lastofthemojito

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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   I used to live pretty close to the AFI in Silver Spring and while I thought their selection of older movies was pretty great, I didn't end up going terribly often. I think it's linked to the fact that for most people (certainly m
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   That may be true, I don't really know. I tend to make my choices based on what's available to me currently, rather than the standards of the past. Even if a nice tent is better shelter than most humans have had for our species&#
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   Yep, that's why I included the dentist example. So maybe, if the town actually succeeds in attracting and retaining a dentist, people don't need to leave town for that service. But there are many other services people want or ne
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   I cringe thinking about the dating pool in an isolated community of 600 people. Just one more reason this sort of experiment might accidentally push people to their cars instead of away from them.
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   How to make cheap West Texas land worth even less: Build homes on it, but don't include garages or driveways; instead tell prospective buyers that they need to keep their pickup trucks outside of town. EDIT (as I feel I was overly snar
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   > The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and sel
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   > these guys will just pivot to breaking up packs and selling cells or whatever I'm sure electric cars are being, and will continue to be, stolen, parted out, etc. But battery theft won't look quite like catalytic converter th
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   > Popular media in the U.S. often favors narratives about industrial China that associate it with poor conditions and cheap products. But in the chaotic TikTok world of diaper factory motivational videos, pseudo-Scandanavian luxury retai
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   by lastofthemojito 5y ago

   He'd probably prefer a powdery white line.
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    >But the people who work poorly when others are regularly distracting them with office chit-chat don't deserve respect? I certainly don't mean that. Another poster who replied to my original comment compared it to a company th
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    I think a lot of the responses to the straw man's questions are reasonable and thoughtful. But I think this sentiment: >I don't want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Previous discussion of this ProPublica story rightly pointed out that there was too much focus on billionaires (legally) not paying taxes while their assets are appreciating (but not yet sold), and not enough focus on the fact that often ta
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    I went from a traditional (tank) gas water heater to a tankless gas water heater in my townhouse. I don't have any complaints about the performance of the water heater itself, but the process was a pain and I have had complaints from
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Obviously "the West" is a big place and there are lots of cultures and in-groups within it. I can tell you as a non-elite, middle-class American that I've almost never heard of someone taking a gap year after beginning profes
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    I don't believe we're supposed to feel bad for folks who no longer have access to subsidized app economy services. I think we're just supposed to see how absurd some of the businesses in this sector were (are?). Obviously bu
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    The email from Phil Schiller to Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue is interesting in itself I suppose, but boy this makes me yearn for a return to the age of email. I've read several "business magazine" type articles about how you need
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    App Store: The Schiller Cut(daringfireball.net)

    2 points by lastofthemojito 5y ago|1 comments
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Some folks suspect Vladimir Putin is the richest man in the world, but there isn't the sort of public documentation that would land him on the Forbes list. https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/terrible-crim
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Kind of a tangent, but was this bit about iPods being a bigger business than the Mac ever true? > Once upon a time, Apple was the iPod company. iPods were a much bigger business than the Mac, and they also made Apple a dominant force in
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Yeah, the form lists me as a limited partner in the partnership and lists my purchase price of the ETF as "capital contributed during the year" and my sale price of the ETF as "withdrawals & distributions". I really
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    You can't help where you're born though. Ask "accidental American" Boris Johnson for example[0]. Although he's since renounced his U.S. citizenship to spare him from U.S. taxes. 0: https://www.bbc.com&#
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    I don't think I did anything too out of the ordinary. Using the typical Robinhood UI, I bought and sold Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN), which didn't require any extra work on my part compared to trading $SPY or $TS
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    > I've heard people say the tax preparation industry lobbies against this but don't know if that is true or not. It's true and it's infuriating. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Any other Americans avoid things that they might otherwise do due to real or perceived tax complications? I was hesitant to hire a nanny as that would make me an employer, and add various tax responsibilities. I did a little bit of Robinh
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    I find Elon's constant over-promising and under-delivering on the FSD front to be irritating, but I confess I see my optimistic software developer tendencies in these quotes. I think in all 5 daily standups last week I reported that I
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    Elon Musk Quotes on FSD(motherfrunker.ca)

    1 points by lastofthemojito 5y ago|1 comments
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Now the interesting thing will what fraction of F-150 sales will be electric and how that fraction changes over the next several years.
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    Edmunds has a "Cost to Own" calculator here: https://www.edmunds.com/tco.html Sadly it does not go back 8 years. You could check the numbers on a 6-year-old Panamera vs a new Camry though: https://www.
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    For me, the Leica Q camera. I've fallen in and out of love with photography over the years and it (along with a toddler who makes for a great subject) has certainly rekindled things for me. I took a (film) photography course as a teen
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    by lastofthemojito 5y ago

    The chip shortage that is affecting everyone seems like the most likely culprit, but then again, I wonder if the cars would even be able to drive around a parking lot without the core computer.