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by giantg2 1y ago
Are you finding those in a package deal? What platform are you using? Just curious as I didn't find many package deals that were much cheaper than finding each individually. I was just using stuff like Expedia and similar.
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by giantg2 1y ago
If that's your mindset, the internet must be similarly disappointing to you. In either domain, you can select where you want to go and what you want to do.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"still issues with things like sound equipment" For the $500 entry fee you would think they could provide earphones and someone would hack together an app that would let you listen through those earphones based on some sort of pro
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by giantg2 1y ago
What you are telling us is that you were healthy and lucky. That has nothing to do with cost of living if we are to assume things like wanting to live and not be completely destitute after needing a major surgery or life flight.
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by giantg2 1y ago
I'm in the process of being fired. I'll probably end up working retail or or in a warehouse. Almost any low paying jobs can be low stress if you don't give a shit about the company.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"So I think it's possible just about anywhere in the world" Anywhere with free healthcare.
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by giantg2 1y ago
We might need one eventually. If we really see a population decline in a couple decades, it's possible they could offset each other to an extent.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Little mention of automation in the labor discussion. Also, no real discussion of the consumerism aspect of the economy when talking about worker productivity. Depopulation shouldn't be a big deal when it's decades away and will b
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by giantg2 1y ago
"We have logistics -- everything in your house probably came through Long Beach and on our highways." So high carbon as well. Texas, and Flordia especially also have ag. CA has a lot of tourism too. Claiming that CA is the only so
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by giantg2 1y ago
Not really. They're still going to get the money, but the deficit will be bigger.
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by giantg2 1y ago
The problem is mostly the existing homes. Things like flood zones have been increased in size. People rebuild on previous home sites, but code doesn't require those hardened techniques. You could build a house in a fire zone if you use
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by giantg2 1y ago
Money is fungible, taxes don't work that way, both of your examples of FL and TX produce more fed tax revenue than they receive, so it's hard to see how you think this would apply.
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by giantg2 1y ago
If these were really common issues, the code wouldn't allow them. The melting siding is generally caused window reflections from other houses, especially with high efficiency windows. This happens all over the country.
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by giantg2 1y ago
So according to you CA has the resources to rebuild themselves and should protect themselves, but you consider it immaterial that they are choosing not to protect themselves with fire code and insurance changes? This sounds classist - we ca
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by giantg2 1y ago
This is a short sighted view. Fire insurance in CA is high cost, if you can even get it. Many people would not in fact be able to afford building anywhere. The subsidy argument doesn't have to be at the federal level be even within the
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by giantg2 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're even going off on at this point. You completely ignored my comment about how CA is handling things like fire code and fire insurance. It seems like youre just trying to start a political flame war.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Sort of. Not all risks can be known. Occasionally there are occurrences that break the models.
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by giantg2 1y ago
If there are state regulations on rates it's possible that they can't set the rate to cover the risk while also being in compliance. If they have annualized profit caps and they need to cover those once every 10 year mega disaster
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by giantg2 1y ago
"We don’t have an insurance issue, we have a healthcare and inflation cost issue. Same goes with home insurance." I think this is the primary driver. However, we can't ignore how insurance company behavior also influences the
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by giantg2 1y ago
CA can't even get their own house in order. If they were serious, they would apply the wildlands fire code to all the new construction in LA after the recent fires, but they won't. The real moral hazard is thinking the risks, cost
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by giantg2 1y ago
That' funny. In some cases the new homes have newer construction methods that make them more resilient, such as hurricane straps or better fire resistance.
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by giantg2 1y ago
And the western US with their fires? Or the southern east coast that also gets hit with hurricanes? How about the increased flooding in the midwest? New construction size has increased across the US too. It's not a single zone.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"governments and private companies should be looking at (socializing) mitigations that will keep risk within tolerable levels" The problem is preference. There are more survivable structures and construction methods, but many peop
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Ask HN: Anyone Using TDD with AI?
1 points by giantg2 1y ago|0 comments
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by giantg2 1y ago
Even VOC is still an open question. Are great smelling food, onions, etc bad for our lungs?
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by giantg2 1y ago
Funny, I'm also going with a 3D printed 18650 battery module... for a lepton (FLIR) project.
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by giantg2 1y ago
I'd probably get a Pi and use ARM. I feel like assembly is more useful on resource constrained systems, which usually means ARM.
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by giantg2 1y ago
That and avoid negative PR.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Proper security doesn't need to be perfect security. In the case of car manufacturers, most of their fob implementations are borderline negligent.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Do they want the passwords for all their systems to match so they don't need to remember as many?

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