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by drdec 6y ago
Except that the Fed is buying bonds that pay a higher rate that they borrow at (U.S. Treasury rate). So unless there is a lot of defaulting, they should be fine. It's like they are mortgaging the White House at 0.25% and buying bonds
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by drdec 6y ago
Ideally, you would address the underlying issues that caused this attempt to cash in on the .org domain at the same time. Or you would just be making whichever organization you choose a target for the underhanded types that infiltrated ISO
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by drdec 6y ago
People like to classify things. They like having neat buckets to place things in, give them a name, make them feel like they have a handle on it. The world is not easily classified. But people persist. So we end up with situations like &
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by drdec 6y ago
> I am confident that anyone who works with Oracle often uses the (+) inside a query to simply force an outer join. For the love of all you hold sacred, please don't do this.
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by drdec 6y ago
> At this point, it would be easier to just transfer over all the assets incl the PIR to an organization that is more worthy of our trust, such as the EFF. That would certainly work in the short term. In the long term however, wouldn&#x2
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by drdec 6y ago
I'd suggest changing it by a 12 hour delta. Then you are likely to start encountering it at the beginning of your day instead of in the middle of anything.
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by drdec 6y ago
TL/DR - Students in poverty lose more ground when not in school than other students. Having an extra three months at home will exacerbate this. In the US we have a school system where the children are off from school for about ten wee
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by drdec 6y ago
I was actually thinking specifically about TV ads. For example, drug companies advertise heavily during the evening news. Cereal companies advertise heavily during cartoons. It's always been this way.
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by drdec 6y ago
Not when you factor in that shutdowns didn't really start until the very end of the quarter. According to Wikipedia[1], earliest state stay-at-home order was March 19 in California and 19 states either waited until April or never issu
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by drdec 6y ago
> It seems like the number of ads has dramatically increased in more recent times Don't neglect to account that it may be that as you grow older, you are more likely to encounter these types of ads because the drug companies target
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by drdec 7y ago
What I would really like to know is - why did they choose the letters W and K?
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by drdec 7y ago
Both the 1600s and the 17th century are 100 years long.
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by drdec 7y ago
I think that PostgreSQL itself is great. However, the developer client tools (pgAdmin) leave something to be desired. The old pgAdmin3 was fine, if lacking bells and whistles. The new pgAdmin4 however, was not very good last time I tried
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by drdec 7y ago
Your proposed changes are not supported in IE 11. The snippets are advertised as IE 11+ compatible on the landing page.
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by drdec 7y ago
One aspect of this that the GP noted but has not been addressed, is the following. If you are an executive of the company you very likely have stock options which allow you to buy stock at a preferred (already set) price. Then you support
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by drdec 7y ago
I suspect I will shower just like the Romans did in the event there is no power.
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by drdec 7y ago
The reason for the reasonableness requirement is that in a normal year, you are required to pay that estimate on Apr 15 when you file the extension. If the estimate was too low, the IRS wants their pound of flesh. In a year where no one ha
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by drdec 7y ago
No, a Roth IRA is funded with post-tax money. A traditional IRA is funded with pre-tax money. Once you reach the correct age, money coming out of a Roth IRA is not taxed. Money coming out of a traditional IRA is taxed. As GP noted, contri
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by drdec 7y ago
Now imagine you are shopping for a family of six for an entire month and you have two carts bursting with groceries. Still think it's only a tiny improvement?
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by drdec 7y ago
Now I need to decide how many spoons to start the day with. Am I allowed to use the spoon for the decision of what to have for lunch to eat it or has soup just become much more costly?
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by drdec 7y ago
In the US, all the lotteries are run by states, not the feds. The state has no standing to forgive your taxes due to the federal government. So one would also have to pay federal income tax on lottery winnings. From there it varies by sta
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by drdec 7y ago
That only matters if you realize the gains. If you own a business like a hotel, car wash, etc. and intend to keep it, you are not affected by value increases of the business itself. In fact, for many privately held businesses, it is not e
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by drdec 7y ago
So what's the end game there - using voicemail as a poor man's texting?
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by drdec 7y ago
My alarm clock has the most brilliant feature - a two position slider for activating and deactivating DST. Took me less than a second to make the change this weekend.
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by drdec 7y ago
What's missing from this article is the current amount of the shortfall and what the historical value has been. Without knowing where we are coming from, there's no way to know how concerning this is.