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> it seems faster for its intended use... But then you have to store the entire before & after locally? That's the entire point of using a hash for change detection.

Counter-anecdote: I was diagnosed sixish months ago, prescribed medication about 3 months ago. The meds don't have the same high of alcohol or weed, but there's definitely an occas…

I don't think your last point is a good thing. It sounds like the problem with Academia is the source and requirements of the funding, rather than the work itself. I'd much rather …

The academic/business split is weird. In business, you're much more likely to be unknowingly treading on known ground, but the visibility of lessons learned is, in most cases, incr…

I blame religion. Not all religion, not every religious person, and not exclusively, but looking back - there was a strong emphasis that "we're all awful people really at our core,…

This is an article written by an angry user whose usecase isn't well supported. Like, it's a valid gripe I guess, assuming you think music storage and streaming should be perpetual…

This doesn't need to happen, but this is the logical conclusion when we ensure most of the housing market is controlled by landlords rather than owned directly by the people living…

I played through the game and did the pre- and post- game study. At the beginning, I tried pretty hard to genuinely gauge reliability, and was more willing to use some nuance (mayb…

The whole point is that the algorithm doesn't know about obstacles or success as a concept baked into the algorithm. Likewise, this is pretty initial research, meant to inform and …

Tbf, the problem comes in when developers (or someone - developers are probably just the most visible) make a pile of cash for coming in, pushing renters out of a small numbed of r…

I think that's a side effect of the modern expectation that everyone move cross country on a dime if it makes sense economically. Kinda hard to figure out ecological best practices…

Keep in mind that they might only get a room, but it's probably a pretty damn big room. And otherwise nice. Not sure I'd take that tradeoff at my current age, but considering I liv…

The nice thing is that they're at least moving those people out of the lower tiers of housing. If someone can afford $5000 a month for rent, I'd prefer they compete for mansions th…

That's kinda like saying "Age is a protected class. But being on a fixed income isn't"...

One of the things I think is under-discussed (although the article does touch on this) is that this is another move to take customers from buyers to renters. It used to be that cus…

> a fertility crisis or environmental collapse Not sure it really makes sense to fix a lack of people with something that's extremely labor intensive (at least up front). Not to me…

> the technology in which they are an expert is obsolete A lot of the principles, idioms, patterns, and instincts experts pick up transcend technology. Sure, they won't be able to …

I'm reminded of the three panel meme comic. "Yeah, we have passenger train service" " good passenger train service?" "Hey, lets not get ahead of ourselves"

Amtrak is heavy rail - that's light rail, which is kinda different.

I've been listening to the Revolutions podcast recently, and I'm currently in the post-french-revolution series of European revolutions. Kinda funny - France tried setting up some …

> Freight trains get priority on the rail lines so many times the train was stopped for possibly hours waiting for freight trains to pass. This mentality weirds me out. As in: Why …

I don't think this is a particularly new insight. Yes, most retired people suffer if they don't have a life outside of work. Yes, most people do indeed define themselves by work. Y…

I recognize and respect the point, but there's a pretty major differences: Raw material cost, automate-ability, and scale. We have processes to get super pure silicon in huge chunk…

Market concentration causes huge problems - outsized lobbying power, increased wealth concentration, potential for judicial abuse, unbalanced power dynamics (e.g. between youtube a…

Yeah, I was in High School around 2008. Facebook was already a thing, as was obsession over followers. Smart phones had been around for a bit, many kids had them and had their phon…