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by baking 10y ago
The angles are off by a factor of two. The difference between the two should be either 22.5° or 67.5° not 45° and 135°. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality
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by baking 10y ago
Presumably, collecting money from advertisers, not paying expenses (rent, employees, invoices) and stalling the inevitable by proposing ever increasing investments.
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by baking 10y ago
I understand the idea of avoiding inheritance tax, but that has become less of an issue with a $5.45M estate tax exemption. Leaving that aside, my question is why would my kids pay for my life insurance as an investment. Assume they have p
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by baking 10y ago
"life insurance is hands-down the easiest and lowest-impact way to pass wealth on to the next generation. . . . If you’re retired, your adult children should be paying the bill for you." Can anyone explain the math and/or log
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by baking 10y ago
If we were exceptional, we would expect the sun to be one tenth the size it is. Therefore we are not exceptional. Fine, but that same argument says that most life in the universe will be coming along in trillions of years and a fat lot of
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by baking 10y ago
Lesson learned is that if Google returns a result that doesn't appear to match your request, then ctrl-f is your friend. This applies in many areas besides programming.
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by baking 10y ago
Sometimes when I stumble reading poor English I wish there was a way I could gently, privately, suggest corrections without making the author feel criticized. I never feel it is appropriate to do so in a comment or reply because I am not cr
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by baking 10y ago
It has been a well established medical fact that the blood from a pinpick does not provide a representative blood sample for most medical tests, yet you are worried about Hollywood playing too fast and loose with the facts? Maybe you shoul
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by baking 10y ago
Also, reincarnation played a part in the American understanding. They were moving on to a new life and you wouldn't want to interfere. I'm not saying that this was a sophisticated understanding. These were random American servic
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by baking 10y ago
American GI's noticed the same thing in India during WWII but it was attributed to Hindu fatalism. I wonder if that cultural history plays an unspoken role too.
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by baking 10y ago
I recently started driving down Hampshire street on a regular basis and saw the old store front is now a fitness studio, but Eli's changed its business model in the 80's and still exists next door selling second-hand equipment. J
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by baking 11y ago
Providing super-duper proprietary info to their biggest advertisers that no one else has and no one else can verify? Absolutely!
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by baking 11y ago
The funds in the OP were Total Market Funds, not index funds.
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by baking 11y ago
You are only moving massive amounts of money if you are moving massive amounts of money. Having massive amounts of money invested in ETF's doesn't mean you are executing massive trades if you are holding endowments and your only
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by baking 11y ago
Another possible reason is that the college's calculators, while required by the federal government, are not terribly accurate. In fact, they are pretty much useless. A comparison would only show which calculators were out of whack t
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by baking 11y ago
Of course, that doesn't rule out that some folks might.
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by baking 11y ago
If the signs did not exist, it is delusional to say they were common.
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by baking 11y ago
Delivery was always at an established market point. Also, brokers would never let retail customers take delivery and would close out the trade because they would be at risk too.
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by baking 11y ago
Do you understand the differences and applications of "row stores" versus "column stores"? If SQL databases are optimized for the retrieval of entire rows or records, column stores are optimized for the storage and ana
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by baking 11y ago
He calls it "a DoS of ASCAP's licensing enforcement infrastructure" so presumably random letters about unauthorized "performances" will rack up huge legal bills to investigate hopeless dead ends or something like th
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by baking 11y ago
This is really long-term trend. First they thought at would plateau at 1 car per household, then 2 cars per household, then 1 car per licensed driver, and as it blew through all those "round numbers" (in the US) no one really kne
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by baking 11y ago
This is based on old data, but when I was working in energy consulting the number of miles driven per registered vehicle did not change much from year to year except when there were supply disruptions. Also, miles driven was an estimate ba
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by baking 12y ago
It's a garbled version of a latin exorcism: "Inimicus animo" http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/18/messages/777.htm...
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by baking 12y ago
I grew up thinking a roast beef sandwich was Arby's. I've since moved to the North Shore and fell in love with the local roast beef here. Not to say that they are any different from elsewhere, but I've always thought the nu
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by baking 12y ago
You take a sub roll, split it in half, slather it in mayo, layer on meat and cheese, then throw it in a pizza oven until the bread is toasty and the cheese is melted, then add the veggies. That is a grinder. Everything else is just a sand
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by baking 12y ago
>If you're fairly well off (parents earning $120,000/year), you can easily get a free education at one of the top schools. It is great that Stanford was able to offer free tuition (not free education) to whatever portion of the
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by baking 12y ago
It cuts off the end of the tail. Also look at how the tail of the "J" is done.
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by baking 12y ago
My daughter was almost scarred for life by it. I think she was about 8 and she had a friend living in our building who was 4 years older. The older girl was into scary movies and I mentioned how Alien, the first movie, was one of the scar
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by baking 12y ago
Paying ten cents for a bring you can reuse hundreds of time is much cheaper than paying ten cents for a brick that can only be used once and has to be kept with its mates in order to preserve the "value" of the kit. Also, paying s
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by baking 12y ago
Apparently words are hard to get right too. The last sentence of the first paragraph makes no sense in many different ways and the link is bad too. EDIT: Actually the HTML is mangled and a huge chunk of text is not visible.

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