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by jjav 1y ago
> Don’t ICE cars require a lot more maintenance per mile than EVs? https://insideevs.com/news/731559/tesla-least-reliable-used-...
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by jjav 1y ago
> not a piece of malware on wheels Indeed. Aside from price, this is why I will never own a new car, or anything newer than roughly 2015 or so (depends on manufacturer). A car must absolutely not have any internet phone-home spyware conn
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by jjav 1y ago
> all for less than the price of RAV4 Hybrid Can't recommend enough this approach of multiple older cars. Between the extremely high cost and steep depreciation new cars make no sense unless you're so rich money is not a consid
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by jjav 1y ago
In software terms, there has been a vulnerability in the constitution all along, it just had not been exploited until now. The three branches of government are supposed to be checks and balances against each other. But turns out two of the
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by jjav 1y ago
> Absolutely valid to say that "best and highest use" is vague and untrustworthy at best, but it's said this way to avoid getting trapped in the weeds of what exactly it means. I mean.. if there was to be a law established
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by jjav 1y ago
Learning a new language as an adult is brutally hard. I spoke four languages by elementary school, including learning a new one (portuguese) in fifth grade. It was all seamless, zero effort, perfect local accent. So I have plenty of languag
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by jjav 1y ago
> A new roof every 30 years at $10k is already noticeable That'd be $333/year averaged out, two orders of magnitude away from 30K/year example of OP.
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by jjav 1y ago
> 5-10% of the value of the house a year in maintenance isn’t unheard of That's actually pretty much unheard-of (unless you specifically bought a very cheap fixer-upper with the intent of remodeling). I've owned current house f
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by jjav 1y ago
> So when a new home owner buys something and suddenly the value drops $100k and the bank wants the money That's not how mortgages work (in the US, anyway). If the value drops, nothing happens, you still have the same house and same
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by jjav 1y ago
Not that close. For example for the place where my child went to day care, the rental was $6K/mo but salaries were near $35K/mo. And that was just direct salaries, I don't have the numbers for other employee overhead costs li
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by jjav 1y ago
> How come it works for basically every other job on this planet? In sales it is uniquely easy to identify your contribution since it's literally measured in dollars coming in. There's no way to quantify that for feature implem
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by jjav 1y ago
> The lion's share of overhead for a daycare goes towards its real estate costs. Not really. Salaries are by far the highest cost.
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by jjav 1y ago
> Visa/Mastercard should have the right to refuse service. Given their market dominance, they should absolutely not have any right to refuse service. At that level of scale, they need to be treated like common carriers, who must han
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by jjav 1y ago
> There's beauty in simplicity, and Scala is the antithesis of that Succintly put, exactly this. Scala is as bad/good as lisp, and has the same challenges. It's fun for a solo developer or very tiny close-knit team to do i
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by jjav 1y ago
> So many abstractions, forced design patterns and boilerplate. Important to remember none of that is part of Java. There was a period of time (and it goes in waves) when extreme complexity was the thing, and one peak of this mania coinc
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by jjav 1y ago
> However, a common experience for me is that I own something of good quality from 5/10/15 years ago and now buy the successor model from the same brand, but the product has gotten worse, being cheaper made. Yes, absolutely. Qu
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by jjav 1y ago
> As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive. The zero-day bug in the system that had not been exploited until now is that two of the three branches don't actually have any
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by jjav 1y ago
True, in that spelling bees will select for harder words. But the fact that such words exist, in such large quantities that memorizing them all is so challenging that this becomes a competitive sport, is why engligh is so impossible.
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by jjav 1y ago
Finnish is extremely easy, there is one sound for each letter and zero exceptions. Spanish is also very predictable. While there are a few exceptions (like 'c' can be 'c' or 's'), they are very easy rules to fo
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by jjav 1y ago
> Yeah as far as I know, in French words are always pronounced consistent with how they're spelled. Whoa, very much not! I have spent the last 20 years trying to learn how to pronounce french words (my partner is a native french spe
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by jjav 1y ago
> That is a really bad example, because English does have fairly productive pronunciation rules Not really. There's no way to guess how many english words are pronounced based on the written form, unless you've heard it before.
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by jjav 1y ago
Interesting. I know that as a spanish speaker, there are some Italians whom I understand almost perfectly (like 90% and I can fill in the other 10% from context), but there are other Italians speakers where I can't understand anything
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by jjav 1y ago
Shorting a stock is risky, buying puts has more constrained risk.
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by jjav 1y ago
They just gave themselves billions in tax cuts, so they'll be comfortable.
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by jjav 1y ago
I still have a Radio Shack CB radio from the early 80s, works fine!
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by jjav 1y ago
> Most American urban areas are dominated by suburbs where it’s not practical to walk everywhere and public transit is very limited. Not every suburb is like that. I live in a pretty remote suburb in Silicon Valley (could be almost calle
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by jjav 1y ago
> But renting has no property taxes or maintenance costs More accurately, renting has no separate line items for property taxes or maintenance (or insurance or HOA if applicable). But of course the renter is paying for all of that. >
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by jjav 1y ago
> Signal is notably not proprietary. See parallel response. Open source is not the same as an open interoperable standard. > And email is de-facto owned by a small handful of service providers. No, not really. Yes there are large prov
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by jjav 1y ago
> fully open source including the server side But, and maybe I'm stating the obvious but it is a critical difference, open source is nice but much inferior to open interoperable standards. Signal-the-company does not allow any cli
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by jjav 1y ago
> I don’t think this is true in practice. On the whole, I suspect the ordinary user of email is exactly as centralized as the ordinary user of Signal. Not true, because an open standard will always be superior to a company-owned (and con

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