saturdaysaint

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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
A booster's 2 cents: Yes, Texas's lack of income tax (and Detroit's city income tax) would certainly catapult Dallas ahead of Detroit on this list if taxes were properly factored in. Detroit is sort of a well-known "sl
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
This is why I am starting to do almost all of my shopping by googling "Wirecutter [product category]". Or CNET for electronics. Amazon's reviews have become so useless and corrupted that I question why anyone would even bot
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
If there is "a way" to think about something, it sounds to me like there's some kind of curious orthodoxy at work. Where does this frame of understanding journalism as inescapably flawed because of biases come from? Is ther
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
There are major propaganda efforts in motion by dictators and wannabe dictators to discredit genuine journalism, yet American journalists routinely lose their jobs or face extreme demotions if they're caught fabricating. I would state
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
This has been true of many generations (I would quibble with the Wii because many people bought it expressly for motion controlled games) but I'd argue not this one. There's a buzz about third party releases on the Switch like no
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
I wonder how other aspects of compensation like paid vacation time play into this. I've fielded interest from a lot of recruiters and interested companies. Moderate pay increases seem easily available - the sticking point is that they
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
It's curious to me that nobody is daring to encroach on Nintendo's territory - how hard would it be to add really good native controllers to this and have an indie game dream machine? I'm sure the Switch owes much of its suc
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
These leading e-sport companies are all American, in contrast to Nintendo which has to work overseas to support smash competitively (the Japanese competitive smash community is tiny compared to the U.S., in part due to culture). How succe
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
With her blessing, I got my wife a moissanite ring. It looks like a $5,000 diamond ring and she got nothing but dazzled reactions from all of her friends. My wife unabashedly loves fancy stuff (new clothes, cute restaurants, latest iPhone
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
This reads like a list of savvy remodels added to flipped homes in outrageously expensive areas. It's easy to imagine someone adding a solar roof, a fancy ceiling and a pergola to sell a 1,200 square foot bungalow in SV for way more t
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by saturdaysaint 8y ago
Sure, but chances are that many of your house's existing features are becoming progressively less trendy over time, and you could have something hard to sell (or daunting to update) if you don't do too much over a few decades of h
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Or maybe they had families and mortgages and student loans that they couldn't drop on a dime because they got asked to do something basically unheard of on the nightly news? Sinclair affiliates are primarily NOT located in the kind of
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I was a skeptic for a while, but bought an S3 when it came out and have really enjoyed it. Reasons I see myself wearing it every day for the foreseeable future: -Mainly, it's a very handy, very low-distraction way of getting notific
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Surveys show that Alexa is being used for basic Siri 1.0 searches ("What's the weather","Play x on Pandora", timers, alarms, novelty questions) and little else. Few people have activated a skill or ordered somethin
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I have two 1st gen Echos, and I think Amazon's moat is laughably overrated (and is being drastically overhyped in the early Homepod reviews). Surveys show that people are using these things for nothing more sophisticated than Siri 1.0
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I'm sure it depends on how much of a music person you are and your budget, but I like having a good quality speaker in my bedroom. Granted, I think a decent portable speaker is ideal for apartment life - something to provide better di
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
The huge, constantly evolving bluetooth speaker market (see Amazon, Sonos, Bose, etc) is evidence that there's a healthy market for audio devices separate from the home theater. It's great having decent music quality in the kitch
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I used to use Spotify. I mostly switched to be able to launch songs/albums using Siri, and Apple TV integration is a nice plus. There were some things I preferred about Spotify, but since their libraries are identical and 99% of my i
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Easy - cheap and fast. I've never had coverage issues within 50 miles of a major metro area (where I spend 99.999% of my time). Paying 30% more to have coverage on every remote stretch of a roadtrip (when I'm typically trying to
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I pay $60 a month for 23 gigabytes of 4G on Virgin Mobile - it's almost impossible for me to use it, and I avoid work wi-fi and casually watch video. A year or so ago, I got 8 gigabytes for that $60. Admittedly, Virgin is a bit of a v
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Is pirating still a huge issue? Granted, I'm not a broke college student any more, but with the ease of Steam and outrageous sales and giveaways, I'm amazed even broke kids would still bother.
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
FWIW, my Virgin Mobile plan costs $60 a month and isn't slowed until 23 gigabytes. Their unlimited plans for new customers are $50 per month. As much as Google touts the "flexibility" to theoretically pay less, using less th
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Both are averting losses of different kinds. Young people are driven by social pressures (FOMO), old people are avoiding bigger risks (mortality, financial calamity). This is bog standard behavioral economics. I highly recommend Daniel Ka
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
This looks like a slightly fashion forward 2018 vehicle IMO. I would call it an upscale Honda HRV with design cues from the Tesla 3 and Chrysler Pacifica.
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Anyone that's ever been fortunate enough to visit Hawaii knows how wonderful a place with such regulations is. Even in areas far less dense than Sao Paolo, I got a sense of relaxation from simply driving on the highway that I don&#x27
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Fundamentally transforming default thinking patterns that have been etched deeply through years of habit and experience. ...and hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. We are hard wired to spend an inordinate amount of time and atte
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
10 years from now, he's going to have a hard time finding employment or basic living possible. Given today's tight labor market, he has plenty of options. If he was good enough to get into Google, at the bare minimum he could d
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
I wonder if companies consider filtering out older workers with families to be more of a feature than a bug.
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
At the the cost/mile rates that you list, it would probably take 6 years or so to break even (also factoring in the cost savings from oil changes and belts). For the U.S. middle class, at least, that's probably too long of an inv
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by saturdaysaint 9y ago
Ha, oops, that's... kind of embarrassing - I do live in Michigan, but somehow I haven't noticed many of their stores outside the Midwest. I guess I've subconsciously given up on creating any sort of mental map of which groce

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