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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Kids are the only people in your life the longer you know them, the less you know them.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how does that process work from a practical standpoint? How does an early stage company find you? Do they pitch you, the same way they would pitch VCs? Why not then spend your time directly pitching VCs, instead of pitchin
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Theoretically, any good with a perfectly inelastic supply.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
And yet, if we look at actual migration rates, it's pretty clear that Americans are overwhelmingly voting with their feet for Houston's overall set of policies.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
If a retiree was sitting on highly valuable land, why couldn't they just get a reverse mortgage? High home equity plus short remaining life expectancy will support high monthly payments.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
My off the wall suggestion would be for Coinbase to acquire them. They certainly have enough firepower to do a stock acquisition. The Yahoo Finance portal would run as a subsidized loss leader to on-ramp new customers into crypto investing.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
IQ is highly correlated with reaction times.[1] It's extremely difficult to explain that result if you assume IQ is purely cultural, rather than neurological. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC56
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I’m dubious about the diagnosis. If sustained overthinking could regularly cause seizures, I think it’d be ubiquitous in competitive chess players. Based on the authors description it sounds much more due to lack of sleep and stress.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> And if you include health insurance- OP explicitly broke out health insurance as a separate line item.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
30% is way to high an effective tax rate at that income. Below median earners pay effectively zero taxes with the EITC and standard deductible. $400 is way too high for a car payment. You can get a great used compact for $10k. With decent
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
A lot more builders should be looking into steel framing. Light gauge steel has also gone up, but nowhere near as much as lumber. For the typical project, it's probably cheaper now than wood framing. Especially when you take into accou
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Interestingly, in past research they found that remote work is the top predictor of developer productivity. Positive or negative?
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
It seems strange that Google management would push so hard on this. Nearly everyone I've spoken to has reported that WFH productivity has been equal, if not better than pre-pandemic. What possible upside could there be that justifies f
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Yeah. I was actually waiting on the serological results from my donation at the local blood bank. But as it turned out the results were lost in the Texas blackout. Oh well...
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Anybody care to weigh in on something I can't figure out. Last October I had some sort of illness, with severe flu like symptoms. However my nasal swab PCR test, taken 48 hours after symptoms, came back negative. I assumed it was flu,
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I’d like to imagine an alternative universe where the federal government bans wood burning fireplaces. After all fireplaces produce an enormous quantity of indoor air pollution, and sitting by a fire for the night is about the equivalent of
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
That’s a point I agree on. But my understanding is that most of the companies that are re opening offices are insisting that employees eventually come back. Is Google/Apple/JP Morgan letting people stay full WFH?
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I'm a parent, who does WFH, and definitely disagree about the preferability of office work. Sure my kids will occasionally pop their heads in the door to say hello. I guess that's an occasional distraction, which has some small pr
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
What does it matter if construction is cheap and efficient? Nobody cares if cars are “built to last” 30+ years, because we can just make new cars. There’s a persistent mythology in construction about “they don’t make ‘em like they used too”
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
There’s very few homes in America where land is 60% of the property value.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This paper had a good summary: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663584/
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The biggest pitfall I see with this is we’re extrapolating from large doses of air pollution to very tiny ones. Clearly we have enough evidence to say that smoking a pack a day or living in a smog-filled city will cut years off your life. B
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> I still think there's a lot we can do with CASE (computer-aided software engineering) I'm pretty biased towards minimal upfront design. At least of the formal variety. But I'd like to make sure I'm not missing some
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I disagree with the premise, because the major tech companies are so good about releasing open source developer tools. For example a unit testing framework is a really important developer tool. And we have great unit testing frameworks beca
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
There's no evidence that the study of ethics increases ethical behavior.[1] [1] https://qz.com/1582149/ethicists-are-no-more-ethical-than-th...
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Modern bathroom pods are very easy to install and come in pre-configured sizes. They're literally just plug and play. After that, the only challenge is making sure you have plumbing connections at the bathroom and kitchen sites. But mo
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
With pex plumbing and high velocity HVAC, you only need to run small, flexible tubes through the framing. It should be relatively easy to print small, flexible holes for tubing. Agree that traditional ductwork and copper pipping would be ha
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
At least at my local NAUI dive shop, PADI is generally considered to play too fast and loose with the rules. Especially with new and untrained divers. The joke is PADI stands for “Put Another Dollar In” Not that I’ll never go with a PADI di
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Nine times out of ten, I'd say stocks for the long run. But I think at today's mortgage rates, it's pretty compelling. Let me just run through a toy example. Say, you're buying a $500 thousand property with 20% down at a
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I’m not saying that hyperinflation can’t happen. But if you really believe in that hypothesis, you’d do much better to buy deep OTM call options on TIPs and gold instead of real estate.

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