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by pmiller2 6y ago
Exactly. That's how we got academia's version of the minimal viable product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit
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African American Vernacular English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...
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Do you have one kind of problem with calling people what they prefer to be called?
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Three facts, then: * Most investors' returns are below index returns. * If everyone starts leveraging the index, that strategy becomes less effective. * Leverage subjects you to even bigger drawdowns than just buying the index. Do you
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The graph I linked is of arable land per capita. "Arable" means capable of growing crops. It does not matter that we raise animals on it currently.
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A loan against what collateral? What does someone making $20k per year have to put up as security for a loan? You're also assuming this person has little to no debt to begin with, so their debt to income ratio can sustain another loa
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Citations very much needed. A 59:1 ratio of available units to those in need of housing, which has been increasing over the years, prima facie shows there is no housing shortage. Moreover, with that high of a ratio, everyone looking for
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Keep in mind, you're referring to a comment on a message board that took maybe 30 minutes to write, and likely less, not an op-ed in the NYT. Read more charitably, and in context, "poverty doesn't have a color" sounds
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Agreed. "It can be done" would be a more appropriate phrasing, IMO. I dug myself out of worse circumstances than OP described, but it took a lot of luck, persistence, and a good amount of risk taking to get there. I guess it he
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There is no "systematic housing shortage." There are 59 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the US. [0] Even California has more than 9 empty housing units per homeless person. [ ibid ] --- [0]: https://
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You are absolutely right. I live in the Bay Area now, which everyone knows has absurd rental prices. In my home town, I can rent a comparable sized apartment to what I have now for around 1/3 what I currently pay. But, there's n
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Land? The trend is obvious, and we probably don't have anything like Haber-Bosch to save us in the next 50-ish years. https://tradingeconomics.com/world/arable-land-hectares-per-...
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Active trading is essentially market timing. Do you think you can time the market more profitably over a 15+ year time period than just buying and holding broad-based index funds?
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With all the extreme weather events, wildfires, and sea level rising that will be caused by climate change, I would not be surprised.
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> . A combination of low interest rates, a historic tech bull run, and the resulting torrent of fomo has tethered us to our monitors to watch candlestick charts. He forgot one: the death of defined benefit retirement plans. Back when pe
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You can recompile an object in MudOS, but only new clones of that object get the recompiled code.
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You don't say what state the job is in, or whether you're an executive level employee. Both of those are important.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Wouldn’t you still be vulnerable to attack via a 3D printed or resin cast face (possibly suitably painted)?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Here’s a little plug for my first and only MUD I ever seriously played: VikingMUD https://www.vikingmud.org/ Viking started out in the good old days on MudOS, and later moved to DGD, after an extremely long porting process.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
> Excluding malicious action, most people make a (semi) critical error sometime in their career, especially if you work on the ops side of things, these can often be disasterous. Engineering who claim they never have made a mistake that
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This might be a good place to ask, because I've been wondering about this for a while: do any of these scanning sprays react with copper, silver, or gold? I can't ever find an actual ingredients list for them, and all the MSDS ev
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Not the only criticism. How about the fact that there are incentives to hoard more housing units than one can use while others have none?
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I’d also be interested in seeing this in its own repo, if only for educational purposes.
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This all just sounds like "blah blah incentives blah blah capitalism..." to me. Here's an example of an American company gaming the system: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15370925/feds-watching-
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Some of us don't like having our photo out there on the internets for privacy reasons. How about a headshot of my dog instead?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How do you know that was the reason you didn't get the job? It sounds like they gave you an opportunity to say you made a mistake, and maybe figure out how you'd fix it.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Crypto isn’t a resource. It’s a certificate that someone, sometime solved a useless math problem.
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Presumably, gaming doesn't use as much electricity globally as the entire country of Argentina. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952
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by pmiller2 6y ago
> I don't see tangible value in crypto. Crypto is worth what other people are willing to pay for it. If you wanted to invest in an asset that does not depend on the currency you could buy gold. Try convincing any crypto "enthus
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Hah! Fair point.

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