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by u678u 6y ago
> If you came from a family that did pretty well financially, went to college and then immediately started to do pretty well yourself, it’s hard to get any kind of context for what life is like at lower income levels. America is hugely s
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by u678u 6y ago
> It's the kind of thing that casts a shadow over your whole life. Shadow really though? I'm super glad everything came through my own work, I'd hate if my parents gave me anything. I hate spending any money, to me that is
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by u678u 6y ago
You're right, I've updated.
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I thought that the point of crypto is low fees? Nice that crypto has a $~1T market cap. But just one broker is going to have a market cap of one tenth of that. Makes no sense.
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by u678u 6y ago
> Like anything else in life, you can do a good job or a bad job at being a parent. If you're prioritizing your own convenience or ego or career over the wellbeing of your child, then you're a bad parent. Sounds like you have n
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by u678u 6y ago
> Plenty of people who rent might buy if there were more opportunities to do so, which there would be if housing weren't such an artificially scarce good in the US. America has the cheapest housing in the Developed world. SF is not
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by u678u 6y ago
It makes a lot of sense if you like living in a neighborhood with single family housing. I live in an apartment, but if I had a house I'd hate for an apartment building to be built next door overlooking my yard. In most of the country
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by u678u 6y ago
I was going to suggest that the original hydro and nuclear has lower costs than newer plant, but there doesn't seem to be any hydro and nuclear is small so I can't say.
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by u678u 6y ago
Its frustrating when it doesn't recommend something better. Every DB has tradeoffs if you choose something over Cassandra you have to give up something else.
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Texas population has grown from 21 to 30 million people in that time. Its tough to really know what would have happened if something else was done.
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by u678u 6y ago
For some reason this scares me at a core level more than anything else. Seems inevitable that Skynet will control the factory sooner or later.
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by u678u 6y ago
I thought so too, but the Matt Levine article says the debt was trading at 42c in the dollar, so likely people didn't expect the debt to be repaid. This makes the loss $300mm instead of $500mm, but is worse than your (and mine) initial
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by u678u 6y ago
The high rise keys are a problem. There are a variant of mech keyboards with low risk keys that I definitely prefer. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=low+profile+mechnical+keyboard
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by u678u 6y ago
It'll be interesting when the characteristics of the cars are known. Eg you can cut in front of a Tesla and it'll stop, but dont do the same for a Chevy.
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by u678u 6y ago
> and admitting that he did, indeed think of engineers as "second-class citizens." Lol that's classic. TBH though I think I prefer an old school British manager that will tell you the truth instead of an American one bull
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by u678u 6y ago
I can't find a good source but an old site says 300k homes have solar panel a few years ago, by now it could realistically be 5%. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/the-us-states-leading-the-wa...
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by u678u 6y ago
Actually I'm thinking this is a good route, you can use a few simple standard backends (Firebase, Mongo) and all the work is just in one layer, the browser gui.
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by u678u 6y ago
I'm not saying its bad for the people with solar, I'm saying everyone else suffers because of the people with solar.
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by u678u 6y ago
Not many people are talking about home solar but its a real problem. Its nice to have your own solar power and then use the grid only when you need it. However that means you need idle power plants and transmission 90% of the year just for
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by u678u 6y ago
I like it because it creates a small binary executable that is easy to deploy. Other stuff like Java or Python have big VMs or interpreters that are error prone and take up room. Also if you want a small container a go binary is small.
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by u678u 6y ago
Yeah I get it you're right too.
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by u678u 6y ago
> It's so sad (and true) that a job loss -- something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things Maybe if you're a developer in a strong economy that is true. I've seen lots of middle-aged people laid of
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by u678u 6y ago
My smartphone is a now a net negative for me. I need a token apps, maps, uber but everything else really is wasting my time. Sure I've tried a bunch of things but the addictive apps keep coming back.
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by u678u 6y ago
BTW from memory Delphi was named as such as it was the main route to Oracle which was the most common enterprise database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi
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Most of the nurseries here have big windows so everyone walking past can see nearly everything inside.
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I agree that in the UK class system results in people believing that working class people will probably stay there so tries to make conditions tolerable. In the US people are more likely to believe that anyone can make it if they try hard e
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by u678u 6y ago
Generally the last few decades as capitalism has swept the globe poverty has dropped dramatically in the poorest countries. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-reduced-po... Western Europe vs Eastern Euro
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by u678u 6y ago
> Your "competitors" in the market are not bay-area people anymore. It's the whole US. Agreed, not just American, anyone roughly in the same time zone. There are lots of well educated people in Peru/Chile/Brazil
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by u678u 6y ago
Presumably it means some expensive wines are better than the cheap wines and easily detected. Some expensive wines were "enhanced" by a fancy bottle which even managed to fool the experts.
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It doesn't make sense for remote workers to be paid based on location. But that doesn't mean remote workers should be paid as much as those who are working in the office in SF. At the end of the day its supply/demand. When ev

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