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Not defending fraud (in general or in this specific case), but who it being ruined for? Amazon is still making fabulous amounts of money, prices are still low there, and the policy…

Absolutely. I think one of the fun things about that calculator is that you can mess around with the numbers to try different situations. Perhaps there's a way to account for that …

I semi-regularly plug numbers into this Buy v Rent calculator by NYT [1]. They're pretty equivalent in the 10-30 year range and match housing prices I've seen. It's hard to beat th…

No, that's editorializing based on the few differentiating factors I found. Though I think the idea that the more expensive model is pushed by dealers makes sense too.

To give an example, the Subaru Crosstrek is a lifted Subaru Impreza hatchback. They share nearly all parts, and have the same interior and cargo space. The differences are: 1. Cros…

We did this at a previous company in the healthcare space. It made audits easy since we could point to every instance of the design changing, who approved it, and the code that imp…

I believe you can add a delay for what the viewers see, which would give you some time to cut the stream in case any secrets are shown. Else, it's good practice for a secret rotati…

The license is here [1]. It looks like you can redistribute with attribution and alike license. [1] https://design.gs.com/d/legal/goldman-sans-license/

Also as someone without formal CS education: I'm surprised too, though not alarmed. I've very rarely felt like I didn't have the right education to do my job at giantmegacorp w/ CS…

> Not sure about what anyone here considers as libertarian, but if you were to ask a libertarian what they would tell you is that if you own property you are free to do as you plea…

Housing seems to me to be one of the most government-planned markets due to the strict zoning laws, but I've only seen fairly lefty orgs advocating for relaxed regulation. I'm surp…

Doing some calculations from another direction: The maximum daily energy density of sunlight in sunny Los Angeles is about 6.4 kWh / m2 [1] (assuming perfect, moving angle of panel…

> then shouldn't Lyft or Flywheel or some new company that can ship much faster be better off than Uber? Isn't that the general startup success story: small scrappy team adapts fas…

Grubhub is a good backup service in that case. I call first, then put in an order online if calling failed (which happens very rarely for me). Plus a lot of places are a little che…

>I really don't like the idea of stamping out all single family homes and nice green areas in proximity to cities. I don't think anyone seriously wants to replace every single fami…

Local HOAs and similar have loud voices against these kind of projects. It might take another big voice (like Sidewalk Labs) to counter. I've tried calling my local reps to support…

If it's a monitor lizard, then monitoring is a big part of SRE.

They have a Patreon now. I recently started supporting them there.

1.5 years is already very fast for a clinical trial. The average duration of clinical trials for "breakthrough" drugs is 5.0 years [1], compared to 8.0 years for drugs without that…

> My car is idle most of the time. I usually only use it for 1-2 hours a day during the week and less on the weekends. I could use Uber or Lyft instead but I don't. I could rent ou…

Just did some napkin math and the potential gas savings number seems reasonable. (I expected it to be inflated and still think it's a dark pattern to include it.) Model 3: (50 kwh …

> a junior developer put on a major healthcare project could absolutely do some damage to their fellow human beings. Any compliant healthcare software project would keep a junior d…

What were you looking to get out of a Sonos? If you just want something that can play music wirelessly from various devices, I'd recommend getting a pair of bookshelf speakers and …

I didn't download the library, but I don't think the author left out white people. Here's a screenshot from the humaaans page that looks white to me. [1] Edit: another commenter sh…

"Job posts not specifying a seniority level are excluded." 13824 senior positions / 120548 total openings = 11.5% senior. If we assume "senior" only applies to "dev" and "engineer …