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by rconti 3y ago
He claims roads are efficient. I'm not so sure. Even a small 2-seater has a lot of space around the (typically) single occupant. To say nothing of the wasted space between vehicles when traveling at speed. When riding a motorcycle you
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by rconti 3y ago
I am allergic to video content. I don't use the tiktok app or website, and I only ever watch a facebook or instagram reel if someone sends it to me, I never click through the UI to get to them. There's something so infuriating abo
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by rconti 3y ago
There are a number of ways to get this wrong. The shuffle button in Spotify on our Tesla is a grey color, and you have to wonder if it's dark ENOUGH a grey to indicate that it's on, or a light grey to indicate that it's off.
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by rconti 3y ago
This is not a particularly helpful comment. I work at a California-based company, though we have employees all over the world. In our layoffs, typically employees stick around for weeks, months, even 6 months sometimes. How are we supposed
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by rconti 3y ago
Thank you for CNN Lite! That's fantastic.
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by rconti 3y ago
Bay Area, just beginning a remodel+expansion of our home. We've never had air conditioning, and our gas furnace is well over 20 years old. We'd likely need to upsize the furnace anyway, and for resale reasons if nothing else, addi
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by rconti 3y ago
This implies the prices are the same across all TJs stores - is that the case?
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by rconti 3y ago
TFA says: "The official noted that other nations require tax agencies to verify incomes for mortgages, which isn’t the case in Canada." I don't know if it's a legal requirement, but I sure know I had to hand over all of
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by rconti 3y ago
It's super wavy up north of 92, too. Worse after the repave than it was before. I'd guess part of the excuse is it's likely some kind of fill since it's so close to the bay. But I don't have any memories of it havi
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by rconti 3y ago
https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativead...
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by rconti 3y ago
Overall the methodology here sounds suspicious. It also feels like summing together income and subtracting out taxes paid across an entire quintile wouldn't work the way you'd expect, since taxes are not flat-rate.
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by rconti 3y ago
> Newly released data series from the Bureau Economic Analysis have revealed a pretty eye-popping economic reality that’s been invisible in the national accounts…forever. Subtract households’ Personal Taxes and Personal Outlays from Pers
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by rconti 3y ago
Asphalt is QUIET, at least when new. Of course, it can be poorly done, too. US101 in Silicon Valley through ~San Carlos is a dumpster fire every time it rains. They spent a decade repaving the damn thing, and now in each rainstorm massive p
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by rconti 3y ago
I was just commenting to a friend (who was on a massively delayed flight out of SFO yesterday) that, when I'm in Economy, I want a window so I can see what's going on outside. I feel anxious during delays and just want to get off
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by rconti 3y ago
NYTimes "The Daily" podcast had an informative episode on the matter[1] I'm out of the loop since my college days are behind me, and I don't have kids. I had heard colleges were going to rely less on standardized testing
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by rconti 3y ago
What quality of users come from forcing people to give up their email address to read a single effing blogpost?
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by rconti 3y ago
I'm lucky that I am in Sonic's service area and get 10Gbps symmetric fiber service for $50/mo. It exposes the lie of the incumbents slow-walking new tech and bandwidth increases. They _just don't want to_ because they _d
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by rconti 3y ago
It isn't that dense, but also, the utilities are monopolies that just print cash for shareholders because they don't have to invest.
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by rconti 3y ago
I think a lot more laypeople know the words "100 megabit" and "gigabit speed" than know anything about what 5G mobile service means. So let's leave mobile service aside. That was never my complaint. I think some lay
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by rconti 3y ago
| to anybody paying attention at least Maybe they don't think you should have to follow the industry to know what a company's advertising means? It pissed me off to no end to hear the monopolist advertise their "10G network&q
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by rconti 3y ago
I've been wishing my 25 year old BMW would be affected by an airbag recall because I think I'd rather have a new one than a 25 year old one!
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by rconti 3y ago
So you chose a house on a dead-end street but also are still afraid to let your children play outside?
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by rconti 3y ago
Another way of reading this is that the regulatory apparatus is finally showing teeth after decades of rampant consolidation.
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by rconti 3y ago
From the source linked in another comment: (edit, ugh, I hate HN formatting, can never get it right even after all these years) ---- One piece of good news for Romeo’s search is that there are probably very few other planes anywhere near Ho
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by rconti 3y ago
I was curious, but the link doesn't elaborate on how much is known about the "ran out of fuel and ditched after having slightly overshot the island" -- whether that's all fact, or partially fact, or all speculation.
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by rconti 3y ago
Thankfully they mostly break the UI. Though my auto wipers got really bad recently. The body control electronics are pretty solid. I mean, you could lock/unlock, drive the car without the tablet. Not that regulators would approve of it
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by rconti 3y ago
I'm sure someone will point out breaking iPhone updates that have happened in the past, but I've never been hit by one. Bad things happen, I think Apple is just REALLY aggressive about pulling updates that break things to limit th
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by rconti 3y ago
Maybe continuing the project and pushing back the date rather than cancelling it is falling to the sunk cost fallacy. Or, maybe they truly believe this is the right market for them to enter. (or, don't have any better ideas about how
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by rconti 3y ago
Ah good question! Of course I knew in future years, but I'm not sure I knew up front.
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by rconti 3y ago
I've only ever used the installable version of TurboTax, and I knew up front that I'd have to pay for CA filing. How transparent is the web site version? Do you have to spend an hour entering all your tax info just to find out tha

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