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541.
by matwood 1y ago
Yikes. The LG one I bought in the EU was just a little more than a similar sized hot air LG one I had bought in the US a couple of years ago.
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by matwood 1y ago
> If nobody had the space, why? You're a C-suite exec, saying something is clearly valuable, why can't you get someone to work on it for a few days? As a leader, especially a CxO, the most important job they have is the allocat
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by matwood 1y ago
You read, talk to people and write. Then you get feedback on your writing, and repeat the process.
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by matwood 1y ago
> So you think coding is not high leverage on a tech company. At the CTO level of a growing company it is one of the lower leverage things they can do. Setting technical direction, hiring the right people, and putting the right people in
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by matwood 1y ago
I love heat pumps. Had one in my house in the southern US and am about to put one in my house in the EU. I also recently bought a heat pump dryer, also great. Very gentle on clothes, doesn’t need a vent, or the high power plug - just a drai
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by matwood 1y ago
Good point. Still odd in that it doesn’t connect to the real world easily, though that’s likely just showing my age bias.
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by matwood 1y ago
COVID prices just aren't a good comparison. I needed to replace a tankless water heater and was quoted $4k. I laughed, paid $1100 for a top of the line one and had my neighbor help me who used to be a plumber. Took 30 minutes and a bot
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by matwood 1y ago
I don't consider poker gambling (that would be something like craps which I also find fun). It is a skill you can build and not necessarily lose money. I also don't consider it lying when everyone at the table agrees to how the ga
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by matwood 1y ago
They are both about signaling wealth and status. What I don’t understand about the digital items is that the people who own them are often anonymous so why signal? Signaling wealth and status IRL can also carry other benefits that don’t see
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by matwood 1y ago
When I was a kid it was baseball cards.
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by matwood 1y ago
> By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision This was noted a long time ago by Brooks in the Mythical Man-Month. Every person added to a team increases the communication overhead (n(n − 1)&#
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by matwood 1y ago
I’ve stopped using em dashes in my writing in fear it will be dismissed at LLM generated :/
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by matwood 1y ago
> So the Ballmer peak is real? Haha...when I used to golf, 2 beers (American swill, no fancy high alcohol types) was the optimal amount. It was just enough to make me relax, which is so critical for a good golf swing.
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by matwood 1y ago
> my top productivity booster is total, multi-month sobriety For me, it's early morning workouts. If I have time to do jiujitsu at 7am, then my entire day is super charged. I've tried with other sorts of workouts, but I think t
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by matwood 1y ago
I agree with you completely. I think what the US is seeing now is a rejection of the binge drinking culture (which is a good thing), but going to the other extreme. I also see a lot of over indexing on minutia. For example, worrying about d
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by matwood 1y ago
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker The aggressiveness is losing people who may have supported his immigration policies initially.
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by matwood 1y ago
> there isn't any more there there than what's already been found? I thought this until seeing Trump look completely guilty every time it comes up, and the GOP leadership mobilizing to stop the release of the files.
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by matwood 1y ago
> I think people are being slightly hyperbolic. People are not being hyperbolic. This is reducing the transparency of Pentagon to the American people. See also the Whitehouse banning the AP earlier this year. > It's basically sta
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by matwood 1y ago
I’m sorry your family have been a victims of violent crime. I’ve never been a victim of a violent crime, though I did have my car broken into over 20 years ago. My anecdote would suggest there’s no crime, but we know that’s not true and why
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by matwood 1y ago
> 2. If employees want to be exposed to excess profit (and loss) It's funny that people tell me they want this because they'll see some of the sales outliers. But then I explain that 1/2 or more of their salary will be dep
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by matwood 1y ago
The same reason you don't give a store $2 for something priced at $1 or write anything other than a zero in the box on your tax form that lets you pay more if you like.
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by matwood 1y ago
"real artists ship" - Jobs
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by matwood 1y ago
> My argument is a stock buyback isn't a gain for a long-term, buy-and-hold investor. It's better for me as a long term investor because I can better control my tax liability. It also allows for long term growth without a tax d
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by matwood 1y ago
Ah yes. The share buyback boogie man. If only companies couldn’t buy back shares then all that extra money would flow into research, except not. Shareholders would be demanding dividends.
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by matwood 1y ago
I also own RE in the EU, but I'm planning to live/retire in it.
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by matwood 1y ago
I going to defend Zoltan here and say the comment they responded to had about the same level of thought. "I read the market is overvalued" is no different than asking about short positions. I've been reading about the market
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by matwood 1y ago
I also adjusted some towards VXUS which was a great move in hindsight from fx alone. I bought property in the EU a couple years ago which is also benefiting from fx moves. With that said, the biggest US companies are pretty exposed internat
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by matwood 1y ago
Cash is absolutely not safe. Between the fx risk and inflation risk out there, cash is losing purchasing power daily. Gold is interesting because it was a hedge for a long time, but with the recent run up I wonder if it's entering meme
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by matwood 1y ago
Don't mention AI, just point out why the code is bad. I've had co-workers who were vim wizards and others who literally hunt and pecked to type. At no point did their tools ever come up when reviewing their code. AI is a tool like
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by matwood 1y ago
What if your coworker was pushing tons of crap code and AI didn't exist? How would you deal with the situation then? Do that.

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