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by mdorazio 4y ago
I lost faith in Makerbot when they started using proprietary parts that, as far as I could tell, weren’t actually superior to the open source equivalents. I ran a print farm for a while with 50 printers of various brands and the bottom line
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by mdorazio 4y ago
See here: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/eu-golden-visas/greece-gold... It’s effectively a 250k investment requirement (property purchase of similar). So it’s not a net worth thing.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
You’ve just described trees. And forestry in general, except with a different endpoint for the felled trees. This has been proposed many times for as long as I can remember, but the bottom line is the same as other sequestration methods: so
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by mdorazio 4y ago
The challenge here is that once a show, movie, or piece of music is done, it’s done and can be syndicated out for decades. Software usually doesn’t work that way so you’d get into tricky situations like trying to license particular functi
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Think you have that backwards on emissions. Motorcycles pollute far more than cars. https://www.latimes.com/news/la-hy-throttle11-2008jun11-stor...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I recommend you email or call the admissions team for programs you’re interested in. I did undergrad in CS and business and was interested in a different engineering discipline masters after quite a few years of unrelated work. The response
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Shared whiteboards have been a thing for a long time in the corporate world. These days you don’t even really need a specialized device - Teams, for example, has the functionality built in so all you need is a large screen (although input w
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by mdorazio 4y ago
What? The 2004 and 2005 challenges participants were basically all university teams (i.e., the teams were students & professors who didn't need the prize money in the first place). The participants in those teams then went on to
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Cynically, the SEC will only issue fines in most cases. Elon will (according to accounts from friends who have worked at his companies) fire leadership without hesitation and possibly publicly shame them, too.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I’ve done some hourly consulting for VCs as a subject matter expert in an industry they are interested in. “Tech” won’t really cut it though - they already know very well how SaaS works.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I know it’s only a part of their reasons for unionizing, but out of curiosity how many people here have actually seen their pay keep up with inflation this year? (8%+ without promotion or job switching). Survey of my friends points to basic
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You realize that a mortgage is a loan, right? You’re paying both interest and equity on it over time, which you need to take into account. The longer you pay it, the more of your payments are really going right back into your own pocket. Re
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'm strongly going to need a source to back up your claim.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Not really stated in the article are three caveats: 1) Zoning laws have to change as well to actually allow development of the land being taxed toward more productive ends. 2) The land tax amount needs to be high enough that the pain of the
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Counterpoint: I am fairly certain that a large portion of financial news is machine-generated today. Machine-generated blogspam is also extremely prevalent and edging into the “news” space.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
From the Highlights section in your link: "In 2019, households represented 26% of final energy consumption, or 17% of gross inland energy consumption, in the EU". So 74% of consumption is not households. What am I missing?
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Large groups of manufacturing engineers. It's a specific discipline, and they work closely with the design engineers of the vehicles to make sure the vehicles can actually be manufactured efficiently at scale.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Most people with EVs charge them at home (latest report I've seen puts it at about 80%), so hopefully it will look a lot better.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Let's do some math for fun. Amazon now employs about a million workers in the US. Let's naively assume 3/4 of them work in warehouses and delivery as opposed to corporate. Let's also assume they work, on average, 2000
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> why doesn't amazon just respect its worker's basic human dignity? Because that directly conflicts with making the highest profit possible (still legally). What’s sad in these discussions is that it’s both true that Amazon is
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by mdorazio 5y ago
That would make heroin addicts the happiest people on earth. Seems like a flawed measure.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Still declined in the last 10 years: https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/pittsburgh-pa-po...
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by mdorazio 5y ago
No, you are talking about apartments. We are talking about units of housing built on property that various interested parties want. It could be used for apartments, but it could also be used by wealthy people to build single family ho
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Women spend significantly less time in the workforce than do men. I can't easily find stats for the US, but in the EU it's about 33 years currently [1], which would put "mid-career" (assuming career start at 22) in late
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Exactly... so where would you see it?
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I think you should take a look at [1] and also consider that most people are homeowners, not renters. California is especially egregious because of its asinine property tax laws - an increasingly large portion of people buy a home and never
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I invite you to actually look at the housing market in CA and show me all the older construction that’s affordable. My friends in LA (not even nice parts of it) are buying houses that are literally 100 years old for over $1M. The “fix older
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I could be misremembering since I lived in China a long time ago, but I feel like QR codes were wildly popular in Asia long before digital payments became really popular. So it probably made sense on several fronts to adopt them for paymen
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The vast majority of comments in this post, including the one I replied to, are about privacy and control rather than accessibility.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Venmo also allows using QR codes quite easily (tap "Scan" on the home screen and then scan a code or tap "Venmo me" to show your code), but for some reason many users don't seem to know that and end up trying to loo

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