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by davidgay 4y ago
> $1.5mm usd Mortgage (20% down): $105,000/year That's way too high. https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/mortgage-calculator/ gives ~83k/year at presumably today's interest rate (5.61%). At a
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by davidgay 4y ago
I've found that short extension cables are one solution to this problem.
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by davidgay 4y ago
I think Russia might have some comment to make here on the potential reach of US/interested-parties law. The incentives are thankfully lower here, though.
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by davidgay 4y ago
What's the number of owners + long-term renters? (the likely relevant metric when looking at housing price vs local incomes)
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I wonder why we went down that whole async/await craze with so many languages? Because it's a useful abstraction for managing N concurrent activities. In the threaded world, it's known as fork-join.
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by davidgay 4y ago
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Highest-paying-jobs-in-S... reports Registered Nurses as getting $150k/year in San Francisco, and $83k nationally.
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by davidgay 5y ago
IIUC, CFExpress is just a PCIe interface in a different form factor, so the adapter in the post should basically just be a pass-through. Conversely, a USB-C adapter would require some level of protocol adaptation/electronics/etc.
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by davidgay 5y ago
> ... in the Sahara ... I suspect the OP was in the US. Desert would then be something like Nevada - definitely a shortage of wars, and Sagebrush scrub ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_scrub ) is probably l
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by davidgay 5y ago
I'm always mildly assumed that Switzerland has 26 widely-different (far more variety than found in the US) school systems with only ~8 million people. And a high-school degree that guarantees entrance into any university in any subject
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by davidgay 5y ago
Because money is "funny" inside companies, and because there's no platform sales without hardware sales, I would think that the relevant metric from an external perspective is total revenue (The change in fraction of revenue
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by davidgay 5y ago
> ... is that with bad eye sight due to aging things get blurry anyway Until they get so blurry that reading glasses are obligatory. And then, suddenly, everything is sharp again and that hi-dpi is nice :)
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by davidgay 5y ago
Nth of month (with month sometimes elided) is most definitely standard English.
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by davidgay 5y ago
I'll grant you elections, but changing rules for century-defining events like the pandemic or the Ukraine war seems very normal to me. In a parallel and far more impactful setting, laws are changed far more often and for far lesser rea
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by davidgay 5y ago
They recently announced new, brighter lights. Re the app: then don't use it, just program the hub directly yourself - see https://developers.meethue.com/ . It all runs locally on the hub - I've set it up for auto-d
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by davidgay 5y ago
> Wondering when a Russian oligarch says “you know what I think we’d be better off without this guy alive. And I think that Putin has clearly demonstrated how much more powerful the state is than the oligarchs (anywhere, not just Russia)
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by davidgay 5y ago
> Did I say that it wasn’t a big deal? Nobody is denying that. I cringe at the number of people who die every year due to smoking, car accidents, etc. Car accidents are 30-40k/year in the US, so 10% of covid. And the number of measu
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by davidgay 5y ago
You seem to be presenting yourself as objective with: > I could characterize it in a number of ways, but there is nobody left to persuade. but then you characterise one side with: > If you are aligned to the official narrative, the in
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by davidgay 5y ago
Without commenting on the overall trend's cause, your diversity hypothesis is bunk and suggests you are looking to making things fit a diversity-related narrative: - there's (unsurprisingly) no significant diversity-word change fr
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by davidgay 5y ago
There's plenty of horrific human-on-human violence in the 20th century, so I find this claim that the Romans were so different quite unconvincing.
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by davidgay 5y ago
> I think it was Samuel Huntington who said: "Development first, democracy later". Without commenting on the sanctions approach. This opposite approach has clearly not worked for China either. [Maybe there isn't a magic de
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by davidgay 5y ago
> An Engineering degree from even a prestigious University doesnt make you an Engineer in many disciplines. A US-centric view. My (Swiss) engineering degree certifies me as a software engineer ("ing. info. dipl. EPF", whose use
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by davidgay 5y ago
> We need a credential that counts as passing a technical interview So we could call that a degree? And have institutions that specialise in testing for it? And because some of those institutions will be better at measuring this, we coul
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by davidgay 5y ago
> Every engineer is able to learn the process when it matters. A civil engineer is going to become an expert material scientist, "on need"? I doubt it.
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by davidgay 5y ago
They are wrong. "He's fallen in the water" is the pinnacle of humor :)
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by davidgay 5y ago
> I had the opposite problem, I always reserve a small four door fuel sedan, and several times they upselled me an SUV or sports car "at no cost". That's clearly another consequence of "You can book any car with any r
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by davidgay 5y ago
My undergrad (EPFL) would like a word with you... Pass rate for the first year was 50% (as was the overall pass rate over 4 years). Of course, it is a public university, so money is a bit different.
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by davidgay 5y ago
> Contrast this with cities in Europe where people just hang out, like for free, all around the town at rivers, parks, bridges and have a good time. It always feels like European cities place a premium on such public places, on the idea
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by davidgay 5y ago
It says it in the link: "property taxes, individual income taxes and sales and excise taxes — as a share of total personal income in the state." As for personal income, you declare it every year on your tax form.
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by davidgay 5y ago
I'm not confusing them, but highest tax rate is a useless statistic. Quoting it is thus usually used to push and agenda, not to understand and explain a complex situation.
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by davidgay 5y ago
> I live in California. The state with highest tax rate in the country. This is, at best, a misleading statement: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur... shows that California is 10th by tax

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