bluGill

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by bluGill 3mo ago
No. You are supposed to understand them, and why despite having so much more wealth they often really do feel like they are in real poverty. I don't have sympathy for them either. I'm working hard enough to make my own [slightly]
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by bluGill 3mo ago
That is a matter for debate. Europe generally doesn't have a bad life. However depending on what you personally value you might find it could be better. Would you be willing to compromise the lower work hours for more money - that m
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I don't know about billionaires, but I do know couples who between the two are earning nearly a million dollars per year - yet because their spending has grown to match their income they are stressed about having enough food to eat the
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by bluGill 3mo ago
That isn't the full picture. Nannies are not common amount the wealthy in the US - they exist, but they are less common even though the money to pay a full time nanny is there. Also where they exist they often are part-time, often you
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by bluGill 3mo ago
A house is a good hedge against inflation - my payments stay the same for 30 years of inflation, then go to zero (I still have taxes and maintenance so this is wrong - but it is close enough to true for discussion). Meanwhile rent is expec
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I can sell my house when I'm retired if I choose to do that. I can only save so much money in retirement plans. A house (in the US - other countries have different rules!) is my next best retirement investment because I can live there
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Generally people are indexing the numbers always go up to inflation. Which should be different, but so far numbers still go up anyway.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> My advice to any young'un thinking they can wait out the market: you can't, buy whatever you can afford as soon as you can and watch inflation reduce that painful monthly outgoing to something more manageable over time. I don
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Yeah, he came in after my most. To some extent I stand corrected, but in most cases (or at least the ones I've seen) he doesn't actually contradict me since he is really saying "it is complicated".
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Too late to edit, but I remembered overnight. The rule everyplace where I've been is the meter box and all the wires coming out of the box are owned by the customer. The meter and all the wires leading into the meter are the utilitie
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I'm not trying to overlook cmake's issues... However my first thought on reading about your problem is "you shouldn't do that anyway - write simple code that someone else can understand". A little complexity is som
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by bluGill 3mo ago
In this case until I started asking hard questions about how do I see what my code is doing (remember I was new and he was experienced - the correct assumption is my code was bad) he wouldn't have known there was a bug. Nothing was wo
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Dallas has plenty of density as proven elsewhere. As for wanting it, people don't want what they don't know. How they would act if something existed is very different from what they say.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> merchant fees, which lead to higher prices at the register Only for merchants who have never done real accounting. They lose a lot more than merchant fees to cash. The clerk has to count and recount the money. Then the manager count
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by bluGill 3mo ago
There are other considerations though. What are the laws in England or Japan (I do not know, but this is critical). Also India has a lot of engineers, they may hire a bunch and then open the system locally just because everybody can go o
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Road salt means I can drive as if it was summer a few hours after the snow stops falling. While the snow is falling I still have to be careful. Ideally I would never drive when the snow is falling, but I live where that happens often enoug
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I'm still waiting to see independent analysis of the data. Autonomous driving has the potential to be better, but without data I have no idea if it is really better, or even worse. I've seen lots of people talking, but when I dig
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Why would I do that when I already have a car which I need to use for every other trip. Once I'm there maybe, last time I did this I rented a car - which given the prices I've heard is likely the only affordable option. (my fina
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Unions are part of the problem, but there are lots of other parts that all work together.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Competent is the key here. $346 million would get 10-15 miles of underground subway if they were competent.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Those cities are enough to prove that transit works. We can then look at other parts of the world and see the same in smaller cities.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> Then why does public transit work in other countries with suburbs? To give a clear answer that others have beat around: it is the network. Transit works when you can get places. When you can get many places it doesn't work. The
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The other thing people often get wrong is these things are funded by 20 year bonds, but they last for much longer. If you make the incorrect assumption that something must be replaced when the bond is paid off the suburb cannot support its
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by bluGill 3mo ago
For the average person in Dallas the car they already own is faster than waymo: it is sitting in their driveway where they left it (or in the parking spot where they left it - while cars are stolen that is rare enough to ignore). They don&#
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Your community should be more like 500 people. Each house will have more than two people (most people live with a romantic partner, and kids are still common enough) and there are more than 100 houses in the neighborhood.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Sadly yes. Normally it isn't a cul-de-sac. It is a neighborhood with several streets, but the streets are more like a maze so that residents can get in (they know the way), but anyone just passing through cannot find a path (without
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> They do care that the code can compile on their (possibly old) machine. In my experience is it doesn't work. Sure it can be made to work and autotools asks all the right questions. However in the real world I have yet to see an
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Even in the suburbs it is not hard to get a bus that is half full during off peak if the service is good. Most service in the US is not good so perhaps you are only looking at one of the many bad examples and incorrectly thinking it must be
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Weird, AEDs are cheap enough. Most companies I know have them now. They need to be checked to ensure they still work (that is the battery isn't dead)
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Almost all blind people can see the sun. In the US blind legally means your eyes cannot be corrected to better than 20/200 - without glasses my eyes are worth than that so I have a good idea of what the low end of blind would be like.

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