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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> In the end it's really just greed. Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with. Is it also greed when consumers want to pay as little as possible? (In some ways, of course it is, but at some point, the loaded
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I agree with everything you say, except the first. It’s still the government setting the hours for public schools (in the US meaning of public school).
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Biology requires two people for the system to work. Economics could as well and the system would still work.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Uh... Watt- hours per day reduces to Watts in dimensional analysis, which is of course my original point.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Assume that each workstation is lit by 100W of lighting and is vacant 18 hours per day (to make the math easy). I claim that's 75W of power that could be reclaimed by turning off a 100W load 75% of the time. Explain how you get to ener
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
In addition to that being obviously different from the line to “abject poverty”, it’s not at all obvious that a single median income should be able to support a 4-person family in a 2BR apartment or else the system is completely broken…
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
The government sets the hours of the schools, which in turn drives the schedules of a fair chunk of society.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Even that scenario works in both directions (as always). Engineering a system that doesn’t require off-hours work comes with a financial penalty to the team members if there’s explicitly segregated on-call pay. Write a good system and your
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
It gets lost in both directions, though. If you get paid 100 total units now for the value you bring to your company, how do you know that you wouldn’t get 95 units base and 5 units of on-call for the identical value that you create?
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Ideally a mix of skill and will. Earned credentials are a marker that you once demonstrated some sufficient combination of both.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Do you let students bring their own keyboards? If not, does that disadvantage a Dvorak user? Or a Kinesis user? Or a non-US layout? Or a Mac user? If you do let them bring their own keyboards, how sure are you that those are just dumb keybo
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> As of 2025, the wealthiest 1 percent in the US control $55 trillion in assets, roughly equivalent to the net worth of the bottom 90 percent of Americans combined I’m surprised that it’s only 90:1 ratio. I’d have expected it to be quite
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> Then, probably 15 years ago, they decided to give everyone a little raise, based on how much on-call work they did in the previous year, then ended the extra payment for on-call. Anyone who was hired for, or moved into, a position that
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> This is why you often see race cars lock their wheels towards the end of the braking zone, never at the beginning. That’s not the only reason, and I’m not even sure it’s the majority reason. Braking in a straight line offers more braki
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
People who create wealth for society by inventing and providing goods and services that others find valuable enough to buy are, by definition, not rent seeking when they do those things. If you have complaints against rent seekers, that’s f
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I would say the distributions from automated water heaters/boilers, washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators replacing “ice boxes”, looms, assembly lines, farming combines, electric starter motors, and automated PCB assembly have b
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Apple is free to make either choice (or anywhere on the spectrum) without violating any duty they have to shareholders. “We chose to invest in future market share, believing that was in the best interest of the company” is a perfectly valid
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Is there a state that has absolutely no high-density areas? I’d think every city over 200K people would have such sections, and probably most that were over 100K.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I’d consider those redditors to also be obsessed with lawns.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
As a life-long east coaster, I am reluctant/unwilling to make an introduction of someone I don’t know at all. It’s not that I have to get something of worth to make an intro, but I think my intro carries an implied vouch (at least a
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Typically larger wheels come with lower profile tires, such that the total diameter of the tire stays about the same. That means, for a given spindle height, the car ride height is the same regardless of wheel diameter.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Downgrade in ride quality for sure, but that’s the first I’ve heard of it being a performance downgrade. Will check out the video later to learn more.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
If you’re that worried about resale value, I’d think that buying a 2-4 year old used car is a way better proposition.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> fetishize, herbicide and normalize I’m very curious what “herbicide” was an auto-complete for here…
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I drove an ‘86 Alfa Romeo from 1995-2008 and 111k miles that I put on it. It broke down exactly once and that was a Bosch distributor that broke internally. I wouldn’t think twice about driving a reasonably maintained 25-30 year old Toyota
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
You can import a 25+ year old vehicle (so up to the mid-6th generation Hilux) for street usage in the US.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Mandated minimum insurance limits are often that low, but it’s quite common to get six-figure property damage liability coverage and mid-six-figure overall liability coverage. (And umbrella policies above that, but someone who needs less th
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
My class D (most typical) driving license is good to 26K pounds. That seems crazy high to me, but then again, I’m hard-pressed to choose exactly the right lower value that would “perfect”.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Low thousands (or very high hundreds), perhaps. It’s still one fairly heavy outdoor unit, a moderately bulky indoor unit, a pump, two radiators, insulated pipes and control wires between, a circuit (wiring and an overcurrent device) and a d
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Ground school absolutely has algebra involved (fuel burn, trip/segment times, wind correction, weight and balance)

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