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Designs on the V.A.(nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 10y ago
The news in Japan is saying that they wiped it in his eyes, so washing may not have helped. Wouldn't have hurt, though...
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by hudibras 10y ago
For those looking to geek out on grip training: https://www.reddit.com/r/GripTraining/wiki/faq
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by hudibras 10y ago
>Imagine that you've just taken out a 40 year $500,000 mortgage. How happy are you going to be if next year your house is now worth $250,000 but you still owe $490,000 on it? The thing is, this is exactly what happens with everythin
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by hudibras 10y ago
De rigueur for any HN mention of RadioShack: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
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by hudibras 10y ago
Here's the other side of the story, it's right in the article: >The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington declined to comment Wednesday on why the journalists had been charged along with protesters.
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by hudibras 10y ago
The article is about how primary care physicians help people, and so the author includes a section about a person who thinks that a primary care physician helped him. This form of the written word is generally known in English as "jour
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by hudibras 10y ago
>The "similar size" ship dropped from 333 crew to 221 crew. The ratio of enlisted to officers on a specific ship class can be misleading because there will always be a certain number of positions on any warship which will requi
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Saturn's Moon Daphnis Creates Spectacular Ripples in Saturn's Rings(slate.com)
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by hudibras 10y ago
No joke, here's a TED talk on the subject: https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes
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by hudibras 10y ago
Oh, wow, I never knew this. Thanks for the tip!
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by hudibras 10y ago
They don't publish statistics on employees' ages, disabilities, or veteran status, though.
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by hudibras 10y ago
My guess is that this is the reason Google is fighting it, not sex or racial discrimination. Google's lawyers took one look at the age distribution of the company (or of new hires) and said "oh dear."
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by hudibras 10y ago
That's the whole reason the government is taking them to court: Google and the Labor Department have a disagreement and a judge will figure it out.
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by hudibras 10y ago
As the filing says, Google signed a contract which included a clause agreeing to "permit the Government to inspect and copy any books, accounts, records (including computerized records), and other material that may be relevant" et
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by hudibras 10y ago
Good point, thanks.
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by hudibras 10y ago
You're mostly right, but it's also the spreading of risk across many employees (including future employees, not even hired yet) which make pensions viable.
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by hudibras 10y ago
The HN crowd will never believe this, because it runs contrary to the beliefs of libertarianism and the what-I-vaguely-remember-from-Econ-101 crowd, but correctly-funded public pensions are completely sustainable. The main reason is that pu
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by hudibras 10y ago
UN pension is 1.5% per year, which you can start collecting when you're 62 years old. Not that unreasonable.
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by hudibras 10y ago
This article [0] says its capped at 90% for 30 years of service, which is not the same as 100% for 25 years. But I'm still genuinely interested in finding an example like koolba mentioned. [0] http://www.theatlantic.com/
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by hudibras 10y ago
>Any system that tells a worker they can work for 25 years somewhere then receive 25+ years of pensions at their inflation adjusted final salary is a crock. Nice strawman you got there. I doubt there's even one pension plan, public
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by hudibras 10y ago
We apologize for the convenience.
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by hudibras 10y ago
All of this is correct, but the standard S&P 500 index doesn't include dividends, so your typical index fund will (should) do 1-4% better each year than the S&P 500. The S&P 500 does have a lesser-known version that include
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by hudibras 10y ago
William Poundstone is one of my Guilty Pleasures. I've been reading (and re-reading...) his books for years, starting with his Big Secrets series, and he is always interesting and thought-provoking, while not taking himself too serious
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by hudibras 10y ago
At the Battle of Midway, forty-one TBD Devastators were launched between 7 and 9 a.m. By 11 o'clock, 35 had been shot down. After the battle, all other Devastators were withdrawn from non-training units and they never again flew in com
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by hudibras 10y ago
>Why don't rich countries like the US, Switzerland or Japan not print money to cover their spending? The two words that are most likely to cause a old-fashioned Hacker News libertarian-slash-armchair-economist freakout: "print
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Q&A with Jack Bogle: ‘We’re in the Middle of a Revolution’(bloomberg.com)
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by hudibras 10y ago
Bingo!
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by hudibras 10y ago
On holidays and other special occasions, Navy ships will hoist a rainbow array of signal flags up and over the mast to look pretty. (Full dress ship, [0]) The flags for full dress ship are not chosen by the ship, however. They are mandated
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by hudibras 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the author is aware of this, since this is an excerpt from her upcoming book about Ray and Joan Kroc.

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