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by keernan 5mo ago
I read the article as defining bullying as kids posing physical threats to others. Yet, the memory that immediately jumps into my mind is of a boy who always wore a jacket and a hat with ear muffs inside school who would hold his books to h
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by keernan 5mo ago
They sell fewer than 400 machines a year. https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/q4-2025-fin...
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by keernan 5mo ago
The extent to which the society is focused upon assuring every member of society has an equal say in how society functions.
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by keernan 5mo ago
The Excel VBA debugger isn't much different. I love the VBA debugger. It is so seamless to step through code - correct in place - continue stepping to be sure the code works (split screen to see the code and its impact in the worksheet
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by keernan 5mo ago
Wrote a time keeping/billing system in Foxbase. Converted to FoxPro when windows arrived. Eventually ported to VB.
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by keernan 6mo ago
>>Plants can ‘hear’ rain coming, spurring them into action >>Even before water reaches them, the sound of droplets triggers germination in rice plants >>Rice plants sense the sound vibrations of raindrops hitting the groun
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by keernan 6mo ago
"liberals" "centrists" "conservatives" "radical Left" "the center" "moderates" "swing voters" "liberal msm" "anti-American radical Left" "moderat
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Our Tax System Should Make You Furious(nytimes.com)
2 points by keernan 6mo ago|1 comments
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by keernan 6mo ago
Free gift link
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by keernan 6mo ago
>>Until people with salaries Salary (income) is a horrible choice to serve as the marker to determine a person's (family's) fair share contribution to the burden of paying the costs to operate a society. Not everyone is so p
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by keernan 6mo ago
It's interesting how often posts get flagged if there is any negativity towards a billionaire tech bro.
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by keernan 6mo ago
Size and success is not a diversification factor. Investment history is scattered with the bones of 'golden child' companies that never saw the death train coming at them through the tunnel. Intel. Nokia. Blockbuster. Yahoo. Moreo
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by keernan 6mo ago
I have read John Bogle extensively. I believe he would disagree with you about the purpose behind why Bogle invented the index fund. Index funds are cap based primarily because that saves on costs (there is no need to rebalance the index).
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by keernan 6mo ago
That would certainly be a way to control escalating concentration but at the expense of keeping index fund costs low. The Vanguard Total Stock Index (VTI) has an expense ratio of 0.03 - almost zero. Low expenses is a critical factor behind
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by keernan 7mo ago
There is nothing wrong with your desire to 'dump[ing] a lot of money into one company'. That is easy to do without an index fund. And it is not the investing theory behind the creation of index funds and their investing purpose. W
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by keernan 7mo ago
The concentration risk relates to diversification in investing. Index funds are generally thought of as a way to diversify a portfolio. Cap weighted index funds are generally preferred because they are cheaper for the provider to maintain.
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by keernan 7mo ago
>It's already impossible to stop someone from recording if they are really determined. I'm no expert, but I believe national security SCIFs use technology that blocks recording.
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by keernan 7mo ago
For AI doubters, please watch Neil deGrassi Tyson's interview of Geoffrey Hinton a few weeks ago. It's 90 minutes long. For me it was a game changer. I am fully aware Hinton has been criticized for his views, but I urge you to lis
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by keernan 7mo ago
My experience with AI when discussing financial ideas is that AI always congratulates me on such 'unique observations' blah blah blah. It makes me doubt the utility of the responses because it is so superficially biased to 'm
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by keernan 7mo ago
IMO China is already in the best position to 'win' the AI race because it has invested heavily in (a) an incredible electric grid many, many times larger than any America will ever be capable of competing with; and (b) engineering
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by keernan 7mo ago
I question how much control individuals have over their beliefs. Violence and wars are fought over deeply held religious beliefs yet there can be no doubt that those same beliefs are 100% dependent upon (1) where you are born; and (2) the b
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by keernan 7mo ago
Bogle believed the best investment for any individual is VOO held forever. I think he'd prefer that be the only product Vanguard offered to individuals.
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by keernan 7mo ago
>>it patrols fence lines, looking for holes in barriers, suspicious packages, intruders, and feeds video back into a control room... We know that the cost for a human guard is around $150,000," I thought that sounded suspiciously
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by keernan 7mo ago
I suspect 'resigning in protest' is a news media term and that attorneys are resigning because that is what ethics require when confronted with demands to conduct themselves in illegal or improper ways.
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by keernan 7mo ago
Earlier today I told my daughter that while AI might be a reason for my 8 year old grandson not to major in cmpsci some day, she should still encourage him to learn coding because (1) it is tremendous fun; and (2) develops problem solving s
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Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join The Pentagon(nytimes.com)
4 points by keernan 7mo ago|1 comments
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by keernan 7mo ago
Shared link to article
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by keernan 7mo ago
That is a highly abstract theoretical view that is true of private corporations but does not reflect the real world of public traded corporations.
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by keernan 7mo ago
>The shareholders in almost all of these companies lost all of their money How is that penalizing those responsible? Isn't it a pretty big leap to go from penalizing those selling packaged fraudulent loans to the public (whom, to my
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by keernan 7mo ago
>>The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Ir

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