Asparagirl

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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Dude, your persecution complex is amazing . Best I’ve seen in years. Literally no one here is talking about geopolitics or religion outside of the context that a specific subset of Hasidic Jews in Monsey (and Boro Park, and Williamsburg) k
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Guess what? Sometimes they are! The issue here isn’t kashrut, niddah, or the eternal shidduch crisis. The issue isn’t really about Orthodoxy at all. The issue is that this exact group of people don’t vaccinate or else under-vaccinate , i
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Mine too! He was a first generation American, born and raised in the Bronx. Caught polio at summer camp, probably in his very early teens. WAS IN AN IRON LUNG FOR A YEAR. HAD TO LIVE APART FROM HIS FAMILY FOR A LONG TIME. As immigrants work
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Oh, certain people , like those of us who are sick of the repeated behavior of our co-religionists from this exact same community? The minute I read this polio outbreak was in Rockland county, my heart sank. Everyone knew what that likel
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
That mob is not so metaphorical... "Do Kwon, the founder of the cryptocurrency Luna and the stablecoin TerraUSD, has reportedly been in contact with police after a possible investor in the coin “trespassed” at his home, according to a
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Indeed. And with enough sun, rain, soil, and chill hours[1], that bulb can become two in a few years, doubling your investment… [1] which can and should be faked by putting the bulb in the fridge for 12-14 weeks before planting, if you live
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Every dollar they put into crypto, borrowed or not, could have gone into something with an actual use case. A house has a use. A tulip bulb has a use.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Unfortunately, lots of people are indeed going into debt for crypto. That’s what happens when unregulated gambling becomes widely available. “Survey: Americans Borrow Money, Default on Bills to Buy Cryptocurrency More than 32% of cryptocurr
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yup. Wash trading by bots is endemic throughout crypto, worse on certain specific exchanges but prevalent throughout. Very very little of the volume is from real live people buying or selling!
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yup. About 10,000 people (well, 10,000 depositors, some of which were actually companies or trusts or things like that, not all people) lost more than $270 million in total uninsured funds that were over the FDIC limits in the IndyMac colla
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Whoa, hold up there. The risks to bank stability, and customer deposit integrity, are a little higher than most people may realize. Back in the 2007-2010 financial crisis, IndyMac Bank went under. They were a major bank on the west coast,
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
For HN readers who currently reside in California, note that you can sign up for as many local library systems in California as you like. There is no requirement that you only get a card for your local town or local county library. You can
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
There was a musical version of the story too, "Charlie and Algernon" -- though it never got to Broadway. The music was by Charles Strouse, who also wrote the music for "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Annie". https:&#x2F
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
And if soil, sun, water, and temperature conditions are right, tulip bulbs multiply after a few years in the ground.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
They’re just one of several shiny fintech apps/websites running the same scam, a modern two-and-twenty on a ponzi — but with really nice UI. Alice (alice.co / @alice_finance) is another prominent one that may have lost customer fu
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
So the same rules as UTMA accounts, yes? Except the kids’ UTMA accounts at the local bank get essentially 0% interest rates (or slightly more with long-term CD’s), while TreasuryDirect I Bonds get them over 7%. And perhaps this will also pr
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yes! I did this last year and plan to do it again this year. I have a one-year-old single-member LLC for my plant h̶o̶b̶b̶y̶ very small business. I grow and sell fancy houseplants, unusual chili peppers, hopefully some mostly-dahlia bouquet
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Got kids? Look up “minor” accounts. Got an LLC or a family trust of some sort? Look up “entity” accounts.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
It’s $10k/yr/EIN, too. So if you perhaps have a family trust or a single-member LLC, disregarded on your taxes as Schedule C, that LLC or Trust can create an “entity account” at TreasuryDirect. It has slightly stricter restriction
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Trusts, LLC’s, and other businesses can also open up “entity accounts” at TreasuryDirect under their EIN’s, for buying up to $10k of I Bonds per year, or other types of treasuries. And those of us with kids under eighteen years old can open
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
It’s in my HN bio, but here you go ;-) https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
FamilySearch is fantastic. They do require you to make an account to use their website, but it’s free. They are meticulous about records preservation worldwide and expansive about records access, at least when the underlying government arch
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Nitpick: it’s 72 years. And while you are required to give answers to the census-taker, you are not required to give truthful answers. A significant number of my female relatives seemed to age very slowly or even in reverse through the de
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
They do. I’ve seen the contracts, and even the RFP’s that led to the contracts. It’s illegal. They will sometimes make a free gateway portal to those records, where you input your in-state zipcode to get access, or some other nonsense like
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Hi, fellow spleenless person. Make sure to look into the meningitis vaccines, too; there are multiple types of those now, and some only came in the market within the past few years. Also, if you give birth, your doctor may want to put you o
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Huh. Well, this is interesting. As someone who’s been sans spleen since age eight, all I ever heard or read about was my risk for minor bacterial infections to potentially turn into overwhelming sepsis. I was put on penicillin VK 250 mg t
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Yes, people seem to forget that HELOCs are usually callable too. If you have a $500k HELOC and have used $200k of it for something, the bank usually has the right to force you to start making principal repayments (not just interest), to c
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
It's not up to me, so please temper that impulse to shoot the messenger. But retrofitting or even rebuilding homes, schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. would be a great start. Proactively holding more mandatory earthquake drills, not jus
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
These too: "Until 1974, the state of Oregon had no seismic code...seventy-five per cent of all structures in the state are not designed to withstand a major Cascadia quake..." "The shaking from the Cascadia quake will set off
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Yes, that article is a classic, in the Venn diagram intersection of "hard science explained well" and "creative ways to get historical data" and "both local and federal government failure to plan or address known is

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