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by TomVDB 7y ago
A different way to look at this is: does this particular perverse incentive justify reduced regulation so that it can’t happen anymore. Even if your assessment is valid, you’d likely be throwing away the baby with the bath water if you’d cu
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Why is it fundamentally flawed? There’s no question that Boeing’s implementation had major issues, but there is IMO a higher burden of argument(?) to declare that a fundamental inevitability. This could simply be a case of Boeing incompeten
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by TomVDB 7y ago
What was your original motivation to bring up the country aspect?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Here’s my thought experiment on that: if I booked a flight to my vacation destination and, at the last moment, I discovered that I’d be flying in a 737 MAX, would I cancel my trip or pay a considerable amount of moment to get all our ticket
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Probably power?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I'm pretty sure airlines do hedge against increases. But that only delays things if prices go up permanently.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The red eyes on the top picture were not enough of a hint?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The last 2 times I checked my luggage, at least one piece didn't arrive. In one of those cases, it was our camping gear that we needed a few days later (luckily we got it the morning we left the hotel for that campground, which was a 4
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> Is it really too much to check the bags in and wait at the baggage carousel at the other end to retrieve them? Yes. For me, that's really too much, if there's an alternative that's much quicker to check in (online), must
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Are you sure about OpenSCAD? I thought it used constructive solid geometry?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The recommendation part is not my experience. (The whining about suspicious people walking on the street OTOH...) We pretty much only use Nextdoor for the occasional recommendation or when we have some garage stuff to sell/give away.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
In our well to do South Bay neighborhood, it's about unknowns ringing their door bell, which is obviously a very suspicious activity. When my wife and I once had to go to all the houses of the neighborhood, it was amazing how many peop
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The 2012 retina was released mid-2012, and the 7 year rule starts when it was last produced. So it hasn't reached obsolete/vintage status yet. (I used the same MacBook, replaced the battery a couple of months ago, and have no plan
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You’re thinking country level, but let’s go one step below that: when one billionaire moved from New Jersey to Florida, it was a major issue for New Jersey’s annual budget.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It’s less about taxes, but it’s also not about dying mysteriously. The main reason is to have a backup plan in case things go wrong: there aren’t a lot of reliable legal protections to begin with and the political situation can change any t
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Many anti-vaxxers are not religious conservatives but progressives who live in rich enclaves of Marin county etc. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/kindergartens-vaccines-...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Nvidia had (has?) CUDA centers of excellence for more than a decade, they gave GPUs to universities, they've had their own compute related conference for years, they have a huge set of libraries. During all the time, AMD did essentiall
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I switched from Python to Ruby because I wanted make my own hobby website and Ruby on Rails looked great. And 14 years later, my website has long gone, but I still use and love Ruby for all my scripting needs while my Python skills have fad
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Sure, but it's not nearly as extravagant as "they are probably eating out twice a day at that rate" (if you don't count lunch at the restaurant at work as "eating out".) It's a pretty normal behavior for a
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by TomVDB 8y ago
4 to 5 times dining out with the family at $25 per head: $400. A latte for 2 at Starbucks every day + the occasional croissant: $400. Sponsored lunch at work for 2 during the week at $7 per: $300. With the remaining $1000, you still need to
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Nobody made that budget. It's a reactive thing ("wow, look what I've spent! How did that happen?") instead of planning for it. I wouldn't be surprised (but feel free to correct me) if the vast majority of people in
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by TomVDB 8y ago
"illiquid asset" was all you wrote. That's completely orthogonal to "doing nothing."
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You can't just write this and then not post a link to the secret recipe!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It's very simple. Despite the weekly mass shootings in your neighborhood, the life expectancy of an American is still 79 years. And if you're commenting on Hacker News, chances are that yours will be higher. And the majority of Am
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You’ve just made it completely impractical for anyone to invest their cash in, say, heavy machinery or a new fabrication plant. Is that your intention?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It is wrong to blame 2 individuals who returned 3000 fake phone in what it's an illegal scam plain and simple? What's the alternative? Praise them as modern day Robin Hoods?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Nobody cares about the RTX feature. Gamers always prefer higher framerates over improved indirect lighting which is in practice rather subtle. You're extrapolating the opinion of a subset of gamers (high speed twitch gaming) to ev
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Past returns don't guarantee future returns. Yes. But that's essentially a platitude that doesn't help making a rational decision. You can apply the same slogan to the stock market. Here's how I look at it: for the
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That's unusual: whenever we got a new mortgage or refinanced (US Bank, Wells Fargo, Chase, ...), our rental income and the rental cost was included in the calculation.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Mankind came to what it is 99.9% of time without artificial devaluation. Mankind came to what it is 99.999% of time without antibiotics too. Arguments like this are rarely constructive.

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