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Bad luck is real, but after 30 years of experiences, there is a difference between hard workers and everyone else. As 'unfair' as we want to believe, over and over, I've seen hardw…

I wonder about how you calculate this. I make 125k/yr, cost of living is less than 40k/yr(this admittedly includes my gigantic house, prior we were living on 19k/yr) The whole 'vac…

While this isn't a car to me(no airbags/freeway capability), this topic has shown how saturated Tesla's market has become. I've counted 3 competitors with electric vehicles that ca…

No safety protection = not cars IMO. Can't go on the freeway, no airbags, this lets not compare with US cars.

Can you explain this? I'm interested

Fmr believer here: Fraud and Employee abuse, I cannot imagine anyone(outside their cult following) who would trust an Elon project with their money.

>Why does it feel like less innovation is occurring? Specialization + Copypasting what works. You wouldnt notice if a fortune 500 company saved a million dollars with a software in…

> Just check old headless from 2009-2017 of all the failed predictions of crisis. Odds are nothing will happen. Past performance doesnt indicate future performance. Also, Odds are,…

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Yep, going to improve the web design next year. Priority now is new content.

That sounds like a fun idea. Excavation is expensive and toss in an under-utilized garden space- You could probably run for office with those ideas. Pros of this idea: Looks pretty…

The last 10 years of seeing Academia decide what is a valid has convinced me Academia has limited weight in the real world. Don't sweat their opinion, Industry drives the world.

I can make ~3-5k/yr on ads, but I make 25x more at my day job, it seems petty. Although, this seems like bad capitalism, cant grow if I dont charge money... But I started my websit…

>This acts as a check on just how much of a tax break a municipality is able to give them, as public funds are needed to support that infrastructure. Well I suppose its Apple, so w…

I never noticed much effect. Anyone have an anecdote?

I thought its bitter. I think I can taste the difference in sodas.

The only reason these were illegal was cronyism. And before you get excited about the safety we get with regulation. Capitalism has proven with billion dollar companies, we don't w…

Do you have a website/app/product you promote? Nothing wrong with keeping your friends/followers happy with an occasional positive statement. This way you can post your true feelin…

No way, downvotes make HNers feel like they are making a difference against Amazon. Its slacktivism. People don't respond, they downvote.

This sounds great until you read something HN says is objectively wrong and has upvotes. Then you think everyone here is less intelligent than they lead on.

Upvotes=/= correctness. HN whales notoriously upvote anti-corporate posts. It reminds me of slacktivism.

Wrong guess, I've done my time on minimum wage work. I wasnt going to make a career out of a job that gave me a free shirt for working extra hard. But then again, I'm an engineer, …

>The company is cutting down on cost by playing prospect theory-based games with their employees' salary. I suppose we cant expect Amazon workers to go into excel and calculate the…

I thought my college education was fantastic, I know chem engineering and became very good at math. However, due to my college being lazy and never getting ABET accredited in my Ch…

Yes, this is why us 10%ers have a responsibility to the 90%. At the same time, I'm not sure how you can reasonably say things like 'The cost of goods went up'. If you want to blame…