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Data plumber/word baker

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Lifetime caps: some insurers would say that once a person had run up a (lifetime) bill of $2M or so, they were no longer insurable, kicked forever to Medicaid and Medicare. NICU nurses told me abt pre-ACA kids who would hit their lifetime cap before their first breath of fresh air.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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For sure, that's not where we (rich people in rich countries) are today. But for me, I know I am three generations from a world that ended, and so it's very possible to imagine that the world can end again in three generations.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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My great-grandfather died during the famine in China in the 30s. Before he died, he told my grandfather (12yo) to abandon his younger sisters and save himself. He did, and he was the only survivor. In some places, at some times, the world really *is* dying, and people say what they gotta say.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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goddamn these people take "be gay do crimes" seriously

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Frank 's avatar Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social
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I would *NOT* touch a newly built home,inspected by Remote Inspections. They could be Leaky Homes 2.0.

It's worth noting that leaky/rotting homes were a product of Building de-regulation in 1991. (The same de-regulation that saw Mines Inspectors reduce in number.)

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Oh, and 3 tbsp of butter at the start!

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Worked well - I think I always just go "ahhh this is too runny" early on and add too much polenta, when I just needed to chill and wait and keep stirring.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Vaguely! 2 cups stock, 2 cups milk, 3/4 grits (I just had fine polenta, which was too fine I think). Bring liquids to low boil, stir in, the simmer on low heat and keep stirring for 10 mins. Cover and cook other stuff.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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I got certified! The grits turned out great! But I ran out of bowls and had to serve in plastic bowls (certification revoked).

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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sigh. yet another professional qualification (southern belle) failed (grits too lumpy)

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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I think part of that kindness and love comes from their genius casting: getting all of these great comic actors and just getting such beautiful, heartbreaking dramatic performances out of them

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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...builds them into the poll, but you won't know that priming is done unless you read the whole script (which nobody does, assuming they even can). That's why all polls (except this one) are bad.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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It treats opinions as extremely contextual and prone to priming, AND it tests specific types of priming and measures its effect. Normal polls measure opinions that are just as contextual and dependant on priming, but leaves them to chance, to the news of the day (over many days), or worse...

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Jill Krajewski's avatar Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social
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pretty funny 2 of amazon’s breakout series concern the evils of wealthy monopolies that exploit workers and sway governments to increase their profits to everyone’s doom

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Rob Isaac's avatar Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social
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if you ever donated a 24” iMac to my recycling shenanigans, you might like to know that these three friends outlasted the charity to which they were donated, and are here being refurbished for a second time. The Jobs-era Apple did not suck.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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look buddy, if you're fancy enough to have economic blocades and continent-spanning C3 and abortions on demand, you're fancy enough to have dragon warfare doctrine and dragon battlegroups

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Lol I can barely solder a big fat wire

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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For sale: soldering iron. Used 2003.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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I kept the other pair 😂

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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a man should also confront the fact that he's never going to use that damn soldering iron, at some point

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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at some point, a man must confront the fact that he is not the kind of man who needs this many pairs of precision pliers (a wire artist? a builder of toes for tiny tiny robots?)

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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you know who else said that?

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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This is not the Keith Ng you are looking for.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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nothing says "developer definitely has the money to build this and has hired professionals to do so" like:

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Are you reading the software leasing part? I think that's a weird arrangement that is NOT the same as software as a service. Also, even if you're thinking of the licence/subscription as an asset, it is by definition worth $0 after one year, so it'd be perfectly reasonable to depreciate it 100%?

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marlo's avatar marlo @marlo.ooo
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inventing novel and frightening summer camps for children and teens • air traffic control camp • dr. john stapp rocket sled camp • parallel parking camp • tax camp • quality control camp

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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theatre (managing a small business in the arts sector) camp

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WildGorillaMan's avatar WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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But you're not buying software, you're just paying for a subscription - so it's just a regular expense? (e.g. A car is a capital purchase but renting a car is just an expenses)

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Yeah that's fair, that's a much more marginal improvement.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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some people like to see what they're doing 😉😉

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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The energy usage is 10x though, so for me that's about 200w+ per room, x3 rooms x8 hrs per day, @20c per kwh, that's a good $350 a year!

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Two of the shonky bathroom bulbs (weird little exposed fittings) have blown and we haven't even been here a month. All of that shit has got to go, and it's going to cost what, $1k? Basic shit, pays for itself in a year or two, but previous investor owner just had no reason to do it.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Anyway, we're just in the process of converting a dual key rental for us to live in, and everything is dumb. It's a 10yo property and there're 300w of halogen bulbs in every room and it's still dim as shit.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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It's not even a matter of "squeezing the most people in there", or "maximise rental yield", but stuff to do with financing for property investors and the logistics of property management.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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There's dumb shit like dual key, which are just massive waste of space to create the fiction of one unit for bank loan purposes. Like, how does this make sense at all??

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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One quirk of building stuff for renting out is that the customer is not the renter who lives in it, it's the investor who buys it to rent out, and the requirements of the two aren't the same...

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Nah, this is a very functional threat. It's preemptively blaming the left (if there's violence, it's the left's fault), provoking the left (we're doing a Second Revolution, come get some), and intimidating the left (if you resist, we'll respond with violence (which is your fault)). It's preparation.

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Only legal to fire automatic *American* guns buddy.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Happy Fourth of July Your reminder that a large majority of Native Americans sided with the British during the American Revolution because they knew its success would result in their dispossession and that after the war Washington's inner circle spent the next 20 years ethnically cleansing Ohio

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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imagine if billionaires had to take 300 supreme court justices fishing every time they wanted something; what a nightmare scenario

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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If you can't order bus drivers to kidnap children (not an executive power?), but you can order SEALs to murder bus drivers who won't kidnap children (is an executive power), you kinda *can* order bus drivers to kidnap children, right?

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Keith Ng's avatar Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social
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Suddenly remembered why we stopped doing dynastic rule

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