thatfrenchguy

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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
Eh, you have to wash poop off them in a washer at high temps, so it’s a bit harder to compute. IIRC if you use the dryer it’s a wash: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c4096ed915...
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
Hard to say how much money you’ve saved because running the washer and dryer is not free though :)
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
Sales tax in the US is nowhere near 25% :)
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
$499 with carrier subsidy too
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
And your line is thinking is how we end up with what is going on at the Pentagon, and less innovation in our industry :)
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
Half of the best engineers I know come from a random state school, from a random country, and we should work way harder than we do on finding those people. But also… the other half come from prestigious colleges, and the way you solve the f
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
> 1) Eliminate the H-1B visa entirely. If a company wants to hire an immigrant, they can just sponsor the Green Card up front, knowing the worker can fuck off once they have it. The net result would be decreased immigration and increased
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
> The question is - what % of this labor could be sourced domestically and what actually needs to be imported? I mean, the other question is: how many US jobs exist because of folks who came to the country on H1B? Clearly none of the big
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
You still have to be way more strategic so the inputs of your new factories don’t get tariffed as well, otherwise your higher labor costs will kill any desire to actually do onshoring.
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
If you have a recommandation algorithm you are not a dumb pipe
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
I mean, yes, the benefits (and sometimes harms) of those companies to humanity reach multiple orders of magnitude more people than the microcosm of the Bay Area housing crisis.
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by thatfrenchguy 8mo ago
Yup, so that we can loose our innovation edge and loose the next Apple, Google or Nvidia. Amazing plan.
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
That stuff is so bad for you though that raising the price probably decreases the country's total healthcare costs by quite a bit.
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
I think you mean, spend $0 instead, given how many folks are donating toys on local facebook groups
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
I mean, 75% of americans are overweight or obese right? It's wild that the richest / least obese counties in the US still have 15% of people who are obese ( https://datacommons.techsoup.org/ranking/Percent_Per
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
> I could get a home near a major airport like 10 mins from SFO You need a lot less than 40m$ to get a house 10 minutes from SFO, Daly City or outer neighborhoods in SF have homes for less than a million for sale right now
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
Our kids are not going to be happy we spun up more CO2 generation for this.
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by thatfrenchguy 9mo ago
I mean, medical professionals would live closer without it most likely
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
Yup, but when you’re sleep deprived the months feel like years, and if unlucky and you got a bad sleeper the years can feel like decades
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
> The least the US could do would be to show a little more gratitude by guaranteeing them permanent US residency after they graduate, but they don't even get that—many people are kicked out of the US, where they've spent most o
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
> United maintains a relatively consistent experience between domestic and international, minus the free alcohol. A consistent extremely mediocre experience I guess. I've flown Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada and United with a tod
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
Destroys your clothes and is mega inefficient in exchange. You can buy better washers than LG washers that are modern.
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
> The result is a deeply distorted view of "normal." If ever struggling to focus or experiencing boredom is a sign you have ADHD > risk-aversion endemic in the striving children of the upper middle class OP has likely never
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
> If your digital ID is controlled centrally by the government (the guys that are watching most things you do already), and you need your digital ID to do most commercial interactions (banking, buying things, travel, etc), it means the g
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
I think OP here is just keeping a completely dominated plan (and his health insurance company knows it). He has less than 50 employees, he is not required to offer health insurance to his employees and he should go on the ACA market. Given
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
There is generally no point in doing this, keep a constant asset allocation that match your risk appetite, otherwise you're just playing the casino.
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
It's not free, but because of its unique market shaping power, the government is often the best & the cheapest way to do things like education or health care, because it has no incentives to spend money on bullshit to raise prices.
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by thatfrenchguy 10mo ago
> There's a simple and effective escape hatch: study abroad. Europe, Australia, South America, Canada even. Some countries are more affordable than others but the most expensive (by far) option is staying in the US. I mean, good luc
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
> The 30+ minutes saved during his commute each day I mean, you could also live closer to the office
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Because of the FDA. Lots of meds already come from India, but if you buy them in France or the US, the price difference is 5x.

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