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by johnward 11y ago
I'm a Tesla fan and I actually expect this from a new car company with their first product from the ground up. They need to figure this out if they want the Model 3 to be mass market though. I want to buy it and it doesn't even ex
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by johnward 11y ago
"We just fixed the glitch"
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Baylor study shows inhaling partially combusted carbon contributes to emphysema(thelatestnews.com)
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by johnward 11y ago
Me either. I was a big fan of logmein when they had a free version but it wasn't something I was willing to pay for. LastPass is though.
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by johnward 11y ago
If you have a 401k you could potentially borrow against it if absolutely necessary. My plan allows 4% loans in which I pay myself the interest and a very small fee goes to the plan holder. I'm assuming the 6 months of living expenses i
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by johnward 11y ago
What is the benefit? When I look h1b salaries they seem higher than normal but do they no include benefits or something?
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by johnward 11y ago
I don't know much about the doctorate process but do these people get scholarships/sponsorships? Most of the time those appear to be favored towards foreign students.
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I work with some very capable foreigners. Some of them have been here for almost 10 years and still haven't gotten through the citizenship process. There is something wrong with that.
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This is what I was wondering. I assume they mean liquid savings. I rarely have any liquid savings but I have 40k in various retirement funds.
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by johnward 11y ago
Most of the sub reddits I hangout in don't have those tones or maybe I'm used to ignoring those types of comments online. I think any community starts to have those problems as they grow. HN isn't immune but it's still a
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by johnward 11y ago
If you make it easier for people to find the sub reddits then you get those people who are making the comments in the sub reddits now. It's a catch 22.
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by johnward 11y ago
Yeah but it's accurate about basically any community. It's not like reddit is overtly *ist compared, to say, youtube. Plus when you get out of the default subreddits that attract everyone there is a pretty good community.
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by johnward 11y ago
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by johnward 11y ago
We don't have too. We could just say "you must have a medallion to operate a cab". They secondary market drove up the prices so I guess it doesn't make sense to have the gov reimburse them. If there was no secondary mark
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by johnward 11y ago
It seems like they should have either used the medallion or returned it to the government. How do we fix it now though? Does the government get rid of medallions? Does someone refund the people who bought them? It's pretty clear people
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by johnward 11y ago
What makes you think we haven't gone down that path already? This industry is really no different than any other. Who you know gives you a ton of leverage but I think that's just basic human nature.
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I'm taking the snowball approach right now too. Maybe I will eventually get to where I can put away 20% but for now that extra money goes to paying down debt. Aside from $100 a month that goes into an emergency savings fund and 4% into
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by johnward 11y ago
I'm working in San Antonio each week right now. Haven't made it to Austin yet.
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by johnward 11y ago
Just for the record when someone says "not to be x" they are almost always about to be X. I was wrong. You are in a situation similar to me though. About the same income/housing price with a wife and first child on the way. T
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by johnward 11y ago
I appreciate the suggestions and trust me I'm working on it. I wasn't trying to turn this into a thread about my money issues. It's just that HN tends to have a lot of very young and very very well paid people who tend to thi
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by johnward 11y ago
Not to be a dick but it sounds like you just make a lot of money. I'd consider owning a house and 2 cars to be pretty garish compared to the average middle class family. The luxury of being able to travel is something not many people h
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by johnward 11y ago
Maybe it's easy to save 60% if you make 200k per year?
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by johnward 11y ago
It's both. I've worked on fixing the latter. However, living beyond your means isn't always that easy to correct. I can't just stop paying student loans for example. It's not like I'm dropping $300 a month on
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by johnward 11y ago
TIL I live beyond my means. Welcome to America. Having 10-15% cushion to save is a luxury for a lot of people. Probably not most people on HN but still.
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I've never been in this position either but I wasn't going to assume "trust fund". A lot of people in the bay ended up working somewhere that got acquired and maybe have some cash in the bank. Or they are just better tha
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by johnward 11y ago
I think Elon is still talking about hypermileage not production numbers.
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by johnward 11y ago
My Nexus 4 was the best phone I've ever had. I've been suffering with the HTC one since and it is awful. Now I'm stuck because I like the Nexus and vanilla android but I have an upgrade through my provider that would get me a
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I don't think those are being served by Google which is what the parent was referring to.
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A lot of us work oustside of those areas. In my case we got acquired. My choice was to keep steady employement or become unemployed for some unknown time. I took the risk and signed. Then things like this happen: http://www.goodwi
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by johnward 11y ago
I never realized how bad fraud can be until I swapped out my old Google Adsense code for new. For awhile Adsense reported $200 a month in estimated earnings which was more than the $20 or so I usually get. Then after Google finally correcte

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