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by phil21 2y ago
> For that matter, why aren't we spinning up a few factories to build artillery shells? As with most problems in the US today - short term thinking and seemingly lack of any sort of long-term strategic planning whatsoever. I was a t
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by phil21 2y ago
It's not clear to me exactly what they have moved, but two of my (very old) Simple IRA accounts got forcefully moved without my approval, and a 401k rollover into a self-managed IRA is still around. Not sure what the difference was ex
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by phil21 2y ago
Thanks for the reminder to move some old IRA accounts they dumped onto some random provider to Fidelity. Horrible move on their part, if I didn't want some provider diversification I'd just move everything over entirely at this po
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by phil21 2y ago
It only remains if people who have choices actually prioritize using cash. I get strange looks from folks now since I try to use cash whenever possible to do so. If I’m the only one taking the effort to do this, everyone will eventually los
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by phil21 2y ago
In my city I could very much believe overall crime is down, but due to recent social events crime is far more spread out. Areas that used to experience very little crime are now seeing far more. Areas that saw crazy levels of crime levele
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by phil21 2y ago
I think it's hard to get all the data captured in a broad economy as you state. So I simply go by what people are saying vs. what they are doing. Revealed preference, if may be slightly misusing the term. The 2008 crash? Absolutely
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by phil21 2y ago
The density of these things needs to be seen to truly grasp the scale. Assuming they were actually all manned and able to provide interlocking fire as designed (a large assumption) - there would be no moving left or right. There would simp
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by phil21 2y ago
The metabolism slowing down thing is greatly over exaggerated. Everything I’ve read that is evidence based puts it at a nominal difference. Put simply: starvation mode is a myth for everything but outliers that are uninteresting to discuss
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by phil21 2y ago
Unfortunately it didn’t. Seems to have actually emboldened the “CICO isn’t a thing” crowd even more. The amount of woo-woo “science” in laymen communities on the subject is utterly astounding considering the evidence directly in front of t
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by phil21 2y ago
> I just don't find it credible that RTO is about CEO's wanting to keep office leases looking like smart decisions. It's not credible. It's stuff folks make up from a myopic view of the situation. I have had more th
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by phil21 2y ago
I quickly scanned all those examples, and it doesn't appear a single one had to do with laundering country of origin? That's specifically what I mean - not just fining US companies for trying to under report custom values, which
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by phil21 2y ago
Probably should work on catching a few murderers and figuring out an even moderately effective enforcement mechanism before pretending you can make more stuff illegal. Otherwise people just laugh at you as you further undermine any perceiv
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by phil21 2y ago
New construction will generally follow the old footprint as well. My house was built in 1994 and the lower level is roughly 4ft or so below street/sidewalk/alley grade. We call ours the basement, but in a 3 flat building in the sa
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by phil21 2y ago
It's also technology was much less ubiquitous back then and less evenly distributed, at least in my experience. I went from a mechanical typewriter which had the whiteout tape as it's only "advanced" feature, directly to
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by phil21 2y ago
License plate readers are about the only tool law enforcement has in my area to combat armed carjackings which happen with regular frequency in my neighborhood since the pandemic. Those combined with police helicopters are the only way anyo
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by phil21 2y ago
> Not sure how it is in USA. Assuming the record was as an adult, it will be reported publicly by the county (or other jurisdiction) court system and be on public record. This used to be a musty records keeping office somewhere you&#x27
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by phil21 2y ago
The vast majority of those with criminal records do not serve prison time. They plea bargain for work release, probation, diversion programs, etc. For example some types of DUI (drunk driving) is a felony in many states, but extremely comm
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by phil21 2y ago
Nope. I find it hopeful. Maybe people in general are sick of the pandering and performative nonsense and are finally realizing "awareness" is a bullshit made up thing for people to feel better while doing absolutely nothing usef
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by phil21 2y ago
> This is just pessimism and weary cynicism. I don't read it that way. I read it as engineers engaging in pre-optimization for no business benefit. It's utterly rampant in the industry because it's fun to design and buil
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by phil21 2y ago
From a casual observer who (used to) mostly lurk, it absolutely does. Maybe the tide has been turning the past few years but it was endemic from my point of view a decade ago when I first started reading HN. Folks who didn’t chase career ma
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by phil21 2y ago
Yes, if I moved back to my home town and spent time around my family and friends I also would be welcomed since I’m not an outsider. I’m not talking about people who previously had roots that came back home as a wayward son. Those people, i
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s pretty common, cannons or guns shooting blanks. My son actually has a temporary gig for the next 3 months at a major U.S. airport where he’s tasked with flying a drone to scare birds away as needed.
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by phil21 2y ago
It simply creates an even more privileged knowledge worker class. I recently spent a lot of time in some more rural parts of the US. There is rapidly growing resentment over this topic. It came up nearly daily in casual conversation/
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by phil21 2y ago
Internal migration in the US is at record lows and has been declining over the past few decades. It used to be far more common to move for economic opportunity and put down new roots far from previous friends and family.
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by phil21 2y ago
Trust is not just petty crime. It's everything from crime to business transactions and more. I might leave my laptop on a table while I use a public restroom in China, but I sure as hell trust a business partner far less than I would
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by phil21 2y ago
Distance really isn't that relevant. Time of travel is. This was drilled home to me having moved from a relatively "sparse" metro area to one of the most dense cities in the US. 7 miles might mean a 7 minute drive, or 90 mi
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by phil21 2y ago
This is great, never thought to use ChatGPT for this use. I have been trying to remember a game from extremely early memories where I was able to play it for a single weekend at an uncle's house in my youth when my parents were out of
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by phil21 2y ago
The US is slowly (rapidly?) devolving into a low-trust society. What used to be pockets of low-trust are spreading rapidly by my estimation. It's been sad to watch it slowly get worse every year. It goes for all things, not just petty
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by phil21 2y ago
Definitely need more than anecdote. Exhaust system though is a wear item, I'd expect to replace that every decade or so. Sub-frame, not so much! A quick google shows graphs for "Average age of the US used car fleet" to be ar
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by phil21 2y ago
A lot of people will simply not do this, even if they know they should. For this reason I think WFH is a massively more risky social experiment than most realize. It works for folks who were either already inclined to "go out and do t

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