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gs17 commented on MIT Living Wage Calculator   livingwage.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/bear_with_me
prepend · 2 days ago
I don’t think this is very accurate. In my county the “living wage” is $26.50 for a single adult with no children.

Many young people I know live on much less than this.

This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.” Which of course, people would like to have but certainly isn’t required to be comfortable.

For example, transportation costs are $9000/year and housing is $20000/year. These are both way more than is necessary.

They need better branding because calling this a living wage is a misnomer and harming their cause.

gs17 · a day ago
> For example, transportation costs are $9000/year and housing is $20000/year. These are both way more than is necessary.

Even on the smaller things. "Internet & Mobile" for where I am jumped out to me. Based on the difference between 1 adult and 2 adults, it's $582 per person-year for mobile (which I guess isn't far off if you get a good new phone every 2 years, it's reasonable enough) and with that subtracted, internet is $100 per month. The methodology page says "County-level data on the cost of internet comes from research on lowest-cost monthly plans from BroadbandNow", but even that page shows much cheaper options available (including the $70 per month Google Fiber I have).

gs17 commented on Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon   disk-scout.com/... · Posted by u/matansfb
matansfb · 7 days ago
I built a tool that tracks SSD prices across Amazon US. It calculates the real cost per GB and lets you compare new vs used drives.

The tool updates every few hours and lets you filter by capacity, form factor, and condition.

Would love to hear your feedback!

gs17 · 6 days ago
I'd like a filter that removes the "pack of 10" and similar entries. They also don't seem to compute $/TB correctly, which adds to the frustration.
gs17 commented on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready   waymo.com/blog/2026/01/mi... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
timmmmmmay · 19 days ago
I can't speak to San Francisco, but in Los Angeles the waymo has been cheaper than the Uber even before tip every time I've compared them
gs17 · 19 days ago
Is that a recent shift? When I was there in the summer they were marginally more expensive pre-tip.
gs17 commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers   gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta
ted_dunning · 19 days ago
I can see that either way. It could also be a placeholder until the actual author list is inserted. This could happen if you know the title, but not the authors and insert a temporary reference entry.
gs17 · 19 days ago
The first Doe and Smith example I could give that to (the title is real and the arxiv ID they give is "arXiv:2401.00001", which is definitely placeholder), but the second one doesn't match a title and has fake URL/DOI that don't actually go anywhere. There's a few that are unambiguously placeholders, but they really should have been caught in review for a conference this high up.
gs17 commented on RTS for Agents   getagentcraft.com/... · Posted by u/summoned
erikw · 21 days ago
I don't know about this... I think that the "expert" AIs on RTS games just get more resources (not compute resources, but in-game resources) so they can create more units. I'd love to play against an AI component that has the same resource collection speed as the human player.
gs17 · 21 days ago
Yeah, cheating with resources or vision is disappointingly common. I remember the Green Tea AI for Starcraft 2 being pretty hard, but it looks like above "medium" it cheats (but the TL wiki does say "very easy", which will give you 10 minutes to set up, is equivalent to Blizzard's "harder").
gs17 commented on There is no comfortable reading position   slate.com/life/2026/01/bo... · Posted by u/oumua_don17
dalmo3 · 23 days ago
I could read all day on a hammock.

Unfortunately that just moves the goalposts to "there's no place to install a hammock in my house".

gs17 · 23 days ago
I've seen standing desks that let you hang a hammock from the frame, but I have a feeling it makes for the worst hammock experience ever.
gs17 commented on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout   e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/mrtksn
Y-bar · a month ago
You can see the pillars they are built on in for example https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/china-s-s...

(direct link to image: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iy93Jvbye2e...)

Solar panels are meant to be water proof, after all they are meant to survive rain storms and melting snow and coastal weather.

gs17 · a month ago
"meant to survive rain storms" doesn't really mean the same as "meant to survive flooding", especially not "meant to survive flooding with salt water". For example, a car survives outdoor weather year-round, but you probably wouldn't want to buy one that was submerged in a flood zone. This plant seems to be floating, though, so they stay above water regardless.
gs17 commented on You Can Just Buy Far-UVC   jefftk.com/p/you-can-just... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
vbelenky · a month ago
Kinda like advertising "Asbestos-Free Cereal" isn't it? If someone was marketing a product to me and they were super insistent about how super duper safe it was I would probably start getting suspicious
gs17 · a month ago
No, it's more like advertising asbestos-free talc.
gs17 commented on You Can Just Buy Far-UVC   jefftk.com/p/you-can-just... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
throawayonthe · a month ago
no way you're supposed to point it down, right?
gs17 · a month ago
Aerolamp insists that it's supposed to be pointed directly at "where people will spend time in the room", including tilting it down.
gs17 commented on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them   swinburne.edu.au/news/202... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
taeric · a month ago
It has been ages since I had clothes shrink on me. To the point that I had assumed something must have gotten better in modern dryers. Is that not the case?

Edit: Quickly searching, this appears to be the case? Specifically modern moisture sensing dryers that stop appropriately goes a long way to never having something shrink on you.

gs17 · a month ago
I had the same experience until this year, when a shirt I got in the airport on the way home from Philly suddenly became a present for my girlfriend.

u/gs17

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