cactus2093

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by cactus2093 4y ago
> You could get a TV for less than $50 if it had the same features and processing power as it did in 2002. Same for computers. Well have I ever got good news for you. Here's a random article about TV tech from 2002 that I just found
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Why are you grouping everything electrical under labor costs, if it includes things like expensive copper wiring and a $4500 electric panel?
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by cactus2093 4y ago
That's exactly what makes this a good acquisition, right? Roomba has the brand/trademark recognition in the US and solid marketshare but a stagnant product, which iRobot apparently does not have the expertise needed to keep improv
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I don't think that's the best advice. There is no hard line between business, product, and technical concerns. There's a lot of gray area. If you want to be great at your job, then understanding the context of business and pr
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> We won't be able to do that anymore when all of the habitable land is owned by the 0.1% of plutocrats. The homeownership rate in the US has actually stayed surprisingly constant over time, it's fluctuated between about 62% an
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I've been using One Medical for I think like 8 years now, at first I paid for it myself but the past few years it's been paid by my employer. In my experience they're still a bit more convenient than the average medical pract
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Nope, Van Moof uses a cheaper cadence sensor not a torque sensor. Bosch ebike motors are amazing and a huge step up, but bikes that use them generally sell for $5000+ and the Van Moof S3/X3 are half that price.
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by cactus2093 4y ago
The manual shifting is a big improvement at least, I didn't realize it was officially supported. Back when I had the bike almost 2 years ago there was the 3rd party Moofer app that supported it but Van Moof the company was very adamant
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Clever idea, but I wish they would put this much thought & problem-solving effort into their bikes themselves. Their bikes have an auto-shifting system with hub gearing that is very prone to breaking. On a normal bike to avoid putting u
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by cactus2093 4y ago
If true isn't that alone a pretty strong signal? That would mean a shrinking possibility of an already bungled acquisition going through is better than the status quo. Seems like Musk has kind of done Twitter a favor by shaking things
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by cactus2093 4y ago
The stock made a huge jump when he announced he purchased a large stake on April 4, and now it's back to $34 which is ~5% above its mid-March low point. Most other tech stocks are down in that time frame, e.g. FB is down 13%. Doesn&#x2
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by cactus2093 4y ago
If you count social security and medicaid taxes the $400k couple is paying 36% and the 600k couple is paying 40%. So yeah it's not the majority of people in the Bay Area paying 40% but if both spouses are working at big tech companies
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I just recently visited NYC for a week after a few years away. Got in mid-week and was taking the subway around during the day, and thought wow it's really made huge improvements in reliability recently. Trains were all coming quickly
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Agree with most of this. Although to be fair the social safety net is not as weak in the US as most people think, either. The majority of the Federal government's budget goes to Medicare and Social Security, the main gap is just that f
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by cactus2093 4y ago
The tech salaries you see discussed in the US are in jobs that also cover healthcare, so we don't pay out of pocket each month for health insurance. And these jobs include "unlimited vacation", however most people don't
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by cactus2093 4y ago
A lot of people working in tech in California pay above 40% effective income tax rate with a top marginal tax rate of like 48%. So Europe income tax rates are not as much higher as you might think. The tax brackets in the US tend to be much
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by cactus2093 4y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion recently is that on every single engineering team I've worked on in-person pre-pandemic, synchronous interruptions were a significant frustration. Remember how we all used to b
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Forced sex, or torture, or other horrible things are inhumane and unacceptable. Being required to sit in a cell without leaving after you have been convicted of a crime is something that society has decided is acceptable. It seems like bein
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by cactus2093 4y ago
But everything in prison is being done to you against your will. That's kind of the whole point. I don't see why being required to do a moderate amount of work under humane working conditions is so much worse than being required t
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Some call it "debate team bullshit", others would call it "applying basic logic". Why let a pesky little thing like intellectual honesty stand in the way of jumping on a good hate bandwagon?
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Yes that's the entire point of contention here. Twitter is a company, its management can choose to treat it more like a town square or more like a closed network with stricter content mediation rules. Elon wants it to be more like a to
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by cactus2093 4y ago
The only problem with this approach is the amount of time before your interest in a new thing starts to fade is often just about the same amount of time it takes to recognize the limits of the cheap stuff and decide to upgrade. It's de
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by cactus2093 4y ago
It's a learning experience! Don't feel bad, now you've learned a good lesson for future interviews. > That said I find it crazy how big the difference is on these two conditions and am struggling a bit now to justify why I
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by cactus2093 4y ago
This is really cool! I've wondered about exactly this same thing. Showing the valid solutions remaining would be really neat as well, because I'm really not sure how to interpret valid words remaining or when to use my undos in th
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> and the fact that it's Logitech, honestly, and will bounce off What's wrong with Logitech? I see a lot of praise for the MX Master mouse and keyboard, I use the mouse myself and it's been great.
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Your example is not actually that crazy at FAANG level companies. I know a lot of people in their early 30's that are L6 or even L7 at big tech companies, maybe they've changed jobs every 2 years on average in their career which i
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by cactus2093 4y ago
You're saying the most important considerations for a kid are 1. preventing prank 911 calls and 2. teaching them not to be anti-android snobs?
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> Now, it seems all transgressive elements have been stripped from the mix and it’s all about “please like me, like my product, I’m desperate for your approval” It's all a matter of perspective, I don't see this trend as necess
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Is this really a trend in the overall market or does Rocket Mortgage just suck? When I looked into it they wouldn't do jumbo loans (which is just anything slightly above the median home price in the state o
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by cactus2093 4y ago
With the SALT cap at $10k and the mortgage interest deduction cap limited to $750k property value, the ultra-wealthy are not really benefitting from this as much as you are saying. Someone with a $750-$1M home is getting roughly the maximum

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