thatfrenchguy

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by thatfrenchguy 3d ago
Single stage forced air / air handlers AC systems are basically only found in North America because they are so grossly inefficient and because most people in the rest of the world realize they can save money by not having all of their
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by thatfrenchguy 3d ago
US person is a tax definition, folks without permanent residency that meet the substantial presence test are also US people. For immigration purposes you use resident alien / nonresident alien.
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by thatfrenchguy 4d ago
We do tax gross 1% of wealth, it’s called property taxes. Only applies to middle class folks in their 30s though.
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by thatfrenchguy 4d ago
We’re like, a lot richer than before the GFC in California though.
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by thatfrenchguy 21d ago
H-1B / L-1 are non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas are green cards yes. Pausing green card processing in consulates after (on sketchy legal grounds) forcing folks to not do adjustment of status for getting an immigrant visa inside the
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by thatfrenchguy 1mo ago
> Take "Medicare-level payments to providers". Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance. So doing this would require either layoffs, cutting salaries for doctors/nurses&#x2F
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by thatfrenchguy 1mo ago
The fact that everyone in your peer group does it (looking at you, people who are faking research paper contributions by high schoolers) does not mean that it is a criteria for actual college admissions.
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by thatfrenchguy 1mo ago
I mean, marginally, any data center (or mall, house, but the numbers involved are smaller) you'll build in Texas is going to be a lot of tons of CO2 just from their added marginal power consumption
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by thatfrenchguy 2mo ago
You don’t get fingerprints collected on departure, just on arrival. Unless you go through automated gates maybe?
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by thatfrenchguy 2mo ago
Cardiac events from Apple Watches is not “AI” though
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
Even for upper middle class parents, "using a screen as a babysitter" just means you're more stressed and have less hands around. My kiddo has not seen a screen at the age of 2, but that's just because he has two parents
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
> 100 years old It’s 2026, they’re more like 140 year old by now :) > now crammed full of people and cars Funnily enough, if you look at the 1950 census, in every single building I have lived in in San Francisco, there were more peopl
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
This is an issue in other cities that don’t have prop 13 fwiw, the United States just does not do redevelopment barring a few poor inner neighborhoods getting gentrified by foreclosures in like Houston or Dallas. That’s the natural conseque
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
Consequences for American car executives, are you crazy? Have you seen Stellantis cars recently? Large parts of the US (and European most likely) car industry is driving straight into irrelevance
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
It is though, like, 90-95% of suburbia, and why the US has close to 100% of car commuters ( https://vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/ ). Even small cities like Rennes (or even Clermont-Ferrand, which has objectively mediocre
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
Folks did not have kids during WW1 though: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalité_en_France#/media/Fich... :)
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by thatfrenchguy 3mo ago
Yeah, the main issue with differential privacy is that you need competent government officials making decisions who understand math beyond a high school level.
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by thatfrenchguy 4mo ago
Selective layoffs vs arbitrary people having to leave the country have very different consequences
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by thatfrenchguy 4mo ago
> The law does have immigrant visas for people who can come here and say "I want to work here and seek permanent residency. I'm not intending to go back." H1B isn't like that. you are, obviously, interpreting the law
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by thatfrenchguy 4mo ago
I mean, the issue is that a large number H1B folks have vital skills for the US economy and that even just 20% of those leaving would mean every single big tech company would be in immense trouble
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by thatfrenchguy 4mo ago
I mean, both GDP and average salaries in Czechia is higher so arguably at some point you might want playgrounds for your children
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by thatfrenchguy 5mo ago
Compared to cost of living though?
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by thatfrenchguy 5mo ago
You essentially have no data to back this up though, especially given the filed H1B/L-1 labor data for big tech is first year of employement with only base salary, which bears no ressemblance to what their wages will be even just 3 yea
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
> There's a 5 hour limit and a weekly limit. Those are hard token limits I mean, humans sleep and do other things than work, so they likely don’t hit their weekly limits or their 5 hour limits every single 5 hour chunk :)
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
That’s because you use the button to make them whole screen?
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
I had to go look at my Costco and Amazon orders to check because my intuition was that I spent so much more money in diapers in the first year and indeed, that was like ~75% of the cost of the first two years. Toddlers get changed so much l
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
Yeah, but you can hunt for discounts to reduce that bill quite a bit
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
Eh, you have to wash poop off them in a washer at high temps, so it’s a bit harder to compute. IIRC if you use the dryer it’s a wash: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c4096ed915...
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by thatfrenchguy 6mo ago
Hard to say how much money you’ve saved because running the washer and dryer is not free though :)
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by thatfrenchguy 7mo ago
Sales tax in the US is nowhere near 25% :)

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