YokoZar

50% of Californians live in an owner-occupied home. That's what the weirdly named "home ownership rate" measures.

Move back in with your parents? Rent a room from a live-in-landlord because you can't afford your own place? Congrats, you are a "home owner" according to that number!

Absolutely nothing is preventing you from celebrating your birthday the way we do Holidays. My birthday isn't September 22, it's the third Saturday in September.

Heck it's not even weird to not bother with this redefinition and just have a party on a more convenient day.

Why not prohibit right on red for just these specific vehicles then?

>any counterpoints that would bring housing prices far lower

Policy changes allowing substantially more construction finally bearing fruit?

We have a long way to go but there has been some significant movement in that direction, particularly in the most expensive housing markets.

According to the article, the criminal charges against that specific defendant were dropped

This was from The Far Side. The image depicts a broken window and a man reading a piece of paper presumably attached to the brick, with the note "Bricks thrown thru your window? Call Al's Glass" and then a phone number.

While searching for it I found the comic appeared as homework in a marketing class, with this wonderful student asking for help explaining the underlying marketing techniques:

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/2-...

Wage theft has a different, specific meaning than what this case is about (pay discrimination).

It's perfectly possible for there to be many of them and for them to also be monopolies over their respective regional markets. Compare with cable companies carving up territory and agreeing not to intrude on eachother's turf.

There are tea drinkers that believe very strongly in using water that isn't "stale" (eg, leftover in the kettle from the last time). Presumably water from the hot water tap would be stale for similar reasons.

I think the theory is that "stale" water lacks sufficient oxygen for tea brewing to fully brew or something.

Our python tooling enforces an 80 character limit and every time I run into it I make my code worse in some way to comply. Usually it's just less descriptive variable names, sometimes it's less readable autoformat. I've given up fighting it, just let it stink things up.

Is the assertion here that Twitter is employing H1-B fashion models?

Is there a similar list of more generic or common mechanics? I've always been curious if a list that contained things like "tiles-based", "roguelike", "rhythm game" would yield interesting results if combined randomly.

Japan has vehicle weight taxes. The US has the inverse (trucks and SUV have laxer fuel economy standards)

Sounds like the company's problem. Maybe they should change their incentives so that managers actually want the right things.

I once clicked on a restaurant website. It was plain text on an empty background. The only content was their address, phone number, hours, and a link to a PDF of their menu.

The site asked for forgiveness and assured me that it was "under construction". But it was already perfect.

What if you need more than one load of dishes done per day?

The payroll tax is an income tax with the following brackets:

0-147k: 12.4%

147k+: 0%

The number goes down at the higher income bracket, which means you pay less % of your money in payroll taxes the more you make. That is the very definition of regressive.

I don't know who needs to be told this, but human circadian rhythms vary considerably from person to person. Some are very early, some are as late as a literal owl.

Telling them to follow the sun will be about as successful as telling an actual owl that it's sleeping at the winyg time and needs to hunt during the day like the rest of the birds.

Specifically, if I own game X and you own game Y, then with sharing I can play your Y while you play my X at the same time.

But if I buy game Y, and play it, steam will then prevent you from playing my game X at the same time.

> Housing can not be both an investment and affordable.

If old homes were somehow better and more desirable, they could theoretically be both. But homes aren't like comic books or magic cards: newer-built ones are generally better in quality, often dramatically so.

It's not. GDP grew in Q4.

Planet Money had an episode this week showing a poll where literally 99% of CEOs responded that they thought a recession was going to happen in 2023.

Most "karaoke versions" of songs are by cover bands.

Twitter had been posting profits since 2018, with the exception of last quarter (billion dollar lawsuit payout) and Q2 2020 (pandemic start) https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

Post Musk, Twitter's debt was already going for 70 cents on the dollar, and that's before the news of this week

> drove some large cost savings projects

Having worked as SRE on efficiency projects for BigCo, it is not at all uncommon to recover more than your lifetime salary in company savings with only a few months work or even less. The scale of things is so immense that even a slightly better handling of things can lead to outsize returns.

Laying off someone like that, rather than putting them on full-time efficiency work, is an obvious waste.

When the "hard reset" causes revenue to evaporate as advertisers leave, the balance sheet is not "much better".

Naively, you would expect a bit of a drop in productivity when going to full employment, as the least productive workers are generally hired last.

Total production, notably, is still increasing.

No, you can't. Well, maybe you personally can. But all the actual science says that willpower, sleep hygiene, and sunlight exposure only move the margins a bit for those with inflexible night-time chronotypes.

Doing everything "right" is not going to make a 5am natural sleeper into a morning person, it's going to make them into a 3am natural sleeper.

The article mentions that people with late chronotypes get less sleep due to early work hours, and that lack of sleep causes productivity issues.

I've noticed some streaming platforms (eg Paramount Plus) occasionally fail to make use of the center speaker entirely when supposedly in 5.1; this makes the dialog nearly inaudible. I only get this issue with some content sources, and forcing the mixer into stereo mode alleviates the problem.

There are almost surely a whole host of bugs just outputting in the format the user has, never mind mixing issues, copyright protection, and similar.