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by mrep 5y ago
If you are referencing property taxes funding schools, you should know that it actually only funds about half of total school funding. The other half comes from federal and state governments and the way they give out funding is to selectiv
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by mrep 5y ago
We have enough stockpiled to vaccinate every single person in the US [0]. [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
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by mrep 5y ago
"The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate every person in the United States." [0] [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
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by mrep 5y ago
patio11 has articles on it. I would recommend the "How credit cards make money" one: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kalzumeus.com
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by mrep 5y ago
Really? Sure it doesn't have to do with the bank backing it? My Amex card has the second lowest limit of all my credit cards at a measly $6,500 whereas I have other cards with $30,000, $25,000, and $20,000 limits. Only one lower is
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by mrep 5y ago
What do you think of moving medicaid funds to UBI? I ask because I doubt young people will spend their UBI money on health insurance.
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by mrep 5y ago
I would argue it basically is because the high fixed costs are from paying the developers to write and maintain good competitive software and the marginal cost of each new user is basically free. That exactly matches wiki: "A natural m
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by mrep 5y ago
> Honestly aside from weather Also we are generally wealthy enough to afford cars and they fit a whole family a lot more comfortably. If you can afford a car, why by a motorcycle unless you want one for fun? Ebikes are nice in the west
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by mrep 5y ago
No they don't. Federal class 2 ebikes are allowed throttle power without any assist.
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by mrep 5y ago
I calculated this out 2 months ago: The US spent 416 billion dollars on roads in 2014 [1]. At 123 billion gallons of gas [2] and 44 billion gallons of diesel [3], that would require $2.50 worth of tax per gallon. Gas near me is $3.40 with a
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by mrep 5y ago
$840 for me in IL even with Anti-Theft Discount, Auto Multiple Line Discount, Short Annual Mileage Discount, Vehicle Safety Discount, Good Driver Discount.
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by mrep 5y ago
Level 3 e-bikes in the US can do 20 mph on throttle alone and 28 mph with assist.
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by mrep 5y ago
I've only worked at GAFAM (GAMAM now?) and I'd say half the people I have worked with have stayed longer than 4 years at the same company past the 4 year cliff. I think it probably is actually cheaper to focus on recruiting to ge
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by mrep 5y ago
But they are different types of companies, Rivian is a car company and Ford is a pension and healthcare company that also makes cars. Only half joking.
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by mrep 5y ago
My dad always called it university of spoiled children.
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by mrep 5y ago
Then kids from poor parents won't be able to go to the top programs because the top programs won't reduce their rates because they will still be able to get their high fees from rich parents and they won't want to make their
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by mrep 5y ago
The problem with that is that no bank is going to give a kid with no assets $81,659 a year [0] that they can just wipe out instantly after college. Thus you'll likely create a two tier system of colleges. One will be low cost enough t
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by mrep 5y ago
I don't think it is very controversial to increase funding for public state schools so that they can lower prices. USC though is a private school that costs a ridiculous $81,659 a year [0] and I don't want my tax dollars paying t
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by mrep 5y ago
So connect to some wind power which in the midwest produces 3x the capacity in the winter as it does the summer [0]. [0]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20112
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by mrep 5y ago
Fare: I agree that cars speed more than cyclists blowing stop sings/red lights but the latter is far more dangerous in my opinion and I see them do it constantly. I had to slam on the breaks 3 weeks ago when making a left because of a
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by mrep 5y ago
In my experience, the percentage of cyclists that disregard the rules of the road are an order of magnitude higher than car drivers.
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by mrep 5y ago
Does it matter if it is not enforced?
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by mrep 5y ago
So true. Normal bikers break the rules of the road by far the most in my experience because god forbid they have to stop and start again.
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by mrep 5y ago
Mega backdoor roth allows you to hit that. Might go away this year though so we will see how employers respond.
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by mrep 5y ago
Who are you suggesting to build houses for rent then? The government? I would love some examples of where that actually went well.
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by mrep 5y ago
MapReduce was deprecated because flume [0] the successor is better but it does practically the same thing and flume is used massively. I believe dataflow is the public google cloud version. [0]: https://research.google/pubs&
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by mrep 5y ago
I'm not sure how you think a distributed data processing technology would "fake-out" other companies when building/choosing database technology. They are totally different problem sets. MapReduce does not have a set in
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by mrep 5y ago
Miners are incentivized to keep adding hardware/electricity until total cost = revenue. To pay their bills, they have to sell their new bitcoin to people which is effectively like a fee as their selling of 21 billion dollars in new bi
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by mrep 5y ago
21 billion in mining rewards / 100 million transactions per year is about 210 dollars per transaction. You'd need an average transaction size of $7,000 for a 3% fee to be comparable which it most certainly is not.
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by mrep 5y ago
I disagree, crypto incentivizes to add more miners such that equipment + electricity = revenue so there is no profit. Stock buybacks effectively transfer income into the share price so that when you sell your stock it will be for a higher

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