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by lsc 9y ago
I wouldn't know, but either way, not all your housing needs to be built for parents with small children. You set it up so that those of us without kids don't have to drive, and especially in the bay area, you've solved a lot
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by lsc 9y ago
I bought my first apple product (an iphone 5) a few years back, and have been slowly buying more and more into their ecosystem, which sounds like the opposite of what you did. I come from old ThinkPad laptops; I've been using thin
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by lsc 9y ago
So there's a lower bound on how much you can make and still get the subsidized plan? that seems broken in a very American sort of way. I think a lot of the bureaucratic issues might be the nature of insurance companies? My (pre-ac
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by lsc 9y ago
Yeah, you need transport. Historically speaking, this has been a chicken-and-egg problem; to get density high enough for reasonable public transit, it needs to be practical to get by without a car. To get by without a car, you need rea
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by lsc 9y ago
>Tiny Homes/ADU's Mobile homes (and all the 'tiny homes' I've seen are smaller and cooler "mobile homes") are great for quickly putting up housing in undeveloped places. I think they are less good for
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by lsc 9y ago
that sounds like a fun little project; way less privacy concerns than your usual tax application, as all the data is public. just a "find the data for a 1099-B for the following wallets" it actually seems like it would be pret
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by lsc 9y ago
You might want to look into putting some of that money into a 529 plan; that allows the kid to pay for college without paying taxes on the gains. It's a risk if the kid doesn't end up going to college; you end up paying, I think,
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by lsc 9y ago
>ACA is horrendous, unless you're receiving a government subsidy. I'm curious as to why you say "the ACA is horrendous" rather than "The income cutoffs for the ACA subsidies are way too low" - I mean, i
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by lsc 9y ago
For background, I don't have serious experience with this. I've worked with businesses that moved containers, I've talked about getting containers for my own stuff, and priced things out from that angle, and found the whole
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by lsc 9y ago
I am arguing that fighting the US government with violence is unwise to the point where it indicates a lack of rational thinking: first, the US government is very good at violence, and second because the US government doesn't seem to
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by lsc 9y ago
I think you might be making too much of the connection between rationality and the ability to use modern tools. I don't have a lot of experience with terrorist leaders, but my experience with business leaders is that they are way more
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by lsc 9y ago
I'm sure work is pretty bad for a lot of people, and sure, something should be done with that. I personally think the biggest thing we could do is to just add a reasonable safety net. I get treated well because my employer knows I hav
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by lsc 9y ago
Maybe? I can tell you that Amazon has huge pricing power on bandwidth. You need to have serious sales chops to change anything like what Amazon does, and then you probably are left with a high touch customer. I do think that this might cha
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by lsc 9y ago
I would assume there's a high correlation between experiencing long term pain and opioid use. It also seems there would be a large degree of overlap between people experiencing difficult to treat long-term pain and people who commit su
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by lsc 9y ago
My understanding is that medically speaking, increasing your testosterone levels is something you can do fairly easy, compared, say, to dealing with the cognitive impairment caused by heavy metal poisoning.
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by lsc 9y ago
> I'm thinking the other way around. Telecoms will have incentive to not invest at all in states with stricter laws. Then in a few years they can say "See, it stifles innovation!" That's gonna be hard for them; Rural
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by lsc 9y ago
>Men's sperm counts have gone down 50% in the last 30 years, nobody knows why, but the estrogens in our products/water/air aren't out of the question. I... guess I don't really see this as nearly as scary as &quo
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by lsc 9y ago
>There are ways to make the points you have made that are helpful and supportive. I don't think your first comment is that sort of thing. Re-reading my own comments, I think you are right that my comment wasn't helpful. It prob
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by lsc 9y ago
why would I care if someone is faking confidence any more than I would care about it if someone is faking feeling energetic or silly? I mean, I guess I would feel a little weird if I thought you felt you needed to fake confidence around me,
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by lsc 9y ago
>If the essentially entire world is the problem and there is a relatively small number of people that get your issues In that case, I totally agree that you have a larger problem. But my experience of adhd is not like that. My experienc
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by lsc 9y ago
>But I think 85% of the issue with my ADHD is the social stigma and people who will never understand nor accept it. You... sound like you participate in a lot of online discussion groups where the general public talks about ADHD. I don&#
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by lsc 9y ago
>E.g., if I admit that, not only am I not confident, but I see the world as so complex that I can't be possibly confident about it, how can I decide what to do? You need to learn to face uncertainty. You know some of your data is
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by lsc 9y ago
Maybe? I find I have a "dangerous other" type reaction to people who seem too confident. I mean, I can get over it, but my initial reaction to a confident person tends to be quite negative; I pretty much immediately switch to &
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by lsc 9y ago
The interesting thing is that society really strongly rewards confidence, even when you are wrong... but having a certain amount of self-doubt, I think, is fundamental to sanity for all the reasons in the article; sometimes, even when I&#x
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by lsc 9y ago
>I’m extremely skeptical lyft is replacing anyone’s car. The “sweet spot” is cities, and you probably already didn’t need a car if lyft is all you need. I got rid of my car because of uber/lyft.[1] I'm in a "city" in
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by lsc 9y ago
hm. Yes, and with a pretty significant (by keyboard button standards) amount of pressure required. Actually, in a situation where I can't require significant force, the 'upshift' almost seems like it would be more comforta
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by lsc 9y ago
I watched 'Metropolis'(1927) the other day[1]; The rich main character lived in a building with these; I was not aware it was an actual thing, rather than just "The most future looking elevator that the effects team could c
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by lsc 9y ago
I find that... terrifying
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by lsc 9y ago
You have some good points, especially about scaling the international stuff, something I hadn't thought of. That does sound compelling but B? I don't see why I want to bundle my stocks with my television series. And, I'm
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by lsc 9y ago
so, I trust amazon too (at least the 'shipped and sold by amazon' brand... I consider everything else to be more like ebay) But... I just don't see how amazon would get me away, say, from vanguard. There are already good ret

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