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by mertd 5y ago
They saved 6.8B seven years ago. If they put that money in broad market index, they already made the fine amount by now and then some.
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by mertd 5y ago
Business class? Haven't seen anything other than lap belts in economy.
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by mertd 5y ago
If you are a terrible driver, you can certainly make your individual odds of accident a lot worse than the average case, but I'm not sure being a good driver improves your odds by that much. A lot of the risks are totally out of the dr
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by mertd 5y ago
Pedestrians can be unpredictable and distracted. They should have their own space not shared with any vehicle for their own safety.
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by mertd 5y ago
Is it slowing down because it is going 65 on a 55mph zone?
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by mertd 5y ago
Vast majority of Muslims also smoke a lot.
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by mertd 5y ago
Note that it was around all time low just six months ago. The chart seems very volatile. I don't know if it is a bad survey or if people are fickle.
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by mertd 5y ago
Maybe they think the offer is too good to be true. In some countries it is default to assume everyone is out to scam you until proven otherwise.
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by mertd 5y ago
Maybe peak is Christmas?
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by mertd 5y ago
Think of human labor as a natural resource. If the employer is overseas, you're selling the raw resource. You'd rather make some goods out of the resource and sell that instead.
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by mertd 5y ago
What is the evil practice?
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by mertd 5y ago
Thanks for the sources. The aggressive NIMBY'ism of the Bay Area is really bizarre. Part of it is well explained by textbook racism.
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by mertd 5y ago
How do you define a neighborhood characteristic? Usually it's nothing but an arbitrary snapshot in time that some folks decided is ideal and should be frozen. Curiously it tends to correlate with the date they moved in to the said neig
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by mertd 5y ago
Sort by theft and that's just the reported number. We experienced theft about once a year. Never bothered to report.
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by mertd 5y ago
It may be easy to jump to the fatalistic conclusion that we are all clueless lemmings waiting to be wiped out by some random event or another but the book ultimately suggests to not ignore tail events. What you make out of those is up to yo
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by mertd 5y ago
All of those should be a law of some form.
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by mertd 5y ago
But the analysis assumes you timed the market "perfectly" and sat out only on the 10 best days.
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by mertd 6y ago
That's what a normal town looks like pretty much anywhere outside of North America. I don't know town planners love exclusive zoning so much here.
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by mertd 6y ago
I wonder if I can put this on my dog as an activity tracker.
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by mertd 6y ago
I can see a future where podcasts move to a walled garden (Spotify) and the fast forward button gets disabled during ads.
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by mertd 6y ago
UFOs exist. Jumping to the conclusion that they must be controlled by sentinel beings from someplace else in the universe is a rather giant leap though. Sometimes they are simply "unidentified" flying objects.
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by mertd 6y ago
It's fascinating that someone, within their lifetime, can invent something, watch it become a household item in the entire world and then fade so far into obscurity that new generations only find out about it from encyclopedias.
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by mertd 6y ago
Do they have to operate in extreme weather? If they work for 99% of days and they are 100x more convenient than owning cars, I'm sure we would deal with transit during extreme weather some other way.
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by mertd 6y ago
Will the arbiter of reputations be central or decentralized?
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by mertd 6y ago
While true, let's not pretend the membership criteria were ever objectively evaluated in Turkey's case. It was always entangled with domestic politics of member countries. And one would wonder if member states like Poland and Hung
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by mertd 6y ago
Who said you could only use one noodle strand?
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by mertd 6y ago
The closest we have come to this type of experience in the online space was IRC.
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by mertd 6y ago
I dislike Apple News because there is no way to follow the article to the publisher site.
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by mertd 6y ago
I cannot find the specificity and sensitivity numbers anywhere. Are they not published?
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by mertd 6y ago
Maybe you were dressed optimistically? SF has many problems. Weather is not one of them.

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