jaggederest

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by jaggederest 8y ago
Except that is literally the solution, witness superannuation plans and social security systems around the world.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
At least when I was in that situation, people were absolutely willing to loan me money, but I consulted a securities lawyer and they said the terms of the lockup agreement prohibited any loan against the value, hedge, agreement to sell, col
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by jaggederest 8y ago
At least when I had stock in a lock up, it was not. Loan against stock is effectively a sale.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
You could be talking about my life. My family has the same characteristics, in my case both my parents and myself are clearly on the ASD spectrum. I do think that there's a ton that can be done by support. I think it's especially
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by jaggederest 8y ago
An acquaintance did this for knee surgery, I believe, to Spain. It was cheaper, and pintxos are much better recovery food than hospital jello.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
The cap ratio is based on base rent, rather than rent times occupancy. Especially if you have multiple properties, lowering the rent on any of them will negatively affect the rent on the others. This is especially true in commercial real es
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Earplugs under the headphones?
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Sure, people are playing Munchausen's by proxy with kids to get special treatment, and so are adults. By percentage, of the people out there claiming ASD? Negligible. It's not a fun diagnosis. Nobody's going to play it up for
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by jaggederest 8y ago
My problem, in general, is that I run just below redline normally. So any extra stressors and I'm kaput for a week.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
So the answer to the first question, fellow readers, is "Yes, but not to the degree that they read an article about it and wonder if that's them" It's like one of the pages with autism spectrum testing tools says: "
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Human sensorium is extremely flexible. The experiment I'm thinking of used subtle vibrating motors on a belt to indicate north, and people performed exactly as though they had suddenly acquired absolute directional sense with no awaren
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Seems a bit late. Counterfeits have been rampant since 2015 at least.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
You want to do oil analysis like the professional diesel mechanics do. Most people don't need to change their oil anywhere near as often as the manufacturer specifies. Especially for large diesel engines, it's often fine to run th
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Mitigating climate change is essentially going to cost all of the direct profit ever made by all the companies in the fossil fuel discovery, extraction, refining, and retailing businesses. Think 85 trillion USD, real value. That's ab
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Yes, from what I understand, the casino edge is required to be extremely precise. Returning too much money to gamblers is penalized just as harshly as returning too little. This is why casinos like you to gamble more, regardless of what for
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by jaggederest 8y ago
He talked about it at Railsconf 2009, as well. I remember that was the first time I installed it.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I just don't know why people think infinite growth forever is desirable, or even possible. 1% growth annually is more than a doubling every century. Speaking on a quantitative level, that seems insane to contemplate.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I'm chuckling because you're right on the same path I was, though I never bought any land. I think you're dead on when you say "a group of 10 people", and that's where you have to get into building community dy
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I mean that already exists, it's basically just an RV park, right? Without the philosophical bent and off-grid aspects, you can already find those things. I spent a big chunk of my childhood bumming around the country on vacation in an
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I've been working on the logistics of this and it's pretty tough. If everyone at your "semi off grid" live/work community works in tech, you have plenty of money but little free time, and end up bringing in most of
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Do you have any links? I browsed your submission history but it's fairly lengthy.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I've been meditating for approximately two decades, and I think it was clear to me from the beginning, more or less, that abnegation of the self was absolutely a possible pitfall: to be either conscientiously approached, carefully avoi
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by jaggederest 8y ago
It's called a pigovian tax, and it's widely considered the most efficient way to deal with these kinds of negative externalities. For most lower income households, they would actually be receiving a net increase in their income, s
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by jaggederest 8y ago
There's a similar concept to a Pigovian tax for fines, I think of it as a "Pigovian fine", which is the price at which the likelihood of getting caught times the fine exceeds the cost to pay the tax directly. So if you have a
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by jaggederest 8y ago
The problem with carbon taxes is that they kill too many sacred cows. Why do you think so many dollars are poured into obfuscation and delay? Exxon is not interested in suddenly having negative margins for the next century, nor are the cons
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by jaggederest 8y ago
The secret to good code review is addressing the code, not the person. Ask questions and make suggestions, rather than being critical of the other person. Instead of "Why would you ever do it this way?", try "I think I would
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Even if the problem was "bad coders", the answer is still better tooling. The tooling we have now is pretty poor, in general. Sure, we can catch certain classes of bugs. Many bugs still occur in areas that aren't covered by t
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by jaggederest 8y ago
I think if we could muster a couple hundred dollar per ton carbon tax and use the revenue for removal, that would do it. Means putting about 4% of global GDP towards it, forever, but it could certainly be done. Back of the envelope call it
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by jaggederest 8y ago
To add to the chorus, most ML dialects, Forth, Ruby, Self, Smalltalk, Python, Mozart/Oz, D, Julia, Lua; to a significant extent Perl, PHP, Nemerle, Octave, R, Javascript, shell, even venerable old SNOBOL.
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by jaggederest 8y ago
Yes, this is something I was unaware of. Essentially, after getting the measles, you end up needing to be revaccinated for just about everything. Nobody had ever mentioned that.

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