Xorakios

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by Xorakios 3y ago
This is my experience totally correct in both California and Florida cases. Probably closer to $2000 than $200, but paying for an opinion is truthful, helpful and useful. Kinda sucks that it's necessary
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Random goofball aside, but cicadas erupted at my graduation from Princeton 1987 and it was so loud a couple times it truly was hard to hear each other.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
In the US it is not as easy as that and the zoning requirements are so anti-white and anti-Christian home schooling, and anti-Black and anti-immigrant for home businesses to support unions and retirees. It's not a radical proposal, but
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Having/expressing an opinion that is not the mainstream opinion is the precise and exact definition of contrarian.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
So cute that some people still use cellphones.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but I'm guessing more like two months.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
oh golly don't get us started on "wrong" denoting morality vs incorrect/inaccurate/imprecise!
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Um, what? I am a Princeton trained economist from the 1980's and not once, not ever do we talk about non-cooperative behavior not existing. Rather, it is sub-optimal and self-defeating in the long run and that's why economies that
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Most economists and left-leaning research institutes disagree with this. Transaction costs, both monetary and temporal, are always higher with more regulation and governmental institutional involvement. https://www.rand.org/
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by Xorakios 3y ago
This is excellent. Sometimes founders and investors have more real life horror stories than attorneys because we pay the bills.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
"hay" is USDA regulatory shorthand for grains and grasses fed to farm animals. most of the "hay" exports to Saudi Arabia from Imperial county in California, and Yuma county in Arizona, of which I have personal and specif
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Star Trek resolved this decades ago.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Oh good golly, don't forget the $19,000ish for federal self employment taxes
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Not sure where Common Dreams got their info from, but my partner is with Humana Medical Advantage last two years and the only bill he ever got was from a city ambulance - everything else for years has been free. My Blue Cross through Obamac
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by Xorakios 3y ago
As I read the article I thought the same thing. I'm too old and probably incompetent to create this option but it would be awesome if some folks from HN would!
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Nice!
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by Xorakios 3y ago
The crime of burglary has been redefined over time and across counties and cultures. Currently in most of the US, opening a door without permission is considered forced entry, and peeking through a curtain is criminal invasion of privacy. L
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I have over 700 Barbie dolls and accessories. The originals from the 50s have red hair and polka dotted swimsuits. No blonde hair or pink dresses :)
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Oh gosh darn you kids. During peak Covid I got calls about COBOL code I wrote in 1981 for Ranger Insurance company because it's still used for some reason at Igloo for ice buckets after the companies merged 40 years ago. And don't
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Wow what an awesomely nice thing to have that bridge at a steampunk. Never would have thought of it but now makes me want to send a telegram and shock the recipient with the retro-ness!
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Alas, in acronym world, I assumed AGI was "Annual Gross Income" from the original article's title!
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Linked reference 13 in the original NPR article says 6.3% of US adults have Amazon Prime, not 63%. NPR factchecking is not what is used to be.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I left AMA once because I was fine but the hospital wanted my perfect insurance in Yuma, Arizona where most of the patients are uninsured immigrants. I understand that they need to money to survive but three weeks was just outrageous.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I thought GoDaddy did this, but stopped. Haven't seen a problem with them in years
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by Xorakios 3y ago
A lot of comments are focusing on penalties. Just asking this tech focused community, but shouldn't the correct action be for a UN level entity charge an automatic de-orbiting fee. Even thinking it as a bottle deposit return if the lau
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by Xorakios 3y ago
This is common in Florida around hurricanes.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Thank you for an awesome, accurate post. and, FWIW, confabulation is a lifetime terror for me -- with lucid dreams and https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-catcher/201909... i fully wonder if LLMs ar
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Publicly owned companies have a fiduciary duties to their shareholders to pursue all government programs for which they are eligible. The company, its officers and directors could all be sued by shareholders in a massive class action lawsui
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Splitting into two parts so I can get yelled at separately: 2) Money supply is only part of the monetary influence on pricing pressure. velocity also matters - when people are saving stimulus funds, effective monetary stimulus is less tha
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Splitting into two parts so I can get yelled at separately: 1) At least in the US, most large companies converted to FIFO (first-in, first-out) accounting so, if today's input prices are up 10%, but a company raises by 5%, their profit

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