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by aksss 4y ago
I think you’re mixing metaphors. If you earn a six figure income in most of the US, you’re decidedly not in the lower class. But that lifestyle is decidedly not the same as people in the upper class. There are a lot of shades to being “rich
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by aksss 4y ago
When you have to denigrate your opposition to understand why they think differently than you do, you are understanding nothing.
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by aksss 4y ago
Tuning a guitar string often involves going too low and then raising back up to the right note. Disruptive to the workers, but Musk is tuning a guitar not running a daycare - requirements and concerns are different. I’m sure he’s less worri
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by aksss 4y ago
Or stop using rhetorical buzzwords and the language of demagoguery.
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by aksss 4y ago
It’s also an easy way to ensure you remain single. Self-reinforcing. “Remote area” = down by the river.
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by aksss 4y ago
And we’re arguably far more tolerant of broken journalism than we are of broken code.
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by aksss 4y ago
The idea is to have, e.g. three to six months of living expenses held in reserve cash. Once you’ve built the emergency fund, spend all you want. Ladder your emergency fund into I-bonds or something if worried about it eroding from inflation
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by aksss 4y ago
I mean the coverage in the media, and am being a little sarcastic calling it “interesting”.
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by aksss 4y ago
Twenty years ago, we could count on results the same night of the election, and in our town/city election night was always a party night - everybody involved in the campaigns would gather in a convention center where the local news org
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by aksss 4y ago
Right, the interest in having auditable and secure elections is not simply a right/left issue and does not mean one's an "election denier" or an "insurrectionist". It just stands to reason that basic controls f
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by aksss 4y ago
Well, TBF it gave three people more free time. Oh, you were expecting compensated free time??
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by aksss 4y ago
Wage inflation, interesting that the whole "fight for $15" thing literally died overnight at some point. But when you're at 40-year high for inflation, rates rise, part of what the Fed is trying to do is raise unemployment.
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by aksss 4y ago
We should not ignore that for countries like Japan and Germany, they have an enormous advantage in not having to spend realistically on a defense budget relative to their risk-prone geography, living as they do under an umbrella. https:&#x
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by aksss 4y ago
Probably both, probably in line with the Pareto Principle.
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by aksss 4y ago
I seriously think HN comments get brigaded by Chinese infowarriors, so often and reliably. There's a tone that's pretty consistent with the official party line: hold up a strawman of "free markets" and "rules-based
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by aksss 4y ago
Asia is neither a country or a culture.
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by aksss 4y ago
Lighter weight, almost flew itself!
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by aksss 4y ago
If the company is in a time of chaos, one has an opportunity to be an agent of order. This may come in the form of stepping into managerial or leadership roles or stepping into gaps in the talent pool as an individual contributor. These opp
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by aksss 4y ago
Every six months the rate changes. The rate of an I Bond is called the “combined rate”, as it’s based on a formula using an annual fixed rate and a semi-annual inflation rate. The formula is [fixed rate + (2 x semiannual inflation rate) + (
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by aksss 4y ago
The 9.62% rate is for the six-month period, after that it's probably falling to 6+%, which is still better than anything else you'll find out there in terms of inflation-proofing cash. But it requires a five-year commitment, with
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by aksss 4y ago
typed while reclining on the best living conditions in the history of the planet
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by aksss 4y ago
These are times of tremendously unnatural opportunity for people who stick with it. If you doubt your objective value or just don’t like high-stress environments, then yes, start looking elsewhere now.
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by aksss 4y ago
Another consideration for Google may a decreasing level of value in scanning data from photos or acquiring new training data. Like they have all they need and more after years of collecting photos from everyone and have seen nearly all the
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by aksss 4y ago
Are we going to talk about the cognitive dissonance in there? Nobody can argue that SF hasn’t had every advantage (for many decades) in implementing a left wing utopia - a pure monopoly in politics, high taxes on high earners to fund polic
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by aksss 4y ago
This is some hilarious gymnastics. S.F. is basically a poster child for how left wing urban policy is easily turned into abusive graft and inherently prone to abuse and corruption and it’s just like, “no, more cowbell!” Just keep turning
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by aksss 4y ago
Whatever. I signed an agreement to repay (prorated) before five years over twenty years ago when these things were also quite common, and happily did so. It was clearly an inducement to not cut and run, there’s no way the repayment balances
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by aksss 4y ago
Ironic or appropriate. I’m not sure I see irony in this so much as solid delivery on expectations.
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by aksss 4y ago
I wouldn’t credit Starbucks with that, I was addicted to espresso from coffee stands long before my hometown ever got a Starbucks. Starbucks maybe gets credit for hooking a segment of population on double caf skinny unicorn frappes. I hit S
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by aksss 4y ago
Boo this man!
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by aksss 4y ago
Private citizens are behind the push for homeless criminalization, too. Enabling homelessness results in more of it, either by attracting the homeless from less friendly communities or by making it safer for people to make decisions that pu

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