ganley | 8 years ago | on: I took my family on the run for 19 years
High pay? A really good courier makes maybe $40K. Most make less than that.
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ganley | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison
ganley | 8 years ago | on: Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
In my family we call this "protective incompetence."
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats
I'm not at all sure that's true. That is, I agree that many people probably understand that mean and median are both things, but suspect that a minority of them understand how and why they are different, or when and why one makes more sense than the other.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: How to talk about yourself in a developer interview
Good advice. My first (sometimes only) question when I interview people is: Tell me about your favorite project.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes
Back in the days when I traveled a lot, I would ask for some sort of on-the-spot compensation - usually, put me in first/business class on the rebooked flight. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Echo Look
I've looked at this pretty hard and concluded that, inexplicably, it is not an April Fools joke.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study
You Europeans with your sensibly-designed cities. My shortest commute ever was 12km, and my current one is almost 30km.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you gone vegan or vegetarian?
There are many hunters who believe that it is wrong to eat meat unless you kill and butcher it yourself.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you gone vegan or vegetarian?
I was a vegetarian (abruptly) for a couple of years. Eventually I started to feel sort of icky, not properly nourished, though this is probably the fault of my specific dietary habits and not vegetarianism in general.
Since then I've stuck to a low-meat diet; I mostly eat vegetarian, and when I eat meat I try to eat low on the food chain. I'd say I eat fish and chicken about once a week each, and pork or beef maybe once a month. I also cook with chicken broth pretty often.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: The Other Half
No idea which of us is more typical, but my doctor is awesome. Preventative care is deductible-waived, so there's really no good reason other than laziness for me not to get a regular annual physical.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: The Other Half
A health problem that you are aware of. You're supposed to see a doctor periodically because they might catch health problems that haven't yet advanced to the point that you know they're happening.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: The Other Half
About a decade ago, I got a physical after having not set foot in a doctor's office in about 12 years. The doctor asked what made me come to get a physical after so long, and when I said nothing in particular, he pretended to write on his clipboard "Wife made me come here."
He said middle-aged guys with no obvious health problems pretty much only come to the doctor for one (or both) of two reasons: Their wife made them, or they want Viagra.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
I thought I remembered reading that the average price of the preorders was in the $40K's, in which case that $35k price isn't very realistic.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
It's surprisingly difficult to find the median car price. I just spent 15 minutes googling and could find neither the statistic itself nor a source of the data from which I could compute it.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
I'd like to see that math. Highly skeptical.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
Please. A shitty, low-paying, long-hour job with a great mission is still a shitty, low-paying, long-hour job.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Hollywood as We Know It Is Over
The best movie I've (finally) seen in recent months was El Mariachi. He made that for like $8K. Assault on Precinct 13 (the original one): $150,000. The list goes on and on. The Way of the Gun, a more recent favorite of mine with a bunch of big actors in it: $8.5M.
Another factor might be exorbitant star salaries. However, I think that's a symptom, not the disease. The real problem is that Hollywood is greedy. They won't touch a $10M film with no big stars in it because it's not likely to make an 8-figure profit.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
Zaks is one of the best programming books ever.
ganley | 9 years ago | on: Staying with the US Digital Service
Starving, no. But making a lot less than you could make elsewhere.
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