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by Zikes 11y ago
How much would that $10k grow in 18 years? Bank of America's "Platinum Honors" interest rate is 0.06%[1], and over 18 years of compounding interest that's only $10,108.55 unless I've messed up my math. [1] https:&#
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by Zikes 11y ago
The median income per household member in the US was $23,535 in 2004[1]. Unfortunately I can't find a more recent census value for that. In the case of a household with two partners and at least one child, such as we're discussin
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That definitely supports their assertion, thank you.
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Show me the data. Here's mine: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/childbearing/20120817_... 75% of women have their first child before age 30.
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Google Hangouts has a feature that sounds a bit like Comic Chat. When you type in certain phrases an animation will briefly play at the bottom of the window. Certain triggers I've noticed are "merry christmas", "happy bi
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Definitely a possibility, especially since two incomes are becoming so necessary.
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At 50 years old, most people's children would be having children of their own, let alone be out of the house. Retiring to spend more time with your adult children wouldn't make much sense when those children are likely just rampi
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From the conclusion: It is most implausible to suggest that giving birth and caring for young children is the predominant reason why female executive managers, who average 50 years old in our sample, quit. Other unobserved factors leading
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You just made me remember a scifi story I read probably 10-15 years ago that I really wish I could recall the name of, as I'd love to read it again. In the story a man is awakened from an especially long cryogenic sleep, and his brain
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by Zikes 11y ago
He's an engineer, not a politician. You don't get to vote on what he works on or decide what is important to him. Sintering is an emerging 3D printing tech now that the patent has expired. We can't predict what all the potent
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by Zikes 11y ago
Regardless of scientific truth, it still has colloquial value.
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This reminds me of that ASCII Star Wars telnet thing. How long has that been around for?
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Is this the same privacy watchdog that mandated "this site uses cookies" banners?
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Sounds to me like you're saying there's no objectively correct answer that works for all languages and situations, which I agree with.
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Dictatorial decree is a valid solution to some debates, especially the neverending ones. I actually think it's one of Golang's best features, having a built-in "go fmt" tool that automatically applies an opinionated sty
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by Zikes 11y ago
We really shouldn't get into this, but I can't help myself. - Every single text editor that's come after notepad.exe has had automatic tab/space conversion. Pressing tab inserts N spaces, pressing backspace un-indents
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Some of my favorite games have a large amount of chance. There's a variety of dice games called "press your luck" where you can roll a set of dice and accept the results as they are, or roll again and again hoping for better
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Someone recently posited a theory that really stood out to me: when a better version of a board game comes along, the old one simply becomes obsolete. The game that they were referring to in particular was Secret Hitler, which they felt ob
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I'm not implying any advantage, only reiterating that they're starting small and building up. My reply was aimed at "I don't think the smaller booster is harder. It's almost by definition easier." which the art
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> And the vertical landing architecture scales extraordinarily well. When you do a vertical landing, you’re solving the classic inverted pendulum problem, and the inverted pendulum problem gets a bit easier as the pendulum gets a bit big
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I think that would be best handled by manually coding a set of language synonyms, rather than substring searches. Shorter language names could cause problems in the latter, such as C and Go.
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> Early life is fragile > The aliens are silent because they are extinct > new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets I'm not disputing the science or studies the article refer
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There sure are a lot of confident yet highly speculative declarations about life in that article, in spite of the fact that we currently only have a sample size of one.
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In regards to self-hosting, there shouldn't be any copyright infringement as long as you are not re-serving the contents. Even then, there are exceptions, e.g. archive.org and Google Cache. The biggest likely legal concern is possible
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And in cases like this, standardization is just about the only way to ensure the feature's success. If every blog/publishing engine developed their own proprietary service for tracking linkbacks/mentions, it would likely neve
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Tubular, dudes!
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Gunpoint and Risk of Rain are really good low-budget games that fall into that middle ground category. I'm fairly certain each were made by a single developer, but have been very successful.
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I don't think it's necessarily so zero-sum. The videogame market is continuously growing, and competitively-priced indie games can still be a big success.
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I agree. The initial impression is that Greenlight makes it too easy, flooding the market with a lot of junk that makes it hard for the gems to shine through, but I've only seen more indie successes on Steam since its inception. I thin
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Is it really possible to have a casual Oculus Rift gamer, though? The Rift itself is $600 (which I think is entirely reasonable, by the way) but in order to drive the Rift properly you also need a computer capable of producing TWO simultane

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