ThrustVectoring

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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
Owning the asset is an advantage in a bull market and a disadvantage in a bear market. If a dominant employer or industry in an area has mass layoffs, that can cascade into the housing market, driving your property underwater at the same ti
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
There's significant personal financial benefits to renting, too, in that many local areas are dominated by one firm or industry as a major employer, so your employment prospects can be highly correlated with the local housing market. Y
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by ThrustVectoring 5mo ago
Commercial real estate lending typically has a clause that allows pausing of payments during a vacancy and letting the interest accrue into the balance of the loan - effectively, the banks are giving the property owners a free option to try
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by ThrustVectoring 5mo ago
Golf and baseball batting have obvious handedness - the muscles that pull your towards your centerline and then across your body and significantly stronger than the ones that push your arm back out away from your body, and the right-handed
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
Saltier tasting salt is likely counterproductive, IMO. People aren't born knowing how much salt taste corresponds to how much salt consumption, so that gets tuned by persistent salt deficits causing upregulation of salty food desire. I
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
> You're oversimplifying this. If someone owes you $1B and they owe me $2B, and they've got an asset worth $500M, I can't just pledge $2B of bad debt to buy the asset. You actually can, so long as it's the best offer
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
> The Onion didn't have the cash. Correct, it was given up by the majority creditors in exchange for non-monetary considerations (specifically, the moral victory of having The Onion own Infowars). > It was basically an IOU from o
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
> They don't have a judgement of ownership in infowars they have a debt and the court is forcing Alex to sell all assets to cover the debt. It's a chapter 7 bankruptcy, the bankruptcy estate already owns the infowars assets. &g
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
It's a shell company made to have an acronym that sounds like "eff you AC".
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
>The other creditors are far better off getting more cash The other creditors get more cash from The Onion's offer. It was specifically structured to give better-than-next-offer remuneration to minority creditors.
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
Friend, you were the one who assumed "common law or similar". This is ancient common law precedent from England.
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
Did that for pens while employed as a pizza delivery driver nearly two decades ago. Customers would regularly sign for a credit card receipt with my pen, hand back the signed receipt, receive pizza, and somewhere in the object-management pr
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
Under the law, the rightful owner of stolen property can demand its return. If it's currently installed in your phone, that's your problem, even if you bought it "fair and square" - that just gives you a claim on the mer
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
People have a strong and well-founded attachment to nominal values in the economy. You pay your rent or mortgage with a fixed quantity of dollars, so as a salaried employee certain pay cuts are intolerable, so employers balance their fallin
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by ThrustVectoring 2y ago
Every nominal asset that can be sold to take advantage of lower prices on goods and services is someone else's nominal liability that they have to cover with weakened earning power. Deflation is straight up bad compared to mild and p
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Highway driving is currently at 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles driven, so "~3 * 10^-6" is roughly equal to driving 200 miles on the freeway.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
You don't even need to run it as a tunnel the entire way through - Chesapeake Bay has vehicular traffic routed through a combination bridge/tunnel, using tunnels to span the two major shipping channels crossed by the complex.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Nuclear fission is relatively straightforward so long as you either don't know or don't care about the health risks of radiation. It's just a pile of spicy rocks at the end of the day. Fusion , on the other hand, requires
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
> But I do have the impression that copyright is kept as long as it is not signed over. The US has the "work for hire" concept - if an employee creates work as part of their regular duties, their employer is considered both the
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Unlikely to be legal - you aren't authorized to delete software in use on company computers (regardless of whether management currently knows it is in use), and the software you wrote is likely a "work for hire" done during
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
The applicant pool is not randomly selected, though. The 6-10 randomly selected geniuses are likely all happily and productively employed elsewhere, there's a competitive filter against high-level talent that you have to also get thr
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Yeah, there's two separate ways of thinking about law in general - mechanically about what the rules say, and politically about how the system ought to be influencing behavior. When the FTC or other prosecutorial/regulatory talk
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
You're over-emphasizing the methods by which these people are price-fixing, rather than the result. The result is a price higher than the market-clearing price that is low enough to find tenancy for all housing. Any scheme to gene
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
The human visual system regularly fills in what it expects to see in between saccades and outside of focus points. Confabulating missing details is a feature, not a bug.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
In economic terms, bond-buying and tax-paying are the exact same thing , real consumption forgone by current workers. IMO, the profligate deficit spending of the baby boomer generation's prime working years is a symptom of massive d
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Each non-disabled token is also pure profit, they're not cashing them out in appreciable quantities to anyone .
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
why is this necessary when youtube channels have RSS feeds?
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
I haven't set it up yet, but youtube channels have RSS feeds so programmatically feeding a list of channels into a watch-later folder should be straightforward.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Randomness alone isn't creative. Creativity is the marriage of the improbable and the valuable. Without novel insight into the valuable outer reaches of concept-space, you're not going to generate creative outputs.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
They're asking why nobody switch-hits every ball as a one-handed forehand, like baseball players have learned to do to mitigate sidedness issues.

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