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by SCAQTony 8y ago
The link I referenced is here: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/interest-rate-r... Doing more research I found this which states it has jumped to 17.64%: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-c
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
I am an expert at google-fu ;-) "...CreditCards.com releases the national average APR, which is made up of 100 of the most popular credit cards in the country. According to their June 21, 2017, release, the national average credit card
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Does the Fed really set interest rates or do the credit card companies and bond markets? The Fed funds rate is 2.5%, the average credit card rate is 15.6%, the average mortgage rate is 4.67% which historically is quite anemic. Does the FED
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Crude oil is unbelievably toxic. Tracy Alloway, executive editor at Bloomberg Markets tried to buy a barrel of oil and found out that the rules for storage are robust, to say the least. (Hydrogen sulfides etc.) https://www.bloomb
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Does chlorine hurt your eyes: "...22 April 1915 shortly after 17:00; French troops in the path of the gas cloud sustained about 6,000 casualties. Many died within ten minutes and others were blinded. Chlorine gas reacts with water to
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Perhaps it is a self-admission that he over-promised about a Tesla being a self-driving car in the first place?
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Elon Musk Promises a Truly Self-Driving Tesla in 2020(wired.com)
8 points by SCAQTony 8y ago|7 comments
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
The Equifax breech data was never sold. IMO, this leads me to believe that it was a state-sponsored theft. A great way to sort out who works for US state agencies, where they live, how in debt they have, and the fun things they can do with
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Adam Smith is down with that statement too. he said it best in his book "The Wealth of Nations," published coincidentally in 1776 that a home/house/condo is not an investment: “...a dwelling-house, as such, contributes n
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
...Less radioactive material than coal ash as well. Very excited for he NRG Thorium reactor test going on in the Netherlands. Coal Ash more radioactive: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... N
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Hey, remember those Amazon insiders that bought property on the cheap? "...Amazon employees are apparently eager to get a head start on the New York City real estate game. Condo sales in Long Island City are soaring following the annou
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
A city will only grow as big as it takes a citizen to travel from one end of the city to the other in about an hour or so. If forced to make a suggestion, I would say create a superb transportation service so people could traverse the city
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
The apparent expectation that China will eventually supplant the USA as an economic power has a long way to go. One obstacle is will democracies want to settle their trades in the currency of a de facto dictatorship? Ostensibly, not yet. Ac
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
The EFF ad blocker "Privacy Badger" blocks stuff like that.
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Dear Dawn: How a Nasa robot messed up our science fiction, “The Expanse”(nationalgeographic.com)
14 points by SCAQTony 8y ago|3 comments
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Star Wars is a mess for the past has tech more advanced than the future. Blade Runner is still watchable though and never laughable because it seemingly has been placed in an intentional anachronistic SciFi setting: the 1940's hairstyl
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
I don't buy the article 34 argument. It's simply "bait and switch" on the part of the politicians so as to make the city even denser. The end result, more political power, and federal money. I suspect the next attack wil
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
A 5-year-old should not have unfettered access to Facebook nor should Facebook let them. If Facebook knew the user was 5-years-old and titled the child as a whale, that is essentially the definition of an exploited minor.
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
He seemingly believes that the government is a barbarous relic in need of computational analytics and technology to make it work fairly. What this has to do with capitalism was missed by me. Perhaps we can all agree that if we the people we
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Ironic since the humanities are the only concepts left once everything is automated leaving creative ideas to be our only worthwhile asset.
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
LOL - Amazing observational comedy on what people will try despite being proven utterly irresponsible and dangerous.
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
It is known as radio repeating. Radio stations use them to boost their signals into new territories. Cell towers too. Radio repeating: "[It's]...a combination of a radio receiver and a radio transmitter that receives a signal and
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Presume the worst case scenario so you can own the decision. If you make the presumption that anything you have your dev[s] do or may or may not have access to will soon be public domain in China, would you have a problem with that? If the
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
My understanding is that the police do care and Amazon is working with them... and they are not using glitter or chemical scents like you advocate: New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/12/11&
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
Is this even legal or safe to have a glitter "bomb," or more accurately, a spinning motor spraying glue if an accomplice opens the package within a moving car? How about just a GPS signal to notify cops. The glitter stuff and chem
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Cambridge Analytica knew how you would vote if you wore Wrangler jeans(adage.com)
1 points by SCAQTony 8y ago|0 comments
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by SCAQTony 8y ago
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." — Jean Paul Sartre, (French existentialist)
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Exactly. What happens when these babies become toddlers or young children and they start contracting all sorts of weird cancers. See article: Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds https:/&#x
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How to Watch the Insight Landing on Mars on Monday(livescience.com)
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I think you are on to something. Steve Jobs was like a "curator" from top to bottom and beginning to end. Though he could not code, draw, or design he certainly could lead (albeit in a quasi-abusive fashion at times) and his visio

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