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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Crossfire was an interesting car - looked at them for a bit, but needed a 4-door.. If I was in the apple ecosystem (I prefer PCs with Linux, Android), I would pay $100-200 more for a mac mini made in the USA if there were actual benefits, l
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
China is not state-subsidized / running at a loss on materials so much (although they probably get cheaper rare earth minerals) - they're running at a loss on wages. There's no "loss" there - the state doesn't
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Well, um.. Forgive me for not being in the market for a showerhead in the last few years and / or not knowing about this one company that I didn't see at Home Depot/Lowes when I did buy a couple of them? I admit I'm prob
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
You willing to work 996? I would prefer some form of work-life balance.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Which of those have come back?
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
You mean, like FoxConn took $B from orange guy, promised 10K+ jobs, then sat on the land for a few years and did nothing? Sure, let's replicate that at scale..
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
For how much longer?
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
This can't be said in any kind of good faith. You'd put a lot of people in bigger cities out on the streets, including people who never worked above "bookeeper" or "factory worker" whose houses happen to be in
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Oh, you sweet summer child..
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Better reaction times only matter if the decisions are the same / better in every case. Clearly we are not there on that aspect of it yet. Deciding to crash faster, or "tell human to take over" really fast is NOT better.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I'll bet $100 that the percentage of crypto used for crime is higher than the percentage of cash used for crime.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Same here - parents bought one for me in 1982, IIRC. By 1984 I had moved to Atari XL, but I'll always have a soft spot for the TI-99/4A, Extended Basic cartridge, speech synthesizer, cassette drive, etc. My sister and I used to co
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
The older I get and the more I learn, the crazier it is that evangelicals abandoned / were conned into supporting Reagan over Carter, all the while claiming that Reagan was sent from God or something. But then, I have seen the same thi
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
ALL citizens, or informed / educated citizens? There's a whole network of agitators in the US whose entire job / goal is to make sure there are people unhappy with any tax, no matter how great the benefits.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
And how much more does such a building cost? If it's significantly more than a "stick house", you invest the savings, and in 50 years, tear it down and build another one. Of course, if you had to wait until you're 45 to
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I'm in the "obese" category - 6'1", 230 lbs+. I can still wear more or less off-the-rack jeans. 40x30/38x30 (+ belt) is my size. If anything, I could use help finding the right shoes to fit. But so far, with fo
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Yeah, I wouldn't touch ANYTHING from current fintech with a 100 foot pole.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Thanks. As someone who has lived in 3 countries (2 as an adult) and is considering leaving the US again.. Any hints on how NOT to end up on that list? I.e. avoid large transfers? What's the best way to transfer some $$ out of the US? I
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Sure, all bets are off as of January 2025. In the past, it wasn't a big deal.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Tell me more. As someone with dual Canadian/US citizenship (former EU citizen that I gave up 20+ years ago) - how hard is it to get in?
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
What are you smoking? My parents are in their 80s, both 15+ and 20+ years cancer free. At least in my mom's case (colon), not having surgery + chemo probably WOULD have been a death sentence. In Canada, their total out-of-pocket costs
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
How do you "work part time" when you need medical care to GET WELL ENOUGH to be able to work again? I.e. if you are in a serious car accident with a broken leg and broken arm, ain't no one hiring you just to let you sit aroun
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
How do you prevent random accidents, cancer, etc?
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
So, in your 30s? My parents both had cancer in their late 50s/early 60s (including surgery / chemo) - and paid like $15 for some pain meds in Canada. Even on a pretty good Kaiser plan, we're paying $200+ per day in the hospit
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Where are you located? Lots of such crossings used to happen, anyway, many years ago via Nexus or similar. Get the pass, just drive right on through over the bridge at Windsor/Detroit. Also similar things in Vancouver, I believe.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Probably not a great suggestion these days. Back when I first got carpal tunnel / RSI (1995), I was using an IBM model M - which I loved the feel of. I had a dream of cutting a keyboard in two and hanging two halves off my chair so I c
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Would love to hear about some of those reality checks. Note: I'm not currently in favor of micropayments, but am willing to listen.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
If I could EASILY click "yes" to say, pay $0.01 from a pre-filled anonymous wallet that I have to manually refill (say, in $10 increments) and there's no way to hack payment information in any way, OR to figure out what info
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
True, but also, businesses have used "coupons" for a long time. I saw one article where this was described as "selling the same product at multiple tiers". eg. if you're rich, you don't bother with coupons (in
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I'm sure someone else on Etsy will undercut your price if you sell more than a few.

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