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by leetcrew 6y ago
I don't think this is a very useful way of looking at it. it's uncommon, but not unheard of, for people to rent more than one apartment in the same city. especially if it's a large city, someone with a lot of money might find
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by leetcrew 6y ago
skepticism is good. people should be skeptical of science, especially by the time it reaches popular media. but skepticism isn't very useful unless you can evaluate roughly how skeptical to be about a particular finding. five sigma phy
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by leetcrew 6y ago
ignorant/lazy question: I'm a guitar player who took a few months of trumpet lessons when I was a kid. I recall that you can produce several different notes with the same fingering on the trumpet depending on the shape of your mou
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by leetcrew 6y ago
in lois's defense, I think she got pretty deep before she realized she was dating the superhero she was covering. peter parker was a lot worse, covering his own alter-ego!
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> and why we never had millionaires back when the top bracket was > 90% some caveats apply to this offhand quip (very different tax laws and perhaps even widespread evasion meant almost no one was paying an effective tax of 90%, regar
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by leetcrew 6y ago
kinda, but kinda not. $1000 is still a lot more than $400. I consider $600 to be a meaningful amount of money. it's definitely not a good move to spend that much on a phone if $600 matters to you. in any case, this conversation is drif
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> The world has enough resources to feed, clothe, and house everyone. this is kind of reductive claim. in one sense, it's trivially true that the earth has more raw resources than humans can consume even over the course of centuries
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by leetcrew 6y ago
in maryland you can just pay a nominal fee/fine each month to defer your emissions test. it adds up, but it takes a long time to equal the cost of replacing a catalytic converter.
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by leetcrew 6y ago
the 80/20 rule still applies. $50 is probably too low of a price point, but the example works if you compare a $250-400 android phone to a $1000 apple/samsung flagship. I could buy those phones if I wanted to, but I'm getting
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by leetcrew 6y ago
yes, but only in a rough sense. the ratio of maintenance cost to purchase price is much higher for a yacht (or really any boat) than for a mass produced car like a corvette. if you can afford to buy/finance a corvette, you can usually
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by leetcrew 6y ago
depends on your goals. I don't worry for myself. I save about half of my take-home (and I don't make an SV salary). unless the bottom falls out of the software market completely, I'll be fine. I do worry for my friends and my
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by leetcrew 6y ago
honestly that seems like a lot of trouble to go through to not even save that much money. I usually buy doc martens, which are not complete trash but definitely not as well-made as they used to be. they look good and feel good on my feet. t
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by leetcrew 6y ago
I simplified it so the example would fit in a single sentence. there are also more entities than just the artist+label organizing the tour/show. the fundamental point remains though: if scalping is a profitable business, the seller is
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by leetcrew 6y ago
if scalpers are consistently making money, it implies that the original seller has mispriced their product. if the venue has room for n people and tickets are sold for $50, but there are n people willing to pay $100 to attend, it's the
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by leetcrew 6y ago
I got some pyrite for sale, great deal at $1600/oz! don't miss your chance to get in on the ground floor.
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> If you're bouncing rent checks because it took too long to clear, you have other issues and immediate withdrawal isn't going to save you anyway. I'm talking about people who barely make enough money to cover their monthl
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> I've just never heard of a scenario where someone needed $50k instantly sent anywhere for anything. maybe not $50k, but "deposit paycheck on same day rent is due" is a fairly common problem that people have. the person h
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by leetcrew 6y ago
in algebra, sure. like it or not, everyone is expected to attain some basic level of competency by the end of the course. GP is describing something that sounds like an extracurricular/club activity. grades are not involved, and it&#x2
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by leetcrew 6y ago
it can be sort of futile. as a kid, you can argue, resist, or break the rules, but until you can support yourself financially, your parents get the final say on most important matters. reminds me of my first meeting with my advisor at colle
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by leetcrew 6y ago
depends how you slice it. "have to work" is kind of a vague way to define class membership. someone with a $500k net worth doesn't "have to work" if they're content with living on $20k/year or so. of cours
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by leetcrew 6y ago
sad that this didn't catch on more broadly. I find that the difference between `=` and `==` is consistently confusing to beginners. it's actually worse when someone has a strong math background. that and the fact that `1/2 *
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by leetcrew 6y ago
pixel 4a is pretty good for $350. I just upgraded to one from my pixel 2 and I have no complaints so far (I had the same issue with the pixel 2 charging port lol). if you bought your pixel 2 from google, there's a good chance you have
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> While there are definitely many people who would like the latest-greatest OS on their device, I think a large number of people would be happy with their device's current OS, patched to ensure that it's not vulnerable to an ac
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by leetcrew 6y ago
this situation seems like an unhappy midpoint though. the chance of conception is still uncomfortably high for people who don't want children, while frustratingly low for those who do.
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by leetcrew 6y ago
$100k is not enough to totally phase out financial aid from top schools, but sure, there are some families that could afford to pay but refuse to. still, no one is writing $40k+ loans each year for students with no cosigner. if you have ric
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by leetcrew 6y ago
> Both will leave a student heavily in debt to the tune of 150-300k unless you have a very weird financial situation, no US student is going into anything like that much debt to go to either of those two schools. it looks like you got th
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by leetcrew 6y ago
I have certainly changed my own positions as a result of civil discussions. it never happens after a single exchange, but over time people can be convinced.
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by leetcrew 6y ago
I dunno about that. I went to a smaller private school (~60 kids per grade in middle school, ~100 per grade in high school), and we certainly had bullying. maybe this is already too large? I didn't simultaneously attend a large public
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by leetcrew 6y ago
pretty spot on from my experience. there were always a couple truly cruel kids who would pick on anyone they perceived as weak. but most bullying seemed to be for the purpose of defending group boundaries. people would mostly leave you alon
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by leetcrew 6y ago
I might be speaking from ignorance here, but I highly doubt their job description said anything about making accusations via tweet. > If your team of ethicists has repeatedly highlighted issues and you continue to not address them, what

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