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by opo 7y ago
>...Because offices with doors are extremely expensive compared to wide-open spaces. No not really. In the bay area (and likely lots of other places), the costs of employee salary, benefits, etc are a lot more than the costs for rent.
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by opo 7y ago
Those team offices can hurt collaboration and innovation even more than open floor plans. In large companies, the random conversations between people from different teams is often the key to innovation and getting problems solved early. A
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by opo 7y ago
>...Everyone is different, some people feel switching from keyboard to mouse is a huge productivity drain and invest a lot in avoiding that transition And they are likely wrong. People believe a lot of things about themselves that don&#
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by opo 7y ago
You might want to look into a CARES harness. They are FAA approved and not very expensive. They are designed for kids weighing 22 - 44 pounds. https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_children/
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by opo 7y ago
The Trinity study (which is where the oft-quoted 4% rule seems to have originated) is assuming a max of about 30 years of withdrawals before the money is depleted. If people are retiring early, it isn't clear what a reasonable withdra
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by opo 7y ago
I am not sure your point. The original argument made by the parent was that "In other nations with a better social system this worked quite well however." Is your hypothesis that these better social systems lead to comparable rat
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by opo 7y ago
Which countries have a significantly low car theft rate? In the US: >...in 2017. In 2018, 748,841 vehicles were stolen, down 3.1 percent from 772,943 vehicles in 2017. Meanwhile in Europe: >...Police in the EU recorded on average 697
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by opo 7y ago
>...I had a freight elevator door pin my hand and damage a bunch of nerves while I was helping someone move furniture into his illegal Brooklyn loft. Could you expand on this a bit? What is an illegal loft in this context? Was he squat
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by opo 7y ago
>The worst part is, we can become as green as you can get in Germany, The worst part is that Germany still burns a great deal of coal. One estimate is that worldwide use of coal causes up to 800,000 deaths a year - this is much worse th
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by opo 7y ago
Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have been done decades ago. For example, one estim
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by opo 7y ago
>...Paying the salaries of a law firm (including paralegals, and through any number of appeals up to the Supreme Court) over the course of 7 years is going to be really, really, expensive. According to the document: "...Both sides a
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by opo 7y ago
All of the Nobel prizes were established after his death.
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by opo 7y ago
USPS pension funding gets brought up quite a bit as some kind of a conspiracy, but that doesn't appear to be accurate. The issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement h
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by opo 7y ago
Here is some background on CA prison guard union: >...The CCPOA is deeply involved in a variety of political activities. Most spending is done through political action committees.[citation needed] Although its membership is relatively sm
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by opo 7y ago
Yea I am amazed this quote continually keeps coming up. As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before: >...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in 1996 about the
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by opo 7y ago
>...I plan to install a solar PV system that will make the house a net-zero energy consumer (everything is electric, no fossil fuels). Few people are able to afford that because the battery backup needed for daily/seasonal solar var
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by opo 7y ago
This was 1976. Gerald Ford was president.
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by opo 7y ago
It isn't too hard to find examples of scientists who were ridiculed for their ideas and eventually win the Noble prize: >...Stanley B. Prusiner, a maverick American scientist who endured derision from his peers for two decades as he
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by opo 7y ago
Apologies, since I don't want to derail your point, but there is little evidence that Keynes ever said that: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
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by opo 7y ago
>I thought the evidence was pretty clear: the safety record of American ATC is nearly perfect and delays caused by ATC are nearly nonexistent. As I noted elsewhere, other countries like Canada have implemented technology like GPS flight
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by opo 7y ago
Disagree. You preemptively publicly say that you "are skeptical" because of something irrelevant to the argument and don't address anything I brought up - that is kind of the definition of poisoning the well. >...To commit
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by opo 7y ago
I agree that safety is paramount here. This is why other countries like Canada have implemented newer technology like GPS flight tracking and digital messaging between pilots and controllers. Improvements like this makes flights safer. I
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by opo 7y ago
It goes without saying that you should be skeptical of any argument someone makes, but discounting something solely based on the messenger seems like a logical fallacy. In the article written by Poole, the data he quotes is from: >...Th
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by opo 7y ago
Air traffic control is not a great example to cite here. The USA is one of the few countries where the regulator also provides the ATC service. In comparison to Canada, the US government run air traffic control is noticeably less producti
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by opo 7y ago
There are reasons to be skeptical of this alleged quote by Ehrlichman. As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before: >...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in
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by opo 7y ago
Your main point that "Wealth is far different from income." is very true, but I am not sure why you are doubling down on over-stating the results of the Trinity study. >...4% is just fine as a rule of thumb, or for the purposes
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by opo 7y ago
>...If a person has $1M wealth, it's $40K interest in his pocket forever, assuming he invests wisely and follows the 4% drawdown rule. You are overstating the results of the Trinity Study: >...The 4% refers to the portion of the
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by opo 7y ago
An interesting one that was considered was Project A119: >...Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a
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by opo 7y ago
Rent (and "owner occupied rents") are a part of the bundle used in calculating the CPI. The owner occupied rent is a calculation of what the rent would be if the owner had paid rent on the house they own. For some background on t
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by opo 7y ago
We don't need to rely on anecdotes or our personal opinions . There are plenty of studies on open offices and how they affect productivity. For example: >...The design of the research was simple but incredibly clever. Study two Fort

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