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by lsc 7y ago
For me, solving technical problems often gives me a great deal of satisfaction. I mean, it is sometimes a real slog, too... nothing is fun all the time... but sometimes the worst slogs come with the greatest satisfaction. and sometimes not
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by lsc 7y ago
The other thing I want to mention is your negativity towards chasing money. It's... well, it's a tell for someone who either is rich or is trying to sound rich. For most of us? The money and security is the first goal when ch
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by lsc 7y ago
Knowing how to tell computers how to do things is essential, and there will be more and more computers that need to be told what to do. the question is "can we teach everyone to do this job?" if the answer is yes, then of cour
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by lsc 7y ago
I use a kinesis advantage2 with brown cherry keyswitches. (I think it's available with others) - my only complaint is that it's kinda giant. Overall, it's pretty great; if you don't want to build your own, and if y
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by lsc 7y ago
>Lead in solder is not a safety hazard unless you eat it mm. most of the leaded solder I've used has a bunch of warnings on it about washing your hands after using it before eating or smoking (most of my leaded solder usage was dur
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by lsc 7y ago
so I think what I'm describing here is different from the link - my employer deducts post-tax money from my paycheck into the 401k, then rolls that over into something that will roll over into a roth IRA when I leave the company. A
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, it conveys all the advantages of a roth IRA, plus (I believe possibly) stronger bankruptcy protections, (because it's rolled over from a 401K) - so assuming you can contribute to it (which is to say, you have money after maxing
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by lsc 7y ago
Perhaps what op has in mind is that some of these big companies let you contribute post-tax money to your 401K (that you can then roll over into a roth IRA even if you are above the income limits to contribute directly to a roth) there&#x2
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by lsc 7y ago
inevitable. After spending the last year or two without a car at all, in part 'cause lyft and uber had started subtly raising prices, I bought a car a few months back. I mean, I was a little sad, it was really really nice being drive
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by lsc 7y ago
>Once you lose a capability it’s gone forever This is... not my impression, from working around Engineers all my life. My impression is that cutting edge manufacturing techniques from the '80s are now available, cheaply, to hobbyis
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by lsc 7y ago
I think that most of this effect is just how cheap precision is, and the fact that the cost of raw materials hasn't dropped; I mean, compare my ikea shelves to my parent's heavy metal furniture from the '60s. at first gla
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by lsc 7y ago
Nope, I'm not any good at any of the maths. My own model is that it's like reading, you need a critical mass of vocabulary and/or grammar (one can make up for the other, to some extent) before you can understand much of anyt
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by lsc 7y ago
sure, but... I mean, the tech has changed so much and gotten so much better. If we threw the sort of effort (and by effort, I mean money) into reindustrialization that we throw into, say, selling ads, the problem would fall pretty quick
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by lsc 7y ago
>A decade or two passes and rebooting your widget industry will be an order of magnitude harder than it was to start in the first place. Eh, you don't want any of the old equipment anyhow, you want new computer controlled stuff. I
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by lsc 7y ago
I... think that in the modern era, "real war" is a different sort of thing from "trade war" - a difference in kind, not degree, in a way that just wasn't so when Tzu wrote. The fact of the matter is that both the U
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by lsc 7y ago
I freely admit that I don't know a whole lot about China, and even less about the government of China. But I do know a fair number of people who are or were Chinese citizens who either now work here or do a lot of business with the U
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by lsc 7y ago
>You mean autarky, full economic self-sufficiency. China is certainly big enough to operate as an autarky. The US used to, up to about 1980 or so. You think the US is less industrially capable than in 1980? that... seems unlikely. Su
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by lsc 7y ago
>It's seems uncommon for people to consider if our trade with China before this "war" was fair. So, I'm not an expert, but... my understanding is that China is accused of subsidizing domestic manufacturing. Analogou
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by lsc 7y ago
>recurring payments are a problem by themselves, the more of them you have, the more problem they are. In some ways, I agree. In others, I don't. I mean, the problem is largely in the difficulty of unsubscribing. If that were
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by lsc 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. That does sound exactly like what I want. I'll be ordering a few pairs to see if it works out as well as it sounds.
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by lsc 7y ago
>The US lost a LOT of capability over the last 20 years citation needed... My understanding was that US manufacturing output has been steadily growing (even if employment has been falling) for all of that time.
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by lsc 7y ago
I heard that but never got it setup. I did a bunch more poking today, and it looks like they want me to use a chrome extension (I'm mostly a safari person) I should spend more time looking up how to get that working, 'cause it
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by lsc 7y ago
most wool pants are dry clean only. I actually don't know anything about the actual context of these pants when in use. https://go-armynavy.com/military-surplus/collectibles/austra... (I'm not vouching
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by lsc 7y ago
>Not sure if you've noticed, but manufacturing is starting to come back in the US. Industrial automation and skilled trades jobs are starting to be a thing again. These are solid middle class jobs that often dont require a degree. I
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, but the comment you are responding to had a solution that worked for me for some time. I haven't used privacy.com, but bank of america used to have a way for me to create virtual credit card numbers; I'd simply create one fo
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by lsc 7y ago
>Is it really free when China had much greater tariffs on US goods than Chinese goods had come into the US? Is it really free when Chinese entities get to enjoy massive subsidies to dump products while foreign companies face nonmarket ba
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by lsc 7y ago
I'm just saying, from where I stand (and I'm first to recognize I'm not an expert here) it sure looks like my country is trying to make things harder for China, and is paying the price of making things harder for workers in
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by lsc 7y ago
Interestingly, I haven't found pants that I like that are manufactured in the recent era, even with a reasonably large budget, compared to a laborer. (though I guess thatching is moderately skilled labor, so maybe you would compare it
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by lsc 7y ago
>And obviously it's not so great for the US. There's a lot of confusion, I think, about how you "win" a trade war; as far as I can tell, autarchy is pretty bad for all involved; trade wars seem like a thing where eve
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by lsc 7y ago
Thanks! my own strategy is to try to get it explained to me in as many different ways as possible; I think it's often easiest to learn by integrating a bunch of different viewpoints of the same thing. on the other hand, I haven't

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