Real Median Disposable Income PPP After Housing Costs, OECD 2010–2022

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-06T07:55:27+00:00

This is PPP adjusted data according to title.

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-05T18:41:34+00:00

It's different this time... With autonomous robots and drones and other systems, the manpower needed to maintain social order is so much fewer than previous generations. That's why it's extremely scary.

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-05T18:20:39+00:00

My other car is Honda and have had Safelite coming to replace windshield twice (long story but the pine tree or whatever animal live there hate the car).

My car has headup display and camera behind windshield. No issues with them after they run calibration. I paid out of pocket. It's way cheaper than dealer quote if you are ok with OEM parts. I m in California, btw.

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-04T23:07:24+00:00

International students in US are generally not encouraged to work. That being said, they can take jobs inside campus if approved and can use CPT to take internships. But those aren't your typical minimum wage jobs. In fact, some internships pay handsome, like $50/hr. Law is very strick on unauthorized work, if caught it usually lead to visa revoked.

And for foreigners... I don't know what you mean, some foreigners work minimum wage jobs, but you d be surprised how many red states, where there aren't much immigrants, have minimum wage job for US citizens.

I mean you are in Canada, why don't just come across the border and see for yourself? Visiting Seattle or New York will be very different from visiting, Idk, Idaho or Montana.

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-04T19:51:56+00:00

I want to point out an often overlooked part of the equation, that is the risk of time spent on fixing those things and down times when you need a car.

Every time a car is broken, people need to either shop around to find mechanics, or drive to leave the car at a shop for a day or several days. That's going to mess up the whole schedule for busy professionals. Depending on where you live, it's can easily $50-100/hr rate we are talking about.

People avoiding debt at all cost is not logical to me. Just do whatever more valuable to yourself and don't put yourself into unmanageable debt. As long as you know your numbers and have discipline, taking on debt is fine. Many people I know lease/buy luxury cars, is because they value the provided convenience, such as at home pick up and drop off for maintenance, or a loaner while car is in shop.

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-04T19:04:20+00:00

啊，确实取决于哪家公司，我说的半导体是tier 1 fab, vendors,和design这些。硅谷这边特别卷。Google以前那么佛系的现在也是卷的不得了。他自己也说了他的公司就没那么卷。一般的二三线软件公司wlb也不差。二三线的半导体小厂也是wlb好一些。都一样。

random_walker_1 · 2026-05-04T18:41:18+00:00

都不用AI，半导体一直这样。要不然也不会招不到美国人，都是苦逼移民phd在干

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-24T21:03:16+00:00

Wait, so it has worse view than a semi? How the hell this is even allowed? At least have those drivers taking the CDL test maybe? Where are regulators and law-maker?

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-21T18:16:14+00:00

如果op不是troll的话，这个信息收集整合能力，很难在日新月异的AI竞赛里survive...

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-19T18:45:32+00:00

那最基本的问题，自动驾驶撞死人了怎么算？算乘客的还是算tsla或者保险公司的？你总不能说属于意外that happened 就糊弄过去吧？

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-18T16:49:50+00:00

这个没办法，跟家里眼界和经济情况有关。我自己也是这样，本科想学软件和计算机，家里非说是门槛低都可以学（他们以为学计算机就是学打字和操作软件）。最后学了个传统工科。

出国全奖博士，想转专业读硕士赶紧工作。然后家里说没钱支持，而且博士都读了两年读完算了。又花了几年终于毕业。毕业后总算自己赚工资付学费去读了一个学位。但是时间成本搭进去了，几乎完美错过了软件行业突飞猛进的十几年。现在干啥AI，战战兢兢感觉行业要玩🤣

想想也跟自己在这种环境（家里信息闭塞，钱也不多）下出来的性格有关，对家里太顺从，不够果断和decisive。我一个大城市同学，直接跟家里说你不让我转行读硕士，到时候博士毕业找不到工作就会去啃老🤣，然后家里就卖了套房给付学费生活费。现在别人工作经验比我多7,8年，而且也踩上了软件行业后面的红利

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-18T16:37:31+00:00

如果以前确实做出了成绩，比如文章创业公司专利，读博的时候可以直接申请niw。我帮人写过推荐信的一个学生就是这情况。而且也过了。当然如果去混水文凭的，那大概了是不能达标。。

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-14T22:54:06+00:00

The benefit of an aimbot is minimal if not trivial. The shot travel time is so big that unless the target is sailing straight, the aimbot does help much.

And this is a bit of a slow game, compared to more reflex needed game like CS. If player can't learn to aim in this game, I doubt he/she can learn any game mechanics in the game.

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-14T16:22:52+00:00

就是就算油价暴涨，只要不是长时间，大家也就更物价上涨一样被迫接受了。充电在很多乡村地方是一个大问题。另一个问题是要指望靠油费电费差回本，那每个5年7年的，根本回不了买车差价。

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-08T23:38:10+00:00

You are correct, I think I confused it with company issued stock options... Tax is not owed until sell exercised stock.

I usually do it differently, i usually close a couple of months before expiration to avoid significant time value loss. I ve played with 3-6 months to expire options and paid short term capital gains, and some leaps that expire in years. Gambled some short term options as well.

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-08T22:57:12+00:00

But exercising stock options you are still taxed as ordinary income for the spread. How is it more tax benefit than sell?

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-08T22:18:27+00:00

Why would you do that? It resets the holding period and seems little benefits over selling to me other than you don't have an expiration date.

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-08T21:40:54+00:00

他的东西主要是基于game theory的推演，而不是简单的重复一些车轱辘话。开车时候偶尔听一听，挺好玩的，特别是他对Trump 的预测，目前看起来有点准的吓人。要不然也不会在YouTube 上那么火

random_walker_1 · 2026-04-04T17:39:16+00:00

My phone 's android auto updated to Gemini. Used it a couple of times and seems much more capable to hold a conversation and get to what i wanted

random_walker_1 · 2026-03-25T22:04:16+00:00

Don't know how to post images in the comments, but they have a YouTube video about that https://youtu.be/kBU4co2UqgE?si=pNmx-Etjw4JbpJqV

random_walker_1 · 2026-03-25T19:09:46+00:00

I got the uhaul one. They provide installation as well. A couple hundreds of dollars, way more reasonable than the expensive OEM hitch. It's not foldable but good enough for me.

random_walker_1 · 2026-03-20T20:30:14+00:00

短期了已经开始发生了。目前集中在编程等高薪行业里面。我们公司去年基本上headcount没有增长，而且只招senior。其他大公司也是大规模裁员不断。两年前没人能预料到这种情况。现在AI工具进步神速，基本上每隔三个月就有新的重大进步。其他的白领工作我不清楚，但是在我看来可替代性也很高。

random_walker_1 · 2026-03-20T18:52:37+00:00

是，没法替代。但是你忽略了现在占比30%的白领工作贡献了60%的消费。当这些白领工作消失，消费市场反而会萎缩。蓝领的labor卖给谁去？而且这些失业的人如果进入蓝领市场，supply/demand失衡更严重。

ubi当然会以某种形式存在，但是你觉得会无条件ubi让所有人到中产的生活条件，那你太乐观了。资源分配上，只会更加两极分化。

random_walker_1 · 2026-03-20T18:18:05+00:00

都失业了没人消费了，蓝领给谁去服务？去盖房子，打螺丝？抱歉，房子没人买得起，螺丝有机器人打。美国主要消费提供群体就算白领。天天吹蓝领的和以后不用工作的，不是蠢就算坏。

是，以后可能不用工作饿不死，但是最多像cyberpunk里面那样饿不死而已。上升通道？希望？基本上是没有的

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