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by gbronner 4y ago
This is an unfortunate outcome: under the argument offered by the company, they can lower your salary, and you can choose whether or not to take it. If you keep working, you have a new job at a new salary. Under the employee's theory,
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by gbronner 4y ago
Can SBF's parents house be sold on the open market? I was under the impression that you could only sell on-campus Stanford houses to other Stanford affiliated people?
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by gbronner 4y ago
At least when I went to one, I generally had no idea who had generational wealth (there were a few with famous names), and there weren't obvious ways to show it off; the University had so much money itself that everything was free or n
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by gbronner 4y ago
Perfect price discrimination raises the maximum amount of revenue, but tends to rub perlite the wrong way
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by gbronner 4y ago
I had not worked with cobol until recently. If you have a solid background in C, it is not very hard to learn. It seems to show up at older companies, and is fairly good at moving and reformatting records where you want to address each fie
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by gbronner 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagvGTyEMUA An axe and a broadaxe and a chalk line (though people originally just used charcoal). Making beams is not that hard, especially if you have lots of wood and not a lot to do in the
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by gbronner 4y ago
If you happen to have a bunch of high-quality logs on-site, you can get a portable sawmill to come to you. My estimate was that about $1500 worth of rental and labor yielded $5000 worth of rough-sawn custom timber, and the economics got sli
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by gbronner 4y ago
Balloon framing requires: chop tree -> haul log to sawmill -> cut logs extensively -> haul dimensional timber to warehouse -> haul to customer. That's great if you have a train and good roads, but if you are in the middle
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by gbronner 4y ago
The author fails to connect the dots: 1) Nails were expensive. Timber framing does not require any nails -- it uses dowels which can be made cheaply with a drawknife. 2) Unlike @simonsarris' wood, most wood available to post and beam
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by gbronner 4y ago
I don't think they the games are rigged. Fifa did a lot better than pro wrestling, and there's a reason for that. Likewise, 7/8 group winners defeated the #2s in the round of 16. But the lower ranked teams have excelled in ge
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by gbronner 4y ago
Isn't it absolutely amazing that VCs are willing to pay you 4 months worth of income to do absolutely nothing?
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by gbronner 4y ago
I've written skills for them. The issue is that as a skill writer, you have to pay for all the CPU usage, even when almost all the benefits accrue to amazon. Not nice.
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by gbronner 4y ago
Originally, the tokens were just a mechanism for low friction money transfers. As such, they have utility and thus value, but the value is somewhat arbitrary.
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by gbronner 4y ago
The issue, which is similar to how alcohol is mis regulated, is that the legislatures machines returns either to the states general funds (ny) or to the companies and their lobbyists and politicians (ks) They should have maximized happiness
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by gbronner 4y ago
I had the same issue with Beepi. Had a friend who worked there -- I got the sense that complying with a bunch of interstate car sales was rather tricky and they often had issues getting through the state DMVs.
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by gbronner 4y ago
The concept is great. But the volatility in the used car market has been historically unprecedented, and there's no easy way for them to hedge this. As an FYI, I sold a car this spring for 8% over what I paid for it 6 years prior, i.
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by gbronner 4y ago
Still rediscovering 19th century finance.
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by gbronner 4y ago
There's an occupied one on my block. They have to move fairly often, but it is cheaper than rent!
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by gbronner 4y ago
Go Sonja! It would be nice if cities could have rent controls or zoning but not both-it would eliminate a lot of conflicts over building new housing
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by gbronner 4y ago
If you have an apartment that hasn't turned over for 20+ years, you can either rerent it at a low text and get sued by your tenant for lead or habitability violations, or you can borrow money and invest it at less than 2% in a renovati
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by gbronner 4y ago
loans are underwritten based on both the intrinsic value of the house and your ability to repay. You can't predict that second one years in advance. You can get a floating rate loan, however, it if you want your payments to follow the
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by gbronner 4y ago
The idea that you can transfer excess wealth intertemporally and safely is something of a lie.
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by gbronner 4y ago
If the design is good, this should be cost effective unless the canal requires maintenance. The footings are there, there are no pesky weeds to grow and block the canal, the workers probably don't have to worry as much about rattlesnak
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by gbronner 4y ago
The issue is that he's going to be trying to maximize his chance for a win, and not his expected points. So the model likely underestimates his chance of success
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by gbronner 4y ago
Exactly. The costs of discovery are high and assymetric. A decent lawyer can legally cause a defendant to run up a monster bill long before this gets anywhere near a trial. It is legal extortion.
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by gbronner 4y ago
From personal experience, the new automatics are better than manuals. I found going from a 5 speed to a 6 speed annoying -- it added a lot more shifts. After 26 years of driving a manual, my car got totaled and I pretty much had to get on
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by gbronner 4y ago
Lots of highly opinionated clickwarriors in this comments section. Free time brought to you, almost certainly, by having relatively few kids.
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by gbronner 4y ago
It would be nice if rad power could get their fees paid for this obviously frivolous law suit, but they will probably settle because the steinsapirs can run up the costs way beyond any reasonable jury verdict
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by gbronner 4y ago
Cars, especially in the first few years, are extremely reliable. So a less reliable new car is still amazing when compared to a 15 year old beater.
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by gbronner 4y ago
We've inadvertently created substantial cost advantages for REITS: * Assuming that they never sell, they never pay capital gains taxes. Meanwhile, if I move and sell, I get hit now. * Ability to cross-collateralize a bunch of houses l

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