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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I grew up near Portage Lakes in NE Ohio. For much of my childhood, the water was a little murky, the seaweed wasn't too thick, and the lakes were pretty harmless (and fun) to swim in. Sometime around 2001, zebra mussels were accidenta
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I worked at Vanguard for about 5 years and Mr. Bogle was omnipresent on campus, working in his research area and dining (almost) every day in the on-campus cafeteria. In my few interactions with him, he was always nice and gentle. I only ev
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
No, you are allowed. You just aren't allowed to online. Many states now allow sports gambling, with many more on the way.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Do you plan on just saving cash then for retirement?
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I remember a similar discussion on here about hedge funds. The goals of the ultra-rich investors are often very different than average people. In a 401k investment account we try to find the best ways to get a return on investment and incr
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking... Did you find a job before you left? Did you already speak Spanish?
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
This is really helpful, thank you. I've been diving into heavy doses of JavaScript lately -- I'll continue with that and augment it with TypeScript and React too.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I was wondering if you could give me a little advice as to what I should focus on to more specialize in the Microsoft stack? I'm on a bit of an unusual track into software engineering, having started in finance and first teaching mysel
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Sorry, but I'm not understanding your point. Index funds are almost no trouble at all. People harping on index funds typically suggest something akin to 'invest in an S&P 500 index fund and let it sit for 35 years.' So
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
While that's true, they still lag what I think is their benchmark, other top tier schools: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/harvard-b...
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
No problem, happy to have helped. I had a question for you too. You said you used this side project as an opportunity to learn React. I've been considering learning React and was wondering what tools/resources you used to get up
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Just a heads up, I think there's an error in the description next to the graph estimating work time. I'm seeing this message: >>> Total is expected to be about 22.3 days. >>> * likely to be greater than 15 days
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
By market cap it is top 5...which is a common measure of value
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
That was a nice read, thank you
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
What benefits have you personally seen? Genuinely curious.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I don't have an answer, but I have trouble picturing a better option that's both egalitarian and actually gives the best search results. The closest thing I can think of almost feels regressive -- sites like HackerNews and Reddit.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Health insurance in the US varies wildly. I pay less than $20 per paycheck for my insurance and my health expenses are capped by plan on an annual basis. I may spend little to none one year and a thousand dollars the next. It all depends
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I'd say most modern societies have agreed, but culturally and through years of legislation, that there are unique laws and rules for humans that we don't apply to other animals. So no.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
And they don't ever report it. I used to work there. They are pretty transparent in most of their ranks about the salary ranges. However, people at the top are paid an unknown amount of money. Probably an obscene amount, disguised t
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I always liked the story of Agloe, NY. It became an actual landmark after being invented to catch plagiarism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_se
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Ah, makes sense, thanks. I obviously don't know your situation, but if it offers anything my dad was 44 when he had me and 47 when he had my brother. He's been a great dad. Sure, I wish he was younger so that I'd have more
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Cool, very jealous. I'll definitely be keeping up with your blog posts, it was really interesting.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
This may be of interest to you. It talks about how this group pulled off the physical presence aspect too: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/malware-m...
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
This is such an interesting response to me as it's a little different than a lot of the other ones. Why do you say you "should have had kids"? It's interesting to me because many I speak to wish they had waited longer.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
How did you learn Russian so fluently? Did you grow up speaking it?
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
To that point, perhaps Bezos has decided to live by Andrew Carnegie's dictum? "-To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can. -To spend the next third making all the money one can. -To spend the la
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Tangentially related, but I've had jobs in the past where I had to build all-too-complex systems in VBA because of the needs of the business and having my environment too restricted. I realize this isn't ideal...ever...but sometim
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I am a big fan of Cleveland, but it isn't a "skyscraper city." There are a number of mid-sized buildings and really nice downtown, but it hasn't grown vertically like some other cities.
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Could this be handled by a templating engine like handlebars?
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Canton?

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