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by achenatx 4y ago
there are a variety of caveats, on your side it is per entity. If you are married it is 500K, if you have a trust it is like 1.25M. 250K for each beneficiary up to 5 (or something like that).
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by achenatx 4y ago
<<One of the most useless questions you can ask a kid is, What do you want to be when you grow up? The more useful question is: What are you good at?>> The author makes this ridiculous assertion. When people first do anything th
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by achenatx 4y ago
my daughter is in advanced algebra II as a freshman. She is not naturally good at algebra. What this means is that she simply needs to work harder. The school estimates 3-4 hours/work a week for advanced algebra. My daughter does 10-15
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by achenatx 4y ago
we should be giving tax breaks to move mfg to south/central america. We would make them rich and possibly illegal aliens.
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by achenatx 4y ago
i thought they had done this with the federalist papers to determine which founding fathers wrote which papers (1996) https://www.jstor.org/stable/30204514#:~:text=They%20were%20... . This is 2017 https://tow
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by achenatx 4y ago
being around people takes effort. It is easy to get used to that lack of effort and mistake it for "loving to be alone". For the last two years I worked from my bed and would mostly be in bed all day. I train brazilian jiu jitsu s
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by achenatx 4y ago
I dont think this is mostly true. All government services I have used recently are accessible without the internet. It is highly inconvenient without the internet, but not required.
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by achenatx 4y ago
you absolutely shouldnt rely on a single email provider. Instead own a domain and use that domain to forward to whatever email provider is most convenient.
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by achenatx 4y ago
thats exactly the problem with quotas and biased hiring. If it exists people will assume any given person was actually less qualified and got in because of the quota.
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by achenatx 4y ago
I use it for groups. Many of our local clubs do great on facebook
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by achenatx 4y ago
my daughter is 14, her friend makes $17 hour working at a juice store. She makes about 300/week. In 1987 I was making about 25/hour doing programming as a senior in high school. There are always opportunities and those opportuniti
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by achenatx 4y ago
I dont get this at all. All salary goes into shared accounts, savings gets done first, bills come out etc. We each get an allowance from what is left. This is money that can be spent without judgement/agreement etc. The my money and yo
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by achenatx 4y ago
Im looking for a phone with no or limited screen that is as small as possible that has very long battery life. It could connect wired/wireless to video glasses, handheld screens, TVs, or whatever for video. It could connect to headphon
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by achenatx 4y ago
not really, any structure that can absorb energy and replicate could initiate life. nucleotides spontaneously form, then start to bind to each other in chains. Those chains spontaneously fall apart and reform. amino acids start to bind to t
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by achenatx 4y ago
the 24/7 news coverage is causing mass shootings. It is well established that coverage of suicides leads to more suicides. When you look at murder rates, they are concentrated in certain demographic groups and certain areas of the coun
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by achenatx 4y ago
you say that from the comfort of your own fully stocked home. When your child is starving your perspective will likely change. Even if it doesnt, other people will be coming for you. If a group attacks other people, someone has to band toge
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by achenatx 4y ago
you can look at modern apocalypses to see what might happen; in rwanda hundreds of thousands of people were murdered in ethnic violence https://www.un.org/africarenewal/web-features/i-was-tested-l... in aleppo, bl
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by achenatx 4y ago
there is no one reason why we dont have basements, but it is more likely to do with the fact that up north they have to dig deep (3-4 ft) for the frost line. If you are digging that deep anyway, you might as well go an additional 4-5 ft and
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by achenatx 4y ago
the media treats it that way, but the government and many non profits work to reduce total deaths. You just dont hear about it because the media gate keeps the news. seatbelts, car seats, antilock brakes, medians in dangerous intersections,
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by achenatx 4y ago
kids are much safer in school than they are in a car or at home, yet parents are incredibly fearful of school shootings. What makes people afraid is driven by the media, not by statistics.
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by achenatx 4y ago
in the texas freeze last year natural gas never stopped flowing even though power was out for about 5 days. I cut the wire to my gas furnace and put a plug on the end. My small 2kw generator could easily run the blower on my gas furnace. We
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by achenatx 4y ago
bear in mind that 20% down is often times losing 100% of your capital due to leverage.
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by achenatx 4y ago
My life turned out great and I wouldnt trade being gifted for not being gifted. We do focus our kids on working hard. They get praise for trying hard, incremental improvements, focus, advance preparation, and leadership. We never praise the
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by achenatx 4y ago
during the freeze in texas last year I cut the hardwired cable to my furnace and added a plug. I plugged that into an extension cord to a 2kw honda generator and it worked great. I had an electrician clean it all up after the freeze so my f
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by achenatx 4y ago
not necessarily. One of the things Ive come to understand is that economic efficiency is not always the top priority. In many cases people want reduced variance. In return they are ok with less efficiency. Economics can predict the outcome,
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by achenatx 4y ago
the difference between economics (or science) and religion is that economics is used to predict the future. When economics fails to predict the future, the models are changed until they can predict the future. religion tells you what goals
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by achenatx 4y ago
>>The only thing that has "inherent" value to humans is air/oxygen, shelter, water, and food. Everything else is psychological projection for convenience. This isnt really true. If you put someone in solitary confinemen
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by achenatx 4y ago
medicine is like being a mechanic for the human body. You are mostly doing the same thing every single day and the rate of change/innovation is extremely slow. Science also moves extremely slowly. You can spend your whole life studying
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by achenatx 4y ago
hard work can compensate for a lot when you are solving problems that have already been solved with known answers (e.g. school) . When you are solving totally novel problems with no known solutions things get much harder and you start to b
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by achenatx 4y ago
it is incomprehensible to me that people can be "anti capitalists" when capitalism has reduced poverty and suffering to the lowest level in human history. Socialist countries routinely nationalize food production and immediately c

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