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Comment Re:Not just Sales (Score 4, Informative) 356

I think you are seriously underestimating what a challenging condo location is.
Note; I _now_ have an electric car and I live in a house. I couldn't have had one when I lived in my condo.

Here are the issues I would have had at my condo
1. it wasn't quite onstreet parking; but it was a private road with no assigned parking.
2. electric was providd separately to each unit; to get power, i would have had to had a subpanel run out the front of the house, underground whatever the requisite depth would be to then tunnel under said private street as we were only allowed to park on one side; which happed to be not the side my condo was on
3.) putting the plug in would then have needed approval from the condo board to be put on "my neighbors law" (it was communal lawn and groundskeeping)
4.) back to item #1; I don't know how I would have prevented anyone from then charging and using my power from my house to charge their car, i'm not that much of a good samaritan to provide anyone in the neighborhood a free charge.

Comment Re:I don't think those words mean (Score 1) 385

Having a majority does not mean control of Congress; you are not including the ability to filibuster.

Giving them 48 D + 2 Independents on July 7, 2009 until August 25, 2009 is actually less than two months.

Looks like they had it again from: September 25, 2009 to February 4, 2010 for another 4 months.

Comment Re:Working remote is not hard! (Score 1) 85

If it is the only time that you are free, then you may not be managing your calendar correctly.

Your calendar isn't a repository for meetings, your calendar is an indication of your priorities. If you put your priorities on your calendar you get the right of first refusal to new entreaties to your time.

That being said; you can't just mark you calendar as BUSY 100% of the time.

Organization efficiency trumps individual efficiency. If you are 100% productive in what you are doing but 10 people can't do what they need to do because you were grinding away for the past month, that's 10 man months lost because you couldn't be bothered.

Comment Re:Not the largest problem.. (Score 1) 349

Last paragraph of the article you linked:

The Stanford study, however, does not include the largest antibody study to date: that involving a randomized sample of 70,000 Spanish residents, whose preliminary results were published by the Carlos III Institute of Health two weeks ago. That suggested that five percent of the Spanish population had been infected with the virus. With 27,000 deaths in the country, that would convert to an IFR of 1.1 percent

Also in the article:
infection fatality rate (IFR)
Covid IFR from study .02 - .5
Flu IFR .1 - .2

So according to the article, its either 5x less deadly or 2.5x more deadly and they excluded the study where its 5x more deadly.

Comment Re:3x Is slow (Score 1) 82

Also, other things that are hard to listen to at 4x are when the presenter has an accent. or other noise is in the background. So for me listening to a british speaker I have to pull it back to 3x or sometime slower.

Also, audiobooks like the ones that these guys make: https://www.graphicaudio.net/ is terrible for me but more immersive for other people.

Comment 3x Is slow (Score 1) 82

I don't understand what this guy is talking about (and I hate this whole 'broke the x' meme that is happening.)

I listen to 90% of the audiobooks and podcasts that I have at 4x these days. Older audio books and bad audio recordings I have to slow down. (AKA, when the podcast pulls in live audio from a press briefing or something). Also, when I'm not using my headphones it gets harder as well.

I regularly do all of this while doing so many other things ( driving, chores, biking, running )

I've taken it past 4x a few times but it gets to be more and more difficult as you speed up.

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