jumbopapa

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by jumbopapa 6y ago
I agree that there is fat to be cut, as with a lot of the government. That said, hasn't it been pretty well documented that these areas that experience the riots have a drop in police presence after the fact and typically have worse co
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
Interesting news. I've heard that real estate prices haven't budged much and with the stock market remaining relatively strong, I wonder if we will see a corresponding rebound in rent sometime soon.
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
> “Here you are free to criticize the government as well as to fight fake news. We have a great startup and tech ecosystem, your company would be a perfect fit and I will open any doors for you!” As if that's not the case in the US?
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
Yeah, but how many people come back to make a purchase after the site is back up? I don't think you can just extrapolate that 1 minute down equals $500k lost revenue.
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
The economist comes out weekly.
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
You mean like Walmart?
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by jumbopapa 6y ago
I think I overall enjoy WFH, that said, my quality of life would be greatly improved if I lived in a larger home rather than my one bedroom apartment. I've seen some people predict that a surge in home buying may follow the pandemic be
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
just buy VTI. No use in speculating when VTI alone will go buy 50% to reach the previous highs.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
I think handing out checks during a crisis is vastly different than doing it all the time.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
> In today’s world, the physical store can no longer compete with the web’s infinite selection, but can still offer value in curation and presentation. Could not agree more. I always feel like I'm taking a risk when ordering an item
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you've fallen trap to the pie fallacy mentioned in the interview.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
At what point does this logic stop? I see it all the time to justify taxes, but I'm sorry I think there is an upper bound of justifiable tax and a 40% exit tax certainly seems egregious.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
The Bogleheads wiki should really be the first stop for financial questions. It's a fanatic resource and I found the answers/content to be higher quality than Reddit.
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Amazon Cancels On-Site Job Interviews over Covid-19, Ask Workers to Avoid Travel(gizmodo.com)
7 points by jumbopapa 7y ago|1 comments
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
It is my understand that it is highly unlikely an uninsured person would ever pay anything close to the billed "price." Same is true for insurance companies. Edit: Some are telling me this isn't true, but what does a hospital
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Why not just setup a cron job to run a reboot command daily?
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Email – Donald Knuth(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
1 points by jumbopapa 7y ago|0 comments
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Sure. Basically all these new checking and savings accounts that are coming out, Robinhood, Google, Credit Karma, etc., are actually being serviced by a real bank.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
I recently read The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life and a lot of that book focused on newspapers. Buffet delivered papers as a boy, had a big legal battle to buy a local Buffalo, NY paper, won a Pulitzer at the Omaha Sun fo
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Block Javascript.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Unfortunately, much of what we read isn't retained. However, the small amount that is retained compounds, so it's not a lost cause.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Interesting that the market is at an all-time high and companies still feel their stock is cheap enough to warrant investing in. When will this bull stop?
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Yes, I believe any diet that "works" is just the diet happening to make it more manageable to reduce calories below expenditure. A similar diet I've read about is one meal a day. The basic idea is that you can eat whatever yo
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Then I will concede that this option won't work in her case. Doesn't change that education is one of the best choices that she has.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
You're right that YMMV, but it is an option with some providers. Even with the penalty you get more income.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
It's a dollar for dollar match on up to 7% of pay. Let's say she makes $100. She puts in $7 and her employer also puts in $7. That's $14, and upon early withdraw she would pay $1.40 (penalty) + income tax (likely $0). She wou
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
My larger point is that the formula for improving your situation isn't that hard. You may endure hardship on your path, but for many it is within reach.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
I laid out two things she isn't doing that she can do today to improve her situation. I'm not ignoring a problem, but offering advice. Teach a man to fish, as the saying goes.
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
I'm saying she puts it in and takes it out as soon as she can. This gives her more disposable income. The only issue I see is the time it takes her to make the first distribution, but then she shouldn't have any issues with laggin
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by jumbopapa 7y ago
Does that not imply a degree of hardness?

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