WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
That's a very interesting phenomenon with the butchers (and about 1/5th of the American retail economy in my experience), but it's not what's happening in airline services. Airlines have jacked up the prices of comfortab
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Current 30 year bond rates and the performance of stocks in the 21st century are significantly less lucrative than in previous decades. The end of exponential population growth as the Earth has already filled beyond its carrying capacity pr
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"You could get 4% in a less tax favored safe investment."
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You're not going to earn 5% after inflation. Maybe 2.5%. But retiring at 71, you can withdraw a lot more than 4% per annum, also. Maybe try a new set of assumptions.
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And most people in their 20s can't even really conceptualize retirement. It seems impossibly far away, time-wise. But missing that first 15 years has a huge impact on the total compounding potential. 30 year treasuries are currently
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by WildUtah 10y ago
CalPERS users can take extra overtime and duty pay in those last years to inflate the base, also. And that base even without overtime is much higher than the average working salary. And CalPERS assumes a rate of return far higher than it ca
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by WildUtah 10y ago
For power on the go, I have a Razer Blade with a 1060 in it. There are now alternatives for those that need power on the go.[0] Well, for number crunching power on the go, anyway. Won't help for gaming and 3D modeling. [0] https:&#x
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All homicides in Mexico don't add up to 250k per decade. And at most half of the total is drug-related. And car crash related deaths have even more negative externalities than drug war deaths. They disproportionately kill children and
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Mexico's economy is deeply invested in trade with the USA. Simply declaring that the drug gangs will be openly allowed to use Mexican territory to try to deliver drugs to the USA however they want would lead the USA to retaliate. The m
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That same reasoning would have prevented Arafat and Obama's Peace Prizes. I don't think it's an insuperable argument. Mostly the problem was that nobody know about the secret Russian military records until decades later.
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It's the MacBook Escape and the Macbook Pro.
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:ino kj <Esc> 'kj' is the ideal key combination for changing out of insert mode. Keep your fingers on their home row. Try it and you'll never go back. (Some people like 'jj' or 'jk' and they're
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"Forty-thousand men and women every day (Like Romeo and Juliet)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
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NYT makes this vague, unsubstantiated claim "For hundreds of years, the best violin players have almost unanimously said they prefer a Stradivari or a Guarneri instrument," take it with a grain of salt or preferably evidence that
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OP is topologically equivalent to a bagel (disregarding nostrils) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube
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MacOS doesn't do ffm at all ever.
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I strongly prefer Gnome or XUbuntu myself and I still hate losing focus-follow-mouse, but Mac is at least less brain damage than Windows. I do everything I can on the command line and with Unix or X programs, of course, so I don't even
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The 5k iMac is gorgeous, weighs only double your brick laptop, runs faster than any stock laptop, and is a delight to use every day. It has a lot more than 3x 1920x1200 pixels but it will take two external displays if you want them. I like
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Or you could buy Apple and deal with all the inherent drawbacks but enjoy how it usually just works. And compared to Windows or Linux laptops it does mostly just work. Of course the list of drawbacks gets longer and longer…
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That's why I voted for Lincoln Chafee in the primary. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI4n5OdqWfw
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If you don't say Maghreb when you mean Maghreb, how are people ever going to learn what Maghreb means?
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Background here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16-341-... The patent venue law (28 USC §1400) reads: "Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial d
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TC Heartland case taken by Supreme Court (to abolish Eastern Texas patent venue) [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
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Woman + Horse = Mother? That makes darn good sense, actually.
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Red China has only 1,488 naturalized foreign-born citizens.[0] But there are a lot more permanent residents than that. Those that marry Chinese will have children with citizenship. [0] http://www.economist.com/news/brie
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They keep shrinking the battery to make the machine thinner. Nobody but their internal design team appears to care that the box is getting any thinner than it is already. But the days of 10 hour batter time are over. Regular use on Macbooks
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Mostly because open source would make them easier targets for patent trolling.
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Design patents are drawings of ornamental aspects of an item. No one specifies technical details. A jury is responsible for determining if the drawings match based on their layman's judgement. It's not an engineering process nor i
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That's Apple's argument for trade dress damages, which are set in an equitable process in accord with damages suffered by Apple. And those damages will now probably be set in a retrial and Samsung will still have to pay them—as a
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Google Patents is giving you the whole thing. Most design patents are just a picture and some boilerplate text. And there's little or no review before issuance. If you can draw, you can get one.

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