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by hardtke 3mo ago
Even the scaled score is not that informative (and perhaps crosses the line on age discrimination) because for older workers the population of people taking the SAT was much smaller as a percentage of high school grads (and presumably weigh
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by hardtke 4mo ago
In some states (California being one) the original mortgage on a house purchase is non-recourse. This means that the bank cannot come after your personal assets in the event of default. Yes your credit gets dinged but the leverage of a hom
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by hardtke 4mo ago
Former Pandora employee. The music recommendation team was amazing when I worked there, and the use of global song frequency capping across seeds helps prevent too much repetition at a user level but I agree on the genre bleed. They may h
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by hardtke 5mo ago
Phish gives people a code that lets them access the show they attend on livephish.com without a subscription. You can subscribe and get access to all of the shows. I think livephish.com is run by and/or shares the same platform as nu
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by hardtke 6mo ago
We rarely discuss the primary source of health care cost differences in the United States -- US doctors get paid a lot more than elsewhere. I haven't seen a credible proposal to address that. Most of the salary difference can be blam
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by hardtke 9mo ago
One of the issues the article doesn't mention is that these houses are effectively cheaper to purchase for corporate owners. Generally they can borrow money at a lower rate, but the ability of corporate owners to use depreciation on a
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by hardtke 10mo ago
If you want to understand the state of these industries I highly recommend reading "How contracting because a race to the bottom"[0]. The crux of the problem is that unlicensed/uninsured firms will always undercut "quali
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by hardtke 11mo ago
It does. I have a Ford CMax from 2014. For years, when the SiriusXM radio software update would happen it would get stuck downloading. The geniuses at Ford decided the update should continue trying to complete even if the car was turned
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by hardtke 1y ago
There is a half cent sales tax in BART counties, 75% of which goes to BART.
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by hardtke 1y ago
The numbers are here [1]. BART generates about $300M in revenue and gets $500M in "financial assistance," of which $320M is sales tax revenue. [1] https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09&#x
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by hardtke 1y ago
If I am reading this correctly, Google is now required to syndicate their search text ads to "Qualified Competitors." This is important as it will allow companies to monetize AI answers and other search replacements without needin
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by hardtke 1y ago
It's already almost happened with Plenty of Fish. Mostly a one person company, acquired for over $500M.
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by hardtke 2y ago
Estate tax valuations of assets should be made public, particularly the taxed value of professional sports franchises. We know that NFL teams are worth $6+ billion dollars, and seeing the billionaire owner families pay tax on 1/10th o
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by hardtke 3y ago
The supply of doctors in the US is primarily limited by the number of residency slots. Unlike many countries, foreign medical graduates can't practice here without doing a residency. I think the number of residency slots is kept low
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by hardtke 3y ago
This is why it is dangerous to think that the best scientific theories always prevail and that science is a meritocracy. The people invited to give talks are usually well known or have connections with the program committees. There is al
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by hardtke 3y ago
Not directly related to cars, but PG&E is unable to handle the incoming requests for electrical system upgrades[1]. Many older houses don't have the electrical panel capacity and they need engineering signoff from the utility. [1]
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by hardtke 3y ago
My brother is a contractor in the Bay Area and he told me that PG&E will not allow the installation of 220 volt EV charging infrastructure in new construction or a home remodel unless the homeowner can prove they already own an EV. Add
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by hardtke 3y ago
A totally legitimate use case for crypto is moving money into countries that have bogus official exchange rates (e.g. Argentina). I've got multiple friends that hire developers in Argentina and pay them using crypto in order to avoid
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by hardtke 4y ago
I've probably driven half a million miles and I don't remember having 10 incidents (I probably have, just don't remember). So I'd conclude I'm at least as safe a driver as Waymo. Even if not true, most people are g
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by hardtke 4y ago
The same "Builder's Remedy" kicked in last year in many Southern California cities when they missed similar deadlines, and as far as I know it has led to approximately (if not exactly) zero new construction.
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by hardtke 4y ago
To be clear, my place is not on any listing service. Purely family and friends, I never rent it. I tell everyone "the cleaners are supposed to come but leave it so that if they don't the next person is not grossed out."
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by hardtke 4y ago
I have a ski cabin (not on AirBnB) and I don't think most people realize how difficult it is to get these places cleaned reliably. You can hire a very expensive cleaning service that brings in their own sheets and towels, but it'
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by hardtke 4y ago
I somewhat disagree. The key to profitability in the audio space is moving listeners from pay-per-stream content (music) to owned content (podcasts, shows, etc.). For that latter costs are fixed even as listenership grows. The only profit
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by hardtke 4y ago
Is it completely normal on HN to comment on articles you haven't read and to freely admit so?
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by hardtke 4y ago
Exactly -- have any of the houses in Santa Monica actually been built?
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by hardtke 4y ago
Monsanto is facing something similar with Glysophate. I think their playbook was to make the prospect of appeals so long that most of the plantiffs would never see the money, at which point most agreed to be part of a large comprehensive s
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The Stern-Gerlach Experiment Paper [First English Translation](arxiv.org)
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by hardtke 4y ago
I hate to be contrarian, but can civil service worker protections coexist with remote work? WFH works well when there is accountability for the quality and quantity of your work (you can be fired for not performing), but with the drawn out
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by hardtke 4y ago
23% is what is in the bill as the initial starting rate.
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by hardtke 4y ago
The rate seems to be 23%, and given that this is only a sales tax this would mean the federal government is taxing at maybe 10-15% of GDP. If I remember correctly, federal government expenditures are around 30% of GDP.

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