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871.
by madengr 8y ago
Most people under 40 have less than $500 liquid cash.
872.
by madengr 8y ago
Other than cash, how do you give money over $15k without being nailed by the gift tax? Keeping as much money in retirement savings seems wise as those are exempt from liens.
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by madengr 8y ago
That’s a great web site. Worth the time reading through his posts. I spent the last two weeks laying out a PCB with iPhone-like density; now I hate laying out PCBs. It’s therapeutic until you spend too long on it, then it’s drudgery.
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by madengr 8y ago
I wonder if China has developed the mmWave in silicon that will be required for the beam steering front ends?
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by madengr 8y ago
Was the Samsung display manufactured in China? If so, what did they expect?
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by madengr 8y ago
NY is not a tech town. Google is not tech, it’s advertising. Amazon is a mail-order company. Uber is a taxi company. Stop calling “tech” technology. The revenue generated by those companies is not the technology itself. A semiconductor
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by madengr 8y ago
Yes, but even bonds don't keep up with inflation, and you need enough principle to ride out the dips. The "safe" return is considered to be 4%, which is $20k on $500k, so you'd be dipping into the principle even on tha
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by madengr 8y ago
Even a poverty level wage (for family of 4) is $25k/year. So $500k over a 20 year retirement sounds like a lot, but it’s not.
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by madengr 8y ago
Free lunch? Ha ha ha... my employer does not even have free coffee.
880.
by madengr 8y ago
Reminds me of Lindsay Technical books. Used to love reading those things when I was a kid. https://www.youroldtimebookstore.com
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by madengr 8y ago
What if the car were heading directly for the side of the Tesla? Would it accelerate to miss it, or break in front of it?
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by madengr 8y ago
Yeah, but the 90% does line up, any major changes still have to signed off by an engineer.
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by madengr 8y ago
Wow, struggle sessions. Sounds like the management style at my employer.
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by madengr 8y ago
I remember seeing some of these as a kid in the 70’s. Great stuff. Also a lot of art by Chris Foss: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1848566980/ref=ox_sc_saved_im...
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by madengr 8y ago
That is cool looking. Reminds me of a jacked up, 80's VW Rabbit.
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by madengr 8y ago
Did a little work on these ice penetrating radars when I was at KU.
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by madengr 8y ago
Yes, mostly crap.
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by madengr 8y ago
Comanche in 1992 was jaw dropping. Seemed to be the first 32-bit game too, as it came with it’s own boot disk. https://youtu.be/Uc3zGZnI6ak
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by madengr 8y ago
Were these homes bought with cash or loans? People don’t have to sell if they own it, but if they can’t make the payments, that would be like the 2008 USA financial crisis.
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by madengr 8y ago
Ditto on the Leaf. I’m 6’5” and still have 2” headroom, and most importantly, clear line of sight (not looking into visor). I can also put the seat all the way back and still fit someone behind me. It has much more passenger room than my T
891.
by madengr 8y ago
Because of political correctness. All the airplane terrorism has been committed by Muslim males under 35, therefore the TSA has to search little old ladies.
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by madengr 8y ago
I worked with someone who did. He came in at 6 AM, sent off an email, and left at 6:15. I don’t blame him, as our employer has walked out 25 year employees with no notice.
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by madengr 8y ago
I hope the TSA is permanently shutdown.
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by madengr 8y ago
Costco is Sam’s Club, without the tattoos.
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by madengr 8y ago
Ah, I was also 25 then. I was telling my kids today, there used to be an internet with no advertisements.
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by madengr 8y ago
I thought millennials wanted hip lofts in revitalized urban areas? They do, until they have kids, then it’s flee to the suburbs with the decent schools. At least that is the observation with my coworkers. I’m a cynical gen-x (still with e
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by madengr 8y ago
Maxwell unified electromagnetism into a propagating wave. That was the big leap. Before that, things were disparate. Hertz proved it experimentally, and Heaviside turned it into an engineering discipline.
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by madengr 8y ago
Anything that requires a security clearance.
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by madengr 8y ago
/rant The entire premise of these (snobbish) comments seems be: if you majored in anything that is employable, then it’s “vocational”, and you really didn’t learn anything. That’s insulting and a load of bullshit. I can only speak for
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by madengr 8y ago
Yep, the best receiver ever built is probably in the Flex 6000 series with the band filters. I have one, and it has insane amount of dynamic range, which is good as I have an AM station a few miles away. http://www.sherweng.com&#

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