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by mdorazio 5y ago
Why do you want manual transmission? Every time I get the nostalgia for driving a stick shift I rent or borrow one for a weekend and rediscover that it's a huge pain in the ass and generally not worth it.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
PSA: The average commute for Americans is about 27 minutes each way [1]. If your commute is 2 hours, you're an outlier. [1] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/650061560/stuck-in-traffic-yo...
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I had the same thought as you re: co-working spaces, but I am frequently on audio and video calls throughout the day and need an office. Co-working space dedicated offices are expensive as hell if your employer isn't paying for them.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yes, and what did those employees who would have otherwise been unemployed spend their money on? Likely rent was the #1 item, thus transferring wealth from tax dollars to asset holders.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I've only gotten a few pages into this, but it looks like their general solutions still require negative energy? Regardless, it's been very interesting to see the development of warp drive theory over the last ~20 years.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
For your second question see [1]. Average income tops out for most people around age 40 and they stay at that level for most of the rest of their main career. [1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t03.htm
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I still disagree. I spent a lot of time in nursing homes when I was a teenager and am quite confident that adding five years of elderly life would not only not be noticed by many people who are just whiling away their later years, a lot o
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I don't think you actually would. A large portion (probably the majority) of American adults could extend their lifespan by 5 years by making simple lifestyle changes. They opt not to.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
They are not. Cameras would not be all that useful. See [1] for an estimated system diagram - the main sensor stacks are based on AHRS and GPS. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/64ew8x/falcon
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Volume doesn’t matter if your margins are negative. Grocery stores typically run on very slim margins (3% or less) so it’s pretty reasonable to think that raising employee pay significantly would make them lose money.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
As someone with a decent amount of money in crypto, I welcome this. I want to pay taxes on crypto capital gains in a way that makes sense instead of trying to guess my way through it, and I also want clear rules for exchanges, pools, etc.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Not sure where you're shopping, but I've found them to be highly inaccurate the majority of the time. Useful for telling me where something is located, but generally useless for actual quantity accuracy. This is for stores like
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I would say your effort wasn't very high then. Keywords to search for are "Mental anguish" and "Emotional distress". "Depression" is not a thing you can really sue for, but mental harm associated with it
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Be careful with this advice since it does not apply generally or all the time for most people. Being self-employed can have a significant financial upside, but it also has significant costs and risks. I switched to 1099 work several yea
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Nothing. PG's recent writing has increasingly been for no one other than PG, which is fine. I just wish it didn't always get upvoted on HN.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I'm having a hard time with this one since from the article it doesn't seem like Burry is seeing anything that isn't very well discussed/analyzed already regarding Tesla. Short sellers have gotten very burned in the past
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Unfortunately it's not even just motivational speakers. I've found that most business books about successful companies tend to lionize leaders and often straight out lie about events to make them fit the narrative better. A grea
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by mdorazio 5y ago
That's not a "kernel of truth", it's a gross mischaracterization. There is a huge difference between inventing an entire new product category that is massively successful and taking an already successful category and ad
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yeah, my #1 problem with Arrival was that it completely sidestepped basically the entire point of the short story - free will doesn't exist and how the characters come to grips with that (or don't) as they start thinking as the al
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I highly recommend you play Kerbal Space Program if you want to get an intuitive understanding for how it works. But in short, yes, and also if you accelerate towards another orbiting object your own orbit becomes more elliptical such that
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yes. > increase capital gains tax to equal income tax Is far easier said than done. For example, would you include the $250K capital gains deduction for selling a home in that? Additionally, you're probably referring to raising lo
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Thank you for stating this. So many people who write about homelessness don't even want to engage with the actual report findings from the agencies that manage homelessness. For example, here's the key takeaway from LA's 20
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by mdorazio 5y ago
To you and all the people replying to you: have you actually searched for this already? Sounds like a lot of MOM Test fails in here. For example, [1]. [1] https://helpatmyhome.com/best-non-smart-tv/
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Two of my largest clients have seen productivity gains of 15-20% depending on department during COVID. It’s yet to be seen if that level will hold as the job market opens back up, but it’s pretty clear that WFH is at minimum not decreasing
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This isn't bad advice, it just glosses over the reality for most people applying to jobs where their role isn't in massive demand (i.e. not a SV dev/prod mgr). I routinely screen dozens of resumes a month for a wide variety
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The US largely doesn’t have the stomach for it because it would require labor protections and significant tariffs/trade restrictions on goods produced via dirt cheap labor overseas. As soon as anyone tries that, the country loses its m
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Related: last week was the first time in years that I actually drove to the airport and parked because it was significantly cheaper than Uber or Lyft. What was a pretty standard $30-35 trip has now grown to close to $60, before tip. I&#x2
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This is effectively printing MDF, which is very different from what most people consider "wood". The novelty is in using binders with fusion jet printing instead of pre-bound FDM filament as has been available for some time. It&
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by mdorazio 5y ago
We already are [1]. Obviously we need more, though. I'd much rather have a sizable desalination plant for LA County than most of the boondoggle projects that get funded by propositions. [1] https://www.sdcwa.org/your-
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Only because we like spacex. Remember that they themselves sued the USAF not too long ago in a similar situation: https://spacenews.com/case-closed-california-judge-ends-spac...

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