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by seadan83 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. Your hypothesis seems more plausible now to me FWIW. Before I would outright agree (in order to be convinced), I'd like to see more evidence/data that used car prices are being driven by low maintenance requi
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by seadan83 3y ago
Those charts seem to indicate a spike after the CHIPS act was passed, rather than when it was proposed by the two bipartisan US senators in 2019. > I don't really see the value in debating the details of the policies > Trump made
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by seadan83 3y ago
> Or worse wasted a ton of time & money of local govs + small town employees. The Obama admin had a few really bad examples of this. Indeed. China had even more examples, but overall they found the winners and boosted them. The US i
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by seadan83 3y ago
The break-even depends on the source of electricity, which in turn depends on Geography. If the electricity is from coal, the break-even is after 5 years; even then, the lifetime emission of the EV is not even 10% less than that of the conv
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by seadan83 3y ago
Do you have citations? I can think of alternative & plausible explanations: - the used car industry is just barren post-pandemic. Prices are up and inventory is super low [1] - EVs are generally not that old! Why put a BEV up as a used
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by seadan83 3y ago
In parts of Texas I believe that is true. For BC hydro - it's a fixed rate based on usage tier. [1] For a large energy user, looks like it would be a quarter a day charge plus the usage charge at $12.50 per kW. [1] https://a
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think you rightfully point out there is a spectrum. So far, the line is at: company that will add just a few jobs, will pull in profits all for themselves, and will take the electrical requirements of half a million people when that much
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by seadan83 3y ago
Interesting reference. Non profits cannot hoard money. I believe it becomes taxable and they can lose their non profit status (i am not an expert) Though, hoarding seems like a mischaracterization. Per the article linked, the cash burn rate
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by seadan83 3y ago
I agree that real wages are back to 2020 levels. Though, I was responding to specifically: "by any metric", and the presence of one poor metric does not justify that statement. > So the average working person is in fact worse n
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"gasping" maybe.. receiving genuine death threats causes that reaction. The line "this is not a threat" is meaningless. The sender has sent the message: - I agree & wish you & your family dead - I know where you
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by seadan83 3y ago
Meme is one thing, a letter wishing you and your families death sent to your home address seems to cross the line. "Haha, it's all just a joke." The person receiving that is probably concerned they've been doxxed on 4cha
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by seadan83 3y ago
Context matters, the source of the lyrics were not cited, and the lyrics themselves are threatening (in their own context). The article mention that song escalated tensions and tupac was murdered a few months later. I believe this crosses t
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by seadan83 3y ago
Downvote be cause it is an unsubstantiated claim, speaks to a state of mind (which implies the ability to mind read, short of that ot is casting a stereotype/assumption), finally, the criticism is "what-about-ism" From a Seat
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by seadan83 3y ago
Thanks for the reply & pointers. My impression is that real estate simply has some of the best tax treatments. My assertion - the best tax treatments are for those that do not make wage income. For that to be true, there just needs to b
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by seadan83 3y ago
Thank you for the response. It is good context, and if I understand right it sounds like things even out if and when there is a sale. I'm certainly somewhat cynical, IMO it is the rich that write the tax codes and laws... [1] I do wo
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by seadan83 3y ago
Numbers are sales and should be found in the citation. Do you have numbers for production of other companies? I'm probably most interest in VW. It would be surprising to me if sales represented sales of old inventory, but that could be
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by seadan83 3y ago
You're talking about the US economy? The "by any metric" statements seems false. A "not doing fine" does not have 54-year low unemployment rate @ 3.4% [1] US GDP growth for since 2022 Q3 has been in the 5% range (
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by seadan83 3y ago
My experience has been quite different. At Amazon, after year one, I didn't learn much that was new - just a lot of the same stuff month-over-month. I found the biggest growth was when I switched jobs and learned a new environment, sys
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by seadan83 3y ago
I wanted to check your statement: "none of the traditional automakers are producing EVs at any kind of scale" It's really tough to find numbers of cars produced! I don't think they make those numbers public even. All the
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by seadan83 3y ago
> Either your CPA friend is ignorant (since after all not all CPAs specialize in income tax) or you misunderstood. I might have misunderstood, but he was keeping it simple for me. I'm 100% positive that he was correct though, to wha
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by seadan83 3y ago
A CPA friend of mine stated that software engineers are pretty screwed when it comes to taxes, they pay the highest effective rate. In effect, when you are in the $125k to $250k ballpark, you're at a high tax bracket but not making eno
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by seadan83 3y ago
I'm confused on two points: (A) why not use the yaml syntax that is not whitespace sensitive. In the authors example, that could be: {name: Al, address: something} (B) do env variables not go a long way to avoiding the need for a templ
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by seadan83 3y ago
Exercising choice as a consumer is not by definition political, but can be political. I think the technicality you pointed out is incorrect. Oxford: (political) "Of, belonging to, or concerned with the form, organization, and administ
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by seadan83 3y ago
To "slow, chronic, and indirect", I would also add "spanning most of a human lifespan." For these kinds of things we often don't realize something is brand new as of our lifetime. Said in another way, if something c
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> "Quality" for scientists is not the same specificities as "quality" for a software developer. I disagree here. I believe quality is intrinsic to the product. There may be different attributes to the "quality&qu
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by seadan83 3y ago
Perhaps fair point, though couldn't the same be said about the opposing point of view?
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by seadan83 3y ago
> A very small dataset where I experienced this is going to fast or casual food restaurants 15 to 30 minutes before they close. Some will cuss you out in a nice way for you making them do their job close to closing hours. I do not at all
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by seadan83 3y ago
One thing I do like about California drivers - they do generally let you in. Hard disagree to not use turn signal in CA. > The element of surprise is crucial to an offensive driving regimen. Really is fun and games in the abstract. Unfor
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by seadan83 3y ago
Your point has validity to it, I would not agree regarding: 85mph vs 98mph (1) The right hand lane of any free-way should not be going that fast! The fastest speed limit I've seen I think was 80 in the middle of Kansas. (2) 98mph is un
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by seadan83 3y ago
Some of your points stand. Though, in the iron triangle of speed, quality, scope, it turns out that quality and speed are linked. Quality is a requirement for speed. So, it seems more akin to making meringue with yolks. Eventually maybe it

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