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So I just checked out some crash videos on YouTube. The Model S appears to have a surprisingly small crumple zone. That's just my layman's perspective, but take a look and see if y…

In addition to the engine going under the vehicle (even at fairly low speed crashes; just watch NHSTA videos on YouTube), the front motor in a Model S is more dense and weighs abou…

That really depends on the fuel cell doesn't it?

Thanks for correcting me. I could've sworn I saw annual maximums when I looked on healthcare.gov but maybe I mistook the max out of pocket for a max annual. The example I used is t…

There's still annual maximums, in-network coverage, PMO, HMO, etc. The minimums can be pretty basic. It looks like the ACA doesn't really do anything to change the picture for a $4…

No. I don't. I mean that they had the most important safety net of all: Family with the will and ability to help financially. I'm genuinely curious what financial life lessons you …

I know middle income people spending their money on craft beer on the weekend and not participating in their company 401K. Or living effectively paycheck to paycheck. They may have…

> The fact of the matter is, people make bad choices. People who make bad choices are more likely to be poor. Lack of impulse control is extremely prevalent in poor communities. Li…

BTW, your post didn't get the attention I'd hoped, but THANK YOU for "fighting the good fight". IMO this stuff is more important than any technical choice you could possibly make. …

Like the Agile Manifesto it's all about balance (IME). One of the (many) ways I failed as a manager was to not trust my gut. To want to enable my team, even when what I thought the…

+1. I'm talking to you Sharon! I'm tired of getting your loan application details and RNC propaganda delivered to my inbox. I'm just as annoyed at companies that don't bother with …

Just looked at the rails documentation for the first time in years. It's drastically improved. My experience with earlier versions was that you kinda had to piece it together yours…

There's nothing I love more than a long thread of point-by-point rebuttals, but I think I'll leave this one alone for once. ;-) If you like what you're doing, more power to you. I …

I think I'd blocked out the pain of dealing with mutable strings. :-) We were a pretty enthusiastic bunch back in the day. Glad to hear you're still pushing things forward.

You nailed it. HABTM just never worked, and there was little interest in making it work. Since I handed out commit-access like candy, the majority of contributions were to endlessl…

I'd suggest Play Framework and abandoning the idea of O/R Mapping entirely. Once you grok pattern matching you'll never want to see another Ruby case statement again. Once you comp…

The idea that DM wasn't a DataMapper is misguided. Check out: https://github.com/datamapper/dm-core/blob/0.9.0.1/lib/data_... The convenience methods were just wrappers. Earlier ve…

I lost interest in DM mostly because of my open-commit-access policy. I mismanaged the project horribly. Just because something was called "Session" (ala Hibernate) instead of "Uni…

Best estimate I can find, her flight cost her work about $20,000 round-trip. I think we're upper-middle-class-ish, but there's no way we could justify chartering a jet for a family…

That's not really a good comparison. You might as well say driving is within reach for most people. You can drive at 70MPH. Windspeed doesn't impact you. The Cesna will cruise at ~…

The Falcon 2000 she flew on this morning is about 1/3 the weight and fuel load of the SWA 737 she might have otherwise. I'm not sure what's unreasonable about the comparison. If th…

My wife drove up to a private jet this morning. Got on. Took off. No TSA. Holding the "pleebs" to a higher standard than the rich is unconscionable IMO.

I could be wrong, but I'm not sure how else they'd be showing up in my library under "Recently Added" then. I didn't specifically create any new playlists or anything and it's just…

You just made my day. Thanks! And wow... Discoverability--