scottm01

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Comment · 1 month ago
The Cayenne seems to need about 315Wh / mile. I assume a substantial number of them are sold in California, where rates are often above $0.50/kw. I think $1.50 would get you about 9 miles.

I drive a more efficient PHEV and spend much more than $1.50/day.

Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
There's literally an ad on the front page right now for a YC startup hiring engineers to protect patient privacy. Follow the link? The company exists to better sell ads based on patient data (but in a "compliant" manner).
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Check out Devspace: https://devspace.sh/

Gives you a fairly slick "hot reload" experience in k8s (minikube-created or not).

Comment · 4 years ago
> What is your opinion?

My opinion? Read less financial "news". Focus on what you can control and don't try to time the market. Build an emergency fund if you don't have one, then invest in broad market funds and focus on earning money.

If you knew for certain there was a crash coming, you would still have to time the market a second time to get back in before the recovery, which will also come.

Comment · 4 years ago
Adding to the chorus. I used LastPass until 2018. I received a similar email from LastPass (and had forgotten that I never got around to actually deleting the account after I migrated).

My master password was a long multi word phrase with numbers and special characters, and was not used for anything except LastPass. I find their claims of credential stuffing suspect.

Edit -- Also had MFA enabled and received the email in November.

Comment · 5 years ago
As long as we're giving personal anecdotes, I lived in the mission (the "good side" near dolores park) for 8 years and experienced most of that list. I was physically assaulted last fall while walking back from Noe Valley at 2pm in the afternoon. Nobody answered the police non emergency number while I followed the assailant (who threw a right hook that I only partially dodged as he walked past me on the street).

Sure, you get better at dodging feces and ignoring the drug use, littering, and theft, but let's not pretend it's confined to "downtown, the tenderloin, soma, etc".

I've lived and worked in Manhattan and DC, and spent time in many international cities. I've walked all over all of them, and never felt less safe than I regularly did walking to work in soma.

SF has a unique political situation, a climate that makes homelessness "bearable" and a huge number of absentee landlords (thanks, Prop 13).

We were sad to move out in January. SF is a gorgeous city filled with kind, interesting people. "Horrible dystopia" is certainly an exaggeration, but the situation is bad and has gotten much worse in the past few years.

Comment · 5 years ago
>A portfolio of that size will easily throw off 500k in dividends a year.

Where are you "easily" getting 5% dividends? Are those mythical W2 boomers suddenly into sketchy crypto "funds"?

Vanguards "Dividend Growth" fund is yielding 1.71%. Total stock 1.33%

Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you, dang!
Comment · 6 years ago
Agreed and clearly we start infringing on pretty basic american rights if we wait until summer to stop convening jury's.

That said, reasonable people are avoiding being in closer quarters with sub-1000 people, and it seems like some assurance besides "call if you're so symptomatic you should see a doctor" might be prudent until a little more is known about the virus.

Maybe I'm just salty that I have jury duty this week (:

Comment · 6 years ago
But hey if you were selected for jury duty come on down to the courthouse!

https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/divisions/jury-services/jury...

(To be fair, this morning they added a note saying call first if you are "experiencing any acute respiratory illness")

Comment · 6 years ago
Fidelity also offers this in a "Cash Management Account" which you can tie to a brokerage account. It's possible to maintain a $0 balance in the cash account and use margin or some funds (generally money market) to cover each debit. Works great. I wouldn't be interested in a system that automatically sold equities from a taxable account; too volatile and too likely to cause a tax nightmare.

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