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by subsubzero 3y ago
4th gen Californian here, I lived in all three locations, Bay Area, LA and central valley. The author is right on a few things, and didn't address LA(blocked by paywall I guess). I'll go through them one by one. San Francisco - On
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Interestingly enough, That list of states besides Colorado and Maine all were the biggest losers of population in 2023, meaning people are leaving these states. - California -0.9 - Maryland -0.5 - Massachusetts -0.6 - New Jersey -
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Also these environmental laws come from a place of non-rigorous fanciful thinking, ie. the paper straw push was pushed by some hollywood celebrity and never took into account that paper straws are loaded with forever chemicals, and are usel
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by subsubzero 3y ago
You seem like someone who doesn't want to shop like a billionaire! In all seriousness I 100% agree, I feel like this company is a massive house of cards that will end up like Evergrande etc. What is crazy is almost every site I visit I
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by subsubzero 3y ago
I could see this taking the place of a TV screen in some households, (smaller ones of course unless you want to spend $15k for the whole family to all watch TV in a living room!). I think a killer feature for this is to pair it with a tread
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by subsubzero 3y ago
You are 100% spot on. Shrink was a huge factor for bonus payout(huge pay lever for mgmt in stores) as if you lived in a area that had high theft you never hit your bonus(shrink is the delta of actual vs. recorded inventory). That and the bo
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by subsubzero 3y ago
There is a narrative that Wal-mart pays low wages, I think its quite apt as most positions do pay quite low, I worked at Wal Mart while in college and saw it first hand. A few things to note, certain positions do pay well, store managers fo
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by subsubzero 3y ago
You are 100% spot on, I mentioned this in another comment I made and our housing crunch recently (past 8 years or so) is all due to human nature(and also a huge inflow of money). You can buy cheap houses in a majority of America but most pe
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by subsubzero 3y ago
All day on HN I hear the same song and dance, we need more housing density to combat high real estate prices. And then you see a city being proactive and doing something about it and you criticize it. Good on OKC to get ahead of the issue a
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by subsubzero 3y ago
So basically its just leetcode interview testing but for metal workers :)
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Thanks for providing images of the suit, quite strange the article never shows a single image of the iconic suit he created.
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by subsubzero 3y ago
The 90's were such an amazing decade, maybe one of the most perfect in the past 100 years(at least for the US). You had a outstanding job market for all professions with tech jobs still around if you chose. No wars(besides smaller conf
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by subsubzero 3y ago
These extremely high housing costs in coastal California areas are really a two part problem - they are not an infrastructure or building houses problem but a human nature problem and a regulation problem. The first issue(human nature) is t
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by subsubzero 3y ago
As someone who lived through that era and had an atari 2600 it was really a combo of two things. #1. The games on the atari were not games that you spent hours playing, they were very simple, space invader, pacman etc, and were not entirely
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by subsubzero 3y ago
I worked there for a better part of a decade and I have been to very rough places during their worst times, late 90's and early 2000's(east Oakland, east Palo Alto, and south central Los Angeles) and tenderloin in SF is on another
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by subsubzero 3y ago
A little bit on why this peak is so hard. First off highly recommend watching Meru(mentioned on the NYtimes article) as the conditions look very similar on both mountains(Meru - being 21k feet), with Jammu being 4k feet higher in elevation.
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Agree, (these are not the droids you are looking for). Look to Google, Meta, and the telecoms as they are the most eggregious and abuse their market position blatantly.
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by subsubzero 3y ago
yeah the person(Mick West) who did the debunking is a retired gaming software engineer who is also somewhat of a known troll and has zero background in the field of avionic systems used by the fighter pilots. Some of his debunking statement
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Supposedly a few pieces of technology that we use in military and everyday use were created using alien technology. Stealth fighters and holograms. But I have read the book about the engineering/creation of the f-117 stealth fighter at
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by subsubzero 3y ago
But.. The US Govt. has zero reasons to acknowledge existence of a non-human superior technology spacecraft. It would undermine their position as world super power and destabilize trust and security in the country and could lead to mass inst
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Regarding timed entry which I hate, this popped up in the pandemic and seem to have never left. Its like all spontaneity is being eliminated in every aspect of outdoor adventures(hikes, camping, etc). I don't really go to natl. parks a
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by subsubzero 3y ago
As a somewhat heavy user of recreation.gov this suit really makes me happy. The cancellation fees are borderline insane - ex. a $25 per day camping site fee that needs to be cancelled leads to a $10 fee per day, meaning that the fee is 40%
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Good summary of his accomplishments. I remember reading that even he said he was not happy with the LI-ion battery and was actively working on its successor at UT. I would be curious how far he made it and any results he made with this next
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by subsubzero 3y ago
This bad take comes up all the time and I try to educate people every time it pops up: > California is getting hotter and dryer with the climate catastrophe California in the 20th century was very abnormally wet and mild. Using scientifi
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by subsubzero 3y ago
But why burn something - trees that can be used for useful purposes, ie. house building and paper products? For a sensible approach it would be - do select logging and then let small controlled fires happen in the area that has been logged.
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by subsubzero 3y ago
For a few ones that have absolutely jumped in size, toyota (tundra, tacoma, also the 4runner). 4runners in the 90's were tiny! also a tacoma now feels almost bigger than a early 2000's Tundra which is insane.
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by subsubzero 3y ago
before the Obama administrations emissions rules[1] trucks and suv's were quite small, blame the rules put out in that ruling for why trucks and suvs are so gigantic, I too am frustrated with how big they are and I own a new truck! [1]
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by subsubzero 3y ago
You are not alone, looking at enrollment for most public schools they are falling across the board with many choosing homeschooling[1] or private school[2]. On the homeschooling article one thing that blew me away was 16.1% of black familie
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by subsubzero 3y ago
agree, looking at human history and climate history(30k thousand years back) we are in a blissful time with human lifespan being close to an all time high, war and famine are at all time lows. Medical advances are letting people who would h
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by subsubzero 3y ago
Alot of this is due to the policy decisions of Ed Lee(ex SF mayor). He authorized tax breaks for a bevy of tech companies to operate in the tenderloin tax free(for a few years). The reason for this was to revitalize a blighted neighborhood

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