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by lkbm 5y ago
> Because Tesla knows that the vast majority of people will never need it. I don't know what portion of US drivers park either on the street or in a parking garage, but I'm pretty sure it''s tens of millions of people
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by lkbm 5y ago
I suspect we all broadly agree here. Your point just feels...not irrelevant, but...odd. It's not that there are two types of homeless people, and people are one or the other. The "visible homeless" are a progression from the
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by lkbm 5y ago
> I believe that homelessness is only a housing problem for a percentage of people who are temporarily "down on their luck" and need a place to stay while they find a job. I agree. (I'd change "only" to "mos
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by lkbm 5y ago
I don't think you're addressing what I actually wrote. Yes, they can and should earn more, but somehow their expenses are exactly tracking their income, and identifying why is key to ensuring it doesn't continue to happen a
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by lkbm 5y ago
Yup, that addition explained a lot. With the further breakdown, the $1200/mo on childcare is low enough that I suspect this is a one-income household, in which case cutting back there may be possible, but I'm guessing that also ca
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by lkbm 5y ago
Yeah, increasing comp is a good idea, but I assume their comp has increased multiple times over the past decade and it's had zero effect on their saving. Something's causing a growth in spending exactly equal to the growth in in
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by lkbm 5y ago
> Check your monthly recurring expenses, do you really need NetFlix, Disney+, HBO AND Youtube Premium? So, I agree with checking and pruning even the little things, but the cost of all four of those combined come to 0.4% of OP's inc
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by lkbm 5y ago
> In NYC? They're living without health insurance, 8 people in a 3 bedroom, with less than $500 in savings, and credit card debt, yes. I understand that they don't have savings and have some credit card debt, but we're tal
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by lkbm 5y ago
So what do the millions of households earning <$60k do? Are they going tens of thousands of dollars deeper in debt each year?
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by lkbm 5y ago
Their comp is presumably higher than it was a few years ago, even adjusted for inflation. The question to be asked is why their spending has increased similarly. Half of all households in NYC live on ~$60/yr or less (2019)[0]. What&#x2
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by lkbm 5y ago
It says it's $3,000/mo. For a full time employee, that's $18.75/hr. Presumably it's most useful in places that are operating more than 40 hours a week. The tradeoff is that it can't pick up other tasks when thi
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by lkbm 5y ago
> The Federal Communications Commission requires use of the protocols by June 30, 2021 Spoofing still exists, though. Is the issue now that our phones are backwards-compatible with the insecure system?
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by lkbm 5y ago
I recently learned about the "nuclear sponge" strategy. The US has a bunch of ICMBs stationed in remote areas in hopes of drawing nuclear strikes to those areas, away from population centers[0]. [0] https://kottke.org&#
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by lkbm 5y ago
What if we change it to "Protestant"?
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by lkbm 5y ago
One thing that stood out to me when reading about the Rwandan genocide was that Madeleine Albright—who lost three grandparents to the Holocaust and was touted as being humanitarian in part as a result—was center of the US' diligent ref
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by lkbm 5y ago
> - people pay extremely high taxes to use the roads in the first place, why monetize further? Monetize further = reduce needed taxes. > - just opening the lane would decrease congestion for everyone This is true iff they don't i
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by lkbm 5y ago
It definitely seems likely that physical activity is beneficial. I'd be curious to see studies comparing something like running vs. boxing. (Also weightlifting vs. cardio, or springs vs. long-distance.) Additionally, one thing that&#x2
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by lkbm 5y ago
That could be a lot of fun. Someone did a "guess the word based on people's tweets a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30101456 Throwing in those extra hints about the players make it feel more like
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by lkbm 5y ago
This is an excellent summary. Thanks! My follow-up question is whether anything will work with an M1 yet. I'm guessing nothing from NVlabs. :-)
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by lkbm 5y ago
Yes, curation is very valuable, but it needs to be a layer on top of an uncurated source. I enjoy using Open Library to re-read obscure middle grades books from the 1950s-1990, and there are some obscure DOS games I want to revisit. It&#x27
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by lkbm 5y ago
It NATO went away, they still would. Perhaps more relevantly, a single member, the US, spends more than the rest of the world combined. Remove the US, and NATO is spending less than China. This doesn't seem like an honest argument.
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by lkbm 5y ago
> But it’s also just really weird to hear people talking so clearly the moment after it happens. It’s preserved a slightly surreal moment of shock quite well. Yeah, it feels similar to reading the first Usenet threads about Chernobyl, AI
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by lkbm 5y ago
If you are a lawyer, you need to say "this is not legal advice". IIRC, in the US, if you're a lawyer and someone "reasonably" believes you're giving them actual legal council, regardless of your intent, I&#x2
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by lkbm 5y ago
Not sure we'd need more roads. Nearly every road in my area could add a lane by simply eliminating street parking on one side. (Pickup/dropoff might be annoying with no parking lane, but honestly, they use the bike lane for that m
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by lkbm 5y ago
The journal article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01195-w The valuable chemicals are acetone and isopropanol. (Not being snarky--they are indeed of value so if we can make their production an affordable c
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by lkbm 5y ago
Yes, this is a very material difference to a lot of people, but the original claim was that it's something that only a speculator would do. I'm saying that as a person looking to buy and move into a house, this is 100% something
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by lkbm 5y ago
"for free" No, for a house. If I'm spending $600,000-$700,000 on a house, paying $600,000 + three months rent is still on the lower end of that range. It's just a different structure, not more money.
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by lkbm 5y ago
Sure, but a month's rent is something like 0.5% of the cost of a house. If they simply offered 1.5% more for the house to get the one they wanted would anyone say "No person actually looking for a place to live would do that&quo
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by lkbm 5y ago
I agree, but right now it feels like the scooter companies have decided it's easier to inconvenience pedestrians than to ally with us and fight car culture. I'm a huge fan of the idea of plentiful, cheap scooters for short trips,
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by lkbm 5y ago
> It's time for that conversation. The idea of taxing rich people is an ongoing conversation. I hear it discussed literally every day.

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