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by gottorf 3y ago
I could see myself calling that color a dark yellow. Doesn't look red enough for it to really be orange; but of course color is in the eye of the beholder. ;-)
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by gottorf 3y ago
Pensions seem like an outdated concept, when 401Ks and IRAs are options. Pensions are essentially a tradeoff of lower pay now in exchange for benefits in the future, with a sprinkle of an incentive for increased retention added in, but with
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by gottorf 3y ago
One could read it as "black enslaver" (or something similar), but I agree with the user that it is quite a leap to do so.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Why would they owe > there's no reason for the public at large to need it As a member of said public, I would be curious to know. There's no need for taxpayer-funded agencies to operate in a cloak of darkness. Most everyth
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by gottorf 3y ago
That eBay story is wild, and does make you wonder how deep the rot must be in that company. Also, why on Earth does eBay need a "global intelligence center" and a "global security team"? Do they have a completely separat
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by gottorf 3y ago
Is Juneuary June in January or the other way around?
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by gottorf 3y ago
According to Wikipedia, the average August rainfall in the capital, Freetown, is over a meter (~42")[0]. Tropical wet-and-dry climates, they're wild! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown#Climate
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by gottorf 3y ago
He didn't see sunny skies until he was already a man, and by then it was nothing to him but blinding!
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by gottorf 3y ago
Average daily high stays under 15ºC (~60ºF) from about November to April. Definitely cold enough that being damp is unpleasant, especially with any kind of breeze.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Come spend some time in the Gulf Coast! Rain here actually physically hurts, sometimes. Big droplets (though probably not as big as the ones in the Alaskan Panhandle[0]), falling at a very rapid pace, looks and feels like a curtain of water
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by gottorf 3y ago
> So, maybe Boston is a good option for our climate change future? Unlikely, given that places nearer to the poles have experienced greater variations. But I don't think Boston is at existential risk or anything like that, with ampl
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by gottorf 3y ago
Not a Texan here, but let's steelman the argument a bit. I think a lot of people who say "climate change isn't real" (or similar) actually mean that they disagree on what to do about it. Especially in terms of things lik
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by gottorf 3y ago
Anthropogenic seems like the best word.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> in the airport How was it so unpleasant indoors?!
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by gottorf 3y ago
Before my first visit to the Emirates, I made the (what seemed to me) reasonable assumption that it was a dry heat, since sand dunes are literally right next to the city. Boy, was I wrong about that one.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> As it is now, it takes an average of five years for a new energy project to connect to the grid. Wow, that's just mind-boggling.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The rule of thumb is that 3 years of professional experience is the equivalent of 1 year of college education. I know you don't make the rules, but on the surface it would seem that these numbers are switched around ;-)
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by gottorf 3y ago
Got it, thanks for the answers. 1.85% of home value per year for that Orlando home is indeed quite pricey, with one source saying that the national average is about 0.35%[0]. Yours isn't cheap either at ~1%, but I would still consider
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by gottorf 3y ago
I've used Namecheap/PositiveSSL[0] for stuff like that in the past; under $10/year, and never had any issues. [0]: https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/
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by gottorf 3y ago
> I know people closer to the coast paying as high as $12k/year. This is unsustainable Do you know how that $12k/year translates to a percentage of the home's value? Naturally, $12k/year insurance on a two-acre Palm B
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by gottorf 3y ago
People still owned homes before residential mortgages were a thing, which didn't take its modern shape until the 1930s. In uninsurable markets, liquidity will drop, prices will follow, until a new equilibrium forms. In sleepy beach tow
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by gottorf 3y ago
> the heat island effect I live in a Gulf Coast city as well, but it's much smaller than Houston, and I think this really makes a significant difference. Summers are unpleasant here too, but somehow it's not quite as bad as Hou
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by gottorf 3y ago
> we didn't lose New Orleans Not the GP, but on the topic of New Orleans, the metro area lost almost 30% of the population after Katrina, with it having recovered to pre-Katrina levels only in the last few years. So it was severely
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by gottorf 3y ago
Let's define your major city as a metro area population (not just city limits, since that's often arbitrary) of over a million. How would you define "lost"? A population decline of over 20%?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> sorry about the bad SSL cert I'm curious, why not just serve plain HTTP at that point? It makes little difference to the viewer.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Of course, everyone's definition of a small town, and the kinds of small towns that they've experienced, are going to differ. I'm not too far (just a county over) from a quaint little town with under a thousand people; the po
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by gottorf 3y ago
Please tone down the rhetoric ("You can believe whatever pie-in-the-sky bullshit you want"). We all come to HN for discourse, not a bar fight. As for what Bernie Sanders says, I'm sure that GP would agree with him that it is
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Build strong, local communities and economies instead In my view, a necessary part of this is decreasing central control, both at federal and state levels. A good example is the response to Covid; state laws in places like Michigan for
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by gottorf 3y ago
We shall see, indeed. I believe that this round of inflation is going to stick around for a while for to geopolitical reasons: decreasing globalization, China no longer exporting deflation to the rest of the world. As someone who has only e
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The worst bakery in my city is leagues better than the best bread available at Wal Mart You're lucky to have a dedicated bakery that actually makes bread, or maybe you just live in a big city? There's probably twenty bakeries

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