peacefulhat | 2 years ago | on: The True Rate of Unemployment
Then you scroll down to their time series showing "True Unemployment" is at historic lows
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peacefulhat | 2 years ago | on: A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
They're not switching to a new apportionment formula that doesn't politically benefit the party in power either
peacefulhat | 2 years ago | on: The business of check cashing
the experience of being in other countries
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Tiny-C Compiler (2001)
Best to pick languages anybody has heard of.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Tech Progress Is Slowing Down
True. The article is about hardware, though. Luckily, we're getting a lot more use out of GPUs and SSDs at a time when improvement in CPUs and RAM has drastically slowed.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritism' information
not if they took your seat
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Conversation skills essentials
Starts off with a teacher demanding to see a student's documentation for their bathroom trip then complaining that kids have no social skills.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends
Japan's fault for not making much of anything to replace 2channel.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)
Facebook could have bought Owlchemy Labs or the Rec Room team really early and turn that into "the metaverse." Instead it looks like it was designed by people who have never played a video game. His vision makes sense and the headsets are great.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: A gentler, better way to change minds
How do you determine who is in the community and subject to the community law?
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
I pitched to an engineer that worked on Facebook newsfeed ranking that they make a setting to let me hide all reposts because my feed was entirely political links and meme images. He didn’t buy that life updates from friends was what I wanted to see, very adamant that if I used the “I don’t like this” button, eventually it would find content I liked.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
TikTok is so popular I bet banning it would cause widespread social unrest and violence.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Apple Removes Flag Icons in Monterey 12.4
It sucks for me because the flags were how I knew which language I’m in when I switch between English and Asian languages. Now they all look the same out of the corner of my eye and I reflexively toggle the language when I don’t need to.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising
The only solution is removing geographic districts entirely. The focus is on how squiggly the district lines are rather than the underlying issue that your vote is worthless in almost any election.
peacefulhat | 3 years ago | on: Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to democracy
ok I pick the other side, then.
peacefulhat | 4 years ago | on: The case for and against analogies
Analogies and idioms are heavily leaned on when you’ve substituted actual expertise for rhetoric.
peacefulhat | 4 years ago | on: Japanese Philosophies That'll Help You Spend Money Consciously
it won't even make a difference to his finances that he used a coke bottle as a vase. he just enjoys the feeling of restraining himself from buying trivially inexpensive things. maybe he could get a good return if he did that for big-ticket items - "yeah i just stuffed old clothes into some amazon boxes and that's my sofa."
peacefulhat | 4 years ago | on: Japanese Philosophies That'll Help You Spend Money Consciously
Ancient Wisdom From American English
-satisfied
-good enough
-choose
now you can use a wallet
peacefulhat | 4 years ago | on: Your code displays Japanese wrong
I'm grateful for han unification because I can search Chinese words I only know in Japanese.
peacefulhat | 5 years ago | on: “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
It follows from this that you think the future of software companies will be reaping even greater profits from massive payroll cuts. I doubt it.
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