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541.
by ac29 2y ago
In the US, salaries are always given as gross (pre-tax). Someone earning $200k gross in California would take home around $130k/year if single and $145k/year if married.
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by ac29 2y ago
The default CMA cash position can be a money market now, so you dont need to move things around to get the better rate.
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by ac29 2y ago
> Americans won't buy cheap cars Sure they will, they'll even buy cheap EVs. The highest lifetime EV sales in the US is the Leaf, Model 3/Y, and Bolt. They aren't at the top of the list because they're the best c
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by ac29 2y ago
$283/TB-year doesnt strike me as inexpensive. And that price does not include any data transfer.
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by ac29 2y ago
> My impression is that these employee creature comforts are the absolute first thing to go. Is that even such a bad thing? Given the choice between cutting expenses on food/drinks and firing people, I cant really blame a manager fo
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by ac29 2y ago
Intel has about 25 million employee workdays a year. Someone did the math that spending even an extra dollar or two per workday is a lot of money. It is a lot of money, but close to a rounding error compared to total payroll spending.
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by ac29 2y ago
Buybacks dont dodge taxes, they just defer them.
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by ac29 2y ago
> in my experience drug addicts are not very good at hiding it when they lose control. Addiction takes a lot of forms and its very likely you know people that are good at hiding it.
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by ac29 2y ago
If you want something a bit heavier duty, check out cambro. For example: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/cambro-rfs1ppsw3190-1-qt-tr... One downside of plastic food storage in general is that I find it doesnt seem to rinse
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by ac29 2y ago
A suitably hot shower works well too.
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by ac29 2y ago
> Water in pipes inside a house's "thermal envelope" is presumably around 72 deg. F. The pipes in my house are in the crawlspace underneath the house, which is definitely nothing like 72F this time of year. Any hot water m
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by ac29 2y ago
> So far I haven't seen production-ready robots doing even relatively simple agricultural tasks, such as picking tomatoes in a greenhouse and taking care of the plants. It's all done by cheap foreign labour. While they aren&#x2
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by ac29 2y ago
If you can boil water, you can make coffee at least as good as Starbucks. If boiling water is too difficult, there are automated push button machines (Nescafe, etc).
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by ac29 2y ago
> I'm curious to see if I can identify what data source and search software it is based on Kagi uses Apple Maps
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by ac29 2y ago
Platinum is 90% efficient at 20%, but OP is using a 1600W power supply, so that 20% is 320W. Any load below that is going to be less efficient.
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by ac29 2y ago
With 16GB of RAM these vision models will run. How quickly depends on a lot of factors.
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by ac29 2y ago
A new Bolt is coming next year.
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by ac29 2y ago
> I'm always a bit confused by profitable companies with (presumably) large reserves laying off lots of people. According to their financial statement, Dropbox has more liabilities than assets. So yes, they have a large cash reserve
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by ac29 2y ago
>additionally the total investment about doubles in roughly 5 years According to data at FRED ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS ), the median US home price has gone from $320k to $420k in the past 5 years (an
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by ac29 2y ago
Inflation adjusted bonds are a thing in the US (though at least with TIPS, the real return has occasionally been negative).
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by ac29 2y ago
It is upstream and Arch gives directions for enabling it in the standard kernel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Building_a_kernel
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by ac29 2y ago
The cost to repossesses and resell a phone is going to greatly exceed its value in nearly every case, so this idea wouldnt work.
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by ac29 2y ago
You can get a (used) Pixel 6a for well under $200 and it has updates until mid 2027. A brand new Pixel 8a is under $500 and has updates until 2031.
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by ac29 2y ago
According to a quick look at frequencycheck.com, of the 14 LTE bands used in Canada, all but 2 of them are also used in the US.
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by ac29 2y ago
> Well they made an extra $1k by doing it this way. Not really, the treasury had to borrow $7000 for over a year that they wouldnt have had to otherwise, which isnt free.
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by ac29 2y ago
CPX machines at Hetzner use EPYC also
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by ac29 2y ago
> Do normal people have to make a significant conscious effort not to finish what they start?! No, some things are hard and take significant conscious effort to complete regardless of how "normal" you are. Especially things th
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by ac29 2y ago
VHF is actually pretty good for non line of sight (at least, better than everything higher frequency). Its not great for over the horizon communication, but its pretty good at getting through trees and other obstacles.
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by ac29 2y ago
The median home-owning household in the bay area doesnt make anywhere close to $400k/yr. Its expensive, but not that expensive.
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by ac29 2y ago
Brokers have been required to track costs basis information since 2011. That doesnt really help for assets purchased before then, so estate executors would need to find records for transactions before then. The IRS will generally assume a c

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