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by aj7 5y ago
How many dollars did it take to cure Stage 1C breast cancer in 1635? How much did a Facetime call to Peru cost in 1635? Ridiculous. The deflator is useful only in the short term. If that.
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A Russian fighter jet has intercepted a U.S. spy plane over the Pacific Ocean(msn.com)
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by aj7 5y ago
But not iMessage, so I still can't send a simple text message from a decent app from my Win 10 computer.
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by aj7 5y ago
No. Read the article again with an eye towards enforced structure. A software package may not suitable for a task, despite the efforts of the programmer.
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by aj7 5y ago
PowerPoint’s cognitive vagueness and thinness meet a fundamental need. 95% of these presentations are done by individuals that seriously lack the organizational POWER to deal with issues. So they are often show and tell, directed so as not
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by aj7 5y ago
Exactly.
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by aj7 5y ago
Reading between the lines, they started out by “designing” i.e. choosing genetic sequences. But they found out it was more efficient to generate more virulent viruses simply by natural selection in mouse and human respiratory cell cultures.
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by aj7 5y ago
Warning. Taleb is a kind of performance art.
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by aj7 5y ago
I had a friend who barely knew anything about software, but was fairly motivated. He was offered $40k in 1980. At the sane time, I was making $28k with a PhD in Physics working on lasers. We were young guys, it ruined our relationship.
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by aj7 5y ago
I remember precisely when engineers started getting paid for the first time. 1999. Warning. It’s lifetime expectation of earnings, not instantaneous earnings, and when changes devalue your skills, you’ll be in denial.
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by aj7 5y ago
You are right. But they were not millionaires when $1M was “real money.” Inflation has a lot to do with that. The garbage house in Sunnyvale I bought for $128k in 1979 dollars is worth $2.2M today, but I assure you, it’s still a garbage ho
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by aj7 5y ago
In my fifties, I finally figured out that the INTEGRAL constuitive relations for inductors and capacitors were much more fundamental than the differential ones. Solved virtually all understanding problems for me.
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by aj7 5y ago
That’s the discrete Fourier transform. The difference is quite significant.
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by aj7 5y ago
Fidelity gave me an EXAM on options concepts before allowing me to trade them. I made one trade, then realized it’s a casino where the sharks take money from the fish. I reasoned that options trading is a full time job to be successful.
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by aj7 5y ago
Yes, I had that thought too. My wife is an artistic, leftist resister type with a background in ballet, dance, and education. She watches the Kardashians, all the Housewives, the Shahs, all that crap. She doesn’t aspire to this either. She
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by aj7 5y ago
That’s easy. A government decides to collude with healthcare-for-profit. So they allow any provider to demand your genetic sequence. As things are discovered, they price your healthcare accordingly, economically disadvantaging you based o
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by aj7 5y ago
You keep talking about rent seeking behavior. Rent seeking is when an asset is owned or monopolized in such a way that the owner can experiment with putting up prices without delivering any extra value. It is a very secure and sought after
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by aj7 5y ago
I wouldn’t get sequenced in America with the fascists so close to control.
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by aj7 5y ago
A lot of books are written to claim “ownership” rights over certain ideas. These “rights” are convertible to other items of value: lectures, consultancies, academic appointments, jobs of all kinds, etc. This is almost the sole rationale fo
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by aj7 5y ago
This neglects the effect that writing things down has on the other media.
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by aj7 5y ago
I think your comment is more sophisticated and useful than my “pornography for women”. What I was getting at in particular was that fantasies of luxury, arbitrary amounts of money, clothes, homes, vacations, and being listened to, resonate
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by aj7 5y ago
About the only thing practical thing that valve does is perhaps lengthen the time fir the tank to rust out. Any serious industrial installation winds up with a refrigerated water removal unit.
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by aj7 5y ago
Pornography for women works completely differently than pornography for men.
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by aj7 5y ago
Here is what I wrote: There are straightforward language and practices that the FTC should mandate for online purchases. 1. The FIRST option in any screen or sequence that could result in a purchase must be affirmatively worded to clearly
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by aj7 5y ago
Indeed, various actions by seller can affect his yield. Nevertheless, all funds in a real estate transaction COME from buyer. Once you get this, you've learned something.
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by aj7 5y ago
I'm too old to be bothered by a UI that doesn't work. I get by with Apple Books.
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by aj7 6y ago
The buyer pays the costs of EVERYTHING. This does not mean that the deal isn’t good. The seller does not bring money to the closing. He brings the house title, figuratively.
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by aj7 6y ago
No, it’s not. Read it again. ONLY THE BUYER brings money to the closing. Of course, how much is open to negotiation.
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by aj7 6y ago
This is possible everywhere. Practicality varies.
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by aj7 6y ago
All funds, repeat ALL FUNDS, from a real estate transaction come from buyer. Some of these funds are returned to seller, and buyer receives title to a house. Study this. It is more subtle than it sounds, especially in light of the closing

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