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hellogoodbyeeee
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hellogoodbyeeee
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I don't think so. I think the actual headline (after IBM's pr machine gets involved) will be, "IBM successfully limits spinach e coli outbreak to only 56 people across seven states."
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hellogoodbyeeee
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How? It shows divorce rates have fallen over the last ten years for all age groups except the oldest.
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I got a severance package from a part time bank teller job after they closed the branch I worked at. I also got a severance package when a small business I worked at went under. I'd say severance packages are a lot more common than you
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The law of supply and demand is a law, but many people don't understand that it is a law in a very basic economic model with major assumptions. If you remove the assumptions in real life, then of course the law will no longer always ho
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hellogoodbyeeee
8y ago
>if they have any whiff of the kind of status- or compensation-driven thinking displayed in this comment section. Whenever I hear about an employer that doesn't want employees who want to get paid a fair market value, I just assume
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I enjoy driving a manual because of how it feels to change gears. I don't think a racing Sim will ever be able to capture that feeling because you are only moving a joystick, not forcing a complex machine to change gears.
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I think we are still in the wild west of the Data Science field, at least in the Midwestern U.S. I have seen job postings for Data scientists that are simply rebranded data analysts to postings looking for advanced math and programming abil
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8y ago
What year did you refinance and get a 1.25% rate?
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8y ago
I think he means they are as good as dead. They are so useless, they might as well be dead.
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This is such a strange sentiment to me. You would never hire an amateur Carpenter to work on your house. You would never hire an amateur DBA to build your company's key data architecture. But you want the people who run the country to
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8y ago
I don't know what Midwesterners you talk to, but everyone in my neck of the woods uses spicy to mean hot-spicy.
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8y ago
Or maybe we didn't survive. Life expectancy was half what it is today for most of humanity up until 1900. Even if you remove childhood deaths, life expectancy was still only about 33 years in the Paleolithic era. I don't understan
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People put food in the fridge to slow bacteria growth. This quote is from a USDA Health brochure >Bacteria grow most rapidly in the range of temperatures between 40 ° and 140 °F, doubling in number in as little as 20 minutes. This rang
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When you buy a used car, you pay sales tax on the purchase price less the value of your trade in. So effectively, you need a private sale offer of at least the sales tax rate higher than the trade in offer to break even. Sales tax wouldn&#x
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I think the article is saying that had he received a loan at a 4% rate for 25 years he would paid the same amount toward the bill as he is currently doing for loans at a 7.25% rate with loan forgiveness at the end. The 4% is a hypothetical
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I'm a little confused about what his average interest rate is, but if you assume .0725 (or .11) then the following math holds: if he had choosen a ten year repayment plan after he graduated then his payment would have been $7k/mon
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hellogoodbyeeee
9y ago
BRK.B is closer to a mutual fund than a "single stock"
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9y ago
I found this article yesterday and I think it answers part of your question: https://hackernoon.com/4-alarming-reasons-ripple-might-not-b...
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9y ago
Is cracking the coding interview useful for learning comp sci topics or is it more of a cramming tool for interviews at big tech companies?
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My taste preferences have gone through a pretty radical change over the last three years or so. I never liked spicy foods before, but I started to use Sriracha which led me to search out other spicy foods. Now I feel very unmotivated to go
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I feel pretty passionately about protecting national land. Are there any recommendations on how to best support it? I don't live near any federal lands and I'm generally don't trust lobbyist groups. Should I be donating to th
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If you are interested in an alternative perspective, you should go read the "E-Myth" by Michael Gerber. It is ostensibly about entrepreneurship, but all his points apply equally to those in all types of leadership roles. An organi
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Your statistic is skewed by people that get married young and have low education. College graduates have a divorce rate closer to 25% https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divor...
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> I have mined and sold data to hedge funds Are you able to tell more about what types of data this was? I'd be interested in hearing more. I love the story of hedge funds using satellite imagery of parking lots to predict retail st
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> What has helped since then is massaging my glutes thoroughly with a lacrosse ball regularly. Foam rolling my back, glutes, ITB and quads. Strength training for the back, core and upper body in general. For the record, this is what a go
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I don't really care where the money goes. I think that having one catastrophic event (huge lawsuits or fines leading to bankruptcy) for a corporate entity because of negligent security measures may lead other board rooms to move securi
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I'm pretty sure the Kansas City Metro (where Sprint, Garmin, and Cerner are located) has positive population growth.
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I'm pretty scared of the Lone Star Tick bite causing me to become allergic to beef. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
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How are you opposed to net neutrality? All it does is aim to keep anyone from controlling the pipes that connect the internet. My favorite way of thinking about NN is to compare it to toll roads. Without NN, you could end up with a situatio
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My plan was to set my camera up on a tripod facing my family and record our reactions and the transition into and out of darkness on the landscape behind us. I'm not sure how good my dslr does at transitioning exposure on it's vid
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