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by aj7 6y ago
Maybe you have all smart relatives. But there is a certain cruelty in doing business by deceiving people, and where the remedy is ex post facto “raising your education level” to become less deceivable.
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by aj7 6y ago
I’ve seen ca. 6-month price changes, and a complete reordering of the price ranking among pharmacies. Just go to the new pharmacy and have them transfer the Rx.
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by aj7 6y ago
This is standard pharmacy behavior. Has nothing to do with GoodRx, which is an advertiser. Pharmacies determine all prices. Different pharmacies have different loss leaders each month. You go to the GoodRx “best” price pharmacy with your b
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by aj7 6y ago
Indeed. Have used GoodRx since inception, plus Canada-UK. Costco is best, especially when you get your MD to prescribe 365 pills. Then come the supermarkets. Rarely CVS or Walgreens. Going on 8 years, I realized insurancee pharma was a tot
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by aj7 6y ago
Early versions of Excel perfectly scaled the axes of scatter plots, even going so far as to use round numbers on the gridlines. The same versions had an auto-record macro language that was easy to learn and implement. Both have been lost
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by aj7 6y ago
As it is, Germany’s permissive culture can turn a bachelor’s degree into a five-year fully paid for party.
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by aj7 6y ago
If you have GOOD mortgage terms, (1) any prepayment should go to PRINCIPAL and (2)there should be NO prepayment penalty. (1)is sacred. If you don’t have (1), you are a noob. (2)is sometimes bargained away to get a lower interest rate, often
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by aj7 6y ago
You’re not wrong.
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The Computer Game That Led to Enlightenment(newyorker.com)
2 points by aj7 6y ago|0 comments
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by aj7 6y ago
Reddit: 1. Amateur porn aggregators. 2. Financial noobs with Robinhood accounts. Fight me.
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by aj7 6y ago
Exactly.
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by aj7 6y ago
I prefer PDFs on the web for serious reading. They have the least probability of having disruptive background processes and jarring graphics. It’s a pleasure when I’m alerted to a lawsuit dropping on Twitter, and I can find the actual pdf
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by aj7 6y ago
At Lefferts Junior High School, in Brooklyn, a keyboard with blank keycaps did NOT make me an expert typist.
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by aj7 6y ago
I hope you can afford my answer. It’s time to live your life for you, not “them.”
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How Trump’s ban of TikTok might work – or not(protocol.com)
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by aj7 6y ago
Yeah, but just in time, the five-dollar-foot-long is back.
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by aj7 6y ago
Well, it’s work and expertise on his part, is it not?
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by aj7 6y ago
Of course that’s what they do, in most cases. The real trick is to get your mind enrolled in the intricate fiction of how.
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by aj7 6y ago
You have never held a baseball, or seen its ~30% deformation when it is hit by a bat that reverses its momentum. It is hard. One fellow just does card decks. Perhaps he has a set of special tools. But a baseball?
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by aj7 6y ago
Even if this were attempted successfully, around the baseball is uniformly spun thin yarn. The round shape is created by doing this accurately. And then you tightly sew the horsehide halves together? Are you kidding me?
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by aj7 6y ago
Fraud, involving a means of removing and reattaching the bottle base, is much more likely than any of the methods I see suggested here.
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by aj7 6y ago
At Berkeley, the following phenomenon was well known. Towards the end of your program, you’d have to “fight” your advisor to finish. (You were trained, productive, and still earning the salary of a second-year grad student.) The “pets” di
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by aj7 6y ago
Very honest and correct. At least in the sciences, there are “outs” in related business and engineering careers.
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by aj7 6y ago
The variation among thesis advisors within a given doctoral program is sufficiently great that it should be We need a Yelp for doctoral thesis advisors. I think the author was reluctant to “go there.”
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by aj7 6y ago
Effectively, yes. But I attach no greater philosophical significance to that than to say drilling holes is solved because most people can go buy a nice electric drill foR $30-$40. Flying to the moon is solved, too.
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by aj7 6y ago
I fear he has been put in place to “package a portfolio.” At his level of expertise, I see little else he could accomplish in the short time remaining.
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by aj7 6y ago
Serious security risk. When he falls out of favor, likely in six months, what he knows becomes part of his “business portfolio.” If you think this has low probability, remember it’s probability * consequences that matters.
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by aj7 6y ago
It’s on iCloud.
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by aj7 6y ago
What a nightmare. Icelandair was a well-run airline that was a pleasure to fly.
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by aj7 6y ago
Not only are we all somewhere on a spectrum, we’re on a linear combination of different spectra.

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