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by ecshafer 1y ago
This is basically the concept of being "house poor" right? You have a house, you make payments on it, but you are poor and have no extra money after expenses. Maintaining a house costs money, and it should be accounted for. A Real
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Home ownership costs are pretty low if you understand that everything is amortized. You buy a new roof every ~25 years, then you think of it as putting $50 a month into savings so you buy that roof when it comes up. Furnace in 20 years, hot
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by ecshafer 1y ago
In their example case of someone with a 5 bedroom house, its obvious: sell it and move to a 1 or 2 bedroom condo. Renting isn't going to be optimal if her rent doubles every 10 years and she lives to 100. The other option that boomer g
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Who do you think are the ones actually supporting Ukrainian cybersecurity and hacking Russian military? Ill give you a hint they are the ones sitting in office parks in maryland writing software for the NSA and DOD.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
We are on a message board run by a VC firm.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Vegas (and Orlando) are probably the two cheapest places to travel to in North America. Hotels and flights are both plentiful and cheap. Before Covid you could get like $60 a night hotels on the strip and $150 flights.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
How does a company that builds buildings make cities unlivable? Replacing some SFH with an 8 unit apartment or whatever would make the city more livable.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I spent a month in China and saw one homeless person there who was disabled and panhandljng by a tourist location. The subways and trains and stations had no one pissing on the ground, no one sleeping there (except officeworkers resting the
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by ecshafer 1y ago
1/3 of basecamp employees, at the peak of the tech hiring bubble, took extremely generous buyouts, when they werent happy that their work wasnt going to the political ngo they wished it was.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
There are plenty of people that are against both types of immigration, or against one but not the other in each category. The Hive mind is often not that much of a hive.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I worked on a help desk from 2013-2016 for an MSP that served some rural telcos. A couple of the clients still offered dial-up internet, so there were a few hundred people with dial up at that point. They were largely people with very rural
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Dogs need space, and locking up a dog for 10 hours in a 1 bedroom apartment while you're at work is borderline cruel.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
> 3.) Expect neighbors to complain if you have a dog, even if they are not loud or rambunctious, so see if you qualify to get an emotional support animal prescription to negate most legal issues. This sounds like you have a dog, who is
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by ecshafer 1y ago
New York “both sides” Times? There are only a few papers less suited for that monicker.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I thought HRT was a Cpp shop? Is Python used in their main business applications, or more for quants / data scientists?
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Bluesky is already dying and has 38M registered users to Githubs 225M users. Github is growing, and Bluesky isn't. By your own suggestion, they should have used Github.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
For enterprises its not usually as simple as sell to the CTO. Some things you need that, if you are AWS or Azure, the CTO and some principle engineer are who you have to convince to move the whole 20k person org over. But for a lot of softw
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by ecshafer 1y ago
The F22 was first flown in 97, it started development in the 80s. I don't think Lockheed or Boeing would be able to make another generational step like that. The F-35 went drastically over budget and schedule.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
This is a good thing. The traditional big defense contractors have largely become incompetent. We need software companies with actual expertise in software, machine learning, ai, computer vision, etc. to make these next generation technolog
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by ecshafer 1y ago
That seems like code which should check customer account information, not a feature flag thats turned on or off.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
If you read actual history the historians typically go into quite a lot of depth on why they think X happened as opposed to Y, and what the limitations are on the theories and the reasoning. The amount of archaeological and written records
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Why? Sure a virtual walk around the Pantheon in all its glory would be nice . But would that really improve history lessons? It doesn't help students understand why things happened, and what the consequences were and how they have imp
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by ecshafer 1y ago
This is something I highly doubt would be more efficient. This article highlights a big issue in the patent industry, someone patented having a swarm of robots autonomously building an aircraft, but if they didn't actually DO it, and j
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Every time I start my car I get a window pop up with a paragraph of text to make sure I follow the rules of the road and drive safe. Then I get a warning to connect to wifi and update my car. I miss the days when a simple light on the dashb
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Your arguments are not backed up by anything. > gentrification and displacement These are not actual issues with regards to housing being too expensive. These are pet issues divorced from economics. > the slow and unproven trickle-dow
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Does this data get sold to hedge funds or other groups? Companies that process large amounts of purchases must have some of the most accurate data sets on consumer spending that can exist, and should be able to get that data up to date for
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by ecshafer 1y ago
This censorship was done because of a feminist organization, not a christian organization.
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MPU - Matrix Processing Unit LAPU - Linear Algebra Processing Unit
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There is a great podcast, The History of the Germans, that have a season on the Hanseatic League. Its a great podcast if you enjoy history in general, the host isn't a professor or anything, but he does a great job with research and al
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by ecshafer 1y ago
In a financial company I worked at we would do some of the biggest, riskiest changes at 5pm on a Friday (or Saturday evening if we were worried about impacting international trades). The logic being that we would have the most time to fix t

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