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by MrFoof 8y ago
So here's the crazy thing -- if you pay taxes on the profit you earn, like everything else, your state tends to not care and treats it like any other business. Though in my state, in excess of 5 vehicles per year they start to care, a
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by MrFoof 8y ago
I buy cars, repair them and recondition them to my level of satisfaction, and send them back out the door, typically targeting 55-65 year olds. I focus mostly on entry level luxury crossovers around 7 to 10 years old, though starting to al
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by MrFoof 8y ago
I'm one of the longer time Dwarf Fortress supporters, with somewhere around $2500 donated over the past decade or so via PayPal. If I remember correctly, it was around January 2007 when Tarn started accepting donations. I don't p
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by MrFoof 8y ago
As others have stated, this is irrelevant. There are plenty of ways to get cars with gasoline engines to catch fire, and any attempts to sue every other manufacturer over the poor work of shade-tree mechanics is already something that has b
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As well as the ability to support the really interesting stuff people really want. * 918 Spyder? Thank the crossovers and Panamera * Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder? Thank the crossovers and Panamera. * 911R and GT3 Touring? Thank the cross
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by MrFoof 8y ago
Many games, not just the original SMB2. Rock Man 2 (Mega Man 2 in North America) had one only difficulty in the Japanese release. In North America, Mega Man 2 offered a "Difficult" option, which was the original Japanese difficul
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Came here looking to see if someone had already posted about this. Not surprised someone else was aware of it. This is absolutely worth a read, and the less than 5 minutes to watch the video. ----- I'm not sure what the "Structur
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by MrFoof 9y ago
There's one actual great case for Turo: Pre-purchase test drive, especially for oddball stuff. You can likely find a car very similar to what you're going to buy, and drive it for a weekend. Luxury car dealerships will do this (e
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by MrFoof 9y ago
The IIHS considers the Tesla Model S a "Large Luxury Car" in its classification system. Other "Large Luxury Cars" as classified by IIHS include... * Acura RLX * Audi A6 * Audi A7 (not rated) * Audi A8 (not rated) (alumi
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Indeed. For plain-jane passenger vehicles, Toyota is rolling out new engines with a different stroke-to-bore ratio, and a wider angle between the intake and exhaust valves to speed up combustion. With some changes to ancillaries they&#x27
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Yep. This is because rinse aid contain surfactants that lower the surface tension of the water. The point is so instead of forming droplets, the water tends to sheet off. Another thing that helps is getting a dishwasher with a stainless s
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Most race car brake cooling air ducts are made of silicone and rated to at most 20psi (125kPa). Brake cooling ducts are powered primarily through ram air effect, and cost a few bucks a foot. Not sure what OP is referring to, but if they&#x
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Depending on the car, not as much as you'd think. My mechanic has been a mechanic for both IMSA and World Cup Challenge teams, and he went over some of the changes that are seen from road-going versions of what he normally works on (Po
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by MrFoof 9y ago
This. This is what customer service is about -- taking care of the customer when things go badly. In the span of five weeks, Amazon had A) "lost" two packages (in reality, they were shipped to the wrong distribution center and w
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Stop & Shop in the US has the same system, for a similar amount of time (about 10 years). Even down to the "rescan" audits by an employee. The only downer with Stop & Shop is the audits went from something I'd encoun
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by MrFoof 9y ago
> I hadn't really kept up with developments after the bid for a casino location there was rejected a few years ago That casino is actually now under active construction, and has been for about a year (if not longer). Though it&#x2
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by MrFoof 9y ago
As stated in another comment (which links to a transcript by the author with ~two dozen cited sources), this isn't staff on the train, but calculated by breaking down Amtrak's headcount of 20K people, and amortizing it over the nu
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Watch the video, which cites sources ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2p-HoK9KXEAamNTTkdSaERqdGc... ). This isn't just staff active on the train, but maintenance, administration, back office, etc. Amtrak emp
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by MrFoof 9y ago
There's a lot of reasons as to why this is the case, but the bulk of it is labor. * Trains ultimately require close to 1 staff member per 4 passengers, much more than a budget airline. * Unions and legacy salaries further add to those
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Amazingly, they are much lighter than some other services. Boston's Hubway bikes are 3-speed, but 42 pounds despite (I believe) an aluminum frame. New York's Citi Bikes are also 3-speed, but 45 pounds.
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Depends on the org, and the rate. For high rates for specialists (well in excess of $250/hr), this is true (contractor sees 30-40%). For lower-end shops and lower rates (think your Robert Half, your Randstads), the contractor tends t
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by MrFoof 9y ago
For hard numbers, 80% markup of wages paid out is typical (at least for large contingency recruiters and IT contractors), though it can be higher. $250/hr billed usually results in $125-140/hr in the contractor's pocket, and
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Agreed. I do like 95% of my grocery shopping at Aldi, and the remaining 5% are the few things I want that they simply don't carry. The checkout is blazing fast, and supports contactless payments including Apple Pay and the Android eco
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Quantitative mindset sums it up quite well for not just the tech mindset, but most people. More in some metric equals better, for a lot of people. ----- I have a very conspicuous car, that most people don't realize the manufacturer
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I tried it once as an experiment, after a friend of mine suggested I, "just take it easy for once." After that experiment, I hear any similar question as, "Would you consider working for less than half of what you make now
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They do. However they maintain the laptops still as a backup.
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>Would you say your experience as a (chronically underpaid) senior dev Oh, I wasn't chronically underpaid. I got paid 95-100% of market rate, but you were basically held in contempt for getting it, even if you proceeded to vastly
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by MrFoof 9y ago
42 weeks of billing a year, rather. So I average about 32 hours a week (or billing 4 out of 5 weeks) over the course of a given calendar year. As I said, I'm very busy all the time. I took 6 months off for a reason.
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I actually am, and I'm a Hacker News nobody that is 100% solo, including all of my sales. I started in mid-2012 after being fed up with every employer out there, but was well aware that I was one of the best people someone could hire f
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by MrFoof 9y ago
Actually, the starting price is $4599, not the $4999 Apple originally said. Even then, compared to buying an equivalent workstation hardware (including a 5K display) from a manufacturer such as HP, this is no more expensive.

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