CraigRo

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by CraigRo 2y ago
First they got extorted by the Russians, then by the lawyers
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Universal healthcare is great if you are part of the elite that gets to skip the inevitable lines. Canada and the UK systems require interminable waits in certain areas and for certain specialties.
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations. I’ve heard this since I was young; this is hardly new. Inherited wealth does not encourage frugality, nor does the third generation generally find working hard to be as fulfilling as the
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Population is not a great predictor when certain countries import improbably good athletes in niche sports. E.g. there have been incredible numbers of Portuguese speaking beach volleyball players at the Olympics
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Salads: PCs are named after lettuces Printers are tomatoes Routers are condiments like croutons Cameras are carrots
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by CraigRo 2y ago
https://www.powers-study.org/about/ There's a study being done on humans that is trying to answer this and other questions.
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Hopefully individuals blocked by these people can sue them
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by CraigRo 2y ago
It would create an incredible incentive to smuggle or hide the point of origin
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Fee shifting statutes create an environment in which lawyers get paid out of proportion to the economic damages incurred. The plaintiffs have no skin in this
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by CraigRo 2y ago
The costs associated with high and unstable inflation dwarf everything else. Get that down and the economy will take off as investment gets funneled into productive endeavors
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by CraigRo 2y ago
It was developed for young men doing late summer football practice. It is quite good for that use, or for manual workers doing a combination of cardio and strength work in very hot humid conditions while wearing protective clothing. I&#x27
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Translation: if you go on a diet and train a lot and have the motivation to go through such a complicated medical study, you will look better
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by CraigRo 2y ago
I do hope that someone sues one of these creators for defamation
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by CraigRo 2y ago
The traditional ratio is that one pound of coffee is 50 cups. So they drank about 5 cups per day. Though if the coffee came green, it might have been a little lower
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by CraigRo 2y ago
I can explain this in about 2 minutes to a novice using the idea pages of graph paper. This is overkill.
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by CraigRo 2y ago
A poling yard is one where the tea cars are sorted by pushing them with a pole using an engine on an adjacent track. They are banned today
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by CraigRo 2y ago
There's no conclusive evidence of famine. That article was propaganda
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by CraigRo 2y ago
The issue is that people who drive super unrepairable cars create externalities for everyone else. Insurance should only cover up to the 90th percentile of repair costs
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Being really smart and inquisitive for 30 years .. I've been lucky that people paid me a lot of money to do whatever it took to make lots of different products work, at levels from extremely low to high. Just because people don't
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by CraigRo 2y ago
I had to learn cobol last year. Not hard if you have read lots of books from the 70s and 80s and have a strong background in algorithms. It is expensive and annoying to maintain these systems, but until there's a business case to repla
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by CraigRo 2y ago
For those of us already putting in 10-14 hours per day at our day jobs, or who work in regulated industries, this is a nonstarter. My experience is that the people who are really good are kept pretty busy by their employer
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by CraigRo 2y ago
Buy the whole hill then.
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by CraigRo 2y ago
If your husband works and hits the 50+% bracket, and you are younger and make less... You either have to make 3x what your nanny does before you even keep a dollar- any less and you are paying to work. This is incredibly disheartening frien
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by CraigRo 2y ago
This was summer camp and hunting camp for the executives. If you read the man in the gray flannel suit, you'll be surprised by how a lot of white collar execs didn't work that hard. Things moved a lot slower
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by CraigRo 2y ago
I know of an airport, a bunch of hunting and fishing lodges, teams of housekeepers, etc. that basically allowed the executives of a fortune 500 company to live a pretty amazing life as if they owned an estate without actually paying for any
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by CraigRo 2y ago
The lengths that people would go to avoid paying those marginal tax rates was legendary! https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nocera-tax-avoidance-... There were also a lot of 'perks' paid for by companies,
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by CraigRo 2y ago
The article omits to explain how this chip achieves better performance per watt or dollar, and what you give up to get that
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by CraigRo 2y ago
People will disconnect the safety system, and we'll have a 500$ saw with a 300$ piece of useless gear There are lots of things you can't saw with a sawstop, and if triggered, it is very expensive to replace
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by CraigRo 3y ago
This is an April folks joke
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by CraigRo 3y ago
Avg Harvard grad salary at 30 vs HS dropout salary at 30? Feels like her data sources are biased or omitting things

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