CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Of course, but why would someone be happy with that if it's a significant downgrade from where they are now?
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Unfortunately that would be a large paycut for me and it would also cost a lot of stability. I wasn't making up the $500/hr figure; that's what I would actually need for this to be worth considering switching to.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Once you add in the cost of all the added contractor taxes and loss of benefits like healthcare, this would be a bit of a paycut for me. I'd want more hours.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Yeah, hard pass. If I'm gonna be a 1099 contractor my rate will need to be very high (roughly $500/hr). Otherwise I'm sticking with my FTE job. And I'd need to be able to pick up more than the 20 hours per week than th
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
To put it charitably, it is not a widely held viewpoint that pressurized hydrogen tanks and fuel cells are a superior automotive technology to batteries.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
And yet cycling is surprisingly popular in Norway, much more popular than in parts of the US that have much nicer weather.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
And it's insanely expensive and thus not ever going to be remotely economically feasible. The only reason it might falsely appear to be so now is because it is heavily subsidized (way more heavily subsidized than EVs are).
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
People have always resisted change in the automotive market, whether it be with ABS, power steering, starter motors, electronic stability control, seat belts, air bags, traction control, cruise control, automatic shifting, etc. You aren&#x2
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Because motorsport is a giant unprofitable waste of money. The only value they get out of it is advertising their brand, and Tesla doesn't advertise. Why would Tesla spend the minimum tens of millions of dollars to get into what is
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
That strategy was only the best if you assumed someone like a Tesla wouldn't come along. However, a Tesla did come along, and as a result, Tesla now controls an ungodly fraction of the total worldwide automaker value. Basically, it
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> In the US roads are mostly maintained by taxes on gas. This is a common misconception. Most road funding comes from the Fed and state/local income and property taxes. Gasoline taxes exist but do not comprise the majority of fund
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Blocking renewals has the same ultimate result, just with added steps and a less clean process (because right now everyone whose domain has been suspended is FORCED to resolve it within the next 3 months, which is preferable to domains just
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
And that's why you don't use ccTLDs. Looking at you, everyone still using a .io TLD -- you never know what trouble might be lurking in the pipeline there.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
There's no one silver bullet solution. There are dozens of different things that need to happen that, in total, sufficiently reduce the emitted CO2. Surface level transport makes up for a significant amount of worldwide emissions, and
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
They're not phasing out the #1 incentive to buy electric cars: Insanely high gasoline prices (nor should they). So I'm not seeing a regression in the making here.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Why, from first principles, should healthcare be tied to employment? Most other countries don't do it this way. That we do it here is just an accident of history (healthcare as a benefit is not treated as taxable).
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Let's imagine that I had to make a website that could host a million concurrent users once per year. What do you think is cheaper, me acquiring all of the hardware to scale to a million users and then leaving it idle 99.9% of the time,
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
It's super obvious if the unionized employees have a much higher firing rate than the non-unionized employees.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> and could trade them like slaves under the "retain-and-transfer" Don't you see a little bit of an issue with this wording? Namely that said players were paid for their labor and could quit playing football at any time?
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
The total percentage of actual vested shares that are held by the rank-and-file workers is minuscule at best.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> The idea behind unions is that an employer is not willing to lay off all the employees that are unionized (because this would lead to a sharp decline in productivity and thus KPIs). It's also illegal.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> It seems clear to me that these are people who are unwilling to sacrifice some of the money they earn to follow their ideals and principles, so they are trying this instead. This phrasing is disingenuous. If you don't like what&#x
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> but even low-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs have TDP of 180W, which is a bit higher than I'd like. Why does it matter? It doesn't idle that high; it only goes that high of you're using it flat out, in which case the extra p
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Doubt it, seeing as how caffeine isn't a controlled substance.
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
They inflate menu prices and add additional service and delivery fees. You end up spending $50 on a meal that should be $30, and if you were shopping by amount of money spent (as many people are) then the net result is $30 going to the rest
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
It's also undeniably a good thing for customers as well. Using an unexpected intermediary in a transaction is a terrible experience. If I see a restaurant on GrubHub then I want to know that that restaurant wants orders coming throug
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
People have been saying since early 2020 that this winter was going to be the absolute worst of it (based on historical experience with e.g. the 1918 flu pandemic), and they were right. They didn't anticipate how quickly we'd deve
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
So your advice is basically to never patronize restaurants? Seems like an awful overreaction to something that almost never happens?
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
Do you have a link with more info?
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by CydeWeys 6y ago
> They can super-lock domains so that if someone manages to change the root servers, they can instantly change it back unless a processes that you define is followed. If you're referring to registry lock, that's not exactly how

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