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by rdl 9y ago
This kind of "ghetto colo" is prevalent in the cryptocurrency mining space, now (where power consumption is probably 10x higher) -- either using hardware ASIC miners or PCs with many GPUs. Often the hardware has an in-service lif
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by rdl 9y ago
I hope you find time to do another book before your next thing.
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by rdl 9y ago
Taxes to account for environmental externalities (in the case of air travel, noise, CO2, altitude-related pollutants are probably the main things) make sense for everything. Air travel beats road and rail in some cases on this, doesn'
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by rdl 9y ago
Airports are largely self-funded by user fees (or via federal funds which come from other user fees and fuel taxes), and airlines (except for bailouts in 2008-2009) are almost entirely commercially funded. http://airportsforthefu
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by rdl 9y ago
Federal highways are about 30-50% funded by gas tax in the US; I agree fuel taxes should be increased to the point where they pay for the road network. (State/local roads are separate, and are much more multi-model in use, at least in
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by rdl 9y ago
Bus? (Sometimes operated by Amtrak, even)
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by rdl 9y ago
Also because it's so slow. You're tying up a lot of personnel on the train, as well as capital equipment, for multiple days, rather than hours for a plane. With the same personnel (which cost about as much as pilots/cabin c
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by rdl 9y ago
Taxpayers (and freight customers) shouldn't be subsidizing a novelty form of transportation for rail fans. If there's a subset of people who want this service, they should pay sufficient fares to cover the cost of service. Amtra
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by rdl 9y ago
There are some (for the Octocopter from Workhorse) http://workhorse.com/surefly
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by rdl 9y ago
I'd like more auditory isolation, though. (Ideally I want to be able to have a private conversation whenever I want within my office, without disturbing anyone else, and then have others able to do the same.)
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by rdl 9y ago
1) Cheaper -- different budgets. Usually the people specing the office are judged on how cheaply they can deliver (partially), not on anything related to employee productivity. 2) Open offices look way better in photos/concepts -- so
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by rdl 9y ago
That's the office concept I've always wanted to build. It would be cool if someone from the company could document it/blog post/etc. -- might be good for recruiting too. (Especially since Viasat does pretty cool stuff -
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by rdl 9y ago
Amazon got where it is in the general marketplace by building winning products. It then used that incumbency to be the obvious choice to expand into the public sector, competing with largely incompetent companies. It's the same thing
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by rdl 9y ago
I believe there's no way in California for the kind of worker on Tesla's factory floor to be considered exempt, so he would almost certainly be getting overtime even if salaried. You could easily meet the 2x minimum wage annualiz
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by rdl 9y ago
And your "hard drive" is presumably an SSD, now.
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by rdl 9y ago
Yeah, I spent all but 2 years 1998-2011 doing same. FATCA just keeps making it worse.
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by rdl 9y ago
Only year-of-move (and year-of-return, but I an uncertain if the US will exist in 2036.) If you have no US liability, because all of your income is PR-source, no need to file US returns in the intervening years. It's possible I'
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by rdl 9y ago
Yeah, in the case of pensions I agree having disproportionately high pension comp vs. current comp makes no sense -- particularly bad when a city declines in size. There are plenty of non-pension cases where debt is an effective tool, i.e.
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by rdl 9y ago
Borrowing from the future is an excellent strategy in a lot of cases, you just need to explicit that you're doing so and make sure it makes sense.
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by rdl 9y ago
Maria was honestly insignificant compared to the 2006-2017 economic problems. Maybe 10%? (It was a big short term problem, especially due to the deferred maintenance and lack of resources/capabilities, but wouldn't have been a l
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by rdl 9y ago
No. There are lots of other ways. (Renouncing is bad for many reasons; I'm patriotic, although the US has a lot of problems, and there's essentially a 10y tax on unrealized gains at exit, plus lifetime visa problems.) 1) Make &lt
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by rdl 9y ago
I'm selfishly happy that tax year 2017 is the last year I'll probably be filing a personal US tax return (at least a substantial one) for a long time. Maybe in 2036 they will have solved this.
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by rdl 9y ago
I wonder if there will be a management witch hunt against the Solutions Engineering team on Monday provoked by your post.
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by rdl 9y ago
Amazon is sometimes less than perfect, but they operate in hypercompetitive markets where customers can easily switch away. This builds an entirely different kind of company than an Oracle or a big defense contractor. Fundamentally CIA an
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by rdl 9y ago
I'd often be perfectly happy to take earlier or later flights on the same day, and potentially even change routing (OAK vs. SFO, or even something crazier like MIA vs. FLL). Wouldn't even necessarily need to offer cash; frequent
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by rdl 9y ago
Yes, but the “any domain with sci-hub in it can be taken down without further legal action” is not standard for actions against domains; usually it is seizure or other action against specific domains. Cloudflare isn’t a monopoly/chokep
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by rdl 9y ago
Daily Stormer, which has gone through 20+ domains in the past 18 months, was the first site to get kicked off Cloudflare for content/no court order, constant attacks on hosting facilities, etc.
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by rdl 9y ago
Sci-Hub: the Internet’s second most censored publication. (And altogether easier to support morally, ethically, aesthetically than the first one.) Boycotting ACS seems like a nice idea, but it would be challenging for professional chemists.
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by rdl 9y ago
Landmines are only banned due to lingering civilian effects; as long as you mark the fields and remove them, or have self-destruct tech, they're fine.
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by rdl 9y ago
We walked back from chem/bio to a great degree, but only really because we had something bigger/better (nuclear). A bunch of relatively useless things (blinding lasers, stuff like that) have been eliminated/banned, but again

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