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by throwawayjava 5y ago
B in particular. Products like the Yaris compete on price alone.
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by throwawayjava 5y ago
By the time you finish the product design and manufacturing pipeline the chip shortage will be long over, and the market for a car without any modern amenities is not actually that big.
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
If someone told me I were killing it, I would feel like a 22 year old engineer again and have flashbacks to that one PM who loved my work but who came to work still tripping some Mondays. Glad to be making a key stakeholder happy, but holy
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Doubling down on the tech, no matter what that means quantitatively, would mean qualitatively increasing your bet on the actual product. E.g. you’d fire every last milin if that meant you could keep a LiDAR engineer on staff. Cruise won’t
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
In this case, lower court ruling would stand
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Rural regions get their fair share of wins. E.g., the massive amount of money that is redirected from productive cities into relatively unproductive rural counties, many of which subsist on jobs that would not exist without superfluous mili
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
The "Ethnic and national feuds" section seems like it gets a certain point across: things that seem silly in current context were extraordinarily important cultural touch-points at one point, and could well become so again. E.g.,
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Okay. So, everyone needs to be able to pass MIT's electrodynamics course if they get a degree that requires and electrodynamics course. And without intensive one-on-one and in person tutoring. I'll risk sounding like an asshole or
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
In other countries banks don't make five+ figures on every doctor's education, and their doctors certainly don't make enough to service six figures in education debt. Finance capitalists keep the vicious cycle going. Doctor
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> To clarify: Are all rents in the US monthly and due on the first of the month? Yes, at least in all the markets I'm aware of. If someone moves in after in the middle of a month, you'll pro-rate the rent for that first frac
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Depends on how long the rent goes delinquent. It's not uncommon for the rent to finally show up around the 15th. I used to rent out a property and would typically write the lease so that the rent was due within 5 days of the 1st. I wou
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Everything that you just listed is basically how our current system works. Accredited institutions can issue degrees if you pass their courses. There are various "grades" that bucket people, but as far as getting the degree goes,
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Shelter (rent and "owners' equivalent of rent") are included in the CPI.
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> For instance, if everyone stores several years worth of food and water at home 1. That wouldn't allow us to pause all economic activity. Not even close. Not even remotely close. Notice that 0% of the economic damage caused by co
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> So what? So, people are choosing to go to expensive universities that don't subsidize their tuition. It's a choice, and there are much cheaper options for most of the country. If you're paying $30K in tuition and p
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> If you're a cruise line or a convention service, there's no market Cruise lines are in a rough place. Same as airlines. Lots of convention and vacation related businesses might face a more interesting dynamic. I briefly wor
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> due to an ability to constantly grow markets with cheap oil energy and new markets. But more importantly the US had a lot of power and regulatory oversight to keep it from happening. All of that is no longer the case Growth: emerging
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
$15/hr at mine, although if I include freelancing prior to that it's probably closer to $8. It's kind of nice. My floor is so incredibly low that the "scary times" don't look so scary. CS was a contrarian caree
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
1. 30k/year is REALLY high for tuition. Most state flagships -- which are some of the best universities in the entire world -- aren't that expensive. UIUC, definitely one of the best CS departments in the world, has tuition that&#
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
But it might go away for a year or two, which is enough time to do an incredible amount of economic damage -- far more than what we save by not bailing them out. They don't need to be indispensable. they just need to be critical enough
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Seriously, use your small claims court! I've used small claims 4 times now. Each time, I spent less time with the court than I did with customer service prior to the court. Lesson learned. I ask customer service once, in plain english,
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
And it's not like this is totally unprecedented. That's exactly what we did with banks in 2008.
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Only if you assume perfect liquidity and either 1) a constant or monotonically increasing stock price or else 2) a huge cash reserve such that selling stock at basement prices or taking out highly leveraged loans is never necessary. If a co
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> If students in your program can ask the mentor questions about their problem sets, I highly doubt Duke CS department will allow this. Came to write this. Homework help services were specifically called out in our course policies as a
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Yes, 2 full standard deviations would be the higher (ie, lower) extreme of my "within a std.dev. or two" ballpark. I use that ballpark because I'm told it's (very roughly) the population that my students were randomly se
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
As white collar automation starts to hit hard over the next 5-10 years, the number of desk jobs will massively decline. Also, most of the remaining people who work desk jobs will be doing some sort of programming. > I refuse to bow to t
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
As it is, insurance companies are both not insuring against it and also teeing up to massively increase rates [1]. Why only dip once when you can dip twice? [1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/26&#x
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
The fundamental conceit of csrankings.org is right in the name. US News (and anyone else) does just as good a job. And always will. You can matter have your measurement gamed. Or you can measure in obscurity. Or you can matter and not measu
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Those are called taxis.
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
> The pros think that demand is going down due to economic activity Does that make any sense? Do people eat fewer grains when economic activity goes down?

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