ssmoot

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by ssmoot 10y ago
So I just checked out some crash videos on YouTube. The Model S appears to have a surprisingly small crumple zone. That's just my layman's perspective, but take a look and see if you don't agree. The front readily collapses,
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by ssmoot 10y ago
In addition to the engine going under the vehicle (even at fairly low speed crashes; just watch NHSTA videos on YouTube), the front motor in a Model S is more dense and weighs about the same as a 4 cylinder engine, transmission and accessor
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That really depends on the fuel cell doesn't it?
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Thanks for correcting me. I could've sworn I saw annual maximums when I looked on healthcare.gov but maybe I mistook the max out of pocket for a max annual. The example I used is the case presented in the video. I just googled for Bob
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by ssmoot 10y ago
There's still annual maximums, in-network coverage, PMO, HMO, etc. The minimums can be pretty basic. It looks like the ACA doesn't really do anything to change the picture for a $474,000 medical bill. The guy got charged $39 each
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by ssmoot 10y ago
No. I don't. I mean that they had the most important safety net of all: Family with the will and ability to help financially. I'm genuinely curious what financial life lessons you think a middle class kid is learning that a poor
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I know middle income people spending their money on craft beer on the weekend and not participating in their company 401K. Or living effectively paycheck to paycheck. They may have "disposable" income, but only in the sense that t
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> The fact of the matter is, people make bad choices. People who make bad choices are more likely to be poor. Lack of impulse control is extremely prevalent in poor communities. Like the GP, I was poor, I know poor people, and 95% of the
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by ssmoot 10y ago
BTW, your post didn't get the attention I'd hoped, but THANK YOU for "fighting the good fight". IMO this stuff is more important than any technical choice you could possibly make. And I happen to think some technical c
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Like the Agile Manifesto it's all about balance (IME). One of the (many) ways I failed as a manager was to not trust my gut. To want to enable my team, even when what I thought they were pitching was questionable. I'd hoped that s
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by ssmoot 10y ago
+1. I'm talking to you Sharon! I'm tired of getting your loan application details and RNC propaganda delivered to my inbox. I'm just as annoyed at companies that don't bother with any kind of email confirmation click-thr
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Just looked at the rails documentation for the first time in years. It's drastically improved. My experience with earlier versions was that you kinda had to piece it together yourself. Learning Play Framework was 10X easier for me sinc
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by ssmoot 10y ago
There's nothing I love more than a long thread of point-by-point rebuttals, but I think I'll leave this one alone for once. ;-) If you like what you're doing, more power to you. I picked up Ruby because I thought it showed pr
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I think I'd blocked out the pain of dealing with mutable strings. :-) We were a pretty enthusiastic bunch back in the day. Glad to hear you're still pushing things forward.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
You nailed it. HABTM just never worked, and there was little interest in making it work. Since I handed out commit-access like candy, the majority of contributions were to endlessly refactor. Or do things like letting you treat a CSV file a
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I'd suggest Play Framework and abandoning the idea of O/R Mapping entirely. Once you grok pattern matching you'll never want to see another Ruby case statement again. Once you compose a pipeline of functions you'll find
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by ssmoot 10y ago
The idea that DM wasn't a DataMapper is misguided. Check out: https://github.com/datamapper/dm-core/blob/0.9.0.1/lib/data_... The convenience methods were just wrappers. Earlier versions were e
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I lost interest in DM mostly because of my open-commit-access policy. I mismanaged the project horribly. Just because something was called "Session" (ala Hibernate) instead of "Unit of Work", people would claim it wasn&#
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Best estimate I can find, her flight cost her work about $20,000 round-trip. I think we're upper-middle-class-ish, but there's no way we could justify chartering a jet for a family vacation if it costs as much as a car (a smaller
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's not really a good comparison. You might as well say driving is within reach for most people. You can drive at 70MPH. Windspeed doesn't impact you. The Cesna will cruise at ~140MPH. Windspeed might delay your arrival to the
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by ssmoot 10y ago
The Falcon 2000 she flew on this morning is about 1/3 the weight and fuel load of the SWA 737 she might have otherwise. I'm not sure what's unreasonable about the comparison. If the TSA were actually necessary, it would seem
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by ssmoot 10y ago
My wife drove up to a private jet this morning. Got on. Took off. No TSA. Holding the "pleebs" to a higher standard than the rich is unconscionable IMO.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure how else they'd be showing up in my library under "Recently Added" then. I didn't specifically create any new playlists or anything and it's just the songs I "hearted&quo
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by ssmoot 10y ago
You just made my day. Thanks! And wow... Discoverability--
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's actually the "Up Next" list I was referring to. Not History.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I use it every day. It pretty much does those things. The little Heart button is your "remember the current song". The really confusing/annoying thing for me is there's no history AFAIK. So no looking up the previous son
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> To me, if you don't care enough to take time to vote as it is, you probably don't know the issues, and you probably shouldn't vote. Or maybe you live in a state where your vote doesn't matter because it's not a
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> Nobody thinks it's ok to drive with a BAC of 0.4 but 0.04 is generally considered legal. Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I think it's reasonable to assume it's legal because most people (including me) feel it&#
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Since testing positive just means that you might have used anytime in the past month or so, that's not meaningful. The study linked in the article confirms that yes, according to the evidence seen, marijuana significantly impairs drivi
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I feel like you didn't even read the article. Here's the summary of the linked study: > Differences in study designs frequently account for inconsistencies in results between studies. Participant-selection bias and confounding

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