1812Overture

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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   I believe when I applied for a mortgage my income from sources other than my salary was discounted by about 1/3 by the mortgage broker as it wasn't considered "steady" despite being steady over the tax returns I handed o
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Or you could get a Mini Cooper today for around 16.000 pounds. In the 1960s you could get a Trabant for less than than the Mini too if you're comparing English vs Romanian cars.
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   I'm basing those numbers on this: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2015/09/23... I'm obviously not making an argument that technology hasn't advanced since the 1950s. Don&
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   If you invested at the worst time in the past century that would be bad. If you invested in T-bills or CDs you'd have gotten murdered by inflation in that period too. NYT piece you're referencing says the average annual return ove
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Good real estate investment: Buying a rental property. Bad real estate investment: Buying a bigger house than you need for yourself hoping it will go up in value.
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Index funds aren't individual stocks. They're pretty low risk. If an index goes to 0, T-Bills, CDs, and cash won't be worth anything either, you'll need shotgun shells, generator fuel, and canned food.
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Adjusted for inflation median household income in the US has grown by about 20% since 1950. Given massive increases in inequality since then the lower percentiles have seen close to zero growth since then. But TVs have gotten bigger, which
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Unless you're looking to get into tech related to entertainment LA is a backwater compared to the Bay Area.
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   by 1812Overture 10y ago

   Car prices historically haven't done that. The typical inflation adjusted price for a car is the same as it was 100 years ago, as automation and technology improve manufacturers add features rather than lowering prices. Current cars ar
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    From what I've seen (I live in LA) it's much more driven by Silicon Valley companies opening up offices down here than by locally originated start-ups, though there are of course many exceptions.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Why would they possibly be cheaper than current human operated cars?
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Unsinkable!
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    I had a checkout clerk at Target the other day with Down Syndrome who seemed to LOVE her job and was very good at it. Unfortunately I don't see her working her way up to CEO.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Yeah this thing sounds like a pyromaniac's dream.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Those are almost certainly random mushroom chunks and not actual truffle. A lot of brands do that as a deception.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Are you me? Pretty much same story here, except in Arizona not California.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    If Feynman's IQ was only 126 then IQ is a totally meaningless metric of intelligence.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    When there's a boom there's so much money sloshing around that operations like this can con enough VCs to pay their employees and quietly fail with their credibility intact. In tougher times they fall harder.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    I don't stink that speech rank addition is completely ready to real place tie pin. To mulch time is spent core wrecking what you rowed.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Thanks, must have missed that.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Seems like it would be a good idea to try this with a brain-dead head first to look for issues of tissue rejection etc before trying this on living person.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Can't say enough good things about Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty." Great book.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    I imagine convection would give one of these planets crazy weather.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    99% of people are going to call Verizon support if they have a problem with their non-Verizon router and can't get on the internet and it will take longer for customer service to fix the problem because the router options etc will be d
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Maybe a feature to sticky a thread for a while is called for so major stories like this don't fall off too quickly?
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    That's the point of the article.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    BOSS: Uh, Bob, you forgot to close a loop in your code so we've got a bit of an iguana problem... PROGRAMMER: What kind of problem? BOSS: Call the Pentagon.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    I've seen a few things: 1. "Follow me on instagram/twitter for more pics!" Getting real followers for fake social media accounts. 2. "I want to give you a sexy show, go this website!" Driving traffic to paid we
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Obviously shady scam company revealed to be run by shady scammy people. Shocking.
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    by 1812Overture 10y ago

    Out of curiosity what do you take? My only experience is popping a modafinil in the morning when I know I'm going to have a long day of grinding away.