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by cjlars 6y ago
You can reduce load on the fan by increasing the number of filters. Arrange 2 into a wedge or 4 into a cube around the box fan and direct the airflow with cardboard and tape. Worked great at our drafty place during the forest fires last sum
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by cjlars 6y ago
They would have different risk profiles depending on what their clients are actually doing. RH probably has much greater net exposure than Fidelity since they have a greater share of meme investors in their customer base. Fidelity definitel
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by cjlars 6y ago
Ground based defenses would have a certain advantage due to having access to more energy. That means more sensors, faster processing power and greater effective range. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9345/the
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by cjlars 6y ago
Just in case anyone's confused (I was at first), the title refers to COVID deaths only. The all cause US death toll was ~7,700 per day over the 2017-2019 period, and has likely exceeded the 9/11 number (2,996) every day for decade
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by cjlars 6y ago
A good heuristic is that if the damages are less than $20k or so, it doesn't make financial sense to sue. So a lot of small investments through a sketchy or one sided contract can easily allow bad actors to continue to operate for year
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by cjlars 6y ago
It's hard to tell whether this will be a net benefit in practice. On the one hand, more efficiency and liquidity in small investment projects is probably good. But I also see two big opportunities for abuse: One risk would be combining
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by cjlars 6y ago
Doing marketing analytics right isn't easy and the mathematical and statistical chops required is not often a skillset that coincides with great marketing skill. Larger organizations would be well served to split out a team for analyti
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Tax Burden Equal to 70% Rate Crushes Americans Unable to Pay(bloomberg.com)
3 points by cjlars 6y ago|1 comments
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by cjlars 6y ago
I think there's only a few white papers on the protests, here's one not otherwise mentioned in the thread: https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article/doi/10.1...
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by cjlars 6y ago
I'm fairly certain that it's illegal to pay someone for less than two hours of work [1 and 2] in California, so the practice of just doing a couple rides on your way home from dropping the kids off or hitting up peak rush hour for
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by cjlars 6y ago
Do these things need to be drydocked? We have very fast and aggressive bottom growth where I live, race boats get cleaned every few weeks, cruisers develop a bit of sludge that turns into a full on boat bottom salad pretty quick.
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by cjlars 6y ago
I know a lot of HNWI and they all complain about tax burden regularly and never mention anything even resembling 'relative position'. IMO the relative status thing is a myth perpetuated by people with a political axe to grind. Mos
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by cjlars 6y ago
Three possibilities: 1. All the bay area companies realize they can employ the best talent remotely from around the country (globe?) successfully. The SF pay premium drops. 2. Bay Area companies pay according to cost of living, many remote
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by cjlars 6y ago
Mostly it's been people working for both at the same time, and then taking the best fare as it comes up. Employers can definitely prevent them from doing that, and then there would be additional friction over who gets to schedule drive
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by cjlars 6y ago
BBB Accreditation program?
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by cjlars 6y ago
It's basically pre-internet Yelp
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by cjlars 6y ago
A friend briefly held a job keeping the books for a penis pill company. They offered a money back guarantee, didn't honor it, and then, when the credit card companies locked their accounts for chargebacks, used a series of social secur
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by cjlars 6y ago
This is very, very, very easy to test experimentally though, right?
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by cjlars 6y ago
Data's all sorts of messed up in this. My friend's company is in this and 3 columns are flat out wrong and different from what he submitted. There's only 7 applicant submitted columns! But remember where it came from: thousan
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by cjlars 6y ago
Say you have $100k in the bank and $100k due to staff and landlords in the next two months and then the government shuts you down for those two months. If the government then gives you $100k, you're not getting rich, you're breaki
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by cjlars 6y ago
For assets not taking advantage of the step up basis in New York (e.g. small business profits) the tax rate would be ~50% federal and state in the year earned, plus 56% federal and state when you pass. That's an overall rate of 78%...
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by cjlars 6y ago
This is the model for pretty much every new venture that's 'main street' and not 'VC'. There are many times more main street businesses than tech startups. While it's reasonable to bootstrap a sole proprietorsh
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by cjlars 6y ago
Strangely, saw him (twice!) almost 25 years ago and thought the same thing.
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by cjlars 6y ago
Excess deaths are comparable to other 'out of control' EU countries, like Spain, Italy and Belgium, but UK is definitely among the problem group. [charts halfway down the link] https://www.ft.com/content/a26fb
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by cjlars 6y ago
"Round trip," or guitar to processing to speakers needs to be sub 10ms to be transparent to the musician. Source: spent years playing guitar through my guitar -> DAC -> PC -> DAC -> speaker signal chain
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by cjlars 6y ago
I mean, you would need both right? You want consistent tax treatment the whole way through and obviously state worker protections would be the main thing. What am I missing?
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by cjlars 6y ago
It's not obviously true that a 'micro cap' stock exchange couldn't exist that traded, among other things, equity for your favorite local brewpub. The issue is that there is a surprisingly large amount of compliance, acco
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by cjlars 6y ago
The big issues would be when worker starts and ends, self direction in terms of how they do the job (and associated liability), worker's comp, unemployment insurance, and tools / vehicles (I.e. should Uber be required to pay ~50 c
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by cjlars 6y ago
I believe you're correct that federal intervention would be the best outcome here.
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by cjlars 6y ago
Regulators created the 1099 / W-2 distinction for a reason. There are probably good reasons to adjust the rules to take into account the so called gig economy, but making 1099 nearly illegal is not a net regulatory improvement when con

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