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The IRS currently sets a cap on employer commute benefits of $300 a month, which probably needs to be adjusted for inflation a bit, but generally establishes a reasonable standard.

For most of recorded history, people also worked from wherever they lived, largely in agriculture. The protoindustrialization that emerged in the 16th century saw rural residents performing many new industrial tasks beyond subsistence farming. During slow parts of the season they earned extra money by spinning wool or weaving and washing cloth.

The urbanization driven by the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century didn’t tip the balance to a majority of the US population living in cities until 1920. Other countries were even further behind.

Work From Not Home is the actual historical anomaly here. Information technology allowing people to perform their 21st Century, postindustrial knowledge work at home is just reversion to the mean.

That's quite an understatement. It's currently taking 68 minutes longer than it shouuld to get from Braintree to the other end.[0]

https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowzones/?chart...

That's clearly an insufficient level of "closure" for a hazard like this. Those signs look like they could easily be removed by one or two people without any kind of specialized tools. An adequate barrier would be more like a few concrete blocks physically preventing anyone from driving past.

Two-sided markets are difficult to bootstrap.

1. As a seller, why would I use your platform instead of the existing ones?

2. As a buyer, why would I use your platform instead of the existing ones?

There is a long and well-documented history of self-experimentation in medical science.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medici...

Tech companies wouldn't be offering their employees who are too busy to start families the perk of egg freezing if they offered "great work-life balance." They would be offering more flexible part-time work, so that employees could both have children and continue working, instead of putting off having children.

I definitely learned about some new LibGen mirrors today!

It's a shame that their bogus jurisdiction argument against admittedly foreign defendants and (but for three) foreign domain names will likely be accepted unquestioningly by the court. They're probably counting on a default judgement, since anonymous defendants rarely show up to defend themselves.

As always, the long arm of US copyright law knows no bounds.

Supermarkets seem like an undeserving target for this scrutiny. Profit margins for grocery stores are only 1-3%, so they're hardly engaging in price gouging. The average U.S. household spends less than 10% of its monthly budget on groceries and other food.[0] This number is half of what it was in the middle of the 20th Century, and probably lower than any time in history.[1]

[0] https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-household-budget#food

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...

Is it common to take code written for one employer and reuse it for another?

This is known as a Virtual Power Plant.[0] In the case of this cryptocurrency company, they are selling the electricity that they "would" be consuming if it wasn't being bought back from them. If they hadn't "sold" it back to the grid, it wouldn't have been available to be used by other customers.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant

>No one working, everyone consuming

How would this even be possible, in an economy that is roughly 80% services? All there is to "consume" is the output of someone else's labor. If nobody is working, there is nothing to consume.

Whenever an employer has offered a choice of PPO or HMO, they’ve been identical in price. If HMOs are supposed to be cheaper, then I guess I’d be overpaying for the supposed benefits versus a PPO.

>It's a little how cotton groceries bags are so resource-intensive that you'd need to use them hundreds and hundreds of times before they're better than daily plastic bags. (Litter aside, which isn't an issue with paper filters.)

It doesn't seem unreasonable to use a cotton grocery bag hundreds of times. That's only a few years of weekly shopping trips.

Regardless, litter from improperly discarded plastic bags was the primary motivator of their regulation. It was not intended to be about resource use or carbon emissions or whatever people are focused on today.

They’re both vehicles that can take you from point a to point b, so they can be compared.

Reducing weight sure is the most effective way to improve efficiency.

The best Tesla model 3 uses 25 kWh / 100 miles and weighs two tons. A top of the line cargo bike like the Tern GSD is capable of carrying passengers and luggage using only ~1 kWh / 100 miles, because it weighs only 75 pounds.

Slightly reducing the weight of the battery pack in a full sized car is missing the forest for the trees when it comes to lowering transportation emissions. As long as we're supply constrained for lithium battery cells, those 50 kWh of batteries going into the Tesla would be better going into 50-100 e-cargo bikes that each take a car off the road.

The link previews feature in Signal adds several layers to improve the privacy of option 2.

https://signal.org/blog/i-link-therefore-i-am/

New York has been getting less dense though, which is the point of TFA. As demand has outstripped supply, prices of real estate and everything consequent to that (labor, professional services, retail goods, transportation etc.) will increase in price as well.

"Costs" in Houston don't look so much better than NYC when you add the significantly higher transportation expenses to their lower rents. Also, local salaries are a third less, so you have that much less money for everything.

Has the comment section on that site always been so terrible, or is it just inspired by certain topics? Yikes

Well, the fifth largest ETF in the US is the sharply named QQQ which exclusively follows the Nasdaq-100 index. Everything larger tracks a broader domestic index like the S&P 500.[0]

Listing on the LSE relegates you to "international" funds, which make up a third or less of most portfolios. These have historically lagged US fund performance, quite significantly in the last ten years.[1]

[0] https://www.etf.com/etfanalytics/etf-finder

[1] https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/revisiting-case-internati...

The home theater enthusiasts have figured this out, going back many years. For maximum soundproofing, you essentially build a floating room within a room. Walls and ceiling are double layers of drywall with Green Glue sandwiched in between. Rockwool insulation filling in between the studs and joists.

https://www.soundproofingcompany.com/soundproofing_101/build...

There's between 500 and a thousand homes within a short ten minute, quarter mile walk of this daycare. There should be no traffic impacts whatsoever from this business, because nobody should be driving to drop off their kid at daycare. If their neighborhood is suffering from car traffic, then that's due to poor street design not supporting alternatives, not any single business attracting customers.

Nobody likes cars driving through their neighborhood. If these were good faith concerns, then these folks would be agitating for traffic calming measures instead of trying to quash the exact kind of business that belongs in a "residential area."

You can buy UL-certified commercial products that intelligently split a 240V outlet to two different loads.[0] They're popular in the EV community for avoiding the cost of a dedicated circuit for charging.

[0] https://getneocharge.com/products/neocharge-smart-splitter

I thought this would be about how both are reissuing / remaking their old content instead of making something new. Consumers seem to be eating them both up though.

>you don't want old people on fixed income forced to sell their homes because property values are going up rapidly

Why not? Regular turnover is healthy for both markets and neighborhoods. These beneficiaries of rapidly appreciated properties could sell their home to a new family, and take their profits to downsize to more age-appropriate housing.

Low wage workers have actually seen the most wage growth recently.

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/

What’s the alternative then? How have you invested for the last twenty years taking this into account?

Not being cash, housing vouchers are also difficult or impossible to apply towards a roomshare situation. As mentioned in the article, this is a common solution for students to afford housing, by splitting the rent with multiple roommates. A voucher could easily cover the cost of a bedroom in a large shared house, but will never allow you to secure a studio or 1-bed on your own.

The Federal minimum wage is irrelevant here, since Massachusetts law institutes a higher $15/hour rate. As you point out, even that higher wage isn’t enough to live on.

A more robust estimate suggests that the living wage is actually $22.59 in this area.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/14460

Adjusted for local cost of living, the Harvard grad students are much worse off. The median income for Cambridge is $112k, so these grad students are earning around a third of that. Said German grad students are earning more than the area median income.