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601.
by 300bps 5y ago
True curiosity - what features does an AS/400 have that aren’t duplicated in the mainstream?
602.
by 300bps 5y ago
I have such a curiosity about the AS/400. The extent of my experience with it though was setting up 5250 emulator cards in PCs for customers over 20 years ago. Tempting to buy an old one on eBay and play around with it. I’ll avoid star
603.
by 300bps 5y ago
When I had carpal tunnel syndrome 10 years ago someone on HN recommended the Harvard RSI program that follows Sarno’s technique. http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu It took work but it literally cured me. Went on to use the same tec
604.
by 300bps 5y ago
Seems to be VICE running in a web client? VICE is a well-known Commodore 64 emulator that's been around for 28 years. I'm not sure why I wouldn't just run this locally? Serious question - what is the advantage of this? Runnin
605.
by 300bps 5y ago
This is completely wrong for many people. In the US we have something called FMLA and then I also have short term disability and long term disability. I have seen coworkers with cancer or even their family members with cancer and they take
606.
by 300bps 5y ago
If you’re dealing with an HSA that means you have a HDHP which I would not consider excellent insurance. There really are a third of us out there with really great plans. I’m getting downvoted to oblivion but it doesn’t change facts.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I live in the US and my employer pays for my very excellent health insurance. For my family of 4 the most I will pay in any one year is $750. About 1/3 of people in the US have excellent healthcare and benefits. You don’t often hear fr
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by 300bps 5y ago
Same thing happened to me with a plumber 12 years ago. I spent a couple hours on YouTube and now I can solder my own copper pipes, install a new toilet and anything else I need. Even being a software engineer I couldn’t compete with the hou
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by 300bps 5y ago
so a $1T loan is about 5% of gross annual income No, this is not right at all. The total income of the United States government is $4 trillion per year. So a $1 trillion loan is 25% of gross annual income. The $3 trillion being added to t
610.
by 300bps 5y ago
Do you have any idea how much money a trillion dollars is? If you paid $1 per second, it would take you: 12 days to spend $1 million 32 years to spend $1 billion 32,000 years to spend $1 trillion Imagine spending $1 every second for 32,000
611.
by 300bps 5y ago
Major inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s. That's what the U.S. government needs. $29 trillion in debt paying $417 billion in interest per year = average interest of 1.43%. Now imagine average interest rate across the
612.
by 300bps 5y ago
The money is yours and no government can confiscate it. Anyone can confiscate it. Let's say the Government wants your cryptocurrency. You rub your hands together with an evil laugh and say it's protected by a private key that yo
613.
by 300bps 5y ago
Back when DocuSign first came out around 2003 the finance company I worked for was ready to sign up with them at an exorbitant rate. From what I recall, President Clinton had just signed the e-signature bill in 2000 and all DocuSign seemed
614.
by 300bps 5y ago
Serious question - what percentage of businesses do you think reach the nightmare scenario you've painted? You said that "usually it does" go that way. That seems to mean more than half - is that seriously your opinion of the
615.
by 300bps 5y ago
I view capitalism differently. I picture a neighborhood of elderly people who aren't able to shovel their driveways and walkways when it snows. And an industrious young person nearby who shovels their driveways and walkways for them fo
616.
by 300bps 5y ago
Agreed. Set your asset allocation. Buy a small number of diversified funds with low fees. Rebalance once per year to match your asset allocation in response to market fluctuations. Vanguard funds are excellent at this. Fidelity are good too
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by 300bps 5y ago
Picture two scenarios: Scenario 1: Fed buys $20 billion of corporate bonds per month from Microsoft. Scenario 2: Fed does not buy $20 billion of corporate bonds per month from Microsoft. Consider all other things being equal, in the first s
618.
by 300bps 5y ago
Bond rates move inversely to price. As the fed buys bonds, it raises the price which lowers the rate. As rates are lowered for things like mortgages and corporate bonds, people and corporations have more money to spend. Which they do genera
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by 300bps 5y ago
It isn’t just direct stimulus to private citizens. It’s the near zero interest rate policy, the literally illegal purchasing of mortgage and corporate bonds by the fed and so much more that is flushing the entire economy with trillions of d
620.
by 300bps 5y ago
Look up a "Backdoor Roth". It is specifically designed for people in this circumstance. Essentially you do a non-deductible traditional IRA contribution and then immediately convert it to a Roth IRA. There are rules regarding this
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by 300bps 5y ago
The 401k limit increases $1k and the Social Security tax limit increases $5k to $147,000. In 2000 the Social Security tax limit was $76,200 so that is a 93% increase. Inflation increased only 59% in that time.
622.
by 300bps 5y ago
I understand what you are seeing and can see your point. I think it brings up another point though. Does interesting have intrinsic value? I believe the 20th century was a time period where the western world had to learn to live in a world
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by 300bps 5y ago
Nothing in nature (with the possible exception of faces) comes within an order of magnitude to the "experience density" I got one of the first digital cameras of anyone that I knew. It was early enough that people were kind of s
624.
by 300bps 5y ago
Yeah I’d be as likely to buy a magical anti-dementia rock as invest in this.
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by 300bps 5y ago
ESG Investing is one of the hottest trends in investment management that aims to eliminate investments in companies that don't adhere to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance standards. Most investment management firms are scr
626.
by 300bps 5y ago
NFLX was founded in 1997. They didn't have original content until 2013. Before their original content I seriously considered shorting their stock. Their business model without original content was structurally flawed. They effectively
627.
by 300bps 5y ago
Couldn’t disagree more. Any activity on a computer is aided by reducing the friction involved in getting what is in your brain into the computer and from the computer back into your brain. Sure, you can program with punch cards and no displ
628.
by 300bps 5y ago
Confusing, but 386SX vs 386DX had nothing to do with math coprocessors. That was only on the 486DX which had a math coprocessor vs 486SX which did not. https://dfarq.homeip.net/386sx-vs-386dx-a-misunderstood-diff...
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by 300bps 5y ago
Anyone who thinks nothing of chronically pointing out your flaws will think nothing of berating you for pointing out their flaws. They'll readily recognize how rude you're being while simultaneously not recognizing you're doi
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by 300bps 5y ago
When I was in my mid-20s my doctor wanted me to take blood pressure medication because when I went to her office in the morning I had blood pressure of 150/110. I told her I wanted to see what I could do on my own first. I cut out salt

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