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United Airlines to Let Unvaccinated Workers Return(wsj.com)
13 points by oicu812 5y ago|0 comments
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A Man Has Lived on a Cruise Ship for 20 Years(jalopnik.com)
5 points by oicu812 5y ago|0 comments
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by oicu812 5y ago
I couldn't find any news about Microsoft dropping their vaccine mandate. Can you please add a reference?
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by oicu812 5y ago
"No amount of alcohol is safe, however it's the dose that makes the poison." [1] "for every 100,000 people who consume one drink per day, 918 will have an alcohol-related problem per year. But if the same 100,000 people
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by oicu812 5y ago
Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to get control of your money [a]: Baby Step 1 - Save $1,000 for your starter emergency fund. I listen to his podcast all the time and it's still surprising to me that the callers on the show talk about b
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by oicu812 5y ago
More recent info: https://www.jpost.com/science/apophis-what-you-should-know-a...
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by oicu812 6y ago
Disaster planning for less crazy folk https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
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Colleges Cut Tenure(wsj.com)
2 points by oicu812 6y ago|0 comments
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by oicu812 6y ago
> This idea that there is some sort of known risk of a significant issue popping up out of nowhere months or years down the road has no historical precedent. RotaShield [0] was a vaccine for the rotavirus that was released in 1998 and ta
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by oicu812 6y ago
All non-mortgage debt is bad. Credit card and car debt is especially bad and will limit the choices you can make and the trajectory of your life. Consider a program like this to free yourself of debt: https://www.daveramsey.com&
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by oicu812 6y ago
IMO, Blackberry was the bigger loser in the smartphone movement. Read the book "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry" for a really interesting analysis of this compa
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by oicu812 6y ago
I'm disappointed this article didn't mention the MeetUp or Eventbrite sites, which are the two major sites that are used to organize user groups. It's naive to think most user groups could avoid using one of these sites.
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by oicu812 6y ago
The article states, "It also lives in a legal gray zone, due to international treaties that allow it to be used in domestic law enforcement but not in war."
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by oicu812 6y ago
Transparency International ranks the US as number 23 and China as number 80 in their list of transparency/corruption. They are not in the same quartile and can't be considered similar in transparency. https://www.trans
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by oicu812 6y ago
I second this - pay off any non-mortgage debt (student loans, cars, etc) before investing. https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps
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by oicu812 7y ago
The best book I've read on this topic is Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. [1] It really got me thinking about the next 50 years now that famine, disease and war are all manageable. The next 50 years will have super human AI, bil
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by oicu812 7y ago
I agree, even the audiobook was a chore to get through at 1.5x speed. However, it's not on GetAbstract yet: http://getabstract.com
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by oicu812 7y ago
They confiscated 10k of the 1.5 million firearms which is 0.6% ... and they're happy with the results?
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by oicu812 7y ago
The "nudge" in the title of this article is drawing from the book "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" [1] which cites one of the best nudges ever introduced - automatic enrollment in retireme
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by oicu812 7y ago
The #6 tool behind Informatica, Dell Boomi, Jitterbit, Workato and SnapLogic according to Gartner.
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by oicu812 7y ago
Unfortunately the article didn't mention their unique gut microbiota. [0] "The naked mole-rat possesses a unique gut microbiome composition..." and "This might suggest a possible role of the gut microbiota as a universal
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by oicu812 8y ago
Another click-bait misinsformation article - it's not the soda, it's the calories. Buried in the article - "The study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that sugary drinks can cause people to gain weight and possib
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by oicu812 8y ago
Except that you don't have to wait until 59 1/2 to withdraw it without penalties. You can start at 55 or earlier using the "Rule of 55" or SEPP exception depending on the retirement plan that you want to withdraw from.
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by oicu812 8y ago
Almost entirely... except for the $100 million in tax dollars per year they receive to subsidize blind and overseas citizens. They also get $18 billion per year in tax benefits. NOT self-funded, never will be. https://www.politif
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by oicu812 8y ago
I call bullshit... They receive $100 million in tax dollars per year to subsidize blind and overseas citizens. They also get $18 billion per year in tax benefits. That is not self-funded by any stretch. https://www.politifact.co
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by oicu812 8y ago
More information is in this article from the 25th anniversary of the Balloonfest: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/twenty-five_years_ag...
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by oicu812 8y ago
It's also a false premise to think "rich countries" need a lot of investment in public transport because they are rich. Investment should be tied to population density, not the ability of "rich countries" to should
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by oicu812 8y ago
I've not read the book quoted in the article, To Be a Machine, yet but another fascinating book on this subject is Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. I highly recommend it!
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by oicu812 8y ago
I don't see how this is much different than the deadbeat dad billboards and public shaming that we use in the U.S. [1] They get results: "the first billboards were so successful that another round of the roadside placards are bei
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by oicu812 8y ago
The current US restrictions apply to citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea and certain Venezuelan government officials and their immediate families. Were any significant number of conference attendees from these

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