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by graedus 8y ago
I saw this in context, but in the end it doesn't make the piece defensible. The "counter opinion" was that you shouldn't buy (pre-order) the card yet . It's not like it was an NVIDIA hit-piece, just entirely reas
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by graedus 8y ago
One indicator people are talking about a lot lately is the yield curve flattening and inverting[0][1]. The yield curve tends to invert shortly before recessions, and is pretty close to doing so now. As always, there are a lot of arguments
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by graedus 8y ago
> I even buy gasoline this way, because prices at the pump seem to change almost randomly. I buy $25.00 at a time. So I buy more when the price is low and less when the price is high. At the risk of a joke flying right over my head, I&#x
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by graedus 8y ago
I managed to find that - thanks! A few other interesting angles: Household Debt Service Payments as a Percent of Disposable Personal Income[0] (10.3%, near 40-year lows), Consumer Debt Service Payments as a Percent of Disposable Personal I
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by graedus 8y ago
I briefly searched for inflation-adjusted debt per capita but couldn't find it. There is the federal debt to GDP ratio, which is 105%. This is at least a 50-year high[0]. FRED's household debt to GDP data doesn't go back ve
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by graedus 8y ago
> One time we had even already signed a fixed-bid contract before I was able to give them an estimate. Only one time?? Are you hiring? :)
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by graedus 8y ago
https://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_desk.html
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by graedus 8y ago
It doesn't work in desktop Firefox or Chrome either. I don't see any errors, so I think they just forgot to wire it up.
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by graedus 8y ago
"Oh, it's standard? Well ok then."
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by graedus 8y ago
I've never heard or seen it until this moment.
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by graedus 8y ago
Control+Alt+Shift+D in netflix to see information like the resolution of your video stream, bitrate, etc. As sibling comments mention, the max resolution can depend on your browser. On youtube, you can right click > stats for nerds for
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by graedus 8y ago
> PS, why do people stick their necks over the tracks to look if a train is coming? You can often see further down the tunnel from an angle close to the tracks than you can standing behind the yellow strip. If someone ahead of you on th
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by graedus 8y ago
I had to look this up. From Wikipedia: Stargate Project was the code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to
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by graedus 8y ago
In theory, discourages certain behavior with the threat of legal action. In practice, this doesn't work sometimes for various reasons. What if you're 95% certain you have the resources to crush your opponent in a legal battle, s
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by graedus 8y ago
> Ok well thanks to a few recessions I'm interested in this guy's[0][1] approach to take most of the downside risk out of recessions/bear markets/crashes compared to buy-and-hold. Basically, start with a diversified
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by graedus 8y ago
> Going out to party can also be fun but this becomes the difference in spending $20 at home vs $200 in one night. Agreed, but try not to be the person who refuses to ever go out because you're too focused on being frugal. A few ti
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by graedus 8y ago
As you might have guessed from the title, this is about Stuxnet, the advanced worm/cyberweapon which successfully targeted and damaged centrifuges at the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz in 2010. It is believed to have bee
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by graedus 8y ago
You think it is more likely for a poor person to ascend to a higher class than for a rich person to remain rich? That is surprising.
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by graedus 8y ago
Broadly, those with power and money. Having enough money to lobby congress is one manifestation of that. Having enough money to wage large multichannel PR campaigns on the population is another. Funding think tanks, funding PACs, ownership
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by graedus 8y ago
Same in Chrome and Firefox. Basically between 481px and 984px viewport widths, you're going to have horizontal scrolling. Can't say I've seen this approach to a responsive grid before. edit: I think 10 second fix is to just
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by graedus 8y ago
You can organize and vote all you want, but being one person out of 320 million, sometimes things aren't going to go your way. It is not a bad idea to have a backup plan, even for unlikely events. So then what? "Retire to the Ba
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by graedus 9y ago
You can listen to a classic example of this behavior from Comcast here: https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
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by graedus 9y ago
IIRC, their dual mandate is: "Price stability": sounds like no inflation or deflation to me, but in fact they pursue some non-zero amount of inflation, usually 2-3%. "Full employment": sounds like 0% unemployment to me,
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by graedus 9y ago
Right, but if the type of people having their guns taken away (say repeat violent offenders) or the type of guns being taken away (say automatics) are reasonable enough in the eyes of the people, you don't see a ton of resistance. Gun
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by graedus 9y ago
The original context of this thread (starting with user yequalsx's comment) isn't about "tighter gun controls", but rather the a complete ban of all guns ("I hope I am now seeing the beginning of the end of acceptan
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by graedus 9y ago
"If people doesn't have money, why doesn't the government print money and gives it to people?" Because people are not systemically important financial institutions :)
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by graedus 9y ago
> [...] both sides have no shortage or rich benefactors. I think the idea of "both sides" having rich benefactors grossly oversimplifies political alignment in the US. Perhaps you mean that there are both rich Democrats and ri
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by graedus 9y ago
> Then you've got companies like Dollar General betting on America having a "permanent underclass", their own words Interesting quote, thanks for that. However it's not "in their own words". The quote comes
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by graedus 9y ago
> less manipulation > If it goes in a funk, the government will think of ways to prop it back up I don't disagree with the second statement. I guess what you're saying is that there is manipulation (talking about government
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by graedus 9y ago
There was a popular one few years back called "money flipping". Mostly on Instagram and Facebook. Not sure if it was a pyramid format but definitely a get-rich-quick scam.

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