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by mathgeek 9y ago
Per Wikipedia: "In political and sociological theory, the elite (French élite, from Latin eligere) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a society.&qu
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by mathgeek 9y ago
An oldie but goodie is "My Father's Dragon" which has three books that you can get in a single binding.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
> It'd be like going to Mexico and never eating a taco. Just remember that there's only a very small subset of "tacos" that actually represent historic/traditional Mexican cuisine, and it gets even more controver
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by mathgeek 9y ago
> If they're "labour-intensive" that's pretty much the definition of not passive. Generally it's understood that "passive income" on HN refers to income resulting from an initial investment of labor tha
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by mathgeek 9y ago
For the lazy, this would require an ongoing investment of just over $40,000 currently.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
> I don't doubt that the best course of action is to quit altogether, but a 50+ year addiction is pretty difficult to quit. It can be done but you really have to want it. I don't think my dad really wanted to quit. I know that
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Another of the traditions of free speech is publishing under a pseudonym.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Sitting at 127.1, apparently.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Which part(s) are you referring to? There seem to be a few claims in there that could be provably false.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
It's more about what the autopilot didn't do than what it did do. It did drive straight ahead into a concrete barrier. It didn't see the barrier. If it had seen the barrier (as is reasonable to expect), it wouldn't have
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by mathgeek 9y ago
> What people want is an easy-to-use way to stay in touch, keep up with and communicate with their friends via the web. Some would say that email and text messaging already cover this. It feels like your description is missing a clause s
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Most crypto trades do not involve USD because they are directly between one coin and another. Since each coin had a value in BTC, and BTC has a value in fiat, each altcoin has a value in fiat. That's why the new tax rules work (kind of
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by mathgeek 9y ago
This isn't tax advice, but it's common accounting practice to use a daily average value for trades where you only know the date and not the exact time of the trade. There's plenty of guidance from the IRS since many crypto tr
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Maybe. Since demand already outstrips supply for GPU's, it might be better to be the scale owner than to buy pickaxes.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
This is an excellent point. You're also dealing with a market where demand is so high that GPU's running under constant high load are then resold for more than the MSRP of new ones.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
The article is measuring struggle in aggregate. Your hometown, while it sounds like it is indeed booming, is a single data point.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
1031 exchanges are indeed explicitly only for real estate starting in 2018. For 2017, it's best to consult a tax professional as the rules are somewhat unclear.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Another option is to work remotely and live rurally. Best of both worlds. Also more easily achievable for those who want to stay in tech.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
The combination of navigation, audio, and Google Assistant is what I really like about AA.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
You could also say that smoking is more popular among poorer populations, the depressed, those whose parents smoked, etc.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Just in case you haven't run into yet, we also have a specific page on Glitch to highlight "learn to code" projects: https://glitch.com/learn-to-code
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by mathgeek 9y ago
One of the core life lessons of crypto is that when you combine anonymity (or at least the illusion of it) with someone else owning the private keys to your wallet, there's nothing stopping that "someone else" from taking you
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by mathgeek 9y ago
I recall being taught (public school system) roughly 20 years ago that "we used to think salt was good for countering dehydration if you were stranded in the desert, but now we know that plain water is better." This isn't nec
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Kind of like saying that all GMO's have health benefits. Must be National Broad Statement Headline Day.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
I noticed earbuds and their cords are both designed to fit the human ear.
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We can dream.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Even if the masses have yet to lose interest, there's certainly a group of us that lost interest already.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
> but just getting certain games to install and run on my parent's cheap Gateway PC would require a lot of fiddling around Ah, that brings me back to memories of boot floppies in order to change the memory settings of the system.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
Great strategy when you're younger and older, but doesn't really help during the years where you're raising young kids. Time is limited and it's easy to forget yourself when caring for others.
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by mathgeek 9y ago
"[H]uman history" is generally considered to be the sum, rather than the individual cultural parts. For a non-Western chunk of data, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_East_Asian_warfare

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