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by magduf 7y ago
Do they sell that inhaler, or the older and cheaper version, for much less outside the country? Plane tickets are cheap these days; it might be worth it to take a foreign vacation and stock up on inhalers.
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by magduf 7y ago
Obviously you haven't been hanging around many career politicians or corporate executives. The problem isn't that older people don't care, it's that the older people in charge don't care.
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by magduf 7y ago
>if someone like Kubota broke out of the pack by doing something like this, something tells me that Deere would find the money to buy them out, and spike the idea. Kubota is a Japanese company; Deere can't just buy them out on a whi
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by magduf 7y ago
Ok, that made sense decades ago, but today there's two problems with that: 1) Overnight delivery 2) From everything I've read, you cannot go send your kid to town 20 minutes away to pick up a part for a John Deere machine. You ha
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by magduf 7y ago
As I said in my prior message, Ally Bank has 1.6% on savings. I think CapitalOne 360 has either 1.6 or 1.7, Discover has something similar, etc. I think Tab Bank has a little higher rate. These aren't hard to find. You probably won
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by magduf 7y ago
>It's unusual to have $62k or more in a savings account. You're not paying attention. The OP said it would take decades to make $1k or $2k; I pointed out it doesn't take that much money to make that in only 1 year. I
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by magduf 7y ago
>There's no reason to trust that whomever is giving the advice is an authority on the subject at hand. >My god have I paid for doing business with alleged professionals. This is the problem with getting advice from "financia
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by magduf 7y ago
+1 for /r/earthporn. Lots of truly fantastic photos there. My only complaint is that many of them aren't terribly high-res. The cameras they shoot with are surely high-end DSLRs, but then for some odd reason they downscale
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but HSAs seem to me to usually only be available if you have a high-deductible health insurance policy. That can be OK if you're 25 and very healthy, but for many other people is a high risk.
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by magduf 7y ago
>my "high-interest savings account". Maybe a grand or two over decades Huh? Either you have very little savings for someone on this site, or your "high-interest" account isn't high-interest. Ally Bank currently
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by magduf 7y ago
Aluminum uses a lot of energy to refine, but not to recycle AFAIK. Notice that aluminum is easily the most profitable thing for people to recycle; people can collect cans and take them to a recycler and get paid a fair amount of money. Th
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by magduf 7y ago
Does the US not have marginal tax brackets? That seems really odd and dumb. The benefit cliff you cite is real, but for actual income taxes, there's no such thing as a reduction in income from higher earnings. Going to a higher tax
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by magduf 7y ago
>"Look how smart I am for having a mega-backdoor roth ira instead of a regular 401k like all the idiot sheeple." Maybe you mean "traditional IRA" instead of 401k. The way I understand it, the backdoor Roth IRA depend
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by magduf 7y ago
Exactly. Letting people know you have a product/service which will make their life easier isn't a bad thing, and you have to have some way of communicating that to prospective buyers. The problem is when you start lying about yo
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by magduf 7y ago
How long did you date this sociopathic woman?
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by magduf 7y ago
What exactly is stopping these farmers from just buying from another vendor like New Holland or Kubota? Every time I read this stuff, it's all about John Deere being the Apple of farm equipment, and there's almost nothing said ab
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by magduf 7y ago
I think there's even a theory that one of the reasons BSD is a small niche OS and Linux powers the world is because BSD was tied up in litigation for a while.
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by magduf 7y ago
You seem to think that "wealth" is a real thing. It is not. That's the whole problem with your reasoning. Guns are a real thing: if you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, they will be shot and likely die. Weal
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by magduf 7y ago
>you think it is because people changed their views, I think it is because a big group of people bitterly opposed to this died off, opening the door to change. A group of people bitterly opposing this did not all die off in the space of
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by magduf 7y ago
Oh please; I see it all the time, including in my own family. "Right-wing talking points"? From what I can tell, it's frequently the Trump voters who this describes well. Did you even read my post? I specifically noted thi
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by magduf 7y ago
>And we wouldn’t be recycling them, we’d be washing and reusing them. Ok, so how much extra fuel is used by trucking all this glass back to a handful of bottling plants that are hundreds of miles away? I guess the deposit fee thing migh
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by magduf 7y ago
>Wealth, while not an exclusive means to power, can buy you power in more ways than one. Wealth only buys you power if people are willing to accept your money, and are also refraining from simply using force to take your money from you.
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by magduf 7y ago
I think eliminating aging would probably bring more stability to society: people would stop forgetting the past so much, because there'd still be people around reminding them of it, who had personal experience. History tends to work i
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by magduf 7y ago
>but also means employees are not forced into massive corrupt labor unions that halt efficiency. The funny thing is that labor unions in Germany work great, and that country leads the world in exports. Labor unions in the US, however, s
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by magduf 7y ago
Extra health care only goes so far; your genetics and lifestyle have much more to do with your ultimate lifespan. Great healthcare isn't going to make up for being lazy and eating crappy food. But some people seem to have genetics th
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by magduf 7y ago
I wouldn't call it luck; it really depends on a lot of factors. If he's a software dev like most people here, then he's in an industry where there's a high demand for his talents, so it's generally not that hard to
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by magduf 7y ago
It sounds like it was a good thing you got fired from Oracle. You got a raise in your next job (so Oracle was underpaying you), and you got away from a crappy company. Your only mistake, in hindsight, might be that you didn't leave O
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by magduf 7y ago
One method I remember hearing about to get rid of poor performers (in a one-off way) when I was an intern was that the company identified poor performers from different teams, moved them together into their own team, and then laid off the e
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by magduf 7y ago
The US does have a huge poverty problem, but that's not the whole story. There's tons of middle-class people living paycheck-to-paycheck because they just have to drive a BMW or have some giant house they don't need, or ea
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by magduf 7y ago
Part of the problem here is that restaurants in America are extremely expensive. It's cheaper to eat out in other industrialized nations in my experience. Worse, they try to hide the prices from you by not including tax in the advert

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