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You're not capturing all the expenses to car ownership: Insurance Fuel/charging Excise tax Parking Maintenance Cleaning And most importantly, the hassel to deal with the above.

Any cognitive advantage that is abused will be seen as manipulative, absolutely. The way to make "the illusion of choice" work is to be selective about it. You start out by giving …

I wonder though, how much influence fake news had on people, not help people choose who to vote for, but to dissuade them to vote at all. A sort of unpropaganda, if you will. This …

You said you were a financial adviser to blue collar field owners. I'm presuming past tense (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm curious as to when your experience with blue collar profe…

Oh heavens...where to start. > I feel like many HN readers may have a non-normal view of reasonable wages...Those figures you quote (50-80k) are starting right at the median income…

Right, and I think you've pointed out the real problem...impending inflation.

> But no one seems to want them, and the reasons have nothing to do with low pay, poor benefits, or a lack of available training. This is laughable. The average plumber makes aroun…

I haven't had the opportunity to have a seven bone chuck steak. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks!

> The top of the SUV analogy is nice, but realistically most burgers are not terribly subtle flavor experiences coming from the brilliance of the meat substrate. Are we talking abo…

Ho! A learning opportunity. I know you're a vegetarian, but maybe this might interest you...or someone. The chuck sub-primal cut is the shoulder of the cow. As you can imagine, the…

I know why chuck, I was just being snarky. :) I'm not going to sit here and pretend to know what, the good people of Impossible Foods, are doing. Way over my head. What I do know i…

Meat enthusiast here. There is no one who wants a viable meat alternative for meat eaters than me. The bleeding heart (pun intended) in me cares about the sustainability of meat an…

Not what I'm saying at all. Although...maybe at some point in the future, a CS degree will be useless. It's certainly not now, nor will it be in the near future. But it certainly c…

Right, so my hypothetical was more to show the lack of ability for the average person to predict the future...not actually predicting it. And that's the biggest flaw I see with a v…

I think you just pointed out the problem with vocational education. Going to law school is a vocational education, as is getting an education to become a mechanic. Vocational educa…

As it turned out, a lot stayed with me. I got the basics down so I know the general plight of a programmer. I understand how long things can take to fix. I know what it means to be…

Because you've turned a "neighborhood" into an "investment property." Neighborhoods develop culture. Investment properties develop nothing other than capital that leaves the neighb…