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by dtnewman 3y ago
Personally, I would like to see more dedicated bus lanes. I traveled to Vancouver a few years ago where dedicated bus lanes are ubiquitous, and the decision to take public transit instead of a taxi was easy because the buses got me where I
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by dtnewman 3y ago
It will definitely affect a lot of people around the margins. Right now, if you commute from North Jersey, you might pay $250 a month in bridge tolls, $600 a month for parking and another $100 for gas (I’m assuming you commute 20 days a mon
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Some of this advice isn’t necessarily right. The dealer makes money if you finance with them, so if they offer a similar rate as your bank, know that you can use that to your benefits in negotiations. A dealer would rather get 20k from you
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by dtnewman 3y ago
OP here. You can disagree with my conclusions, but yes, Toyota's North American R&D Headquarters are near Detroit (in Ann Arbor) [1] and GM's research headquarters are in Warren, MI, a suburb of Detroit. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by dtnewman 3y ago
And to echo @lenerdenator, commercial is the largest and most iconic segment as well
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I once spoke to a hedge fund guy who had a large stake in Tesla going back at least 10 years at this point. I was curious... don't you get worried about every other company announcing a push into electric cars? GM and Ford are making b
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Counterpoint: Rudolph Hass, creator of the original hass avocado, barely made anything from it. I’m not gonna say that the Hass Avocado had more impact than Apple or Google, but it’s definitely more impactful than any $1-10 billion company
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by dtnewman 3y ago
It really depends on the use case.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Most people don't need 100mbps. Netflix recommends 5mbps for HD and 25mpbs for UHD. As a country, let's make sure that everyone has the ability to watch netflix in HD on 5 TVs simultaneously in one home. Or to watch UHD on a singl
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I oppose this. 100mbps just isn't what most people need. To most readers, this probably sounds innocuous, but I have some involvement in my city's digital equity community, so I have some insight into what this translates to for l
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I like this approach. Just as an example, if I'm getting a car insurance quote, I'd rather pay $1 to have the tool fill out the forms for me and be 90% that it filled them out correctly rather than pay $0.01 and only be 70% sure i
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I tried it out and it's pretty pricey. My OpenAI API bill is $3.20 after using this on a few different pages to test it out. Not saying I wouldn't pay that for some use cases, but it would limit me. One idea: making scrapers is a
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I'm not a client of a private bank, but I have friends in the industry so i have a little bit of familiarity. For <1,000,000, you would not be eligible for what is generally called "private banking". Usually, that's f
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by dtnewman 3y ago
You would need ludicrous amounts of money to 1) take over oil company boards and then 2) lose that money by voting to stop producing oil. I’d much rather see people invest to outcompete oil by investing in profitable clean energy.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Some of the comments here are missing some key information. A shareholder with $2000 in shares held for three years is entitled to propose a shareholder resolution. You don’t need huge amounts of money to do this. I’m sure that many people
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Yes. RDS is a very reasonable choice if you are a tech company, let alone a govt org. The alternative isn’t “let’s host this ourselves” it is “let’s host this with Oracle at a much higher cost”.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I am personally happy with this decision. I don’t love flying spirit but I respect them, ever since hearing their former CEO speak on a Planet Money podcast. He said straight up that Spirit Airlines is aiming to be the Dollar General of the
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by dtnewman 3y ago
1) The “quality” of spirit is just fine. They explicitly market themselves as a budget airline and that’s what you get. A lot of people just want the cheapest ticket to go from A to B and they provide it. Personally, I have enough disposabl
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by dtnewman 3y ago
> * When they sold out in '97, domestic toasters had been infeasible for years already. * I’m not gonna claim to know anything about toasters or manufacturing, but I’d hypothesize that selling American made toasters to the masses
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Sam Bankman Fried? Possibly wasn’t a billionaire at that point yet, but either, it’s the exception that proves the rule.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I worked at JPM in investment banking. At least on the IBank side, it was an incredibly well run company. I’m not gonna say there’s no bureaucracy there, but for a company with 200k+ employees it ran very efficiently. And they have always b
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by dtnewman 3y ago
It's definitely suspicious and will probably be looked into. If it turns out it's a trader who regularly buys soon-to-be-expiring option calls, maybe it'll fly. But if the trade was made by someone who doesn't regularl
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by dtnewman 3y ago
My last office had very high-quality motorized sitting/standing desks. They were beautiful. Maybe 5-10% of people used the standing functionality regularly, although to be fair, there is also value in having a sitting desk that adjusts
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Counterpoint - I know plenty of people who go out and buy an expensive guitar (or camera, or bicycle, or <name your hobby equipment>) and it sits around when they discover they don't want to put the time into it. My advice to the
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by dtnewman 3y ago
A) professional headshots make a big difference B) the people promoting themselves the most on LinkedIn also tend to care the most about their image (including looks) C) there’s a large component of sales for any startup. There’s plenty of
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by dtnewman 3y ago
This doesn’t pass my smell test. Ok, python is taught in colleges and widely used for data science. Fine. Java… yeah, lots of legacy code and large corps. Fine. But C++? I can see why C might be up there due to the embedded world, but is C+
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by dtnewman 3y ago
You would think so, yet I notice big differences between toilets’ ability to flush well.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
He left the company and rejoined as CEO yesterday.
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by dtnewman 3y ago
And it’s crazy how cheap our tools are! My plumber has a $10,000 camera. Meanwhile, for less than $2000, I have the same laptop that I would own if I were a billionaire (shameless plug for Framework). And that’s my most expensive piece of p
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by dtnewman 3y ago
This is very pessimistic. The technology became widely available in November. Sure, it’s possible we will hit a wall and not get significant improvements. Or it’s possible we are where internet technology was in 1995. Already, I use ChatGPT

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