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by briHass 4y ago
This is how it starts... Roth IRAs have always been built on a flimsy promise: pay your taxes now, and pay no taxes later. I strongly suspect in the near future, those individuals that were responsible and actually saved for retirement will
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by briHass 4y ago
I agree with all of this, but I will say that startups can be great for fresh college grads. Not every fresh grad can land a FAANG job, and a startup might be more willing to take a chance on a smart kid with minimal experience. Once there,
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by briHass 4y ago
This is why Microsoft Windows is so adamant about having you create an online account as your means of sign-in on modern Windows versions. FDE requires it on some versions. Telling users that forgot their password that not only do they need
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It provides a non-smooth surface to induce steam bubbles to form. I know in chem labs we used to use little chunks of ceramic for test tubes, but those aren't desirable in your tea.
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Other industries that depend on manufactured goods (not electronics) have been feeling this for a while. Tried buying HVAC supplies recently? Flex duct has been very difficult to get for the past year, as have many other supplies and of cou
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by briHass 4y ago
I don't think this is the flickering the original poster is referring to. Dimmers are a bit of a nightmare with LEDs, however. I usually buy high quality (pricey) dimmer switches and good quality LEDs that are listed by the dimmer as c
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by briHass 4y ago
> Realistically, however, it is rare to move more than one or two income brackets from where your parents were when they were your age. You state that like it's a bad thing. If you can bump a bracket or two per generation, 2 generat
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All that, in theory, would be tracked. The senior engineer would be able to point to the PRs/MRs with all the helpful comments that led to the code improvements. It wouldn't be hard to show calendar invites or whatever for pair pr
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by briHass 4y ago
As for the issues flushing large, ahem, amounts of waste with the low-water toilets, it's mostly just cliche now. When the restrictions were first added, the toilet manufacturers weren't ready. Probably a lot of the complaints wer
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One of the big benefits to drywall, that often gets missed in the typical libel it gets, is its fire resistance. It's basically a water-containing gypsum powder. Some areas where plywood would be preferrable for durability, like a gara
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by briHass 4y ago
The article is light on examples, but it talks about an 'alignment' which requires special tools because of: >Newer cars have advanced driver-assistance systems, which can keep cars in their lane, detect blind spots, and avoid
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by briHass 4y ago
Agreed. I feel like I live in crazy land, when there's so much focus on banning plastic straws and bags. Then, only to replace them with paper straws coated with (likely) some horrific chemical that still fall apart or 'reusable&#
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by briHass 4y ago
By that argument, nobody better live in dense urban cities, because there, almost 100% of the waste has to be trucked long distances to find somewhere it can actually be buried. Trash service -- whether paid directly (as in the suburbs) or
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by briHass 4y ago
I'm in agreement with the need for some NG powerplants, but it totally lost me with the need for residential dependence on NG. Their previous writeup on this topic is full of nonsense about heat pumps like: > The COP might be four a
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by briHass 4y ago
Still, it's an observational study with no reasonable, plausible mechanism of action presented. Worst of all, the study participant were in no way blinded: they knew, from testing, that they contracted a virus that was the constant foc
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by briHass 4y ago
This one helped me recently to access my UPS MyChoice account. Got an error message on login attempt, but really didn't give enough of a darn to waste my time calling their support (as was recommended in the message). Reddit was full o
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by briHass 4y ago
I agree with your broader point, but this statement strikes me as odd: > "I recall seeing a lot of articles indicating that there was a surge of young people in ER and articles showing obituaries of young people in order to hammer h
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by briHass 4y ago
A good amount of modern building code is related to energy efficiency. These standards applying to new construction make sense: it's only a marginal increase in cost to add insulation, use upgraded products, or ensure air-tightness dur
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I would guess that a large part of the discrepancy is due to the wholesalers' increased costs. I've noticed in an unrelated industry (HVAC) that the middleman supply houses have increased their prices at a rate that outpaces the b
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by briHass 4y ago
A big problem in this area is the public-run sewer systems, usually run at the township level. Many municipalities have sold to the big private water/sewer company, who immediately raised the rates by double or more. Naturally, the out
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by briHass 4y ago
Many modern heat pumps are much better than what you remember. Some maintain their full rated BTU output to 17F, or in the extreme models, 0-5F. They usually output some percentage of full BTU at even lower temps. The common Asian 'min
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by briHass 4y ago
Modern freezers really aren't that bad. Chest freezers being better than standing, because less of the cold air escapes when it is opened. The US requires all consumer appliances to have an Energy Guide sticker (the yellow and black th
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by briHass 4y ago
Not that I'm trying to psychoanalyze your mother, who has passed, but I'm curious if you've ever compared her behavior with Borderline Personality Disorder? I had a short (fortunately) relationship with a woman who was diagno
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It's actually a problem for those of us that actually use their garage for parking, as opposed to storing more junk. Most 2-car garages are around 20x20 or usable parking space or less. Even newer houses skimp on garages, because it do
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by briHass 4y ago
One of the major reasons why medical care in the US is so expensive is the over-reliance on expensive and often unnecessary testing. However, 'often' isn't the same as 'always'. Seeking to reduce costs means using h
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Very similar to the short-sightedness of encouraging and celebrating creative circumventions of typical government checks and balances (Executive orders and judicial rulings used instead of legislature, etc.), only to be shocked and appalle
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Personally, I like when I can listen to an interview/podcast where the host isn't trying to 'gotcha' the guest or trying to prove how smart they are. Rogan can go on some boring/unrelated tangents, but he's one
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Isn't that what a common table expression is? Basically a pseudo temp-table to break down queries. Of course, they also allow recursion, which you can't do with a temp table.
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Except that for checks, it's not the numerical part written in the little box that matters, it's the full written amount e.g. 'Five Thousand Three Hundred Fourty-Seven and 33/100' for 5,347.33. Similar rationale, th
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So you claim. Luckily, this is researched extensively, and schools must publish budgets. Typically, spending on 'instruction' is >60% of the expenditures, almost all of that is salaries and benefits. Capital outlay is usually a

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