ryanmercer

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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>so if the debt keeps increasing and the interest rates go up then things will turn nasty. Or what happens when something like the Tunguska event happens over NYC or London or Tokyo and you suddenly have 500 billion or a trillion in dama
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Why not? Simply because it's a big number? Mostly because the people/institutions lending the money presumably have a finite supply and a point at which they won't lend more due to risk. ` Then you have wildcards. What if
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Research water rights, research where water comes from for large cities (sometimes hundreds of miles away, look at Tokyo/Miami/London/Cairo/Beijing/Bangalore/Las Vegas/Mexico City/New York City), look
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Land is not currently and in the foreseeable future a constrained resource Sure, the Sahara has 3.552 million square miles of available real estate. San Francisco, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, London, Canberra, Gene
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Why not? A lot of the debt is based on real estate and physical goods. Realistically there exists a very finite amount of land (and a concrete limit with current materials on how high you can build) and raw materials. Without becoming a
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Purdah bans all political advertising apart from allocated x minute slots I wish we would adopt this, not that I watch live television anymore though but plenty of people still do. "Joe Smith once let his dog crap on a lawn, Joe di
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
It also seems like even moderate damage, which would NOT be a write off on an ICE vehicle, results in them totaling it because Tesla refuses to work on anything with even relatively insignificant damage (and they won't touch anything t
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Except for a quick Google as previously stated brings up every manufacturer under the sun. Modern vehicles are full of cheaply made electronics that fail. Another quick Google query shows that the average age of a modern vehicle is 11.4 yea
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Depends on the opco. Express owns their trucks but pretty sure Ground drivers, however, own their trucks. Don't know about Customs Critical but they are rather large sleepers so could go either way.
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>How often is IC & circuit board failure a thing in cars although? I've had 20 year old cars, The stuff in a car coming off the line today is generations more complicated than what was being put in a car 20 years ago. I never ha
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>would electric vehicles last longer? Tesla Compared to something pre-a ton of electronics? Doubt it. All of those ICs and PCBs are individual failure points and likely to have fairly limited production runs. Then add in ever-changing ba
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Probably more accurately titled "Bay Area Tech is a Small World After All" TLDR: Chekr Director of Solutions, formerly Director of Strategic Sales (and first business hire), starts client on-boarding company (nice idea, streamline
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>and was only listened to after he went to the press. Or more realistically, when employees returned to the office.
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Yeah see, this is why I would never ever rent a room or property out via Aribnb and similar wildcards are why I would never drive strangers around. >the glass panel on my staircase Wait, what? > two couples with infants had stayed and
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
I lol'd, I'm reading this on a vertical monitor right now. My secondary monitor is vertical due to cramped desk space, so I can have my horizontal monitor still centered when I look straight ahead.
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Sometimes I think this stuff gets way, way, way overblown. Maybe not in the case in the article but let me give you something that happened this week to me. We've had food trucks out to my office for 3 years and change now. Wednesday i
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Why don't I ever get to see wild stuff in person? Immediately reminded me of 'the Norway spiral' http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/20/up... https://www.wiki
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Well, when you can't deposit your money into a bank without fear of it being seized by the federal government. Can't take credit cards. Can't take debit cards. Can get loans from financial institutions to expand your business
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Doesn't even have to be deep beneath your feet, a square meter of average soil contains thousands of species . In that square meter you can have 10,000,000,000 baceria, 1,000,000,000 protozoa, 5,000,000 nematodes, 100,000 mites 10,000
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Teachers in this country are compensated extremely poorly, I disagree. Average teacher salary here in Indiana is $54,308 (after 'falling', even the really underfunded public grade schools in the inner city here in Indy look li
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Start with an app, I use "Sober Time".
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>That doesn't sound like a high hurdle at all. As soon as the algorithm is known, anyone with money to burn will be able to fire up a bunch of AWS GPU instances Or their non-profitable mining rigs.
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Somewhat related, there's also a Japanese character/synth/software package called Hatsune Miku that is flat out an animated hologram that is just a voice synthesizer for its voice. It is currently on tour...
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
If I ever leave I plan to but even if I was fairly vague, there aren't a lot of people that have been here as long as I have. If I mentioned most of the stuff that's progressively gotten worse it would put me on a list of maybe 8
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
No, I was being quite serious. Instead of ripping low-rez eastern European model photos now they can just churn out the 'ideal woman' for any number of cultures/sub-cultures. It won't stop at dating apps either, they&#x2
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Great, more false hopes on dating apps for me ha! They'll look more real than all of the women using snapchat filters on their profile photos.
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started Obviously Australia will have it's own peculiarities but still a great resource!
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Hopefully find different employment (with hopefully better pay and room for advancement) but based on all the rejections this year (between a previous bankruptcy and no degree I'm effectively an undesirable) I don't hold much hope
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
>An older pixel will be fine too as soon as I figure out how to ditch iMessage. If you just want to be able to send sms/mms from your browser stuff like Pushbullet works fine if you're willing to pay the monthly fee. It's
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by ryanmercer 8y ago
Ok? The article should be titled "I was financially irresponsible and had to get a job at 57" instead it's some overly wordy fluff piece trying to make working for Amazon sound like some amazing adventure filled with lying to

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