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by ta1243 1y ago
As a contractor my customer pays me $2k a day. Instead they could pay me $20 a day and $1800 a day in tips. Everyone wins.
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by ta1243 1y ago
The argument would be that after 30 years of 2.3%/yr inflation, the 300k house would be worth 600k in future dollars, and the 100k house would be worth 200k. However as 15% interest rates implies an inflation rate far higher than 2.3%
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by ta1243 1y ago
If people can't afford the rents then they'll just cram more people in. Currently have a "Joey/Chandler" style apartment form friends with 2 people in for $4k/month? Now you get 4. Or 6. Price increases to $6k&
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by ta1243 1y ago
It's the software updates that's the problem. Apple aren't too bad, but their hardware support only seems to last 7 years. The S7 you mention lasted 4 years, and received the last patch in 2020. Not convinced that doing onlin
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by ta1243 1y ago
Nobody cares about how hard it is to hold, otherwise we'd have 4-5" screens rather than the phablets that are the norm and basically the only option.
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by ta1243 1y ago
You can charge more in rent - not like the tenant is going to be able to buy somewhere to escape the rent trap.
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by ta1243 1y ago
I'd rather owe 100k over 30 years at 15% than 300k at 4%.
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by ta1243 1y ago
If a new face can reverse policy on a dime, then that reversal can be reversed a couple of years later. It's amazing how few people seem to understand this. Countries are oil tankers, they take years to turn even a little - and that&#x
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by ta1243 1y ago
The world has seen how unreliable the US is. Its not even just the tarrifs, its the tarrifs applied at random, based on how happy the Don is. The world has seen the "checks and balances" don't exist, a populist leader can do
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by ta1243 1y ago
I took a narrow body 757 form Paris to Newark back in 2010. Airline long since defunct. BA used to operate a business-only A318 from New York to London from 2009 until covid too (due to length of City runway had to stop at Shannon on the wa
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by ta1243 1y ago
JetBlue do a lot of transatlantic on A321neos, including New York to Amsterdam which is 300 miles further than Philadelphia to Edinburgh
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by ta1243 1y ago
The only ban on media I've seen is from Farage, who's banned the media from covering local government where he has the power https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-media-... Trump has
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Romania in the 01930s You've lost me.
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by ta1243 1y ago
When I think of affordable cloud, it's all european providers.
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Insulting a C-level exec is tantamount to a professional suicide note. I guess it depends on the exec and your relationship with them
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by ta1243 1y ago
Which specific 30 year period?
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by ta1243 1y ago
Put a carbon tax on fuel in a western country and you end up with an unhappy population who pay more money in tax. Personally I'd distribute the revenue as a UBI which would mean the most polluting would be worse off but the average pe
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by ta1243 1y ago
> There are 10% opportunities in most people's lives Average S&P total return (reinvesting dividends) is well over 10% over any appreciable timeframe (say 30 years), even during really low times (say buying at the peaks in 1999
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by ta1243 1y ago
People nowadays expect 10% return on their investment, so if you invest 1m you need to make 100k a year from it (120k to cover the deprecation over 50 years) If you made 30k a year for 50 years you'd return 1.5m from your 1m investment
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by ta1243 1y ago
My team self hosts multiple internal services, including vaultwarden. For most of these we use our standard corporate OIDC provider to provide autentication and accounting, either onto a proxy or direct on the service, that passes the user
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by ta1243 1y ago
When I click "subscribe" on my TV it gives me three options, all with adverts Maybe I could subscribe and take a risk that I could then buy something again, but it tells me they don't want people paying money, they want peopl
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by ta1243 1y ago
You're looking at someone saying "look at this tiny pothole and how awful it is on a road" when 50 yards further down there's a massive chasm. It's a distraction technique as old as the hills, and implies the blame
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by ta1243 1y ago
The majority of railway miles closed under Labour And your branch line wouldn't take you into the city - there isn't the terminal capacity. However new lines, like the Victoria, Jubilee, and Crossrail will.
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by ta1243 1y ago
That's all noise that the press likes to trump up. Sure 5% of the cost might be on "silly things" like bat tunnels or hedghog bridges, but that doesn't make or break a project. Actually delivering smaller projects at a r
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by ta1243 1y ago
Compensating local communities for the impact of national infrastructure is a simple approach. Wouldn't surprise me if longer term that would lead to no-win-no-fee consultants trying to extract more money from the process thus breaking
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by ta1243 1y ago
I cancelled prime when they told me they were putting adverts on Went to resubscribe, no option given for no adverts, no money from me.
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by ta1243 1y ago
my i5-6200U with firefox/linux is about 10 years old. I used a variety of add blocking and fingerprint blocking techniques. Cloudflare often complains and blocks me. This page loaded pretty much instantly (certainly in the time it took
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by ta1243 1y ago
There are so many large sites which use consent-or-pay with no enforcement action taken though.
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by ta1243 1y ago
You'll need at least one ipv4 address to hide your customers behind when they access an ipv4 network. An ipv4 address costs $30 to purchase at a /24 level, less in larger amounts. If you are providing service to a customer that&#x
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by ta1243 1y ago
21st century Lords are the american billionaire class. They don't take care of their serfs though.

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