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by faet 9y ago
I feel this way and it's mostly due to apple's return policy. Because it is near impossible to return an app I generally look towards free apps with an IAP to unlock everything/remove ads. If apple had a refund policy simila
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by faet 9y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB Total compensation per hour has increased 44% since the 80s.
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by faet 9y ago
You also need to include other benefits as well. Benefits as a percent of total compensation have increased heavily over the past 20-30 years. Now they make up ~30% of an employees total compensation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&
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by faet 9y ago
>cost $3.83 per book to print, shrink wrap, and ship to the US. This is because they have access to a traditional printer and are able to order the volume needed for that price. A print on demand book from amazon that is 200 pages, full
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by faet 9y ago
They've lowered the ER on their target retirement mutual funds to 0.08%, SWYNX would be the equivalent.
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by faet 9y ago
All of my local farmers markets are full of aliexpress crap. At least they're smart enough to remove tags. I've asked what kind of solder they used for a specific piece. "uhhh. just the normal stuff".
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It does affect performance, it makes it faster.
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by faet 9y ago
Final has been shipping for 6+ months. Theyre also fairly different markets.
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He's not looking down upon them, he's stating that on average they'll be worse off. Your anecdote doesn't jive with the data. In this day in age a college degree gives you a much higher chance of success/income. Med
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by faet 9y ago
I'm in SoCal and even with our own bike lanes I refuse to bike to work. I'm 2 miles from work and will walk every now and then but never bike. 3 months after starting my job I was coming home from work one night I saw a guy with
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by faet 10y ago
>I'm consistently shocked at how they choose to watch TV, do drugs, and quick to blame other people. Much of this was mentioned in Hillbilly Elegy as well (he also brought sources). As well as a much higher rate of domestic problems
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by faet 10y ago
Less cross pollination. I think of HN as a very specific subreddit, without the worry of having users from other subreddits 'brigading' as the cost to do so requires registration. At reddit you can come across a post and easily ma
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by faet 10y ago
>How about increased funding for employee retraining programs Many "Job Killers" include retraining programs. Eg, Nafta, and proposed Coal -> Green energy jobs. I think Obama proposed some others as well in 2010. Two issues.
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>Germany does what you described. They are so green they emit more CO2 since they went green. In case people are curious about this claim the reason Germany's "renewable energy" releases so much CO2 is because a large port
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by faet 10y ago
>Do you want to risk that happening to your area? Already do. 55% of my state's power comes from Nuclear. Coal releases 100x more radiation and 68x more CO2 than nuclear for equal energy production. http://science.science
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by faet 10y ago
>If you look back to when she established herself as a politician in the 90s-00s (I'm being generous here), most of those issues were not what she was championing. She pushed Universal Healthcare in 93.
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by faet 10y ago
There are more people working for "Wallstreet" in New York (461k) than there are people employed in VT (360k). So yes, a senator from NY will be more in bed with "wallstreet" than someone from VT.
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by faet 10y ago
> If they had had a compelling message for the working class they could easily have won this election. So increasing minimum wage, make it easier to unionize, universal health care, protecting/expanding social security, and a bunch
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by faet 10y ago
Yup, for reference earnings over the past year are roughly $0.005 (half of one cent) per page +- $0.0003
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by faet 10y ago
Scribd used to be an unlimited reading platform. They had to drop all romance/erotica because people were reading waaay too many books. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/01/scribd-cuts-ro...
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by faet 10y ago
Yup, that is what my friend does. Kindle Unlimited erotica, one new book per month. New releases get ~100k reads during the first month, then another ~50k from all the previous books per month. Very few people actually "buy" the e
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by faet 10y ago
>I think people severely, severely underestimate the amount you can make self-publishing. You're results are fairly atypical, but I think a lot of it heavily depends on the niche you publish under as well. I have friends that self p
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by faet 10y ago
> so I slowly stopped the business It's also a business he no longer wants to deal with. But he still doesn't want to share it 'for reasons'. Also, at a 2%+ dispute rate he'd probably get shutdown on any other pa
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5.5m per parent.
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by faet 10y ago
I have some of my books on Amazon KDP and a few not. KDP is nice because it's easy. But, the exclusivity can suck.
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Last month I did. I have a number of affiliate sites, most with amazon that pull in $100-$200/mo. At the start of the year I moved over to take advantage of their bounty program. $3-$5 per free trial signup. Movies for example included
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by faet 10y ago
Mostly Index funds as well as some individual stocks (TSLA, BRK.B, AAPL). ~5k is auto invested in an index/mo.
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by faet 10y ago
YTD by revenue: Stock > Job > Books > Affiliate Websites Stocks are auto-invested each month. Job is not passive. Books were written a while ago. Some by me most by others. Probably a couple hours a week evaluating how they're
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by faet 10y ago
How is your banner avoid ad-blocks? Over the past year Ive doubled my traffic but adsense views were flat. My site gets a ton of ad-blocked traffic now. http://roadcamvideos.com
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A lot of people don't care. They believe an image on facebook that reaffirms their belief. You try to counter with statistics from the FBI, DOJ, BLS, DOL, or any other organization and the numbers are 'made up'. And studies h

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