matthewbauer

Really cool idea. Would be neat to also be able to click railways as well. I think openrailwaymap provides some cool details like owner, max speed, electrification.

I also noticed the map makes it look like the trains are travelling slightly south of the track. It seems to converge once you zoom in though, so I think the data is probably accurate, but somehow the map is distorting things.

"still" has kind of a negative connotation for something that doesn't seem necessarily negative.

That reminds me of that quote about bankruptcy from The Sun Also Rises:

> “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

> “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

It felt like that’s how IE lost its dominance.

It’s really part of Kansas City, MO, but there is a 4th called “Kansas City, North” which an extremely confusing concept but refers to the part of Kansas City, MO north of North Kansas City. Suburbs annexed by the bigger city while NKC was left independent.

Interestingly, schizophrenia is really rare in accounts before the 1800s. It appears to be a modern disease, which would make it seem like it would be environmental.

Another interesting thing about schizophrenia is it's much more common in cities, even after controlling for drug use and ethnicity[1]. Which again makes it seem like something that was rare in the past.

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

Presumably they own equity in these banks.

I had no idea Protocol Labs had so many employees!

Ironically, polkit is designed to avoid the need to have suid binaries, since it allows other programs to obtain restricted privileges without full suid. The problem is, polkit itself still needs suid to hand out privileges to other programs.

I was interested in where the 2% number came from and found the full context:

> Educators of computer science have repeatedly observed that only about 2 out of every 100 students enrolling in introductory programming classes really resonate with the subject and seem to be natural-born computer scientists...I conclude that roughly 2% of all people ‘think algorithmically,’ in the sense that they can reason rapidly about algorithmic processes

Sorry, 10x seems like a crazy difference when talking about salary. Could you be more specific? I’m trying to figure out numbers that make sense. Like you were getting $30,000 a year in 2011 and now getting $300,000+ in 2021? In the same field? Either the Boston salary was crazy low or fang salary is crazy high.

You can contribute to a traditional IRA at any income. You can only take the deduction at certain income ranges though.

Also, you can “use” an IRA after you contributed to it, so you could be high income now but contributed to an IRA when you weren’t.

I wonder what % of people don't file taxes. And what % of those, are owed a refund? That would skew these stats a lot if people aren't claiming what they're owed.

Postgres is one of those pieces of software that’s so much better than anything else, it’s really incredible. I wonder if it’s even possible for competitors to catch up at this point - there’s not a lot of room for improvement in architecture of relational databases any more. I’m starting to think that Postgres is going to be with us for decades maybe even centuries.

Do any other entrenched software projects come to mind? The only thing comparable I can think of are Git and Linux.

Supposedly, pregnant women can get the vaccine. In fact, it’s recommended due to risk of certain complications with getting covid-19 while pregnant.

Does /opt/homebrew still end up in root’s PATH, I wonder? That has the same issue that /usr/local has I think. Letting users mess with root’s environment basically means there is no real distinction between root and non-root.

My under $100 router didn’t work because it had too little ram and flash storage to work. It was a few years ago though so maybe the situation has changed. I’d be interested in seeing which routers under $100 are working well with OpenWRT.

The readme says it’s based off native-comp so I think compiled lisp stuff should be no worse than gccemacs.

Bitcoin doesn't have to use so much energy. The difficulty level is what causes the high levels of energy consumption. If we could get all the major mining groups to dismantle some % of their machines, we could reduce energy consumption with a very small cost to the group. This could reduce energy consumption, while also preserving the value of Bitcoin. Maybe Bill Gates can start signing checks to the miners? You get 10K for every machine you video destroying.

Some companies do buybacks that provide the same value as dividends - but avoid capital gains. Since there are less shares after the buyback, the remaining shareholders have relatively more value in the company.

But there are tons of overpriced stocks out there. Where do you draw the line? TSLA? AAPL? S&P 500?

In theory, it can lessen volatility since traders can bet against overvalued companies in the same way they can invest in undervalued companies. In practice, I'm not so sure if this is really how short selling works, since "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". I do think a world without any short selling would have much more frenzied boom / bust cycles though.

A few states are using direct recording systems, without a paper trail:

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

"Currently only one state — Louisiana — keeps no paper trail of votes at all. Counties in eight states — Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas — use a hybrid system" where some, but not all votes will have a paper trail.

(from https://madison.com/on-paper-ballots-for-the-2020-election/a...)

Handcounting every single vote? That seems much more error prone than anything the U.S. uses. Ballot-marking devices used in many states[1] produce paper ballots that voter can validate and have some guarantee that it can be scanned in tabulation. I trust audited software to tabulate my vote much more than an overworked ballot counter.

[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

Terrorism is "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience". Trying to coerce / kidnap / etc. Congress people sounds like terrorism. They don’t have to be successful.

When I looked at it, it looked like sensors were all polling based. Things like wait until another task completes or this file appears. Is there a way to make them push/event based?

It sounds like a bad deal for Europe if for instance Taylor Swift’s works get life + 70 years but Ed Sheeran’s works get 50 years. Nationalism is the main reason current copyright laws are seen as reasonable - no country wants to give their citizens a worse deal than another country. I’m afraid shortening copyright lengths would have to be done by international agreement.

I don't see how 1971 is significant for any of these graphs. Looks like 1979 is when productivity / compensation really start to diverge. What happened in 1979?

Right, the 5% withdrawal fee only applies when you withdraw, meaning you could still make a profit continuously buying 95%+ markets.

The real reasons I think these often don’t follow what you expect is:

- Lots of people set sell orders at 90-99 since closing times are often uncertain and there are other opportunities that at least appear to be more profitable. - As you diverge from 50/50, it gets cheaper and cheaper for crazy people to buy up the other side of a bet. This is not always unprofitable too; they just have to sell it to a greater fool. This is with PredictIt’s $850 limit at least.

2018 polls were pretty accurate IIRC. Lots of theories going around about how Trump uniquely screws up polling. Not a ton of evidence, but it is really surprising both 2016 and 2020 were off in the same direction. It could happen due to random chance of course. Too bad we probably will never see Trump on the ballot again to get any more data on this phenomenon.

That's definitely the cause of it, but it doesn't make sense to me. Once you're on S&P 500, how much growth can you realistically do? I don't see why investors don't make Google & Apple pay dividends.