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by cheald 8y ago
I see you've never worked a helpdesk. :) (Depressingly, yes. PEBKAC is the most common diagnosis and people get really angry about it.)
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by cheald 8y ago
Heh, I have one share of TSLA, and that's just a symbolic statement of my desire to see them succeed in their mission. Guess that makes me a shill. I'll enjoy my 4.3 seconds of retirement on the proceeds. Is this the part where I
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by cheald 8y ago
Certainly they haven't conquered the auto market - it's huge. I don't think anyone has made that argument, though. Your article is nearly two years old, though; 2018 was a very different year for EVs because of the Model 3. H
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by cheald 8y ago
I don't think I am - consumer acceptance is a critical part of economic viability. A product which nobody wants to buy isn't a viable alternative, regardless of price point. To cast some perspective, Nissan has sold about 380k Lea
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by cheald 8y ago
It wasn't very long ago that electric cars were considered nothing more than an elaborate joke which would never command equal consideration with gasoline-powered cars. The Roadster definitely challenged a lot of those assumptions. Tes
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by cheald 8y ago
The first two issues both sound like you have misconfigured DNS and the first resolver in your list is invalid (and has to time out). The same misconfiguration under OSX would be likely to create the same issues.
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by cheald 8y ago
The example numbers were already in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
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by cheald 8y ago
Historically it's been one of the most stable stores of wealth and predictably dependable forms of investment. You're going to live somewhere, so if you can capture your cost of housing as equity rather than paying it to someone e
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by cheald 8y ago
Surely there are options besides the most prime locations, though. The problem we're describing isn't fundamentally an issue with price inflation, it's an issue with supply constraint. Price is how we decide who doesn't
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by cheald 8y ago
Absolutely. I think there are a number of factors here, but the most trivial is population growth - we're +90m people in the US since 1985 and we've seen a percentage shift of the total population to the major urban centers - a
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by cheald 8y ago
Other major life milestones like marriage and procreation are happening later, too. It's data ripe to be stapled into any number of narratives.
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by cheald 8y ago
Add up all your monthly debt service obligations (credit cards, student loans, car payment, etc - use the minimum payment). This is your current debt obligation. Your pretax monthly income is $5833. 36% of that is $2100. The maximum a lende
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by cheald 8y ago
That suggests to me that your existing debt-to-income ratio is too high. The conventional limit lenders will consider is a 36% pre-tax debt-to-income, including mortgage obligations. If a lender won't consider more than $175k, that sug
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by cheald 8y ago
Housing costs are included in the CPI, as well. In fact, they are about 40% of the total CPI weighting.
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by cheald 8y ago
It's certainly preferable to not have to double up bedrooms, but we have to remember that our parents did it just fine. I grew up in a family of 6 in a 1600 sq ft house. It worked just fine, but we'd look at that today and conside
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by cheald 8y ago
Sure, there are lots of factors in play. Property taxes vary by county and are difficult to make broad statements about (in my county, annual increases are capped so my property taxes are not assessed based on the retail value of the proper
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by cheald 8y ago
They've doubled in price, but cost per square foot is broadly stable [1], rates are substantially lower than they were 2 decades ago, and sub-20% down loans are much more common than they once were. A $150k loan in 1999 at 7.6% would c
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by cheald 8y ago
Seems to be. From about:gpu: Graphics Feature Status Canvas: Hardware accelerated Flash: Hardware accelerated Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated Compositing: Ha
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by cheald 8y ago
The amdgpu drivers in Linux are fantastic these days. Works out of the box with most hardware. No proprietary binaries needed, other than the firmware blobs. AMD is doing a really solid job of supporting their Linux user base.
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by cheald 8y ago
The primary argument against consumption taxes is that they're regressive on a percentage-of-income basis, as your spending as a percentage of total income tends to drop as your income increases (it's worth noting, though, that pa
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by cheald 8y ago
That's actually not quite as incorrect as we might intuit; we talk about the top 1% and earnings quintiles and such as though they're static fixtures, but mobility in and out of those positions is actually pretty robust. https:&#
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by cheald 8y ago
Arizona has a line item on your tax return for the "I didn't pay enough" tax. You can elect to pay any amount you'd like over your legal tax burden. Predictably, it's raised a few thousand dollars and hasn't ma
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by cheald 8y ago
Everyone says "Google" to mean "do an internet search". It's still a registered trademark and you can't promote your own product using that name. The term "IP address geolocation" is common and descri
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by cheald 8y ago
http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&qt=sno&reel... Not trolling. That's their IP. I wouldn't fight that fight.
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by cheald 8y ago
I have never typo'd a G for a 6, but I sure am glad my password manager shows digits in a different color from letters, because I confuse l/1/I and O/0 all the time .
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by cheald 8y ago
This is generally the argument against command economies, in _favor_ of market economies. It's formally referred to as the Economic Calculation Problem.
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by cheald 8y ago
Yeah, I tell people that I treat it like a well-mannered 15-year-old driver - I expect it'll do the right thing, but I'm here to take over in case it finds itself out of its depth.
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by cheald 8y ago
It's almost like a Chromecast for your games. It connects to your main computer on your network and can manage Steam remotely. Starting a game streams the audio and video from the game from your gaming computer to your TV, and returns
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by cheald 8y ago
> I guarantee there isn't a single person in this thread who could tell me what someone's squat form should look like based on their femur:torso ratio and hip/ankle flexibility. Flat lumbar, stance roughly shoulder width,
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by cheald 8y ago
A good filter is to get your advice from people that compete in (or coach athletes competing in) tested federations. While you can't guarantee they aren't cheating, those folks tend to be watched very carefully.

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