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by cgore 13y ago
A few years back I bought a Carcano, the rifle used in the JFK assassination. I had always remembered every year some "firearms expert" being trotted out and claiming that there was no way that shot could have been made. I don&#x
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by cgore 13y ago
"But it's my right to make 24/7 video recordings of people I don't know eating at restaurants I don't own!"
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by cgore 13y ago
London is always going to be a worst-case scenario. You guys don't just have the journalist-making-a-hyperbolic-statement sort of royalty, you still have the for-real kind.
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by cgore 13y ago
The baby boomers are a major demographic event, and those will always have economic impact.
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by cgore 13y ago
On a government project? Never.
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by cgore 13y ago
Before the 1970's most professionals and union workers had fixed-benefit pensions run by large corporations, supervised by accountants with very serious looks on their faces. As 401(k)'s became common for normal workers, instead
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by cgore 13y ago
It is a snarky form of the statement, but basically the idea is that fiat currency is similar to corporate bonds. If you think General Motors is going to tank, you don't want their bonds, nobody does, they are junk. If Google were to
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by cgore 13y ago
The US Dollar is based upon the full faith and credit of the American nuclear weapons stockpile.
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by cgore 13y ago
36-54 is exactly the years that you will be told by everybody you know to go to a financial planner and "get serious about retirement".
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by cgore 13y ago
The legal structure that replaced pensions with 401k's and the like is considered the main source of the bubble. It isn't a coincidence that the dot com bubble happened right as all the baby boomers were hoping to retire.
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by cgore 13y ago
There are a few dietary supplements that voluntarily submit to FDA inspection of their facilities. Most don't. The protein powder I use is one of them: http://www.1stphorm.com/products/men/level-1 I wouldn&
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by cgore 13y ago
Politicians are typically quite rich, actually.
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Lots of people in the third world live on as little as $1 a day, so $50 is a huge help to them. And if you really want to keep it local, there are always local food banks and the like that you could donate directly to. It is good to volun
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by cgore 13y ago
Probably around that long. Perhaps less if things go well.
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by cgore 13y ago
Lutheran World Relief will gladly take donations over the web (even from atheists :-P ). They have a four star rating from Charity Navigator, which is a pretty good rating. All of their financial statements are available online. http:&#x
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by cgore 13y ago
I make a lot more than a lot of GenY, and have less student loan debt, and it is a MAJOR part of my budget. I don't see how someone with an average salary and average student loan debt could get a loan for a car or for a house.
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by cgore 13y ago
Another good reason for irons, they are a bit heftier than a lot of other small goods, giving less variance from the weight of a small chip.
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by cgore 13y ago
The notebooks I use: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/home-gift-patina-brown-drago... It has a dragon fighting a gryphon, which makes it much cooler than the moleskines. It's $50. On a serious note though, everybo
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by cgore 13y ago
I think all men are created equal and when someone looks way smarter than the rest, most often he is just faking it? I think all men are created equal and when someone looks way taller than the rest, most often he is just wearing platform
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by cgore 13y ago
Even older: Shakespeare seems to have invented :) http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/shakespeare-and-emoticons/ http://fifthcolumnistblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/shakespea...
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by cgore 13y ago
For my own references, I have a git repo in my home directory, ~/references/, which has everything I consider important stored as PDFs that I "printed" via Firefox. It is the only way to make sure it is still around.
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by cgore 13y ago
At the bottom of the page he mentions Yelp, and looking at their robots.txt they have this weird stuff for each of the allowed bots: Disallow: /biz/outlook-autumn-market-fundamental-catwalk-flimsy-roost-legibility-individualis
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by cgore 13y ago
Yes, in the USA, it is considered normal to take showers daily, at least with the middle class, and quite weird to not do so, to the point of being a major social impediment ("hey hippie, take a bath!").
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by cgore 13y ago
More space, less crime, parking, cheaper rent or mortgage, cleaner air, quieter, more green spaces, and typically only a 20-30 minute drive from the city if you actually want to go to something big-metro-specific, like the opera/museum
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by cgore 13y ago
The rent differential can be explained by nothing more than the natural dynamics of the situation. Want to live in a big city? Probably really want to live in NYC or SanFran, right? Whereas if you want to live "in the burbs", y
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by cgore 13y ago
What he is describing is basically an engineering notebook. I prefer paper, even for software, it just seems more natural to me. Plus I can easily add sketches and diagrams then. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_E
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by cgore 13y ago
I worked on this one for a little while: http://www.astronautics.com/index.php?q=content/electronic-f... I have trouble imagining either the iPad or the Surface being used for anything critical.
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And this is why trying to keep to some mythical "Neutral Point of View" is impossible.
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by cgore 13y ago
The whole article of theirs is nothing but a rehash of Hitchens' book. This is just character assassination and nothing more. http://www.catholicleague.org/canadian-atheists-rip-mother-t... It is also telling that Hit
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by cgore 13y ago
I like backpacking, and often spend money on topographic maps because of this (typically from mytopo.com). I do like this site's idea. It obviously wouldn't work as a map, but it might be nice to integrate a lot of standard topo

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