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by secabeen 3y ago
Yeah, that's going to significantly suppress the number of issues for non-Tesla cars. Interesting.
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by secabeen 3y ago
Not German, but I do wonder if it's common to schedule your oil change and other maintenance just before your state inspection. I would certainly do that; get the dealer to fix all pending issues and get the car into tip-top shape jus
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by secabeen 3y ago
Is this the Kaiser Permanente model? I think it's a fairly good model, but they do pay pretty mid-level on Physician salary. It's not a place you can clear $500k+.
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by secabeen 3y ago
For all of Amazon's faults, the fact that they tolerate CCC does drive a lot of my online purchases there. CCC used to track other sites, and was eventually blocked on all of them. If more sites want my business, showing their pricin
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by secabeen 3y ago
The compelling thing for me still with checks is that the banks take on nearly all the costs of processing them, and what costs are imposed on the customer are fixed, and do not scale with the amount of money being transferred. It's p
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by secabeen 3y ago
Santa Barbara, CA has banned most billboards and outdoor advertising for many years; it's quite refreshing. Being back in LA or SF where it's allowed is somewhat jarring, honestly.
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by secabeen 3y ago
I think that's what they're trying to prevent. They don't want news stories describing how people are paying XX,XXX over asking to get one.
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by secabeen 3y ago
Primary school common core math is focused on teaching numeracy and conceptual understanding. Students who want a future in mathematics or related fields will take more formal rigorous math in secondary school, often via a "compaction
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by secabeen 3y ago
> Calculus in High School? Increasingly rare to non-existent. That's an exaggeration. As of 2018, 65% of public schools in the US offer Calculus: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt
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by secabeen 3y ago
Interesting, there were no options to continue Math at a community college?
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by secabeen 3y ago
In some jurisdictions, every wall will have a horizontal 2x4 about half-way down the wall. Drilling through the top-plate will get you started, but you'll need a special 4' long drill-bit to make the second hole you need in that
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by secabeen 3y ago
Yeah, all done as blind execution of remote code. Bleh.
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by secabeen 3y ago
SQs are reliable, and pretty robust. However, it is important to know that the top-loader agitator models and are popular on the Internet use quite a lot of water and are pretty hard on clothing. You may keep the SQ longer, but a modern f
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by secabeen 3y ago
Not the OP, but the reason I've looked at co-loing my own server is to host off-site backups in the 400-2000TB range. With the right colo price, it can easily be 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than cloud storage over a 5-year timefra
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by secabeen 3y ago
> The only problem I can see with the scenario is that the value on a 'fixer-upper 1950s ranch' is so high that the tax on it is beyond what an 'average working class' fellow or fellowette can reasonably expect to aff
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by secabeen 3y ago
Prop 19 was written to stop this, and it's good public policy.
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by secabeen 3y ago
Only slightly. Most trusts that hold homes dissolve and grant the property to the declared beneficiaries when the last trustor dies. The Rule Against Perpetuities means that all trusts must end within a specific time after the death of th
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by secabeen 3y ago
> At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB. Sure it is. Just use the official PPA from mozilla. Works great: https://launchpad.net&#x2
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by secabeen 3y ago
Mastery-based learning is good, but there is a degenerate path that is important to avoid. Some students can master basic computational tasks (like addition and multiplication), but don't have the maturity to reliably produce that mas
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by secabeen 3y ago
There is something pretty similar this called Project-Based Learning which tries to get there. Kids are tasked to find something that they're interested in, then the lessons that need to happen are modulated by their unique personal p
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by secabeen 3y ago
> And then moving out of the California school districts, the new district didn't recognize those courses at all, so when she aced precalc and they didn't have enough kids to take calc, they had her take ... algebra 2. WTF? Th
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by secabeen 3y ago
As a parent of a kid in a well-run Common Core program, yes. The goal appears to be to teach numeracy and concepts beyond just the rote application of formulaic solutions. When it's done well, you get students who can come at a probl
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by secabeen 3y ago
The answer is because the Sales tax is formally the Sales and Use tax. The tax is generally on the use of a purchase, which is facilitated by the services of the State beyond just the sale. It's collected at point of sale as that&#x27
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by secabeen 3y ago
The cost of the power itself is not the driving cost of electricity, it's the distribution and grid maintenance costs. PG&E can sell power delivered easily and in bulk to Alameda in the heart of the bay area quite cheaply. Delive
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by secabeen 3y ago
We really need to ban arbitration in contracts of adhesion. Arbitration has a role to play in contracts where both parties genuinely agree to it, but in a take-it-or-leave-it situation, they should not be allowed to be imposed by the contr
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by secabeen 3y ago
The fundamental issue with ZFS encryption is that the primary developer that created it is no longer contributing significantly to the project. It's good code, with good tests, but it's not getting any additional love. The utilit
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by secabeen 3y ago
That has generally not been the approach I've seen in the market. Most programs expect you to charge your battery for your daily driving. Battery Swap is for long-distance and fast-charging only. Even if swapping was common, I still
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by secabeen 3y ago
> College is mostly about the private institutions at a national level. That's where people would like to go. Yeah, I think this is an uninformed take, and that many students never even consider a tier-1 private university. They at
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by secabeen 3y ago
Room and Board is a significant factor. See figure CP-9. Through the entire period, RB exceeds $10k/yr, as compared to ~$3k/yr for tuition. That's 3x the cost! I would not say that I cherry-picked from my source; the argum
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by secabeen 3y ago
The challenge is that Pharma companies still spend huge sums on marketing, both to patients and to doctors. While I could probably be convinced that there's some role for spend on physician education about new drugs or spreading aware

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