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by mlac 5y ago
When that much money goes “poof”, it’s going to have real world consequences. And the people who are going to get burned are the last ones on the bus - the least technical, the ones who think it will make them rich, the ones who can’t affor
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by mlac 5y ago
I don’t have a percentage, but here are 25 to start with: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/how-to-invest-d...
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by mlac 5y ago
Highway infrastructure is also anchored in physics and math. It doesn’t mean we should treat highways like a currency that should be purchased and traded. Starting a business is open for millions “without western privileges” - and stock is
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by mlac 5y ago
I went back and re-read your comment. I agree with your point, and think failing fast and cutting losses makes sense. This isn’t what I think you were saying, but I read it this way the first time - I wouldn’t let the fear of failure or ach
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by mlac 5y ago
Makes sense - I’d just not encourage someone to quit or not get a PhD because the odds are against them for a tenured position. At this point a tenured position is something you luck into (after a hell of a lot of work and politics), but wa
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by mlac 5y ago
I think the difference is “don’t quit when you commit to do something and break your word”. The important thing is to include natural breaks where you can exit gracefully, and only commit to a certain amount of something so that you can try
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by mlac 5y ago
Depends on your decision criteria and metric of “success”. If someone truly loves doing something, and enjoys the process, then why not? If you like being on teams, get a college scholarship and education, and don’t quite make it to the NFL
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by mlac 5y ago
I can’t edit my post, but I think there are good points here. The “ad revenue” comment was snarky and for Elon and Bezos may not be fair because they have had some major impacts to quality of life - Elon with electric vehicles and Bezos wit
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by mlac 5y ago
I have two thoughts on this: 1) our “giants” will be Zuckerberg, Elon, and Bezos. They have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue. 2) our “giants” are still making their name and working,
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by mlac 5y ago
Depending on the amount, split the key across paper across multiple bank vaults and lawyers, with direction to contact all of them and bring the key together at your death. But good luck finding someone you can trust to actually handle the
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by mlac 5y ago
Thanks. Yeah I’m thinking this would be a one day thing before the driver’s test or before riding with others in high school, so she understands the responsibility of having a driver’s license, and that it can have life-altering consequence
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by mlac 5y ago
Let me clarify - In that specific instance, the guy was on cocaine and his heart exploded, then he lost control of the car while speeding and hit the telephone pole. So “drugs”. And the drinking part, to clarify - preferably my daughter doe
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by mlac 5y ago
Fans occasionally kill your birds and the neighborhood bald eagle.
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by mlac 5y ago
Before my daughter starts driving, I'm going to take her around where I grew up and show her the places where people I knew died in car accidents / other issues, and explain why they died: - These two girls were speeding to make i
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah... By chance the YouTube video of this come across my feed last night but hadn't looked at the price yet. $50 would have been questionable, would have pulled the trigger at $35. Odds are this will end in a pile of other flavor of
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah an Apple Watch with LTE. Not sure if LTE is required, but needed for streaming. Could probably store data on watch before heading out. Need Bluetooth headphones. Battery life is ok.
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by mlac 5y ago
Government is not supposed to be profitable. It is supposed to minimize cost of meeting needs that the voters agree should be provided by the government. “Profit” in the public sector would indicate that too much tax money was collected, be
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by mlac 5y ago
Profit doesn’t exist if you’re not fulfilling customer needs.* Find a need that people pay for that to find fulfilling and go support it. *In theory. In practice, there are all types of companies that exist due to regulatory quirks / t
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by mlac 5y ago
It’s damaging on a whole other level to have video of someone peeing on the president of the United States. Maybe his core would say “that’s fake, but even if it’s real, then hey, what he’s into, he’s into - people can do weird stuff”. But
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by mlac 5y ago
To clarify, the method is not sufficient to detect a temperature variation within 100 years - current methods aren’t that specific with dates. One could read your comment as “we haven’t detected temperature variation in past data that’s sim
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by mlac 5y ago
I hear you, but: - what’s the demand for travel from Birmingham to Chicago? - what’s the ecological cost of laying rail from Birmingham straight north? We could subsidize a lot of plane flights / busses on existing highway infrastructu
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by mlac 5y ago
Look at local medical schools and their faculty lists. Universities as well. Basically write what you wrote and ask if they are the right person or know someone in that area of research.
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by mlac 5y ago
Why don’t you email this question to a researcher in the field?
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by mlac 5y ago
After being given a bird feeder as a gift, I went down a rabbit hole. And it was just the feeder, btw. So nothing else. Well, with a feeder you need to put it somewhere. Tried trees. It was a squirrel feeder. Then I got a pole for the middl
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by mlac 5y ago
10 round trips per year over five years? Or five round trips per year over 10 years? If each had a connection, it would only be 5 trips per year (4 flights each trip) for five years.
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by mlac 5y ago
I honestly had never even thought about where in the org it stops... But seriously, no CEO team would cut 10% of their executive committee each year. It would be a sign that they don't know how to properly vet candidates, and be terrib
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by mlac 5y ago
It’s ~10,052,473 times faster than the earth spins, so it’s got that going for it.
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah but you could take cash to the grocery store, gas station, mall, and restaurant.
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by mlac 5y ago
… for someone who is capable of succeeding at Harvard, FAANG, or consulting. For the vast majority of the population, getting into Harvard isn’t possible. The admissions statistics show this, and there is already heavy selection bias in tho
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by mlac 5y ago
I think U-Haul is perfectly positioned for driverless truck beds and van bodies (with a remote control that pops out for precision parking), but depending on the cost I would buy one myself. You could remove people from delivery trucks, hav

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