madcaptenor

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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   "ATL airport -- a certain airline has way too much power there." And that airline is increasingly big in Seattle as well.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   What are "Ken gardeners"?
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   That's true. But is Amazon going to be big enough to create enough demand that airlines would make those additions? (Not a rhetorical question.) Sure, Pittsburgh could have a flight to Seattle. But it doesn't right now. Is
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Alright, I did it, based on OpenFlights route data ( https://openflights.org/data.html ). The list is: Albuquerque, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Las V
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Seems easy enough to make a list of all those airports.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   > "no hurricanes" Don't jinx it.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   NW Arkansas airport also has a surprising amount of service for an airport in that location - American, Delta, and United regional affiliates. serve most of their hubs from there. Presumably a lot of this traffic is either Walmart corporat
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Nate Silver was for a while a professional poker player.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   I'd really hope wind has a bus factor of more than one though.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    The freeway offramp nearest my house has two gas stations with a ten-cent difference. And wouldn't you know, I use the more expensive one, because it's the one that I can get to without making a bunch of turns.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    ncal allows me to specify the country, so even though I'm in the US I can get the following: $ ncal -sES 10 1582 October 1582 Mo 1 18 25 Tu 2 19 26 We 3 20 27 Th 4 21 28 Fr 15 22 29 Sa 16 23 30 Su 17 24 31
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I suspect if you asked most people when the 12 days of Christmas are, they'd say they were December 14-25 (or maybe even 13-24). After all, that's when you buy the presents!
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Isn't that all Orthodox churches, not just the Serbian? My wife's a bit of a Russophile. So in years where we forgot to do the holiday shopping, we exchange gifts on Russian Christmas (i. e. January 7, Gregorian). Or, if we'
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Thanks for the clarification.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    People are required to work from home 5 days out of 10? I'm for encouraging working from home, but that policy assumes that everyone can spare the space in their home to have some sort of home office. (And since it's not a ful
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Is that really good sleep, though? I've slept on trains, buses, planes, cars where I wasn't driving, and that sleep is never the same quality as sleep in a bed.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    We have a similar policy (with no rollover except in certain extenuating circumstances that I understand basically never happen). It's nice in terms of everybody actually using their vacation. But because you can't roll over we
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Sadly these appear to be back ordered - just received e-mail saying so.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Thanks! Just placed an order.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    In Atlanta we have light traffic on Friday mornings but heavy traffic on Friday evening. My theory is that morning traffic is almost entirely people going to work, of whom there are slightly fewer on Fridays, but evening traffic is both peo
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I suspect that people who move far from their family of origin are, on average, less compatible with their family. If you are generally compatible with your family and like being around them you're more likely to prioritize living nea
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Uber is currently running ads on Pandora advertising driving for Uber as "the ultimate side hustle".
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Why Boston? In particular, if you have personal connections there you should be working those, both to find a job and to find a place to live.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    So do they take the coins from the laundromats and put them in the slot machines?
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Is this a fact about the U.S. legal system, or about legal systems in general? (This isn't a rhetorical question - I'd actually be interested to hear an answer from someone who has knowledge of multiple legal systems.)
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    If you're actually interested in doing this from Seattle, it looks like Alaska has nonstop flights from Seattle to Charleston, SC and Kansas City. Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP) is another candidate although a bit harder to get to.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Pretty sure this is 56 feet long, not 56 square feet in area. So the per-square-foot price is overinflated.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    OK, savings rate does vary by income, according to the Fed: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/2016-economic-wel... . They only break things out into three income brackets (0-40K, 40K-100K, 100K+) - but even in
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Those calculators are ridiculous because they assume you spend your entire income. For most Americans that's pretty close to being correct - the average savings rate is around 6%. ( https://www.fool.com/investing/
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I moved from SF to Atlanta three years ago. I figure that Atlanta will always be cheaper because they can just build more Atlanta if they need to, whereas San Francisco is essentially an island.