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by ptero 4y ago
A job -- sure. But a common situation in cities would be for a 20-something to live with their parents until (and sometimes after) they got married due to the very limited housing. When I came to the US in my mid-20s I was absolutely stunne
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by ptero 4y ago
People in their 20s having their own digs is, I think, a decidedly American phenomenon. In most of the poorer parts of the world (including, for example, Central and Eastern Europe), 30+ years ago younger crowd managed to have sex just fine
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by ptero 4y ago
At least in the US, getting a permanent (union) position is super hard and takes years as a sub / on contract. On success (which is not guaranteed), it is seniority-based and starting at 38 you are at a pretty big disadvantage. While y
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by ptero 4y ago
Too many vested interests and rigid regulation that cannot be changed because of those vested interests. To be honest, the same is true of many countries with socialized medicine, but the snag is not with cost but with availability and spee
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by ptero 4y ago
And the fact that the poster did well on the full-day follow up at Redmond and was invited to join either of the teams he interviewed with means that he was certainly qualified to pass the on-campus interview.
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by ptero 4y ago
> In terms of wind, airships with the right control systems can be designed to hold position in 50+MPH gusts. That takes a lot of power and rapid response I am not sure: countering the change in direction seems very hard. But I do wish l
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by ptero 4y ago
Thank you, I will look it up. I wonder what the success rate was for those, I thought they sometimes went to backup locations. I read accounts of using airships in the exploration of the North in the early 20th century and I got the impress
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by ptero 4y ago
Goodyear blimp only flies in relatively good weather. On airplanes over cities though: compare the cross-section and the corresponding force exerted by the wind on a modern jet and a blimp. Jet engines can compensate for wind gusts that wou
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by ptero 4y ago
That would be very risky: those monsters aren't friends with the wind. Any glitch and a lot of power gets applied to that building. Another glitch and a large frame falls down on the street. You can read reports of Nobile airship trips
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by ptero 4y ago
Yes, but you can be stuck with the house for a very long time, all the while paying the taxes and repairs. And selling a house is a BIG hassle (plus a payment of 2-5% to the realtor). If you change your work (or your work changes you) a
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by ptero 4y ago
The problem with leveraged investments is that if it goes down you can get wiped out. If you have $100 and buy one share at $100, which goes to $50, then to $150 you end up with a $50 profit. Buy 2 shares at 2x leverage instead and you can,
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by ptero 4y ago
The article is clickbaity and somewhat self-contradictory. For example: > To finance their lifestyles, higher-income households are more likely to put expenses on credit cards -- but also more likely to be able to pay off their balance i
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by ptero 4y ago
You got good advice. I will pile on, splitting it into two separate buckets: what (setting your goal) and how (moving in that direction), which to me are worth separating. What. As others said, do not underestimate your ability or put an ar
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by ptero 4y ago
I agree with that; all I am saying is that I think a fair number of users would be happy with the IMAP access even though it does not provide E2EE benefits, which should not affect those who want to run with the bridge. I think Protonmail s
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by ptero 4y ago
I have the same experience, for me it works flawlessly with the bridge, but the bridge itself is a complication. I would prefer a straight imap option (in addition to the bridge option). My 2c.
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by ptero 4y ago
Proton is not perfect, but nothing is. We need more competition on the internet, and if Proton has a chance to provide an email and storage for an upfront price without trying to distract me with ads or pimp my data to advertisers, I want t
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by ptero 4y ago
> The general advice is always to aim for a positive alpha. On the contrary, for the past 20+ years the general advice has been to specifically aim for the alpha of zero ("just use index funds"), not for a positive alpha (&quot
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by ptero 4y ago
If you think that there is some major economic turmoil ahead with dropping asset values across the board (and I personally this is fairly likely), the general advice is to aim for a positive alpha. That is, if you are moderately well off or
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by ptero 4y ago
Certainly. There are big differences between now and 1940s in many things: manufacturing capacity, education levels, societal cohesion, easier acceptance of risk to life, etc. etc. I am just saying that purely from the economic perspective
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by ptero 4y ago
Second half of 1940s and early 1950s are, IMO, a much better data point on how asset prices and economy would develop than 1970-80s than the author chooses. The situation in 1940s, with massive post-war government debt and high inflation is
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by ptero 4y ago
Either by no longer testing for it (which allows one to claim victory), or by modifying the policy, or by modifying what "zero covid" means (hey, if politicians can redefine pi, why could not they redefine zero). Flippant tone asi
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by ptero 4y ago
Gold is one of the easiest things to smuggle: it is compact and can be easily melted, painted over, made to look like a cheap tourist souvenir, mixed with other components, etc. and then recovered at the destination. That does not mean that
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by ptero 4y ago
Which country and which stablecoin do you have in mind, if I may ask; just curious. A big difference with banks is that in most countries with well regulated banking the government will step in to bail out the account holder in a registered
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by ptero 4y ago
You compare the convenience of a download against having an asset with a few millenia of history in your physical possession (which is not without its own risks) and pick your poison.
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by ptero 4y ago
It seems to me that some gold coins would work even better in this situation (for longer term savings, not something you move in and out every month). Did you consider this? An honest question.
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by ptero 4y ago
> There are valid stablecoins like USDC (they hold sufficient reserves) Those reserves are sufficient until they are not. There are always risks of losing the peg and anyone investing in them should be aware of and track the main ones. M
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by ptero 4y ago
Even considered purely for the employment/salary purposes, the first year or two after joining the workforce does not define their future. As people work on different projects there are often plenty of opportunities. Those opportunitie
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by ptero 4y ago
Look at our career site, https://flyzipline.com/careers/ (we are hiring!) Even if you do not see a perfect match, consider applying -- most teams value good engineering skills higher than a perfect match of some tech
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by ptero 5y ago
Wow, chill, mate. This is not reddit.
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by ptero 5y ago
Yes, but a room with two TVs on which two family members can play their own games is, to me, a step in the wrong direction :(.

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