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Never understood the underpaying of highly qualified people in the govt. Making a sacrifice for your country in a high powered / representative position is one thing, but the rank and file? Billions are spent on defense contracts and old software, but when bringing on teams of people to revamp the system, they want these people to take more than a 50% pay cut. D.C. is an expensive place to live as well. If you think something is crucial for the country to advance and survive, don't be cheap about it.

Using the DB app is really helpful to me. All delays are near real-time. It makes using public transport so much easier. Now the German ticketing machine, please fix that so it includes the stops instead of just end points.

>Once (if) they become a mature car manufacturer their valuation multiple will go way down.

Somewhat answered your own question . It's if the market values Tesla as a mature company or a continues to value it as a growth company. When have we seen Elon rest with a successful product? Tesla is more than just cars. And Elon's answer to Gali (hyperchange YouTube channel) question during earnings about moats states his mindset clearly. He's about innovation. Innovate faster than competitor always. If Tesla can be cash positive, Elon will do what Bezos does. Demand that as much money as possible is reinvested. They're not going to be like Apple with tons of money sitting on the side.

It’s just the way they talk because it becomes normal for them. One of my friends candidly said I should be friends with a person in a conversation, the persons writing made the news. Those two were friends, but the writer also happened to the founder of a major tech company. Not exactly in my personal circle lol. But my friend said it so normally because that’s who she hangs out with now. Don’t count that against her or any privilege. Just meeting the right people to introduce you to more people. And suddenly it becomes normal.

I mean. You brought up the point of dining with two Silicon Valley elites in the first place. Elon is more famous, but most people wouldn’t know Sam.

CTO of well known tech company (Stripe) speak with their investor and a person looking to poach him.

Thanks for sharing. It’s a point of view I didn’t take even though I come from family owned businesses. Usually small businesses fail fast, so my thought that since it lasted so long it must’ve been ran at least decently well. Didn’t think documentation would be such a big problem for such a specialized company.

None of the family businesses I’ve been apart of lasted more than one generation lol. The children usually looking to not continue what their parents did, or sick of it since they were forced to help since they were kids. Passing on a company to the heir that has no interest except it was what was expected is dangerous. Happy you were able to turn it around.

Physical products see lots of delays, year plus not uncommon from what I’ve seen, in the kick starter space. What surprised me is how old this company is, and that this was their bread and butter product. Their LinkedIn shows they’ve been in business since 1902. That’s over 100 years in business, yet they still had a massive delay, over scissors. To me, that’s like saying a Samsung or Apple, had a two year delay on one of their mid cycle phones (e.g.,Iphone S versions).

Heard super cars like Ferrari and Lambos catch on fire. Looks like adhesives are prone to catching on fire for some of these accidents, but others unknown.

https://jalopnik.com/5937499/the-jalopnik-guide-to-burning-s...

For ICE trains, if you buy within one week for that distance you pay 120-150E. But if you buy 2 weeks or more ahead of time there are steep discounts. Prime time likely 80E, I did similar distance for midnight or the 4-5am trains for 30-60E.

Yes. Heard of this too, wasn’t top of mind since I don’t have any nurses as friends.

To a lesser extent, there are some government jobs that gives options for 10hr work days so a person works 4 days per week. Shifting the day off for Monday and Friday and add in a few pto days per month, makes it possible to have nearly a week off work every month.

Of course there is. There’s nothing in my comment or parents comment about forced overtime.

I know many people that are hourly that loves overtime. 1.5x-2x pay means a world of difference to them. Jobs for them ranges from drivers, construction, to programmers. Some are hoarding money for early retirement, just to make more, others are contract basis so earning 2-3x projected amount enables them to take half the year off.

This is to the point where many of these friends loathe to take an exempt job because they know their income will likely be cut in half on the initial transition without raises/promotions.

Sounds like cleanliness of bathroom counts many times more if people use soap.

If using soap and same and having a clean bathroom, paper vs dryer doesn’t matter.

Is this correct?

agree on the latter statements.

definition of words matter, word choice matters to avoid confusion it may cause.

if the original argument is that mostly good/moral people are the gun owners, i wouldn't know where to start on how they got that data, and came to that interpretation as both words are relative.

Law abiding to not law abiding if new law / repeal of amendment happens, and they gave an example of a relavent instance.

Is your argument that you believe most/all law abiding citizens that currently own guns will willing destroy/turn over their guns of new laws pass against ownership?

Looking at reports on Australia it seems the effectiveness on turning in guns was anywhere from 40-80 percent. Effectiveness for prohibited guns was at 70%, so ~30% went from law abiding to not law abiding.

Page 11 of 36 is most of the stats for this: http://faculty.publicpolicy.umd.edu/sites/default/files/reut...

Fixes are obvious, implementing it is the hard part. The propaganda for everyone to get a college degree is ingrained into the system. This sprouted countless for profit colleges charging obscene rates of $20k-$30k per year.

Another obvious fix would be to spread good jobs around the country so we don’t have such concentrated HCOL cities. That’s as easily done as the suggestion of lowering cost of graduation to your sugessted price point. We have an entire political party against free or near free education, which means more taxes to pay for it. I don’t fully disagree with some of their stances. Many degrees don’t provide financial value, and can be learned online or have meet ups to discuss topics. A college degree for a college degree sake is what’s happening to much of the populous.

student loan debt. there are many that graduate with $20k-$100k+ of debt. I'm frugal/cheap, got by with 30k salary in big city a year out of school was tough. Many coworkers that were more normal in spending habits were breaking even or using savings to make ends meet.

At 30k salary, I was able to save $400-$500/month in Boston. It would have been near zero if I had student debt (6%+ interest). Frightening thinking back, but I was always one major repair on my car or mid level health issue away from spending an entire years worth of savings.

definite NO on the converse, and didn't like styles on vans. I have wide feet, so classic looks are out as converse only has them in normal width, same issue with my PF Flyers.

I buy Lems. About $80 for sneaker when on sale. Best fit for me, I have wide feet, and look somewhat normal. They have hiking shoes too.

Think heel striking happens because of the large heels we have have in shoes. I wear zero drop shoes and focus landing on mid/front foot is much easier. Didn’t realize how different my walk is compared to others until my coworker recognized me in a different building because of the way I walk.

Was also told to heel strike by my mom, makes less flopping noise doing so. She has a way of doing what blends in, doesn’t want her kids to be different, the whole largest nail gets hammered.

When a person has a large quantity of money, they have the luxury to disregard money as a factor in their decision making.

That’s how I think OP is interpreting it, not as money is a panacea for a fulling life. But money enables you pursue many things that a person with little money can.

Is 3g usable in your area? My experience with multiple carriers has shown anything less than 4g/lte is near unusable even on simple webpages. This is both in metro areas in the bay area and northeast cities. My speeds go down to what I would have expected from 56k days, those simple webpages (text w/pics, no video) taking 2-5min to load.

It works based on it being redeemable for USD. It says it has frequent audits, but only recent one made public was not considered an audit by their own words. US residents on their legal page and updates is stated to not be legal customers of USDT.

Answered this in another thread that includes citation from their own site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16141938

Fair point. All I was trying to show was that currencies like the Euro or USD has greater than zero energy usage to create/distribute.

I don't think BTC will stay the top crypto if it cannot resolve its current issues (though new ones will come after). Articles like takes stance, whether they know it or not, of this is here to stay for a long time and we need to deal with the ramifications. If that is true, more people are going to work on solving this issue either, or all of, through energy regulation, better hardware, better renewable energy, mass adoption of different coins, or moving to POS (or anything other proof system) instead of POW.

Coindesk did a write up of this.

https://www.coindesk.com/microscope-real-costs-dollar/

Looks like data was taken from places like: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ba...

and rest of the numbers were taking into account of how much each note costs to make.

"The Euro publishes sustainability statistics on their currency, and according to latest estimates, 3 billion banknotes printed in 2003 had an equivalent energy impact of 460,000 60W bulbs switched on for a year, which equates to 240 million kWh, or 0.87 million GJ. With circulation now at 15.8 billion notes, this would scale up to 4.6 million GJ (European Central Bank, 2007). To get to a global figure, for the purposes of this report, I will be multiplying this figure by a factor of four (i.e. a proportional share of global M0/M1 money supply). Therefore, we reach a figure of 18.4 million GJ, which would correspond to almost 3.07 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent."

This is just making a bank note, nothing about cost to distribute (guarding money, banking system, credit system).

As much as I dislike LinkedIn purposely hiding information (this goes for paid and free users), it has been incredible for people with wanted skill sets to connect with possible employers.

It has made a public resume something to be expected instead of a red flag by HR that you’re looking to leave. Only a decade ago it was mostly job boards like Monster/CareerBuilder, and Dice for the Tech focused.

It’s a wealth of information on how companies are structured, and great research material for what accomplishments people have in roles/companies you want to be apart of.

The best time to negotiate is before you start.

John Oliver covered this topic back in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs

It’s a token economy like any fiat currency. The market determines the value. As long as people are willing to exchange something for a token, the token will have value. Tokens can be usd, euro, yen, btc, eth, sea shells, plastic chips (e.g, casino chips).