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by starbase 3y ago
Have kids while you're still (relatively) young
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by starbase 3y ago
Here's the relative risk of pedestrian death per vehicle mile, broken down by vehicle type. (all ages) cars: 1 buses: 7.97 motorcycles: 1.93 light trucks: 1.45 heavy trucks: 0.96 (age 0-14) cars: 1
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by starbase 3y ago
Zero responses for career means there's a bug in your job-finding algorithm. Here are a few Qs to discover your blind spots: Have you spoken to the large industrial employers in your region? The nearest hospital? The fastest growing co
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by starbase 3y ago
> When I try to compare myself with less educated/poorer people I realize my advantages can be significantly if not mostly attributed to my upbringing Probably looks that way to the billionaire founders too. Gates, for example, happ
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by starbase 3y ago
By all means, create a more perfect union. Until then, I can't get on board. Seems like every historical instance of individuals ceding their rights to an organization goes rotten. Maybe this time will be different.
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by starbase 3y ago
Speaking only for myself here, I feel more free when I have less organizational hierarchy (read: bosses) to deal with. Might be different for others. I know of no union that would give me the flexibility I currently enjoy--flexibility to bi
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by starbase 3y ago
You can't fire Zuck because he owns the company, same as I can't force you to let me drive your car because it's your car . You are, however, free to work for yourself or any other company.
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by starbase 3y ago
I suppose I provide value to clients on terms they're happy with.
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by starbase 3y ago
> what's your place of work's excuse for catering to you? I'm not sure I understand the question; can you rephrase?
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by starbase 3y ago
> I think that a union is just an entity that represents the workers. In theory, yes. In practice, a union brings with it economic incentives to do more than just represent the workers. Many of its incentives are in conflict with the wel
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by starbase 3y ago
First, you're well above the median. If you compare yourself to the median human, you'll find you're powerful as fuck. Second, you're focused on the most successful person out of a billion. I assume you don't lie aw
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by starbase 3y ago
Shareholder deck is a better source than a 3rd party blog: https://ir.tesla.com/#quarterly-disclosure
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by starbase 3y ago
November 30th is a bit more than six weeks away. 125k is their annual production capacity, at present.
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by starbase 3y ago
Because unions tether the best employees' compensation to the worst, and because company ownership (generally prohibited for union members) is a large fraction of TC for many SWEs, and because an additional layer of management and bure
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by starbase 3y ago
Take an informed guess at the stack they want and use that example to make the general case. Interviewer: What method do you use to bake an apple pie? Chef: For a traditional pie, I'll go with Granny Smith apples and cut ice cold short
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by starbase 3y ago
Without clicking the link, I can confidently say there will be a photo of the Korean peninsula at night.
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by starbase 3y ago
What's the economic path for a young person who is willing to do so? If it's "going away to college to get an ag degree," you'll find that most who embark on that journey change course by graduation, as they can mak
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by starbase 3y ago
Working fine for me
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by starbase 3y ago
Unspecified in this article, but organics we've found in meteorites (fallen asteroids and comets, mostly) include the same carbohydrates, fatty acids, nucleic acids, and amino acids that all known life is built from. In the broadest se
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by starbase 3y ago
It's a shame the people who settled the islands of the Pacific, the Caribbean, etc thousands of years ago didn't have written language. The stories they could tell!
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by starbase 3y ago
For those who live in such areas, idle time in nature is abundant and connectivity is scarce.
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by starbase 3y ago
Are things really broken, or has our perception changed? Some of both, I think. > Why are so many people jobless? Perception -- Unemployment is lower today than in 82 of the last 94 years. > Why are so many companies going bankrupt? P
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by starbase 3y ago
There's nothing VCs and founders like more than an annual discussion of their sexual preferences.
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by starbase 3y ago
Definitely some strange assumptions by the FAA. Simulations by both NASA and SpaceX (as well as observations of over 300 Starlink re-entries) indicate Starlink sats burn up completely. Yet FAA assigns each Starlink satellite a ~9 square met
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by starbase 3y ago
Suppressed firearms are still quite loud, typically 120-150dB, vs 145-175dB unsuppressed. It's enough to reduce hearing damage but still sounds like a gunshot. The sound they make in movies couldn't be further from reality.
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by starbase 3y ago
Isn't it strange that it's unlawful to have a muffler on your gun, and unlawful to NOT have a muffler on your car?
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by starbase 3y ago
Nothing is being "stolen." Learning is not theft. Imagine applying OP's reasoning to calculus or programming. We'd all be "stealing" from Leibniz and Ritchie, and progress would be crushed.
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by starbase 3y ago
Factual error in the first sentence. PBS refers to Musk as the company's 'sole proprietor,' when in reality Dorsey and others continue to own part of the company. Are journalists just phoning it in at this point?
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by starbase 3y ago
Oh no! Anyway...
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by starbase 3y ago
she's gorgeous

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