estate - the Transamerica Pyramid in SF was the poster child for this until it sold recently https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-30-me-pro
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by zanderz 5y ago
Speaking of NYC, we've enjoyed some amazingly effective soundproof windows in many spaces, it seems like a thing there, but when we ask window salesmen in the Bay Area about soundproof windows like that, they kind of shrug and say &qu
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by zanderz 5y ago
There have been microphone arrays in many neighborhoods for years: "ShotSpotter has been in operation for 25 years, serves more than 120 cities..." https://www.shotspotter.com/
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by zanderz 5y ago
This is one of the reasons for motorcycle helmet laws and maybe seat belts

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