LastNevadan

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Mismanaged plastic waste per capita, 2019(ourworldindata.org)
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [2022](sciencedirect.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
The price of crypto coins (bitcoin, etc) is quite volatile. Stablecoins allow you to price products and services without caring about volatility of the currency.
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Agents and industry pros share takes on real estate commission lawsuit trial(housingwire.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
Changing the topic slightly: I used to fly on an American direct flight from San Jose to Austin with some frequency. The flight attendants called it the "nerd bird". lol
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Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census(economist.com)
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Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024(theverge.com)
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California population drain: State is hemorrhaging residents to other states(cbsnews.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
Why isn't that a great solution to a problem? It's likely that self-driving cars will eventually be better drivers than real people. Obviously, it's not like that at this point, but AI gets quite a bit better every year. Thi
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I lost him when he said this: And RAM goes a lot deeper too. Look at these two sticks of RAM. See how the one on the right has twice the number of memory modules? That allows the individual stick of RAM to pump through data more quickly th
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
You're presumably referring to California Civil Code §2870 [1]. When I had a side project going on and asked my California attorney if this was enough to protect me from my BigCo employer, she said something like, "No. If they wan
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
https://archive.is/3mHPF
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Defunct Airports of Southeast Asia(nomadicnotes.com)
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How Siskel and Ebert Got Their Thumbs [podcast](plus.thebulwark.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I'm no expert on the topic, but I think that Argentina has more of a tendency toward socialist economic policies. Argentina is especially known for Juan Perón [1], who implemented a lot of socialist policies that were quite popular wit
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
It's hard for me to name a single source of this quote, but it's clear it shows up in a lot of economics texts and blogs if you search for it. I've seen it lots of times over the years. https://duckduckgo.com&#x2F
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I read a lot of economics blogs. A lot of them seem to have the joke, "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be!" The meaning is that Brazil should be a more successful country. Great location, favorable demo
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Analysis: IMF warning on China puts 'Japanization' risk in spotlight(reuters.com)
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Investing Adventures in Bhutan(opusletter.substack.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
You might take a look at this: https://earlyretirementextreme.com/ This isn't the poster you replied to, but someone with a similar point of view of trying to live simply.
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
Wow, I remember playing this on the Commodore 64! As soon as that screen appeared in my browser I recognized it even though the DOS UI looks a bit different.
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Schools for children of military achieve results rarely seen in public education(nytimes.com)
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VR Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like Hell Only to Get Burned(bloomberg.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
You're obviously being sarcastic. But Uber really is an improvement on pre-Uber traditional taxi services, where you can call and not really be sure if or when a taxi will show up. Uber was really two innovations: (1) using an app to
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Pax Volckeriana Is Done. Welcome to the New Order(bloomberg.com)
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When does federal debt reach unsustainable levels?(budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu)
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$2.7M pilotable robot for the ultra-wealthy(arstechnica.com)
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Hacker Puts 23andMe User Data Up for Sale on the Internet(bloomberg.com)
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A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes(businessinsider.com)
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WeWork Skips $95M in Interest Payments(nytimes.com)
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