pilom

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by pilom 2y ago
And how much more expensive is rent in your town because it has 100 fewer units? That is the opportunity cost. Unfortunately, these opportunity costs are not borne by landowners, just by renters. And then when the government charges landown
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by pilom 3y ago
I teach whitewater kayaking and swiftwater rescue with my company https://whitewaterworkshop.com . I started doing it on nights and weekends around a full time tech job and then when COVID hit, demand for outdoor activities skyro
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by pilom 3y ago
Above a certain level I could certainly get behind saying no she's not entitled to it. 100% marginal tax rates above $10 million in annual earnings seem perfectly reasonable to me.
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by pilom 3y ago
Sure they would. The companies would just have to have different ownership models that incentivized more distributed ownership between more people. If we somehow said that no one could own more than $100 million of a company, then for every
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by pilom 4y ago
The key to avoiding lifestyle creep is "pay yourself first". Set up automatic deductions to automatically pull money from your paycheck before it ever gets to your bank account. In the US, you can put $20k per year into a 401k acc
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by pilom 4y ago
I'm going to take your comment at face value and assume a good faith question. There are a couple arguments for higher federal debt levels. Federal Debt doesn't really matter the way a household's debt matters. The debt to GD
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by pilom 4y ago
Passive investing with savings from my tech job. My wife and I earned around 150k per year for 10-12 years but lived happily off of 40-60k per year for that time. The difference went into savings and retirement accounts and now we live off
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by pilom 4y ago
Counterpoint, I'm a whitewater rescue instructor. My students and I are much more likely to see drowning victims than heart attack patients. Compression only CPR doesn't help drowning victims at all so we've had to add a &quo
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by pilom 4y ago
"Buy and dry" is the default outcome. Cities buy the farms nearby, use the farms' water rights and let the fields go dry. Agriculture uses 60-90% of the water in the west depending on river basin. Cities can afford MUCH highe
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by pilom 4y ago
We already do this. In Colorado there are over 50 "Transbasin Diversions" that move water from one river basin to another. Most of them transfer water out of the Colorado River Basin to the east side of the continental divide, usu
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by pilom 4y ago
HN was down?
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by pilom 4y ago
Anything is possible for enough money but I don't think you understand how much money what you're proposing would cost. In electricity alone desalination costs around 3kwh/m^3. 3.7mwh/acre foot of water. Last year we got
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by pilom 4y ago
BCRA mutations: "It’s estimated that 55 – 65% of women with the BRCA1 mutation will develop breast cancer before age 70" [0] ApoE4: "individuals with two versions of the ApoE 4 gene have a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer’s
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by pilom 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology for those interested in learning more.
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by pilom 4y ago
> Health care in the US was cheap before the government got involved in it. Only for those who were healthy and had employer provided insurance. Everyone else either went without or paid through the nose or was dropped as soon as they ac
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by pilom 4y ago
If agriculture uses like 80% of the fresh water, why not just make water a public good and make people pay equal amounts for irrigation water so we stop subsidizing water rich plants like pistachios and almonds and alfalfa. All it requires
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by pilom 4y ago
Charge more. Charge more. Charge more. Every problem you have gets easier if you charge more. Every metric you track will improve if you charge more (including customer satisfaction). Charging more: 1) gets rid of most toxic customers. 2) i
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by pilom 4y ago
A pipeline like this is so naive I can't figure out if the op is serious or not. The cost alone would bankrupt multiple states. For example the Central Arizona Pipeline goes from lake Mead to Tucson. That's it. It cost on the orde
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by pilom 4y ago
Cash app also couldn't file my ev credit correctly. Support was significantly worse than useless. Ended up going with Free Tax USA this year but I've also seen bugs with them.
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by pilom 5y ago
I posted this elsewhere in this thread but it applies here as well: The way the Colorado law is written there is nothing wrong with posting what you think the salary range is and then actually hiring someone outside of that range _if you ca
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by pilom 5y ago
The way the Colorado law is written there is nothing wrong with posting what you think the salary range is and then actually hiring someone outside of that range _if you can justify it_. Someone didn't meet a required skill in the post
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by pilom 5y ago
No Colorado has explicitly called out this practice as illegal. You have to be actually willing to hire someone for that role at that salary.
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by pilom 5y ago
Over a long enough time period index funds are pretty darn secure. The key is the long time period. And since the beginning of records, the inflation adjusted return is around 6-7%.
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Ask HN: Are You Complying with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act?
2 points by pilom 5y ago|1 comments
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by pilom 5y ago
Just a heads up to employers, if you are hiring remote workers and those workers might live in the US state of Colorado, you are required to list a salary with the job posting under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act: https://www.f
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by pilom 5y ago
I started working remotely about 7 years ago. After I'd been with the company for about 3 years they trusted me enough to move into an RV and drive around the country. We took 18 months and drove all over the Western us and parts of Ca
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by pilom 5y ago
I wish the US had some of the options for male sterilization/contraception that are available in India. I've asked my doctor for years about some of the options available in other countries and am always given a blank stare of ign
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by pilom 5y ago
I turneda hobby into a job teaching whitewater kayaking and swiftwater rescue techniques. COVID sent so many people outside that I was able to quit a tech job June 2020 and have been able to do this during the warmer months and play doing o
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by pilom 5y ago
This is really pretty but I personally appreciate the onboarding speed of cfiresim.com much more. Way easier to save multiple models and I can actually understand what the graph is telling me a little easier. I'll be honest, if I'
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by pilom 5y ago
The space station has to add energy almost weekly to overcome drag. If it didn't it would likely come down within a couple years. When they want to throw trash away, they literally just drop it off the side and it burns up eventually:

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