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by cpwright 12y ago
Or if you think that getting paid overtime is important, you are free to work in a field that pays overtime. I am fairly certain that even if you include work outside of the 40 hours, my hourly rate is better than I would do otherwise. On t
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They don't know that the patients will die. There is a survival rate of somewhere between 10-50%. The patient will likely die if you do nothing, but it isn't a certainty. That said, I don't think there was anything wrong wi
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by cpwright 12y ago
To be honest, the standard for a gasoline nozzle is pretty easy. The hole needs to be bigger than the hose, that's it. There are a lot more variables with an electric plug. The standard for the actual fuel composition must certainly
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by cpwright 12y ago
What I think might be more interesting for Mr. Kim is a hybrid model. He could start shedding medallions, and only use them for the airports or potentially a downtown core. The rest of his dispatched traffic could be in vehicles without a
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by cpwright 12y ago
This struck me as the largest problem here. They can charge $84,000; and medicare/medicaid will pay nearly that because they have no choice. If they could refuse based on cost, then Gilead would have more incentive to lower the cost.
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by cpwright 12y ago
Home improvement and woodworking. It is a good change of pace, at work I shuffle bits and like to create new functionality (or improve the performance of existing software); but it isn't tangible. It is nice to look at a vanity or th
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by cpwright 12y ago
One of the things that struck me about the article was how many of these people wanted to take over a practice from a parent.
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by cpwright 12y ago
You might say that it is a "technicality", but it is the contract the government of Argentina agreed to. The only thing you have with a financial arrangement of this magnitude is the contract. It is perfectly reasonable for the c
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by cpwright 12y ago
I found some of the business arrangements interesting, though maybe not surprising. I think those are the real new details of this release. First, they'll be producing 50GwH of packs, but only 35GwH of cells; so they'll still be
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by cpwright 12y ago
I question the logistical challenges here. If it is truly not that dense, why bother with sewers at all. My little slice of suburbia has no sewers, instead all of it is septic (and where I grew up cesspools). It's 100% on the owner
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by cpwright 12y ago
Or you use the SUV to carry your kids and stuff around. An SUV is bigger and more comfortable than most cars. - Easier to fit car seats and people in - Seats 8 (as opposed to 5) on the rare occasion that you want to - Has four wheel drive,
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by cpwright 12y ago
> I don't know any accountants or optometrists very well, but I wouldn't be surprised if the passionate ones spent time outside of work learning about the latest advancements in their respective fields. My grandmother was a cor
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This kind of stuff is actually what is less likely to make me purchase a Tesla. If it becomes common for these kinds of failures, it isn't a risk that I want to have. What is magic about annual maintenance? In my gasoline car, I chan
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by cpwright 12y ago
If you read the full answer, you'll realize that he points out you'll pick the better slope, unless you think you'll be dead before the two lines intersect; so he clearly understands it. If you're going to pick apart the
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by cpwright 12y ago
So maybe it would be better phrased as, people will act rationally given their own optimization function that I may or may not agree with. There is the concept of Bounded rationality, in that I am going to make rational decisions given the
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by cpwright 12y ago
> By simplifying the situation to "rational actors" you are doing exactly as I described. Refusing to take responsibility for those who are less able to deal with the forces and influences I described above. I think that it is
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Under the important things they've learned, "A startup is a war. ... lots of life changes shouldn't be made together", and then a biblical quote saying that a newly married man should not be set to war. Doesn't stri
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by cpwright 12y ago
People may not be homo economicus, but in general I believe them to be mostly rational actors who know what their own best interest is. When you exclude the drugged out parents that other posters have mentioned, and focus on the parents in
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by cpwright 12y ago
Unprepared food like fruits, vegetables, meat, etc. is tax free in most states. Prepared food is usually taxed. Tipping is only expected at a sit-down restaurant, and those are generally expensive enough that if you are genuinely starving
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by cpwright 12y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. The anecdotes they cite don't encourage much sympathy from me either. Three declined credit cards and a loan from a relative for $8.11 in fried chicken. Or the home health-aide who buys ready made food from th
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I think that the fuller quote "the final evolution of the original Raspberry Pi" is important. The word "original" in there doesn't lead me to believe they are at the end of the road overall, just end of the road f
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by cpwright 12y ago
Site-to-store does indeed solve a problem. If there is something I want at Wal-Mart, then I have to find it. Not only that, after finding it I need to stand on a long check-out line. With site-to-store, I get it on the web site, then jus
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by cpwright 12y ago
Netflix could fairly easily make the traffic symmetrical (send nonsense in the other direction), but that wouldn't be beneficial for anyone. It would be more interesting if Netflix were able to start doing caching on the client boxes t
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If you're doing it, you're probably not in it for the money. Just as most people who work for a non-profit are also not in it for the money. Do you assume that everyone who works for a non-profit because they believe in the caus
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As an NYS (but not NYC resident), I find the following quote the most offensive part of the entire article: >In New York, by contrast, buyers of new construction often qualify for a tax abatement. At One57, currently the city’s most expe
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She signed the patent royalties over to DuPont, but that is the deal that she made. There is at least an equal chance that she never would have created this material (there are scores of other men and women who have worked for DuPont, but
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From a student's perspective that doesn't necessarily make sense. Tenure track professors could be great researchers, but that doesn't mean they are great teachers. Instructors, adjuncts, or graduate students can all teach
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My experience is from SUNY Stony Brook (a university run by the state of New York). What goes into the grade, is pretty much entirely up to the professor. I have had very few classes where the whole of the grade was an exam; but there wer
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They shouldn't have paid for a $17 billion valuation, but if there was a firm offer of $200 a share, they should have had to match the $200 a share instead of offering $135 (which was quoted as a $4B valuation). This would imply a val
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> The one policy you can always count on our government to enforce is "protect bondholders at all costs." Unless of course those bondholders are institutional investors, and the other creditor is the UAW. When governments are

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