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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Bonuses come out of the money used to pay salaries. All things being the same, any company that pays bonuses will pay a lower base salary. That being said, if you're good at convincing people of your worth, you can come out with higher
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I guess it depends on where you are, because 12 year olds (and younger) certainly do things on their own around me. For example, they tend to meet up at the local ice cream place to hang out.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> If I have a object checked out, no one can check in their changes without talking to me. The inability to lock checkouts is one of the things that a co-worker of mine fought tooth and nail about when we moved from RCS to CVS.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
The author does note in the writeup that they are comfortable with some (relatively rare) data loss; like server failure and the like. Given their use cases, it seems like the jitter/loss of EBS wouldn't be too impactful to them.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume. Without any intent to insult what you've done (because the information is interesting and the writeup is well done)...
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
My apologies, I meant interest and maintenance. And I would say that maintenance certainly counts as a financial loss when you're considering the property from an investment perspective. If it was a paper investment (stock/bond&#x
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> As long as you ignore all the other aspects, like inflation, maintenance, etc, you have a pretty darn good return on paper. That's a pretty significant amount of things to ignore. When you include closing costs (10-15k in NY) and
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Its fairly common for the microwave clock to be the main clock for kitchen. Especially since the one on the stove tends to _also_ be super complicated to set correctly (ours was in french for 2 months because we clicked the wrong thing), so
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
When we bought our house, it came with a microwave that had a rotary dial on it. In order to cook something for 30 seconds, you had to turn the dial, click, turn the dial, click, and I think turn the dial and click again. And if you didn&#x
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There are a lot of types of engineering, and some of them are VERY far away from civil/structural engineering.
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That being said, the signing key is supposed to be "we certify this". Handing your key over to a 3rd party defeats that. If both <software producer> and google need to be able to sign it in some way, then the signing process
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
At least for a diabetic, A1C is less looked at nowadays. With CGMs, we can lookt to see our time-in-range, highs, lows, and patterns. It's... amazing. Plus, you can see just how much different types of foods directly impact your blood
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As a diabetic, I've always found that the finger prick for testing my blood hurt more than the insulin needles.
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> That is true, but in that mind your kid in the back seat is safety-critical, so maybe we mandate no kids in the back? Or your wife next to you in the passenger seat, she could also make you remove your eyes from the road (happens quite
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Being able to use your phone to talk to people is not safety critical either. And yet, we make laws to lower the amount of physical interactions required with the phone while driving. Because people _do_ use them in ways that negatively imp
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I have volume controls and similar on my steering while, and I never use them.... because I can never remember which is where. I prefer my stereo controls to be in the stereo controls area, my climate controls to be in the climate control a
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If the choice is between 1. Physical controls that you can interact with without the need to take your eyes off the road 2. Touch screen that you need to look almost every time, much of the time while actually interacting with it. But you c
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Because you said "the vast majority" of workers would not bother actually working, and very much sounded like you were saying that the subset of people that don't enjoy their jobs is the same subset that would watch netflix i
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> People dedicated to working at home haven't worked in a good office. Or, alternatively, some people work better from home and some work better in an office. And basing "all truth" off your anecdata isn't really reas
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> Believe it or not, many workers don't actually enjoy their work, their company, their boss or their job There are a lot of people that don't enjoy their jobs, but do the work because they're getting paid to do it. You se
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> In a just society, we'd identify what specific law they broke and try them based on that ... and we would have the ability to get laws that best benefit society passed. Unfortunately - It's almost impossible to actually hold
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The original quote sounds like it's saying > The richest 10 people are so rich that they have more than... When, in reality, > The poorest 40% are so poor that they have less than a normal poor person that only has $1 to their na
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
My guess would be that they are confusing "enjoyable" with "easy". I find software development enjoyable, but it can be both hard and easy at times. And sometimes hard (problem solving) is what I want to do, other times
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> responsible for their own actions but not to blame for someone else's. You're changing the target of the actions mid sentence. Said person is responsible for their own actions _and_ to blame for their own actions. They are no
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> Well I'm also saying that those limits exist because of historical reasons, and those reasons were derived from issues in the past, and we should examine that context, and logic for those laws, before questioning if we need usury
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I'm saying that it's possible to both be the victim and to have made a stupid choice that made you winding up as the victim more likely. And, clearly, that it's possible for you to be unable to understand such subtleties.
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> If I left a million dollars out on my front porch, and someone stole it, that would not be my fault in any sort of way Pretty much all of human history to this point says that this is a practical impossibility. If there is such a datab
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> If I left a million dollars out on my front porch, and someone stole it, that would not be my fault in any sort of way It's possible for multiple people to share the blame for something. You _are_ the victim. The person who stole
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I feel like we're talking past each other here. What I'm saying is that it's hard to tell if the usary limits actually provide a benefit to the borrowers. And I'm discussing the topics related to figuring out if they do
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> Yes. Usury law serves this purpose, to draw a line. I do not understand what you're trying to say here. We're talking about - putting an upper limit on the interest rate for loans (which is what said usary limits _are_), and

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