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by asdff 5mo ago
Taxes are one of those things that seem difficult and people reach for tooling or expertise without trying initially without, but are pretty easy to do yourself just filling out the forms.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Outsourcing of knowledge workers is still ramping up. The issue in the past was the skills were few and far between internationally. Facilities were also not built. That has changed now in a lot of fields. New campuses have been built in pl
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by asdff 5mo ago
Actually illegal in a lot of the midwest I'm not even kidding.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Just what happens with the rain load during the peak growing season. Later in the summer it will switch to a more drought condition though and there won't be so frequent mowing. But the peak parts, yeah, not much I don't think you
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by asdff 5mo ago
There are places in the US that are cheap still. Midwest you can still get 150-250k homes today, decent ones at that too. Large american style, 4 beds with 2 car garage sort of thing.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Hate to admit it but it is self imposed what you are doing. You don't actually need a brand new driveway. You don't have to manage all 10 acres. You can keep up a little half acre of it same as you used to, and let the rest go to
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by asdff 5mo ago
Depends where you live. CA has prop 13 but other places you are reassessed regularly and plenty of homeowners are surprised to get priced out of their homes.
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by asdff 5mo ago
You could just not do any of that stuff. Most people don't power wash their exterior or clean their windows. They don't call in hvac service, maybe just change the furnace or ac filter and probably plenty don't even know to d
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by asdff 5mo ago
Even with fixer uppers the house is usually functional and fine. Just people think the bathroom is too ugly to poop in, so they have to spend five figures and rip out the walls, floor, ceiling, and everything else, to replace it with new wa
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by asdff 5mo ago
Depends where you live. In the midwest you might legitimately need to mow 3x a week and you might have a huge lot. If you say screw it and let it go to knee high weeds, city might show up and cut your grass and fine you for it.
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by asdff 5mo ago
>But the biggest thing is that I'm the only one in charge of maintenance. There's no one person I can call for every single problem. Keeping track of regular maintenance, performing that maintenance, and learning how to DIY thi
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by asdff 5mo ago
Make two local backups and store the other one at work or a friends house.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Not everything is in the exponential growth model. Most small businesses in your town for example. Margins might afford an upper middle class lifestyle for the owner and that is a good enough business model for this company to last decades,
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by asdff 5mo ago
Dissertationware is common in a lot of fields, honestly.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Seems like computers have become a sort of ongoing expense though. They are cheaper at the get, but no one is getting a new desk every 3 years like they might a new laptop. People are probably burning through laptops for one reason or anoth
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by asdff 5mo ago
In my day adults were clueless on tech. Not like there was anyone to teach programming when they could barely turn on their computer. Hopefully it's better now in that.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Last thing I need for my sleep through my thin walls is a neighbor with a didgeridoo.
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by asdff 5mo ago
That isn't why though. Germany has a demographic cliff right now. Same post WWII baby boom as anywhere but for whatever reason, no echo boom in the 80-90s like the US. Also US has absolutely been sponging up central and south american
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by asdff 5mo ago
Where does it stop? Slavery would be fine if only it were legal? I mean that is the logical conclusion of a lot of business efficiency thinking. Business efficiency in a lot of ways is inhuman and against the spirit of "the collective
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by asdff 5mo ago
I wonder how close they can triangulate? I'd guess they are SOL if I am in an apartment building with 200 other units.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Wow, you mail them the complaint? No reason to worry about accidentally hitting the talk button I guess. Probably nothing happening unless you spam the frequency for weeks I'd guess.
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by asdff 5mo ago
"Rsync as a service with surge pricing" now where do I sign my series A?
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by asdff 5mo ago
How does the FCC enforce this sort of thing? Are they listening in to certain frequencies nationally with the ability to triangulate a handheld down to actually identifying someone?
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by asdff 5mo ago
If I were the leader of an alien civilization and I wanted to probe a potentially hostile life bearing planet, last thing I would do is have the probe look like anything compelling. I'd make it look like a regular old asteroid. And boy
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by asdff 5mo ago
One wonders if AIs will also lose capability over time in this manner. For example, most all the training set is real data, either scraped or from surveilling users of the tool, or synthetic data simulated to be the same shape and dimension
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by asdff 5mo ago
> the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.
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by asdff 5mo ago
The problems in any domain are infinite. But, alas, money is not.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Nitpick but commercial roofers prefer pneumatic over battery.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Wow. Seems like a headache compared to how I make slides the old fashioned way: copy and paste my figures into blank powerpoint.
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by asdff 5mo ago
Thanks. I was even going to mention how George made some decisions in star wars arguably to further toy sales.

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