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by warner25 3y ago
I have two data points for you: My wife and I banned Bluey in our house a couple years ago. We use TV as "quiet time" for our kids (currently ages 3 to 9) after lunch, replacing the time when they used to nap, and Bluey seems to m
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by warner25 3y ago
I think you're right (regarding why nobody seems to retire after six months of CEO-level compensation). I mentioned military flag officers because that's the world that I know best. Most career military officers have no interest i
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by warner25 3y ago
I wonder a lot about what motivates people at that level, and about how these negotiations go. As someone who has always been a W-2 employee, and who has never had much individual negotiating power, it feels impossible to wrap my head aroun
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, I've lived in Hawaii and coastal California where the availability of housing does seem to be heavily impacted by very wealthy people being able to buy up second and third (multi-million dollar) homes. A lot of regular wage earner
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by warner25 3y ago
It looks like he doesn't have many students. His current title appears to be "Research Professor" and he's the sole author of every "new paper" mentioned in this blog post and most of the recent papers listed o
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, car seats are the biggest deal if you have multiple kids in car seats (of course most people don't, so they don't think about this). We have an Odyssey because it was (is?) the only minivan with latches and a tether in all
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by warner25 3y ago
> does it really matter which way the doors go? Have you never seen young kids open conventional doors right into the side of an adjacent parked car? That's one of the big advantages of a minivan vs. SUV. But it does look like the u
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by warner25 3y ago
This cuts both ways. A lot more things need to be online in combat: avionics, sensors, weapons, survivability equipment, etc. At home, it didn't matter if the IFF transponder or satellite radio wasn't working. We didn't even
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by warner25 3y ago
As a former pilot, I will agree that hours matter. Our ability to get pilots 200 training hours per year has actually been an advantage, to my understanding, compared to our competitors who can't afford even that much. The simulators f
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, there are big differences between wartime and peacetime operational tempo and maintenance capacity. I flew and managed maintenance for Black Hawks, and while deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq we flew multiples of the hours that we'd
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by warner25 3y ago
The Marine Corps' requirement to replace the Harrier and older Hornet was more urgent than the Navy's requirement to replace their newer Super Hornet, so the Marine Corps' version of the F-35 got fielded long before the Navy&
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by warner25 3y ago
I'd love to see the same collection of sounds and authoritative explanations for the Prius. I own a Gen II, and it makes a lot of interesting noises. After 15+ years I've learned what sounds are normal, but I still don't know
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by warner25 3y ago
Thanks. Yeah, I was just hoping it might have access to some different data. I've seen no discrepancy. I tried one IP address that I've been trying to map, and I got the same answer.
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by warner25 3y ago
From where do you get your geolocation information? I've been using the free MaxMind GeoLite2 databases and the GeoIP2 Python API for this kind of thing, but for a lot of IP addresses that I'd like to map, I can only get down to t
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by warner25 3y ago
One of the big life lessons that I've learned in my 20s and 30s is that it's hard to predict what my future self will want or care about. What was my dream at age 21 became something I no longer wanted by age 25. Getting married a
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by warner25 3y ago
My story might be of interest to you. I also dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot or attack helicopter pilot. I played all the serious Jane's flight simulators, watched "Wings" and its spin-offs on the Discovery Channel every
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by warner25 3y ago
Just administrative tasks? Administrative tasks are what most of the people in the DoD do all day.
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by warner25 3y ago
You're right, but he's talking about states where tipped employees receive the same minimum wage, paid by the employer, as anyone else plus tips. See my comment / question about how this works out in practice. [Edited becau
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by warner25 3y ago
Regarding the "tipped minimum" vs. full wage and tips, I've been wondering for a while how this works out in practice, and I've yet to find an answer. Like do waitresses in California, earning the full $15.50 minimum w
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by warner25 3y ago
My niche use-case: I have four young kids and a minivan with a DVD player for them. I've used it to rip DVDs that we own and burn just the main tracks to blank discs. That way the movie will automatically play, and play on a loop, when
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by warner25 3y ago
I suspect that Apple iOS users are also much more lucrative targets. The Android user base is bigger worldwide, but not in the US and especially not among the affluent and public figures. Come after Android and you're coming after peop
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by warner25 3y ago
I started this "Ask HN" on the topic a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33197291 People made some interesting points. I still have my head in the sand, and I plan to reevaluate again next fall. Note
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by warner25 3y ago
It's not just "tech bros," though. It's just as often executives in the stodgy climates of government, the military, banking and finance, etc.
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm often stunned by how casually and poorly executives write. The more rich and powerful they are, the worse it seems to be. I guess things like proper capitalization, punctuation, full sentences, etc. aren't worth their time, an
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by warner25 3y ago
Oh yeah, when I was a platoon leader and company commander, we spent 20-30% of our time - like a day per week, or a week per month - just looking for stuff, counting stuff, and annotating on paper the locations of the stuff (e.g. which buil
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, it just seems like we've spent an inordinate amount of time on things that would either (1) save what amounts to peanuts in the context of the Army and DoD budgets or (2) not save any money at all. I guess the primary purpose of
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by warner25 3y ago
Just to provide a ground-level insider perspective: We've been doing things in the name of "audit readiness" for a decade, and I just... don't get it. It has translated to a lot of asinine things like 1. Making sure that
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by warner25 3y ago
This is an interesting topic. I don't think many Americans realize that the constitutional basis for the Regular Army (i.e. active duty troops) is pretty weak: Congress is given the power "To raise and support armies, but no appro
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by warner25 3y ago
I think we're all on the same page here, but the point is specifically "e-mail over LTE/5G..." (or really HTTPS over TCP/IP/LTE). I see SMS as this weird, independent, kluge of a data channel on the side, which
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, find a map of polling down to the county level on any political issue, and this becomes very clear. Counties with major cities in red states are bright blue, and rural counties in blue states are bright red. https://en.wikip

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