erik998

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by erik998 10y ago
The linux kernel has so much more intellectual property to steal than your web app/phone app/sql queries. If your code is that valuable someone will buy your company. Everything out can be recreated. What can't be recreated i
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by erik998 10y ago
Is this similar to penny stock financing? Did you get many calls for these types of loans? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/josh-saso... Would these types of loans aggravate the situation? A
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by erik998 10y ago
I don't think marriage is bad per se, but the courts are being used to criminalize people for not paying debts which I don't agree with. Maybe posting some deposit reflecting the average cost of a divorce prior to getting a marria
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by erik998 10y ago
I don't think it's an exaggeration. In some areas its not permanent jail, you just go to jail on weekends. However, the structure of justifying best efforts to pay child support exists in a world of dad jobs. You can't get le
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by erik998 10y ago
The decline of these dad jobs will soon permeate itself into credit scoring as well. I have always thought of individual credit scores being a reflection of steady paycheck from a credit worthy employer and that individual's ability to
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by erik998 10y ago
I think it's not always a good gamble. Sometimes what they initially gamble on transforms into something they would not expect or consider as an investment. For the few success stories we hear, we never hear of the countless failures.
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by erik998 10y ago
The costs of a funeral, transportation, and legal work can be excessive. Additionally, no one plans to be shot at a young age. I am sure they would rather spend their savings on their children/healthcare/rent now that there is no
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by erik998 10y ago
Pay more taxes and strengthen public schools. Push public school education as John Dewey intended, for the betterment of civic society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey#On_education_and_te... """
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Isn't coordination between players what really happens in most poker games...
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Also checkout Steve Awodey's Category Theory book. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/category-theory-9780... On a personal note, I remember Awodey from my Senior Thesis seminar. He was very amicable and
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Yes, it has happened to me. Usually it some niche field or something no one understands. Sometimes they just need good people that can work effectively. I happily accepted the job and had a great time there. You can't determine much fr
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by erik998 10y ago
This article was great. It made me remember reading Scarne's New Complete Guide to Gambling long time ago. https://www.amazon.com/Scarnes-New-Complete-Guide-Gambling/d... He has a great story of how gamblers would
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by erik998 10y ago
Just use Mail-In-A-Box. It does IMAP and POP. https://mailinabox.email/
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by erik998 10y ago
Living near a warm ocean. It's one of the very few public activities that you can enjoy collectively with a group of strangers. It is relaxing whether you swim or just sit in awe of it. Miami Beach on a Saturday Morning is enjoyable if
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by erik998 10y ago
I think yahoo mail does not support it on the fly. You need to create the aliases prior to using them.
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Before doing anything mentioned, figure out if you can change your employment status to an independent contractor via an S-Corporation. This will allow you greater flexibility in creating a defined benefit plan and minimizing your taxes. h
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So revolutionary... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
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by erik998 11y ago
The best studies and books I have seen on Basic Income come from Guy Standing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_%28economist%29 "The Precariat" has some great ideas on how the relationship between t
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by erik998 11y ago
+++Beginning Logic by Lemmon. Great examples/problems to work on.
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The tragedy of Enron was the automatic investment plans in the 401k for most employees. The default choice was Enron stock. Also, depending on the nature of the matching contribution, Enron stock might have benefited from a larger matching
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by erik998 11y ago
+1 orgmode is the way to go. Everything is kept in a text file and you can have multiple text files. It's a bit of a learning curve but a quick tutorial and some practice can get you going. http://orgmode.org/worg/