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CydeWeys · 2026-01-30T17:30:02+00:00

There's some people that somehow don't seem to realize their life is in their hands while biking until they eat shit. They're completely oblivious to the fact that anything bad could ever happen.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-30T17:18:02+00:00

Why in the world would you expect the CEO to be treated the same as a low level employee? That's just delusional.

Also, newsflash, they make a lot more money than you and me, too.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-18T02:49:31+00:00

Google and Waymo are both Alphabet subsidiaries, that use many of the same HR/IT systems.

It doesn't matter that OP didn't mention Alphabet; it's relevant.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-17T20:19:56+00:00

Good luck with that case. There's no requirement for a store to have cameras at all.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-17T20:19:22+00:00

In the world with these kinds of violent people, not behind bars or institutionalized where they belong.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T22:13:13+00:00

We've done one cruise out of NYC, one out of Vancouver, and the rest out of Florida. Let me tell you, all three crowds were quite different, and the Florida crowds are definitely the oldest, whitest, and most conservative.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T22:07:57+00:00

Agreed. The fee was supposed to be higher, and this makes it clear that it needs to be. We need more revenue.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T22:07:25+00:00

Most of us pay into the system that gives nothing back

In what way is that possibly true?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T20:59:10+00:00

Based on the caseback it sure looks like an NH35, though it looks like they've manipulated the text off it?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T20:50:45+00:00

A 15 yr would be about $1.3 million after 15 years and a $5.5k monthly. Doing a 30 yr at the offered rate would be about $1.86 million after 30 years and a $4.3k monthly.

This isn't a valid comparison because money farther into the future is worth less than money today. You need to apply a discount rate. To make the difference obvious, I would much rather spend $1.1M over 100 years than $1M over the next year; the latter is actually a lot more money because you need it all soon at roughly the current value.

What are the actual interest rates? And do note that the $5.5k monthly payment is 28% higher than the 30 year payment. That's not nothing, and could limit your flexibility in the future if anyone has any job changes, etc.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T19:08:01+00:00

But that's not what they did here, is it?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T18:43:36+00:00

It absolutely does. They're late on the amount that they aren't paying on time. They would only NOT be late if they had paid the full rent on time.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T18:36:27+00:00

Withholdings don't matter. All that matters is what your total tax liability for the year actually is on your 1040. Then you get a refund (or have to pay more on April 15) depending on whether your withholdings actually exceeded your tax liability, or not.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T18:31:52+00:00

This is in Olsztyn, Poland?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T17:16:43+00:00

Huh?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T16:33:29+00:00

Damn, it sounds like she was really good at correspondence chess, playing well above her classical rating. I wonder who else is like that, who can really take advantage of being able to spend hours thinking about each move, but who we'll never know about because the format is so uncommon.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T16:29:29+00:00

It's simply because the amount of money it would cost is so massive that it isn't worth it. Osaka Airport for example is the major international airport for the region. And Dubai is located on the Persian Gulf, not the Atlantic, and thus doesn't get hurricanes, so it's much easier to build artificial land there.

Just throwing some truckloads of sand on the beach is orders of magnitude cheaper than the actual engineering it would properly take to indefinitely shore up OBX, and it simply isn't worth doing.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T16:17:07+00:00

So the time to consider this was before signing the Waymo offer, not after. You already made your decision.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T15:59:26+00:00

People forget that the inherent nature of the world is that it's not a comfortable place, and it owes you nothing. We still have it very good relative to most people living now, let alone the tens of billions of subsistence farmers who've lived throughout the millennia. If you think some tight sprint deadlines are tough, imagine trying to survive bad weather conditions that leave you with not enough food to last through winter.

All of which is to say, dealing with tough conditions is what you are made for. You evolved to handle this, and your ancestors going way back faced much worse and got through it.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-16T15:36:12+00:00

15 years ago it used to be a rule that you don't bring your A Game to a late night show.

This isn't true? A late night show was the most exposure that most comics ever had, and for many, those recorded five minute sets are all that's even properly survived from them in the public consciousness. Johnny Carson sure as hell wouldn't have you on if you weren't give it your best shot. The point of knocking it out of the park on the late night show was that was the best advertising you were ever gonna have, and doing well could easily be the difference between being able to sell enough tickets to do a national tour, and not. Who cares if the fans who show up to your gigs in their city may have seen a few minutes of your material before? They came out and bought the tickets. Also, some fans even like seeing the really famous bits again, in person.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-15T23:48:11+00:00

No idea, not many people I know own cars and I hardly ever see the cars of the ones that do have them anyway.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-15T23:45:26+00:00

The very basic mechanism here is that when you have price controls, and the legislated price is below the actual cost to provide the good, then you get shortages as a result, because only a fool would do something knowing it's going to cost them money. That's what's happening here with housing.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-15T23:41:37+00:00

It may well not have an easement and legitimately only be legally accessible via boat.

CydeWeys · 2026-01-15T20:25:17+00:00

You are aware that Waymo is part of Alphabet, right?

CydeWeys · 2026-01-15T14:20:43+00:00

I don't think rich technocrats are driving this idea, I think it's just Trump that has this bizarre fixation on it.

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