MrFantastic

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by MrFantastic 5y ago
The younger people that can qualify to buy a house aren't poor.
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by MrFantastic 5y ago
I thought it was more that rich people use excess funds and debt to buy more income producing assets. Poor people have no excess cash and use debt to buy goods from companies and therefore the wealthy shareholders accumulate even more money
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by MrFantastic 5y ago
The first post on SO for most accounts tend to be from Newbs. The people see the question and think Read The Fucking Manual and downvote. Then you have zero karma and you can't do anything else. The problem is that the Newb doesn'
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by MrFantastic 5y ago
It's gotten brutal. I was learning a new language last year and all my posts were downvoted out of the que.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
My experience at MENSA meetings was a bunch of people bragging about their IQ. Many had their IQ listed on their name tag.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
A Tesla could make a left turn but they don't because the company doesn't want the liablity. Having to cross 3 lanes adds a lot of moving parts and you can't see a car moving 35mph in the 3rd lane when the other 2 lanes are s
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
I think that is set by mods. Some subreddits default to searching that subreddit.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
If you own the entire company it's easier to weather market downturns. BRK prefers to own the entire company so they can allocate capital to the sectors than need it.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
You can spot inefficient runners once you know what to look for. Efficient runners are striding 20 or 30% faster. Usually over 180 strides/minute. If you look at the efficient runners head looks like it's floating smoothly. If yo
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
UBI would lead to dramatic inflation in rents in desirable areas. There is only a finite amount of premium real estate. UBI would just jack up rents by the amount of payment in San Jose or Boulder because the people that want to live there
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
I do a lot of my own bike repairs. When I take it to the local shop, they can fix it better than I can. When it's slow my local shop will show me how to do some tips on some of the different repairs. I replaced all the cables and shift
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
3 years of HS spanish with a grammar nazi teacher. He's interupt mid-sentance to correct your verb tense. His students were objectively less skilled than the other spanish teacher that focused on vocabulary and conversational skills.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
BTC is a great store of value until better tech come out then it's done.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
2 years ago, I could order 4 entrees from a local Indian restaurant for $50 + $20 tip. The same restaurant is DoorDash only now and the same order is $70 with no tip. I don't order delivery anymore, for $20 I'll pick it up myself.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
Doordash, GrubHub and Uber Eats have increased prices for delivery with no increase in value. I used to be able to order 4 entrees from a local Indian restaurant for $50 + $20 tip. Now this same order costs $70 with no tip. The same applies
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
The SCOTUS basically ruled that Corporations are people in the Citizens United case.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
Corporations live forever. They should have an unlimited Statue of Limitations as well.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
As gross as it sounds, why wouldn't dipping a finger in the vagina and into the babies mouth work? 50%+ of the population has conducted simular tests and everyone lives.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
I've taken pictures of my pencil diagrams. Label the photo well and you can reference easily.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
That's just for insurance. You still going to be paying 20% of the actual medical bill. You can easily run up a $100k bill in a week.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
Parents that invest time and resources into their children? We had a computer lab with 8 Apple II's in my public elementary school in 1983. We also had a few TRS-80s.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
Productivity has increased but I'd argue that because of technological leverage and not more college grads. A large portion of those creating the tech are self educated.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
Immutable variables are too weird for me.
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by MrFantastic 6y ago
The mindset that we can avoid all risk by staying in lockdown is wrong. The most at risk are people over 70. They already have a 6%+ percent chance of dying every year.
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
Quora is driving me crazy with all the requests to Answer questions that seem to be algorithmically generated. Most of the question could be easily answered with the first result from Google or are purely opinion based.
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
Men are hardwired to ascend to the top of the hierachy so they can access all the women. That's why male billonaires will risk their fortune to make another billion. Women are not rewarded biologically for being the top 2% in their ind
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
I live in one of the wealthiest zipcodes in Georgia that tends to vote strongly Democrat. The usual voting location was moved to the edge of the district to a building with limited parking despite a large Church being located next to the us
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
Models are still the best way to attempt to understand other people's actions. People rarely understand why they do things and even when they do they will often give a socially acceptable response vs the truth.
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
I know a few women that make $100k+ with $200k in a savings account. No equity in anything. They are too scared to invest.
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by MrFantastic 7y ago
Early spring cleaning.

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