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by gascan 8y ago
Turn it around- perhaps the low risk individuals find subsidizing the high risk individuals equally repellent. Wellness programs allow those individuals to recover some of their premiums.
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by gascan 8y ago
I mean, maintainability aside they are a giant calculator right? You don't need to be running the latest, hippest web platform to do a good job at doing a lot of math. And, will any of the current en-vogue tech still be working in 50 y
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by gascan 8y ago
You don't need much land at all to plant a bee garden. You actually don't even have to have land. We've got a little wildflower patch, maybe six square feet. Was covered in all kinds of bees & insects last summer.
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by gascan 8y ago
The literal insect poisons, specifically.
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by gascan 8y ago
Physical therapists are not expensive, and most times prescribe a set of exercises to do at home. If your condition is really bad, you might go in for a visit once a month for six months. So you might be out $500, if you have a high deducti
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by gascan 8y ago
Then what drives inflation, if not for "people have more dollars to spend"?
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by gascan 8y ago
Yeah, with all the fuss people are making it almost seems like feigned ignorance. Hacking the original Xbox via software exploits depended entirely on rolling back the system to exploitable system software versions, and using old unpatche
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by gascan 8y ago
Guys, don't downvote him. Many parts of the world do it like that- your 30yr mortgage is really a series of 5yr balloon amortized for a 30 year period. They don't have the option of a true 30yr fixed.
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by gascan 8y ago
I only did it for a couple of years at 18 and I regret it to this day. Curious, have you ever talked to a physical therapist? I've learned a lot of the maladies people live with are correctable, even sometimes things that seem perman
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by gascan 8y ago
Blue collar jobs have gained a reputation of being jobs held by slackers or the less fortunate. Ironic given that plenty of blue collar professionals can make a lot more than your average worker in many degreed professions. (That's n
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by gascan 8y ago
In some sense, it's enviable to be in a position where bringing more solar power online will increase the production of your existing solar! (by eventually reducing coal emissions and thus pollution)
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by gascan 8y ago
Best way to start shifting mindset that I've found, is aggressively removing things that I miss & hurt a little. Switch to a flip phone for two weeks. Uninstall Chrome frequently. No email at all. I always cave & go back; maybe
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by gascan 8y ago
Have you tried setting up silent notifications for the things you actually care about, and muting the rest? E.g. I get silent notifications for my personal email, which means I'm never tempted to refresh my inbox but I'm also not
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by gascan 9y ago
It's worth remembering that once upon a time, at least, there was no such thing as index investing or even low cost investing. Trades & brokers were expensive, and shares were frequently literally pieces of paper. My father still h
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by gascan 9y ago
Individual investors are morons Speaking of individuals, 4. Individual investors can't sue and otherwise police the companies they hold very effectively. A large fund is in a better position to prosecute fraud and that kind of thing.
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by gascan 9y ago
Good point, although that wouldn't have meant anything if they kept plodding along with the Bulldozer family. Cut costs + bring new Ryzen chips to market, both parts were needed.
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by gascan 9y ago
Would it? Has "control costs" ever worked out as a viable long term strategy in a business that is rapidly losing market share to a sea-change in competitors?
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by gascan 9y ago
It's already only about 70% funded, per the article.
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by gascan 9y ago
But perhaps the most useful might be power-plant-equivalents. The Stockton Cogeneration Facility near San Fran had a nominal output of 60MW. Thus, around twelve of these mega-windmills would roughly equal the output of that coal plant.
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by gascan 9y ago
the parts that require hefty subsidies to serve places that have realistic alternatives You realize roads are built & maintained entirely at public expense? But we are so used to taking roads for granted. Public money spent on rail, i
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by gascan 9y ago
Why do you want rail to be scrapped?
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by gascan 9y ago
It also seems like the sort of thing android will eventually do for you, once it's developed & proven out. This isn't exactly old hat.
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by gascan 9y ago
Google suggests perhaps ~10 million rural houses in the US lack access to high speed internet. It's a nice thought, but where in the budget do you propose we find several tens of billions of dollars?
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by gascan 9y ago
If it matters, Capital One 360 is, or at least was, the old ING Direct USA. The whole division was acquired by Capital One.
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by gascan 9y ago
If you're concerned about that, you can always go with desktop software. Quicken will do "virtual accounts".
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by gascan 9y ago
> cryptocurrencies are not taxed on capital gains? Stocks are also property, and they are certainly taxed on capital gains. > If it is considered property then do people need to calculate their base price, profit and then pay taxes
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by gascan 9y ago
Adobe does a terrible job with multithreaded chips in general, it seems. Instead of investing in faster chips, is there faster software you can get for a couple hundred? Ex-Lightroom user here; got way more performance by changing tools tha
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by gascan 9y ago
They weren't pressured to like it, but without the "algorithm" showing it to them, they never would have discovered it.
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by gascan 9y ago
Usually it's in the past year, over some threshold, more than X times. Even the worst locations for air quality have many good days, and some locations with normally good air have terrible inversions. If you're in an ozone non-att
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by gascan 9y ago
There's more going for Summit County than clean air and wealth. http://www.businessinsider.com/summit-county-is-the-healthie... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-healthiest-state-in... htt

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