positr0n

13 ms·

181.
by positr0n 3y ago
Also bioaccumulation of heavy metals.
182.
by positr0n 3y ago
Woah, where can you buy a house that 90% of the money you spend is land? Is that even true in expensive downtown US cities like SF and NYC? Construction is pretty expensive too.
183.
by positr0n 3y ago
But companies are not pots of assets. What you are buying is assets - liabilities + predicted future cashflow * discount rate. So a more realistic example would be a company with 100 shares, $1000 of cash, and $1000/yr stable income. S
184.
by positr0n 3y ago
Golfball size hail storms happen all the time around Dallas. I'd say baseball size hail is unusual. Only 1-3 storms a year around the metrolplex. And grapefruit size hail is rare (thankfully! One hit the suburb next to me a few years a
185.
by positr0n 3y ago
I dunno, I know plenty of people like myself who want an EV next but won't buy one until my current car reaches end of life. Also if my car died today I'm not sure an EV would make more financial sense than something like a Toyota
186.
by positr0n 3y ago
What is preventing TikTok IPOing in the US? Are there rules against foreign owned companies or something?
187.
by positr0n 3y ago
Same, I enjoy texting pictures, links, thoughts, etc to my friends and family that I know would enjoy the message instead of blasting it out into the void. Granted maybe they think I'm crazy. Also I still do wish I had double the socia
188.
by positr0n 3y ago
None of those strategies block IPs. It's only a DNS server not a firewall or router.
189.
by positr0n 3y ago
> drastically reduced income, etc will make the problem take care of itself: the class you’re targeting this way will slowly stop having/keeping children This seems to be opposite of reality though. The poorer you are the more child
190.
by positr0n 3y ago
In favor of just dividends or what?
191.
by positr0n 3y ago
It's this the most popular/common Caddy plugin for SSO?
192.
by positr0n 3y ago
I agree, certainly possible if you are diligent. Most people are not though, for various reasons, most commonly not caring enough. Plastic bag legislatures should keep that in mind if they want to do more than pass a feel good law.
193.
by positr0n 3y ago
Cotton bags must be used 7100 times to be less environmentally impactful than single use thin plastic bags. Organic cotton bags 20,000 times. Source: https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-
194.
by positr0n 3y ago
Back in the day I remember reading patio11 posts on navigating the Japanese bureaucracy and he described this as "doing SQL JOINs" across different departments by filling out forms and visiting each one.
195.
by positr0n 3y ago
If your separate income streams are pretty predictable and so is the overwitholding, and if you care enough: you can put a negative number in the "extra witholding" box on your W-4. I wouldn't say this is a better strategy,
196.
by positr0n 3y ago
A totally different but related example is pitch framing in baseball. Basically catchers will try to catch a pitch using a motion that slightly tricks the umpires eyes into calling a marginal ball a strike. It does have a statistically sign
197.
by positr0n 3y ago
Free file fillable forms has existed since at least 2012. Free file as a concept has existed since 2001 when Congress passed some legislation about it.
198.
by positr0n 3y ago
It's crazy because it's a government subsidy for mortgages. The bigger the mortgage the bigger the subsidy.
199.
by positr0n 3y ago
I had major emergency surgery a couple years ago. The hospital sent me a bill for $9k (out of $135k total) after a few months but the status on my insurance website indicated they were still figuring it out. I called and asked how they had
200.
by positr0n 3y ago
What does the grocer comment mean?
201.
by positr0n 3y ago
> That said, from now on I'll probably have auto-lock turned on when flying. I think you are far far more likely to have a random cardiac arrest or stroke while you are looking at your phone than have it ripped out of your hands i
202.
by positr0n 3y ago
In general I agree with the point you are making, but if you will indulge my "well actually..." From to the Range Commanders Council Range Safety Group, 2010, summary of FTS requirements: 2. produce a small number of pieces, all o
203.
by positr0n 3y ago
If that were possible with the fuels rockets use (liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid methane, etc.) it is still probably way cheaper on every axis to just make the tank 3% bigger and ignore the waste. Common axes they care about in rock
204.
by positr0n 3y ago
Lots of poisons (and herbicides, and medicines too) work by targeting a single chemical pathway. E.g. binding to a specific receptor or doing something to a specific protein. I think insects and mammals do have pretty different biology, but
205.
by positr0n 3y ago
The link you’re replying to basically postulates that with tap water you are inhaling PM2.5 particles from the same chemicals that cause limescale, and as far as we know PM2.5 particles are harmful to your health in any quantity.
206.
by positr0n 3y ago
FYI it's generally accepted that F stands for Fine if you don’t want to swear :) Same with TFA. The Fine Article.
207.
by positr0n 3y ago
I agree that most technological innovations, scientific discoveries, and broad historical events associated with a "great man" would have happened anyway if that person did not exist. Even Napoleon was very much a product of the t
208.
by positr0n 3y ago
How does dark room, reading in bed, and sleeping when you are tired go together with a partner? Does the first person to get tired sleep with the room lit enough for the other to keep reading?
209.
by positr0n 3y ago
This should link to the actual thing instead of some AI generated blogspam. https://ubuntuce.com/
210.
by positr0n 3y ago
What law makes it illegal to not allow comments on a government-uploaded YouTube video?

More ›