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by rb808 7y ago
Its interesting with the other thread about Java EE dying and Oracle politics. The ecosystem around Java and JVM is huge, so much cool stuff going on. Definitely a great platform.
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by rb808 7y ago
Agreed, the main wrinkle is that buying auto parts is a simple transaction. With my HD plan the provider still bills insurance first who negotiates a rate then sends me the bill which is hugely inefficient.
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by rb808 7y ago
I didn't know they were available. I thought it could be open to everyone, but employer ones do have advantages. https://www.fidelity.com/go/hsa/why-hsa > You could also use it in place of an employer HSA.
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by rb808 7y ago
I really like the idea of high deductible plans. The idea for me is that insurance shouldn't cover regular costs that most people pay every year. Insurance should just be for unusual events, like car insurance is only used if you have
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by rb808 7y ago
Obamacare also added an extra tax on the best health insurance. The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price. > an annual 40% excise tax on plans with annual premiums exceeding $10,800 for indivi
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by rb808 7y ago
> In addition, at least one country (Sweden I think), doesn't allow values like 0.01. There are a few countries where they no longer bother with small coins to represent .01, so cash transactions are rounded to nearest .05 or simila
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by rb808 7y ago
I think the regular prices for cloud services are super high. a1.xlarge has 4 vcpus and 8GB memory for $500 a year? They can afford to give a lot for free.
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by rb808 7y ago
The concern I dont understand. If all traffic is encrypted, what is the risk of Huawei equipment handling traffic? Are people worried about spying or being able to switch interrupt service?
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by rb808 7y ago
If all computers, networking and cell phones come from China, I dont see why local 5G transmitters should be any different. If Europeans save a lot of money choosing Huawei over Qualcomm its a good choice. Its not like Qualcomm is nice to E
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by rb808 8y ago
Drinking coffee and talking to their friends.
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by rb808 8y ago
Its one reason I hate cafes in America, its full of people working on laptops, its a horrible atmosphere. As for campuses I'm surprised you're allowed to hang out there all day. Libraries in NYC are mostly for homeless people.
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by rb808 8y ago
My opinion is that the first 25% is the most fun, the only reason to do the rest is if its how you make money, or get other rewards such as recognition or praise from users (assuming you like that). My side projects always die soon after fi
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by rb808 8y ago
Depends on how your product will compete, but being first entrant isn't always good. Apple copied their PC from IBM, their tablet from Microsoft, and their ipod from others. They're successful because they do it better. Can you?
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by rb808 8y ago
Agreed, just most countries in the world don't have any property taxes, so was surprised to see Japan as having them. edit: I do agree there are some common property taxes globally, but they're just a few hundred or at most 1-2k a
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by rb808 8y ago
I didn't know about Japanese property tax, a quick google shows there are a lot of taxes, 1.7% annually. 2% on registration. + some extras https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/guide-to-japanese-rea...
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by rb808 8y ago
TBH with 5G coming around the corner, I'd hate my city to plow 10s/100s of millions into laying fiber that might not get used.
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by rb808 8y ago
If all kids could just sit on the sofa and play video games we'd all be much healthier.
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by rb808 8y ago
The solution to that is to have people have proper uniforms. Eg surgeons/doctors/nurses wear different color scrubs & hats or insignia for rank. It was like this in the old days.
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by rb808 8y ago
> If the surgeon is thinking about the surgery instead of what he might have forgotten about the pre-op, that's good, IMO. Agreed. The only issue is that if the surgeon isn't thinking about the surgery because he's still d
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by rb808 8y ago
I'm not convinced about using a lot of checklists. I have no doubt when checklists first come in everyone follows them and there are some measurable improvements. The problem I have twofold. A few years down the road will people still
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by rb808 8y ago
Choose the tax number. "Accounting for Growth" was a classic book written after the late 80's stock market bubble in the UK about how people were fooled by bad accounting and how to spot fraud. One of the main pieces of advic
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by rb808 8y ago
I'm not sure if you're in America, but in the US it federal income taxes largely goes to 14 giant aircraft carriers, a huge network of nuclear weapons, corporate farmers intensely growing carbs that makes our nation fat and payoff
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by rb808 8y ago
Yeah I think this is the real problem. Most people think Amazon makes a lot of money. They even say they made $12B, but they gave billions to of RSUs to employees so the IRS wisely says they didn't make much. The truth is they didn&#x2
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by rb808 8y ago
I'm worried about articles like this are because people want to try to regulate crypto currencies. I really like the idea of crypto being the wild west. If you use a cheap/crappy broker or exchange you're going to get a worse
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by rb808 8y ago
Even in the US, still a full third of fish is illegally caught. I'm really surprised in 2019 there is no crackdown on this. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140409-ille...
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How to improve team's learning presentations
1 points by rb808 8y ago|0 comments
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by rb808 8y ago
> If we're willing to change, our power bills drop. This is the big thing. I think with modern renewables we have to change our behaviour. ie doing washing/drying when its windy, charge cars during the day instead of night.
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by rb808 8y ago
yes, fixed. The original article did have bad headline.
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Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype(smh.com.au)
162 points by rb808 8y ago|163 comments
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by rb808 8y ago
Nice, I lived in a 1+5, I didn't know they had a name. TBH the quality was good enough. Sound could be quieter but was fine. The biggest problem was sprinkler system, at least once a year there would be a leak or a trigger that would c

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