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by kpwagner 8y ago
Reading through some of these accounts, I tried to guess whether the writer was a man or a woman (before looking at their name, and not counting obvious tells like pronoun usage)? Do you ever do that? While I haven't performed a real e
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by kpwagner 8y ago
Thanks. I didn't see that in the paper. Guess I get to hold on to my bitcoin. I don't actually own any bitcoin ;)
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by kpwagner 8y ago
Yeah that's basically my point. I want to state, though, that I'm not just beating up on the under 30 crowd. I empathize with all struggles. But the same way that some people have never known a world without the internet, some peo
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by kpwagner 8y ago
In the midwest (U.S.), grain elevators are the big cement silo looking things you see in movies set in Iowa or Kansas. Really, elevators are synonymous with ag cooperative businesses. Grain storage is a primary function of these businesses.
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by kpwagner 8y ago
I agree this should be your first choice if you want to stay employed. That's a legitimate "if" since some people may want to take time off from employment for personal reasons or to focus on a project. If that's you, yo
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by kpwagner 8y ago
Haha. I quit my job once. July 2009, working in finance. My next job was two years later, scooping grain at a grain elevator. You know how to tell when the economy is in the last 25% of an economic expansion? When everywhere you turn is ano
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by kpwagner 8y ago
While I don't disagree with your sentiment, I think WF would have done the refi if it met their criteria. The reason: they make a lot of money on new loans (refi or otherwise) due to the loan origination fee. In my case the fee was goi
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by kpwagner 8y ago
In my experience, mortgage originators rely on box-checking to get mortgages to pass. They make no decisions; it's an amoral, automatic process which happens to be much less efficient than it could be as the industry clings to the idea
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by kpwagner 8y ago
Yeah, I get that. And I admit that Trump as a subject is relevant in this article. Bottom line is Trump has a way of attracting attention, which only seems to help his cause. I was just venting a bit about how often we see Trump in the news
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by kpwagner 8y ago
I thought that term "off the record" was meant to protect sources, not journalists. Whatever the term was expected to mean by both parties, it kind of comes down to what leverage either side has to uphold the verbal agreement. The
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by kpwagner 8y ago
Haha. Yes, more importantly, the eclipse thing. Because no one else did that.
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by kpwagner 8y ago
First two words of the article: "President Trump" Is it possible for the news to cover anything without including an opinion about Trump--or his tweets? I am so turned off by this "style" of journalism where every piece
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by kpwagner 8y ago
The default really is not eating anything. Just fast, and fast, and fast, and die.
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by kpwagner 8y ago
These comments crack me up. Hacker News readers seem to have a lot of opinions about plumbing, the plumbing trade, the difficulty of plumbing tasks both intellectually and physically, pay scales of plumbers, personal experiences with plumbe
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Fascinating that this relationship scales from solar systems in which the planets are close to the star to solar systems that are more spread out. I wonder if the mass of the star has an effect on the average distance that the mass of the r
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Does anyone know if the Developer Edition was affected?
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Well over half of my student loan balance is in parent loans. I pay my parents monthly to pay for the loan payment. My younger two siblings are oblivious to what kind of debt they have. Now, my parents are a few years away from retirement--
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by kpwagner 9y ago
It's amazing how much you can bend fiber. Fiber is really hard to break just by bending it, assuming it is well insulated. You can have performance loss with bends and kinks though.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
There is such a thing as a "capital lease", or at least there used to be. Capital leases work in this way--both asset and liability are recorded. It's only fair that the new rules for operating leases works this way too.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Ah, okay. That kind of makes sense. If that is true, then the writer's comment about quartiles is wrong--or at least misleading. The outliers thing came to my mind too; it's such a big factor.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
"The top quarter of earners who majored in English make more over their lifetimes than the bottom quarter of chemical engineers." This is an important statement. Success in a field is as important as the field itself. Those who la
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by kpwagner 9y ago
https://thesellingfamily.com/the-known-brands-that-are-not-a... Also, my Amazon seller app. But I'm a new seller. From what I understand, some of these restrictions may not apply to sellers who have been around awhile
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Huh. That's curious. Maybe you got grandfathered in. It's definitely restricted for new sellers. Anything Disney, which it turns out is a lot of stuff these days, is all restricted too.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Many brands are "gating" their products on Amazon so only select resellers can sell them on Amazon. For example, the article mentions LEGO--restricted. You need to show Amazon proof that you purchased your products from a credible
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by kpwagner 9y ago
The iPad is dead... lol. Only 10.3 millions units sold last quarter.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
He has a big heart. A few years ago Steve gave an interview with Patrick Bet-David, which was simply a marketing piece for Patrick's company, PHP Agency. PHP Agency is a financial firm founded on the power of "network marketing&qu
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by kpwagner 9y ago
This article misses the mark. Spot on.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
I don't know the difference. Only that my parents have loans from my undergrad, and I can choose to just not pay them, but I'm not a piece of shit (aka, my younger two siblings). But those loans can not get adjusted payments based
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by kpwagner 9y ago
Parent loans, not loaning money from parents, will not restructure payments based on income of the student. About half of my undergrad loans are parent loans.
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by kpwagner 9y ago
This all sounds preliminary to me. Based on the headline and one paragraph I was able to read (not pay-walled), this doesn't necessarily indicate malicious intent or foul play. Big companies are complicated, and they do things in weird

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