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by mdorazio 5y ago
Think you want the Toyota i-Road [1]. They tried to bring them to the US a couple times and no one wanted them. It's a demand problem, not a supply one. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQ1hkv1rj4
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'll chime in since I also worked in consulting for a long time (still do). It depends a lot on what vertical you get pulled into, but I'd say it's 50% luck and 50% you putting in the effort to develop and prove you have ski
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Generally speaking, it's not allowed. The supply chain has a very long tail and there are all kinds of steps and contracts that are based on the destination specified when goods are first loaded on a ship. Unloading at a completely d
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yes, and they do. But remember this is in the middle of Los Angeles where property is insanely expensive and ordinances limit how high you can stack your containers. So in order to make any kind of real dent you either need an astronomica
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You’ve grossly mischaracterized every single one of these.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I don’t think yours is a good reading, either. They had already gotten all the negative feedback so there wasn’t much of that left to get. The outburst also didn’t change the primary outcome (no funding). All it did was open the door to a d
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Or alternatively, make the H1B process an auction instead of a lottery to guarantee the visas actually go to positions at companies that need them enough to pay top dollar.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Everyone needs to understand this. I’ve had two friends get audited and fined for massively underpaying themselves for contract work via their LLCs. Many of the people I run into who claim all kinds of benefits from this route are actually
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> what’s the problem? Contractual problems, context-switching problems, conflict of interest problems, and from experience consulting, time problems since your two companies are very likely to want to have meetings at the same time. If
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by mdorazio 5y ago
These things don't cost anywhere near $1000 combined. It's a "pro" tax with the standard Apple tax on top. That extra RAM costs, what $50? The extra SSD space is maybe another $100? The display is the only wildcard
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I hope by pension you mean general retirement savings. Because only about 20% of American workers get a pension [1]. Also note that less than 60% of American workers participate in a 401k-type retirement plan. So saying that “most” people a
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Many options were available. Tariffs, enforcement of environmental and working standards for foreign producers, taxation of companies outsourcing production and labor, distribution of a portion of savings to impacted workers, etc. For the
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Can anyone comment on the heat > electricity conversion ratio? My understanding has been that modern multi-stage steam turbines used in power plants are around 90% efficient, not 50%. I might be missing other energy losses along the wa
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> Seriously, I believe there is some demand for local, tiny offices for remote workers. I'll second this. I need a real office most days due to having a ton of voice and video calls, but private office space at most co-working spac
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Do you have any measured stats on your Dishy's power consumption? I've read it's 90-100W nominal, which seems reasonable if you switch it off at night when not in use. Like other commenters, I've been also been thinkin
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> Given that all Teslas are capable of fully autonomous driving, pending software They are not. Please stop propagating this falsehood.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This implies that the land used to grow cow feed couldn't be used to instead grow human-consumable crops or left fallow as a carbon sink. I'm not aware of any studies showing that.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
More specifically: Settings > general > keyboards > text replacement. Then add all your profanity words as phrases
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> Not in September. There were massive riots and political rallies, remember? Yes, in September. There were riots and protests in some places, but most of the country was very much in lockdown conditions with significantly more restri
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This depends what you mean by "truly competitive". I work in this space and we're expecting the real turning point to be around 2025 for the mass market unless the infrastructure bill gets passed as-is with the massive incen
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I personally don't see this as a problem. If you cannot afford to pay for the workers you need then something is wrong with your business model and you need to fix it or the community (read:voters) need to deal with not having your se
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Not an expert, but this has more or less already been done [1] and led to a temporary moratorium on this research. To your last question, releasing such a thing would basically assure your (and your people's) own destruction in additio
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yes... That's exactly what I said in the second paragraph. Not sure what your point is.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'm sorry, but you are either misinformed or we're talking about different things. The HRSI tiles on the shuttle were not ablative, were absolutely reused multiple times, and there's no indication that they couldn't wit
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You seem to be ignoring the space shuttle entirely, which handled the heat of re-entry at 17,000 mph and was still reusable. You have to make trade-offs on weight and materials (like heat tiles), but it's not impossible.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Is there any actual granular data for this that I’m missing? How many of these resignations are actually moves to another position vs quitting entirely? What’s the breakdown by industry? The high-level early/mid/late career stats
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I see comments like this quite often without any suggestions for how it would happen practically. Let's talk Los Angeles, for example - where would you put light rail lines to sufficiently cover the low-density 400+ square miles of ci
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'm genuinely surprised that the US is not at the top of the list. Can anyone explain why England's tuition is so high (or has risen so much as the article says)?
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Personally, I don't buy this argument. Economics doesn't care about your feelings or your dreams. If you need money to pay your bills and the only way to get that money is to work a shit job, you will work the shit job. Three th
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Having talked about similar questions with friends who work/worked at Google, you need to first ask "How do people get promoted at Google?" The answer to that (by launching new things that get abandoned soon after rather tha

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