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by mdorazio 5y ago
If I'm understanding your example here, you're basically arguing in favor of per-piece pay rather than fixed. This has its own set of challenges, for example imagine if developers got paid by the line of code rather than by the q
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This comment is hilariously reminiscent of ones on this very site when Adobe announced CC would be replacing the old "pay once" software.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Not sure where you’re getting your port numbers from, but you must be referring to something non-standard. Neither of those are top 10 and definitely not even remotely as important as the west coast ports or NJ. See [1]. [1] https:/&#
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Labor shortages weren’t a very big thing a month before the pandemic, so you have to ask yourself what changed. In many cases it’s that people got comfortable being paid a decent amount to not work, from the pandemic payouts. It’s a reall
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I would like to point out that long-term effects are a possible outcome in many types of flu, not just covid ex. [1][2]. Given the combination of relatively short timeframe for covid studies, the unknown complications of living in lockdown
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by mdorazio 5y ago
See [1]. I'm sure you'll redefine "serious" however you want to try and retain your point. Which is, of course, childish as you say. Your comment here is disappointing. I'd expect you to actually do some researc
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by mdorazio 5y ago
That CDC report is very careful to word its abstract to hide that the findings are from a very small group of people (a whopping 50 fully vaccinated) without even mentioning overall immunity levels across the general population. I'm n
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Take a look at the book "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier. It has surprisingly concrete advice for people in your exact position. One of the few "business books" I actually recommend to people.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
And the problem with that is most users have definitively and repeatedly voted with their wallets that they would rather give up privacy and freedoms than pay money. The vast majority of consumers simply don't care, and the HN audienc
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Pro tip: as with many things on Amazon, you can usually get these cubes (or spheres) for a fair amount less on eBay.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
To save you from reading to answer the clickbait title: insufficient supply combined with people abusing the system to sublet for profit or gift rent controlled apartments to friends and family.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Replying to myself since apparently people don't like financial facts. If you read Pfizer's 10-K for 2019 (chosen for pre-pandemic numbers), the US accounted for 45% of their gross revenue compared to Western Europe's ~15%.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Sure, I've been directly (adversely) impacted by the H1B program multiple times and I'd be perfectly fine if the program was auction based with a minimum floor on worker salaries at something like 1.1x the prevailing wage. If you
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You can do this math yourself. The average drug costs about $1.3B to develop [1]. What's the profit margin per dose in your country of choice, times the number of expected doses before the patent runs out? I can pretty much guarante
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I don’t think you understood the parent post’s point. Most people don’t buy a house based on the sale price, they buy based on what their monthly payment will be. Historically low interest rates mean that people can afford a lot higher pr
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> Your eyes already do the distance estimation and they are basically cameras so we can do this just as well or better. This is not really accurate. Our brains do the distance estimation, and they use all kinds of tricks and contextua
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The best I have is from [1], which estimates 50 million gallons a day at an ongoing operating cost of around $50 million per year. You'd have to pick a timeframe to also amortize the cost of the plant itself and add that in. [1] http
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by mdorazio 5y ago
They are fabulously expensive for the water output you get. The San Diego one is (or was) the largest in the Western hemisphere, cost about a billion dollars to build, requires 40MW to run, and only covers about 7% of the potable water nee
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Other commenters here haven't really provided any good data to show the issue. If you want to run, say, 10A at 24V through DC wire on a circuit you end up needing stupidly thick wire (~6AWG) to avoid voltage drops over just 100ft. Th
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by mdorazio 5y ago
As others have already mentioned, this really applies to places like Europe where truck routes are quite short. In the US I'm bullish on hydrogen-powered trucks (fuel cell). It's a technology that doesn't make much sense fo
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I stared it for a good minute thinking maybe I wasn't being served the new font, but no, it's just so similar to Helvetica (Roman) that I have to deliberately look for the differences to tell. I compared Chirp and Helvetica side
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Devil's advocate: 2008 was bad because of regulatory failures (specifically deregulation). Lack of transparency was only part of the problem. So if you want to avoid 2008 in cryptocurrency, the answer would be more regulation, not le
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I have to disagree pretty strongly with this. The early Farmville days were 2009-2010, at which point Facebook was already fairly mainstream (300M users) and trending toward the garbage content, advertising, and outrage bandwagon. For the
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Sure do - you could even buy them yourself with ingredients list and everything until they switched vendors this year: https://www.amazon.com/Farmer-John-Dodger-Wieners-Package/dp...
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I wasn't at all surprised when damn near every community appealed the new RHNA rules (49 jurisdictions tried last I checked). I was surprised when only two were successful. We'll see what they actually end up doing, but it'
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'm going to need to see some data to back that claim up. ED crowding has been a major problem in the US, but not really so much in Europe, Hong Kong, etc. [1] If you mean total capacity, that's a bad comparison because the US po
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by mdorazio 5y ago
1) Replace "children" with "immunocompromised people". It is the exact same argument. Don't be pedantic. And yes, I do believe COVID is overblown in how it is presented. The risk factors are very clear now and n
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Here you go: https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/vaccine-after-effects-more-co...
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Can you find a reliable number to share on what the complication rate actually is? The best I can find is that the death rate in CA for 18-34 year olds is quite low - something like 0.07% [1]. [1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pr
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> We have in fact eradicated one highly transmittable, airborne virus through a global vaccination effort already, namely smallpox. And that was almost half a century ago. Exactly. It was half a century ago when the global population wa

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