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PDX is the airport code for Portland, OR. -- mikeSEA
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My only imagined motivation for such posts is, “Look at me, I’m not surprised by this due to my superior intellect, why are you surprised?” “No one is surprised, jackass, it’s just adults having a conversation about the current state of
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I'm saying people chase returns. And I’m saying that there’s so many dots to connect to reach your conclusion that it becomes no conclusion at all, let alone having much to do with the decision-making of oldsters.
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I'm retired and I disagree with every sentence that starts with "You loose". Yeah, I made it halfway through the article before I decided that I should have quit with the first paragraph. Sure, if retirement to you means si
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Does this mean HN users are only happy when US companies are forced to follow whatever regulations HN users like, but not others? Seems hypocritical. It just means HN hasn’t yet held the vote to decide what we collectively think on the ma
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Retirement, by definition, requires living off of money that you did not labor for. “Factual statement“, that’s hilarious. Nothing wrong with an op-ed, but with an opening like that you might want to step back and re-examine those “facts”
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Yes, as an oldster I’m constantly on the phone with mutual fund managers expressing my desire for CEOs to push more AI. :eyeroll: Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to conspiring with my fellow seniors to keep house prices up in my
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Or do they plan to pay back all the subsidies Just as soon as fossil fuel companies pay back their subsidies, I’ll have a check ready to send to the U. S . Treasury. I still find it difficult to believe people bring up EV subsidies with a
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How do you pay more taxes on EVs when you factor in gas taxes? Huh? Simple math? $MILES_PER_YEAR/$200 (EV tax in WA) vs. $GALLONS_USED * $0.18 in the ICE car. I pay more in taxes to run the EV in a year than I do for equivalent miles
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I said it was possible. “…fleeting quantities of gold nuclei”, and probably worth far, far less than it cost to make. Given that, I stand by my statement. :-)
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so $130 for most drivers is actually a bargain in the US too. I’d have to drive an EV about 35% more miles each year to make it to break even on tax versus our 35 mpg ICE car. It’s no bargain, it’s punishment for driving an EV. EVs are a
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Road maintenance is funded via gas tax. Federal gas tax is generally used for new roads, not road maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund If you want an “honest framing”, raise the federal fuel
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It is also possible to terraform Venus, although much more difficult than for Mars. We’ve not terraformed anything, ever, but now we can compare the difficulty of terraforming of one planet versus another? “It’s possible”? So is turning l
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The real story here is a big gap in existing implementations where shared credentials are needed and used pretty much across all the systems but there are no good solutions for managing such use cases. This strikes me as so wrong, I wonde
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Oh, I get you. I’ve raced at a high level for years, but as a senior runner I’m lately starting to think about going from “do well at XC nationals” to “stay in good enough shape to keep up with the ‘kids’ on the Sunday club trail run”. :-)
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I’m highly suspicious of this claim, sounds like something some “influencer “ said, passed around on r/incel, and now it’s been projected on all women. Because, once again, it’s not the fault of the ungroomed man with poor social skill
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Yeah, but Winlock was running sub-3:00 in his 70s. :-)
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I find the current trend of springloaded shoes that incentivice people to have a terrible running gait absolutely disgusting. Yeah, that is truly just, like, your opinion, man. “Terrible running gait”? I’m not even going to ask for any ev
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BenQ claims that their monitors will handle that: https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/home/ma270s.html https://www.benq.com/en-us/knowledge-center/knowledge/one-se... I've
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"Esfandiary, of Bloomberg Economics, said Iran “theoretically knew” it had leverage over the strait but was uncertain how significant the impact would be if it acted on those threats. Now, she added, Tehran “has discovered the impact.
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Maybe loosen the tinfoil hat a bit? This story is the first result for me, and all I did was search for the headline: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ai+license+plate+cameras
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sigh , have your upvote. :-)
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My wife and I, both now-retired former Microsoft employees, were discussing such a topic just this morning (in relation to a HN headline that will become evident in a moment). Basically, I was commenting that we both worked at MS in that br
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123090
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I see that a sibling comment beat me to it, but "Libertarian separatists"? They're well-organized separatists given they're spread across, what, a couple dozen states? It's quite the narrative you've spun, and
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It's almost like people just want to complain about anything associated with something they don't like regardless of relevance. I've noticed that we don't hear a lot about the EV boogyman taking down our electric grid
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Internal politics, yeah, maybe; because IBM certainly didn’t do much to market it. That, and bundling deals Microsoft had with OEM hardware vendors (if you want the discount, then Windows has to go on every machine). OS/2 advertised
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Phone number , it’s not tied to any piece of HW because is portable. I’ve had the same phone number equally as long, but I’ve transferred it to multiple devices over the years.
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In 1996? Software development was the hot ticket to upper middle class in the early 80s when I was a recent CS grad, and I was already working with people who were in it for the money. By the late 90s, if you could spell “HTML”, you were ma
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