MechanicalTim

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by MechanicalTim 2y ago
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment, but one of the largest hospitals in the Bay Area is quite literally called Zuckerberg Hospital: https://www.zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/ Gates has given many billions to pub
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by MechanicalTim 3y ago
Have you actually priced out a custom home in the last 18 months? Tract homes in subdivisions are maybe 150-200 a foot but a 4/4 4000 sq. foot custom build is not being built for anywhere near $150 a foot. Plus there was likely a large
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by MechanicalTim 3y ago
My understanding is that for an LLC to provide protection the house would have to be used for purely business purposes and that there can be no co-mingling of personal finances. the concept is called "piercing the corporate veil".
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by MechanicalTim 3y ago
I've never seen a curved rigid board and I'm having a hard time understanding how SMT would work. If you have examples I'd love to see them. I've spent the last 15 years as a hardware design engineer in consumer electron
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by MechanicalTim 3y ago
Flexie circuit boards (commonly known as fpcs) have indeed been around for a long time. They are mostly used for interposer connctors and small components like LEDs, microphones, proximity sensors,small discretes etc. etc. Based on the term
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by MechanicalTim 4y ago
Thanks for posting the raw data, it's super interesting and I wasn't able to find it on my own. I think we are mostly in alignment, I have just been focused on "how to lower taxes on W2 income" where your point is that a
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by MechanicalTim 4y ago
Poking around online it looks like over 90% of the country is filing only W2 income so that feels like a fair classification for "average person". I've gone pretty deep on the real estate research front. We have short term re
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by MechanicalTim 4y ago
Can you share some? I've spent a lot of time looking into this, reading and posting on boggleheads, talking with accountants, advice only financial advisors, etc. and the general consensus is that there isn't much you can do as a
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by MechanicalTim 9y ago
Additional insight from the founders can be found here: https://blog.light.house/home/2017/5/11/introducing-lighthou...
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by MechanicalTim 9y ago
I totally agree. To clarify I'm a very active guest as well, so I'm well aware of mis-represented listings. I simply use this as another data point when evaluating a guest.
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by MechanicalTim 9y ago
As a host I use a chrome plug-in that shows me every review a guest has written for their stays
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Introducing Lighthouse(blog.light.house)
5 points by MechanicalTim 9y ago|0 comments