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by arebop 7y ago
When I check at coveredca.com, I see the cheapest plan by estimated total cost [kaiser bronze] is $18069/year. Perhaps you're younger, or assuming that you will not actually have to use any medical services or products?
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by arebop 7y ago
Just Obamacare will cost you $20k. Of course, on $40k/year I suppose one would be taking subsidies or medicaid instead of paying full freight. But, then I guess it could be said you can make it in SF on $0/year...
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by arebop 7y ago
It says it is about tools that "allow phone companies to block unwanted calls" (emphasis mine). So the one wielding the tool is the phone company. It's unclear whether users can opt out of the default. It's also uncl
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by arebop 7y ago
I remember before that, when it was touted as the more convenient and cheaper alternative to black car service (which was already cheaper than taxis for airport runs!).
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by arebop 7y ago
A fully-loaded S in the U.S. is $131k so $150k could possibly even be a little low to include Finnish VAT.
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by arebop 7y ago
Your statement is also not accurate, because there were several variants of "the agreement" and for some pairs of companies the agreement extended beyond cold-calling [ https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/
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by arebop 7y ago
These employees aren't very sympathetic victims. Nobody wants to hear about how some 5%-er with a bunch of good alternatives should be making more and having more choices about who to work for. You'll even find in the comments her
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by arebop 8y ago
FANG interns aren't coffee-runners; you can't give them work you wouldn't give to a real junior engineer. First: doing so undermines your efforts to recruit the intern. Second: doing so undermines your efforts to evaluate the
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by arebop 8y ago
According to the article, is mostly speculators betting that the property values will rise faster than the market consensus (these speculators don't want to be locked into leases that will soon undervalue the property). Also, it is arb
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by arebop 8y ago
There's a very strong narrative of the tech elite sitting at the top of an oppressive hierarchy in San Francisco, but there should be some critical thought about the mechanism of this oppression. Most of these tech workers are exchangi
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by arebop 8y ago
My Pixel 3 was delayed several weeks with no ability to cancel or understand why or get status info. Then it was delivered. So, really crappy fulfillment experience but the phone is great and the data service coverage has been a little bett
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by arebop 8y ago
You're confused; the parent comment and the article are primarily about the SALT deduction, not the home mortgage interest deduction. The main reason to mention "homebuyers" is that these taxpayers want to change their state
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by arebop 8y ago
I'm actually fine with both having advertising and with the existence or stewardship of user data, but in fact the hill I want to defend is "the profitability of an enterprise does not determine its moral quality."
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by arebop 8y ago
If there's an industry predicated on immoral activities, then there is a moral distinction to be drawn between businesses in that industry and businesses in industries that have no such requirement to act immorally.
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by arebop 8y ago
Google's search foundations were built on a private cloud, in contrast to the prevailing architecture of that time. Google never denied the utility of building abstractions over commoditized machines the way Microsoft denied the hetero
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by arebop 8y ago
Isn't retirement a counter-example? Yes, a lot of new retirees have trouble redefining their identity and finding purpose in life. But, on the other hand, many retirees are very happy despite not having a supervisor or any customers. A
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by arebop 8y ago
https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html or https://data.medicare.gov/data/nursing-home-compare
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by arebop 8y ago
Fentanyl is much stronger the morphine, so if this is 10x stronger than Fentanyl then it is also much stronger than morphine.
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by arebop 8y ago
Also: does anyone see these programs and think wow, this airline UX is so awful I want to show them my loyalty so that eventually they'll stop trying so hard to make me unhappy? I'm pretty convinced this all boils down to a sort o
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by arebop 8y ago
My understanding is that F&G are culturally different from N&A, but I think you're probably being a little too hard on yourself. The company probably spent a lot to recruit you, they have some interest in helping you succeed an
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by arebop 8y ago
It doesn't really matter but I'll just point out that the poor people they are fearing here are still rich enough to afford an apartment in Cupertino, meaning that they're millionaires. Just likely single-digit millionaires r
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by arebop 8y ago
I gather the key point is that one of the employees expressed disappointment in the election outcome, and suggested that other employees might feel similarly.
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by arebop 8y ago
Should it geotag your photo with your current location, assuming you have that feature enabled in the camera app? Should it use your location to contextualize your query for "pizza near me?" If so, does that mean your browsing his
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by arebop 8y ago
Maybe lobbying and the current rules about campaign finance are undemocratic and should be changed, but meantime where's the lobbying group where we can donate to advocate for tax simplification? I used to think it was Americans for Ta
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by arebop 8y ago
If I owned a big auto insurer like Geico, I'd be interested in diversifying into other kinds of risks. Of course Berkshire does have a broader insurance portfolio but still I wonder if this is part of the motivation for them to team up
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by arebop 8y ago
It's pretty much unheard of. Large companies will frequently have cafeterias and they may be partially subsidized but it's very rare that they would be 0 cost to employees. Also, the quality of ingredients and the creativity and c
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by arebop 8y ago
The objection is not to innovation or originality per se. Nobody is saying that the first example of a concept is always terrible. It's merely almost always terrible. So if you want to produce a good built environment, you are almos
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by arebop 8y ago
The crappy GPUs make the MBPs much less appealing for video work than they used to be, compared to other laptops that are better able to cope with modern demands (4k, HDR, noise reduction, stabilization, etc.). So maybe scratch another prof
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by arebop 8y ago
If it's not a hard cutoff as suggested upthread but just a progressive phaseout then the responsible person still has a reward and yet the benefits can be focused on the needy. I'm a proponent of BI but I have to point out that me
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by arebop 8y ago
(in the very small digital segment of the much larger advertising market). Astoundingly, the vast majority of ad spend is still done with the traditional level (close to none) of quantitative rigor.

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