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by burfog 7y ago
Nice, but I don't see how it generally works. The highest levels of pay in the article was $950,000. Wikipedia says that in Woodside "The median household income in the town is $212,917, and the median family income is $246,042.&q
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by burfog 7y ago
I'm willing to relocate for better pay so that I can afford nice things. I want to have a place where I have room for a chicken coop (30 chickens) and a 1-acre fish pond. I'm willing to commute by car for a maximum of 15 minutes.
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by burfog 7y ago
Pay is partly based on cost of living, and cost of living helps to set the market rates. You'd have to pay me 10 times more than I get now, with a huge hiring bonus, to make me move to San Francisco. I'm not alone in this thinking
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by burfog 7y ago
We don't need any complicated social or cultural explanations for the dating issue. Women generally prefer taller men. Asian men tend to be short. The explanation works the other way too, with men typically preferring shorter women. Th
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by burfog 7y ago
Note how "the system" includes our choice of how we assign blame! So when "the system is to blame", part of that is the fact that we so often assign blame to "the system" instead of holding individuals responsi
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by burfog 7y ago
Engines are sized for failure at take-off. At that time they are at maximum power, the aircraft is heavy with fuel, and the ground is mighty close. I see no evidence that larger engines are more efficient than smaller ones. Larger total fro
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by burfog 7y ago
If you must allow for the failure of one engine, adding more engines reduces weight. 2 engines: You need to install and carry 200% of the engine power needed to fly the plane. 3 engines: You need to install and carry 150% of the engine powe
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by burfog 7y ago
1. Utility-scale battery storage switches to a technology that is unsuited to consumer battery storage. For example, the batteries might only operate at high temperatures. They could be based on sodium. 2. The USA will dominate soccer. 3. I
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by burfog 7y ago
Elon Musk is constitutionally ineligible to be US president. He is an African American, having been born in South Africa. He comes to us by way of Canada, which is almost enough to make up for Canada sending Justin Bieber.
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by burfog 7y ago
The situation with other countries is irrelevant to the matter of California income evading federal taxes. If I'm in Texas, my state income tax is $0. My federal tax rate will be higher without having state taxes to deduct. Part of thi
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by burfog 7y ago
Add two at once. Possibilities include creating West California, West Washington, South Virginia, and South Illinois.
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by burfog 7y ago
Humans are not ruminants. We can not survive on hay. We can survive on the high-nutrition parts of plants, but creating these parts is resource-intensive. In some cases the whole plant is simply difficult to grow (pests, fertilizer, etc.) a
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by burfog 7y ago
Consider the people of California as a group, not as individuals, seen from the federal perspective. They should not be able to evade federal taxes by spending the money on themselves. Double taxation and beyond is the norm. You have sales
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by burfog 7y ago
I was in fact thinking of that idea that "high tax states also pay for literally all the other states", and I pointed out a flaw in that argument. They are underpaying their federal taxes. The voters in those states also happen to
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by burfog 7y ago
Capping the deduction for state and local taxes is proper. The cap should be $0. If those taxes can be deducted, the nation is subsidizing the more wasteful states. We create a situation where the winning move is to jack up state and local
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by burfog 7y ago
If it was automatic, income would be missed. The government would be revealing what it doesn't know about, and people would not supply the missing information. Under the current system, people aren't sure what the government is aw
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by burfog 7y ago
We have an excellent material for fusion reactor walls. It's the highly-radioactive waste from a fission reactor. The neutron bombardment makes the waste less radioactive. With recycling and purification steps, we can direct the equipm
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by burfog 7y ago
"resources" is an oversimplification. These are incredibly different: a. non-renewable resources like copper ore b. renewable resources like hydroelectric power c. the result of low-skill labor, such as assembling plastic toys d.
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by burfog 7y ago
Scheme is deadly boring. You'd lose a lot of students that way. Starting with bits and bytes and hardware would be pretty goddamn fun, I think. I first really got into things with assembly language for DOS. It was interesting to direct
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by burfog 7y ago
They do need to make money. How would you have them do it? My preference is a markup on the cost of validating alleged attributes. If you claim to be 6'2" tall, that might be validated with a notarized statement from a doctor. If
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by burfog 7y ago
There are obvious reasons that have nothing to do with quality of care. Iron lungs are physically large and heavy. They are expensive and difficult to move. Health insurance doesn't want to pay extra for your comfort. With an iron lung
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by burfog 7y ago
Medicine from 70 years ago can be superior to modern medicine. Which would you prefer if you couldn't breathe on your own, an iron lung or a tube jammed down your throat?
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by burfog 7y ago
Why it worked for you: "computer programmer" There was a decent chance to get that success without college. Meanwhile, what of the others who go to college? Most are not computer programmers. Lots of people get a BA in psychology,
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by burfog 7y ago
CAD is far from just something for civil engineers. It's used by mechanical engineers. It's what you use to design an engine. Good CAD software hooks up to the inventory system so that parts can be ordered automatically. It's
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by burfog 7y ago
In the most reasonable civilian use, you couldn't run away. It wouldn't be free either, but it might be covered by health insurance. The V-22 Osprey is ideal for getting you to a trauma center. It could pick you up from the highwa
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by burfog 7y ago
If the clouds are only at 1500, it seems really unwise to fly without an instrument rating. It wouldn't take much of a weather change to get a VFR-only pilot in deep trouble. The clouds could quickly go right down to ground level. Once
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by burfog 7y ago
That is obviously not "full STD screening". Missing: human papilloma virus (HPV), mycoplasma genitalium, trichomoniasis, chancroid (haemophilus ducreyi), Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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by burfog 7y ago
It's long past time to raise the altitudes. Aircraft typically need to stay above 500, and toys below 400. We could move aircraft up to a minimum of 2000, move the toys up to a maximum of 1000, and let the serious fancy big drones have
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by burfog 7y ago
The option to treat it like a motorcycle would help. You'd get a VIN, title, registration, and a plate.
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by burfog 7y ago
GDI dates back to the very first version of Windows, which was capable of running on the 8088 CPU in real mode. The concept of "userspace" was pretty weak, since the CPU didn't support protected mode. GDI obviously ran with f

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