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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I also suspect that’s the most common path to single-digit millionaire in the US. My parents were the first generation on either side to attend college and the steady economic progress across 5 generations is impossible to miss. Teaching th
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
“Gas Station Sushi: Fresh one day a week, but no one knows which one…” I read the post as involving seeing the other family at Walmart, but the buying of things not needed and consumption of lobster as happening elsewhere.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
So long as you’re also willing to label swimming pools, grapes, and crayons as, by definition, inherently dangerous on account of not being able to be made 100% safe, then I’ll at least grant you a level of consistency in your argument.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> Making more will never have you taking home less. There are corner cases where making more can leave you with less outside of welfare. Tripping into the next IRMAA bucket is one simple to understand one.
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“We don’t just want to offer assistance for part of your journey with us, but rather to support your needs during your entire journey. Part of our service for passengers needing assistance boarding is luggage assistance wherein we take care
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I might need four different (distinct) roles filled but only have budget for three employees. I’d be prone to advertise (and genuinely recruit) all four roles, and hire the first three that I find a good fit for, delaying the fourth until&#
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I can think of hundreds of thousands of reasons per year that people might seek employment at a FAANG company.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
For your friend’s new install, the refrigerant was in the outdoor unit when shipped from the factory. Accessing that gas just takes an ordinary hex key/Allen wrench. Only if they’d made a mistake and let the refrigerant leak out (or ha
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
When I bought a vacuum on Amazon, I got cross-sells for other vacuums for several weeks. I don’t know how many avid vacuum collectors Amazon studied to conclude that those were the best ads to show me (not a vacuum collector).
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
s/508/608/
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Not directly with the heat source, but with the output flow temperature that the heat source can create. In that regard, an air-to-water heat pump is much lower temperature than a gas or oil boiler can efficiently produce. That can cause a
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
In the US, the subsidy is paid only when the heat pump is installed by a certified contractor. Unshockingly, the certified contractors are able to capture the vast majority of the subsidy as additional profit.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
For a typical new install, the outdoor unit contains the charge and unless your lineset is unusually long, you just use that, releasing it with the valves after installing and leak-checking the lines. In the US, you can get your EPA 508 cer
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Your last sentence suggests that he willingly failed to take the choice to create a vision and a plan. If, for whatever reason, you don't have a vision and a plan, hiring big names to help kickstart that process seems like a way bett
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
This doesn’t get around the bulk, but at least in the metro Boston area, there are loads of auctions from closing labs or failed biotechs where you can get all sorts of lab equipment for pennies/nickels on the dollar. If you have space
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Being down to human speed of reviewing code that already passes tests could still be a massive increase over 12 months’ ago pace.
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure that after 24 hours, comments cannot be down-voted (only upvoted).
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
I think social media has clear positive and negative aspects. That makes it closer to food than cigarettes in my mind. We can all immediately conjure up images where food or social media has brought something positive into our lives. News.y
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Indeed, the beer companies are far above having Clydesdales and puppies in their ads, or fun dog mascots like Spuds MacKenzie or Alex from Stroh's.
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
It's an ad by a grocery store advocating healthy eating and inclusion. I think people will make reasonable decisions about whether or not to purchase food this winter with or without the "malicious influence" of these ads.
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
I don't think you can just look at the "number of people who are doing this travel", as those same planes are also carrying air cargo and US mail. Not everyone flies, but almost everyone in the county receives mail, cargo, or
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
It depends on what you substitute it with. If you substitute with “don’t travel far [or at all]”, it’s a big savings. If you substitute flying 1000 miles on an airliner with “drive 1000 miles instead”, or flying US to Europe with a cruise s
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
For most everything I'm giving as Christmas gifts this year, Amazon has the best (often tied for the best) price. Things from Apple are cheaper on Amazon than from Apple (Airpods Pro 3, M4 Air, etc.) Predictable delivery, easy/gen
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Similar shopping story at our house, but I will observe that Home Depot has made amazing strides into competing with Amazon for delivery of items. They’ll ship me a $10 <thing my project needs> almost always for free and often next da
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Fair point! In many libraries, you can go to the library and check out DVDs as well. That could be a way to make videos available for free but inconvenient enough that people would pay for a more convenient way, just as they do with books.
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How do movies get made under that system?
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
I would disagree with the claim/usage of “inert” if it was damaging to gut microbiome.
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> There's no real room to evade tariffs outside of misclassifying or misrepresenting imports There’s an entire field of “tariff engineering” that’s experienced an understandable boom in demand in the last 12 months. That’s technical
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> I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies. Were you a solo founder of 5 companies? I literally cannot fathom that you worked at 5 even very modest-sized tech companies and never experienced a colleague with some
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Aren't most people who are "locked into house" a seller that's removed from the market, but also a buyer that's removed from the market? I can see how someone who decides to keep their current house to use as a rent

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