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by lazerpants 7y ago
Anecdotal experience from NYC here: Owning a cheap car is way less expensive than renting a ZipCar. My car's only cost beyond gas was insurance. And my insurance was cheaper than renting a ZipCar for one weekend. Obviously it depends o
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Indeed, also most wealthy people I know don't really worry about their PTO, asking their boss if they can travel when necessary, explaining to someone why they were out of the office playing golf, etc. Most of the wealthy people I know
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I completely agree. Then of course, when I point out that it means that suicide is a totally valid and perhaps good option, people tell me I'm seriously depressed, not mildly. Maybe there's not such a big difference between the tw
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by lazerpants 7y ago
>or the direct election of the HK Chief Executive, who up to this point have been nominated from a narrow pool of Beijing-approved candidates This is only true since the handover from the UK in 1997.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
It probably wouldn't have to be double. They're profitable in the NYC market and I think we pay about 30-50% more than other markets (anecdotally).
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Statement Regarding Repurchase Operations(newyorkfed.org)
147 points by lazerpants 7y ago|131 comments
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Residents of Puerto Rico don't pay federal income tax, hence, no representation is appropriate in that case.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Bretton Woods ended in 1971. Edit: More info: https://www.imf.org/external/about/histend.htm
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Business Buzzfeed
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I'm not sure if 285 technically runs through Morrison, but there are lots of tickets issued right there because it is essentially a highway but has a low speed limit. They could raise the speed limit by 10-20mph and it would probably s
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by lazerpants 7y ago
>Higher education - particularly for elite and Ivy League universities - is best understood more as a finishing school for acculturating youths into upper-middle and upper classes. Do you have any kind of reference, or even a decent coll
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Your optimism is laudable, but I doubt Iceland would have recovered as well if the entire world had experienced a massive financial collapse. After all, Iceland has primarily depended on tourism to prop up its economy, and there would not h
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Exactly. He can probably afford it given the otherwise low cost of living and lack of state income tax.
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They are using non-inflation adjusted figures.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Most concerns around a black swan have to do with leveraged loans, corporate debt, and corporate loan/bond payback schedules. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Swelling-US-corp...
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by lazerpants 7y ago
>While all our recent major market down turns have been preceded by a yield curve inversion, there have been plenty of times that the yield curve inverted and was not preceded by a recession. I thought it only inverted once without a rec
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by lazerpants 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I don't think it's a supercar. But it handles better than a muscle car and you can absolutely compare it to something "that can actually corner at all" by looking at the list you posted at Laguna Seca. It's about 10
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Ah got it, thanks. I'm guessing that the vinylcyclohexene dioxide may be ovotoxic in other animals or perhaps there are concerns that it would get into the water? Granted, it seems like those are valid concerns for brodifacoum too.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
From the Motor Trend TM3P track test drive: You'll kill me for saying it, but this sport sedan has the same toss and catch that makes the best front-drive hot hatches such a joy to hustle—bolstered by no-joke instant horsepower and the
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Motor Trend's track test impression of the M3P was actually quite positive: "In our testing, we found the Model 3 Performance to be a joy around the track." https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/road-test
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by lazerpants 7y ago
How does it work? I looked at the website but I didn't see the drug or hormone being used listed.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Why do you feel buyers remorse after making gifts to charity?
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by lazerpants 7y ago
It's probably just a by-product of modern living in a large complex society. Free riders are punished in small communities because individuals know each other and are aware of each others actions over [x] period of time. In a large soc
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by lazerpants 7y ago
CEO salaries are typically determined by the board of advisors or at smaller companies, by the company's investors.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Seems like they could just force a delay of [x] time between individual driver logins. Call it a server side issue or something and make it so each driver can only re-login once every 15 minutes. Then by the time the surge worked the driver
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by lazerpants 7y ago
This is anecdotal but I can speak for the high net worth individuals I work with in NYC. Most of them will occasionally take the subway, depending on time of day and where they are traveling. However, all of them travel by car when more con
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by lazerpants 7y ago
My buddy takes his 3rd gen Range on trails in Colorado semi-regularly. Seems to do fine. Granted, his use is less about off-roading than getting to back country camp spots.
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Amazon (sub)Prime? (on commingling inventory)(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by lazerpants 8y ago|0 comments
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by lazerpants 8y ago
If there is a connection it probably has to do with depression being a disorder based in unstopped inflammation. Some studies suggest that in depression typically self-limiting parts of the glucocorticoid system are broken, which means infl

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