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by happyjack 3y ago
My car insurance is $14.20 a month.
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by happyjack 3y ago
I'll stick to the favorite job that's "in my career" to keep with the theme I sense OP is wanting. I did a lot of manual / hard labor in middle, high school, and college, and studied engineering. My favorite job was
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by happyjack 3y ago
Mathematica - great options, easy to change fonts, save as .Tex pdf jpeg whatever - cons expensive and propriety Matlab - large data sets, great built in functions - cons expensive and proprietary Python - matplotlib, seaborn Octave - free
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by happyjack 3y ago
This comment really resonates with me. As someone who doesn't drink anymore, I've found how much of a hermit I am and how much I'm okay with that and how it's my true self. I really have few friends, and the ones I do I
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by happyjack 3y ago
There's two sides to the immigration issue. On one hand, you can bring some very great people who are in terrible situations and will work their damndest to contribute and create a life for their family. On the other hand, Western coun
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by happyjack 3y ago
I think this is just the beginning of a whole wave of open source behind paywall type of deal. Ubuntu put the Amazon store app in their distro, for Christ's sake. The only downside I see to this (I don't care to get involved in th
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by happyjack 3y ago
This is a really interesting comment thread. I see everything from "leave Seattle move to Indianapolis" to Europe's economy, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, etc. a lot of fair and interesting comments from all walk
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by happyjack 3y ago
Good to see a pilot here! I personally never see this aircraft ever getting certified. The SR22 was over $100 million total when getting their type certificate, and nothing was "ground breaking." It has a continental motor, Garmin
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by happyjack 3y ago
I can tell by all the comments that not many people here are pilots or work with the FAA on type certification lol
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by happyjack 3y ago
1. I'd typically ask your lawyer or financial person (if you have either) for someone they would recommend. 2. If the owners actually believe in their business and think it's not a trend / fluke, they should be willing to pla
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by happyjack 3y ago
I've had a mailbox.org account for the last 6 years, and have had a couple custom domains linked to it. I honestly can't say I've ever received any SPAM. Not sure what they're doing on their end, but it's been seem
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by happyjack 3y ago
My advice. I don't work in your industry but I find the following to be universally true: 1) hire a broker 2) do your damn-dist to have them sell you a good chunk of the business on a promissory note. it will force them to have skin in
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by happyjack 4y ago
I think the honest reality is that the game is rigged and dependent on a perpetual 7% growth type cycle. We have indebted future generations so much that it's going to crumble or the next 200 years of western civilization will be held
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by happyjack 4y ago
I'm in the same boat, but as a contract engineer in science. I have some cash savings, hate my day to day job, and dream of having a small machine shop producing aircraft parts (I'm a pilot and sell some aircraft parts on the side
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by happyjack 4y ago
I'm an engineer who does a lot of "applied research" projects. I've used (still do some) octave quite a bit. There's nothing like octave (or MATLAB) for scripting to "get shit done." There is a plethora of
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by happyjack 4y ago
Oh man, I don't really know what to say or how to begin. So many angles with this. I'm about 75% through my job switch after working in a different career / industry for about 10 years (still do some projects 25% of the time
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by happyjack 4y ago
Ain't this the truth!
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by happyjack 4y ago
You're spot on. At the end of the day there really isn't any bargaining with them. They either forcibly sell to deal with bills or they literally die with it. "But you can make money look at all the money I made in the past&q
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by happyjack 4y ago
Lot of great comments here. Couple things I've seen in America talking to Boomers who are (trying) to sell their business. 1) the owner is absolutely integral for day to day ops. These businesses in all practicality are people who are
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Chinese Police on US Soil(hinson.house.gov)
24 points by happyjack 4y ago|6 comments
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by happyjack 4y ago
I hope people realize I'm not just shutting on the EU with my post. It is legitimately hard to emigrate ANYWHERE, let alone another country that doesn't speak your language and has cultural differences. Hell, I couldn't live,
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by happyjack 4y ago
100% true. America subsidizes many states and sectors of the nation. But we are able to do this because there is a common representation.
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by happyjack 4y ago
So it's better to subsidize the union now, instead of deal with other countries refugees in the future?
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by happyjack 4y ago
I think the largest issues with the EU is that it is fundamentally flawed for one main reason: all these countries are tied to the hip to each other due to the currency and singe market, but cannot control the others economies or spending.
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by happyjack 4y ago
I've used this setup before as well! LibreOffice Base is a great GUI and the form field is super customizable.
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by happyjack 4y ago
You stole my comment! I fly my Cessna 206 about 200 hours a year. If there's bad weather ... I just wait it out or schedule my event the tail end of the trip. I won't fly commercial unless it's international now.
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by happyjack 4y ago
Track / archive it? I don't. There's too much shit out there. If it's something really interesting chances are I'm going to email it to someone, and the sent copy gets saved in my archive folder (I archive mail ove
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by happyjack 4y ago
I think that's really bad. I've never seen that high of overhead working private sector.
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by happyjack 4y ago
It's called indirect cost overhead. Universities take anywhere from 0-100% (yes, you read that 100% right) of money they take in.
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by happyjack 4y ago
I used to use an HD home run prime with rabbits ears and a plex server in my old apartment. They had a beta DVR that would scrub commercials (plex did). In all honesty, I'm pretty burn out by how much content is out there. The most enj

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