robocat

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2071.
by robocat 3y ago
> Why do most people work? People work for satisfaction as well as money. You even give your own examples of a non-financial motivation before you got "wise". Only caring about money sounds like hell to me. Look at everyone tha
2072.
by robocat 3y ago
> narcissistic people who were utterly twisted by their caregivers as children Please don't be too quick to blame parents - remember we used to blame autism on refrigerator mothers: https://en-wp.org/wiki/Refrig
2073.
by robocat 3y ago
If you're buying a generator, why bother spending 1500€ more? Plus you are ignoring the cost of a charger and inverter. I found a cheap 5kWh wall unit includes everything for $4,350.00 NZD (things are more expensive at our edge of the
2074.
by robocat 3y ago
I think semiconductors (such as most solar cells) do not act as ideal black bodies. Thermal excitation (what temperature required?) can move electrons into the conduction band and when the electron relaxes it emits a photon corresponding to
2075.
by robocat 3y ago
> Eli Lilly, which currently manufactures two medications that compete with Ozempic — Zepbound for obesity and Mounjaro for diabetes — premiered a commercial that complicates the rapid weight-loss narrative: “Some people have been using
2076.
by robocat 3y ago
> I early exercised and bought many hundred thousand shares for less than $20 Right. This is what has confused me. I had presumed that the options were a much more valuable part of your pay package (like tens of thousands to exercise ear
2077.
by robocat 3y ago
> so I could run the generator for fewer hours during an outage: only running the generator when my demand is high or the battery needs to charge would reduce the time spent at low load where efficiency is poor. There is little point wor
2078.
by robocat 3y ago
> early exercise This article argues the opposite using financial arguments: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/09/get-... It is a bit technical for my level of ignorance: and it seems i
2079.
by robocat 3y ago
Irrelevant whether someone is living in it or not. And I don't think China is a relevant example when discussing mortgages in my country or the US. If the market is driven by mortgages (presuming there are not other reasons why the mar
2080.
by robocat 3y ago
> No plants can fix nitrogen Plants fix nitrogen in common parlance but you are technically correct: I sincerely hope that your scientific pedantry works out better for you than it has for me (I won't delve into that topic further).
2081.
by robocat 3y ago
Returns are highly skewed. If your prior is: exercise price and Fair Market Value are equal, my bet would be that the shares are most likely loser shares. Winning shares are much more likely to have a fair market value that exceeds the opti
2082.
by robocat 3y ago
I am just saying that common shares are extremely high risk investments. When you start putting money into an investment I believe you should aim to get the same risk profile as other investors that are putting money in. If exercising your
2083.
by robocat 3y ago
In my experience 12-24 hours won't help you enough in a city, and is woefully inadequate in rural areas. There are better ways to spend your money to cover risks than batteries. Maybe if you were getting a battery for other reasons, or
2084.
by robocat 3y ago
That is irrelevant to what I wrote. If interest rates remain the same for a longer period then houses must sell for a price where people can pay their mortgages. Household income is a hard constraint. People can't pay more for interest
2085.
by robocat 3y ago
Yeah: the old companies take everything argument (quite true for many organisations and departments). Where's the other side of the ledger: the services and products that the company provided to the community. Hospitals are a great exa
2086.
by robocat 3y ago
If you want to spend money on startup shares, why wouldn't you buy preferential shares? The median value of common shares is muck - converting options buys you risky common shares and causes tax liabilities. Angel investing is extremel
2087.
by robocat 3y ago
Hospitals are terribly unhealthy places to be: stress, broken sleep, weird temperature and queer air, noise, light, sedentary, theft, viruses and bacteria, removal of choice, domineering doctors and nurses, drugging, and worse. A necessary
2088.
by robocat 3y ago
Mostly Nitrogen does not constrain growth in natural ecosystems. There are plenty of plants that fix nitrogen already, and nitrogen fixing plants would dominate an ecosystem if Nitrogen were a primary constraint on growth. There is plenty o
2089.
by robocat 3y ago
The obituary does not show Ray had any modern obsession with money - the article does allude to a couple of Ray's jobs. “We’ve had a good life,” he said to me nearly every time I visited in his final year, and I knew it to be true
2090.
by robocat 3y ago
> interest rates are a factor in affordability and cost Paradoxically over a long term, interest rates don't affect house affordability much. People bid on houses at the limit of what they can spend - the constraint is their incom
2091.
by robocat 3y ago
NZ had a similar loophole for our 15% GST (GST === our VAT/Salestax) however the loophole was closed by forcing the major overseas online retailers to collect the GST for the NZ government. I didn't notice any bad effects - altho
2092.
by robocat 3y ago
It's a balance. We had a high touch service for B2B installation: we charged clients for consulting (business analysis) to configure and integrate our system. The cost to clients for the consulting was approx 1 year of our SaaS fees. T
2093.
by robocat 3y ago
How much of this is just that one model responds better to the way you write prompts? Much like you working with Bob and opining that Bob is great, and me saying that I find Jack easier to work with.
2094.
by robocat 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by preventative care. In New Zealand "poor" might be a synonym for uninsured? However my peer group is middle aged professionals (not poor) with as variety of healthcare issues. Only a very few wou
2095.
by robocat 3y ago
That reduces access but it doesn't affect the demand for healthcare. I'm in New Zealand: not a heap better than you describe. Here GPs are overworked and getting an appointment is difficult. The health system has waitlists to co
2096.
by robocat 3y ago
> there are only about 20k people who score > 510 on the MCAT per year The article clearly shows the skills necessary to work as a doctor are a lot wider than academic ability. One pleasure/pain of being a software developer is t
2097.
by robocat 3y ago
> hospitals are so overloaded How do you suggest we limit the demand for healthcare?
2098.
by robocat 3y ago
HN guidelines: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. Please read guidelines link at bottom of page. So many of your past comments are simple anti-capitalist opinions that are not gratifying intellect
2099.
by robocat 3y ago
Right so zero net tourists, therefore zero housing pressure? Nope, that's why people complain about AirBnB. My point is that picking a number at a point in time doesn't say much about the housing pressure - as the zero net tourist
2100.
by robocat 3y ago
> help make home ownership more affordable Surely not? If people borrow more, then they bid more on houses, and house prices go up. That is the obvious mechanism with interest rates. I admit it is harder to think about first and second o

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