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by positr0n 3y ago
One of my favorite fun facts is that if you were to dig a frictionless borehole to the other side of the world, you could hope in, be accelerated towards the center of the earth, decelerate on your way up to the other side, and pop out with
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by positr0n 3y ago
I love that the space platform mechanics basically reward super dense spaghetti.
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by positr0n 3y ago
It's easy to refinance at a lower rate. You essentially just pay for and qualify for a new mortgage, the fact that it's a refinance and not a new house you're buying is mostly immaterial. So you're out a few grand in fee
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by positr0n 3y ago
Round up or other herbicides are commonly used to uniformly kill and dry out mature wheat, corn, and other grains so harvesting and processing is easier.
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by positr0n 3y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-06-01
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by positr0n 3y ago
There's plenty of trees most places. Dallas has the largest urban forest in the US.
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by positr0n 3y ago
It's worth noting that if you depreciate like this, it counts against the basis of your property. So in your example, if you depreciated the building to $0 and then sold the property for $3M you'd pay capital gains taxes on $2.5M.
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by positr0n 3y ago
Built an entire house at the peak :( It sucked but plans were in motion pre-covid and waiting a year (or two? Who knew back then) would have meant missing the window that minimized disrupting our kids' school lives.
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by positr0n 3y ago
I had to chuckle at the Tic Tac label the other day. The first ingredient is "sugar" but because the serving size is 1 tic tac each serving contains 0 calories, including 0 calories of added sugar. The magic of rounding!
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by positr0n 3y ago
My coworker got an acid etched back patio. The guy doing it was throwing the acid out of a 5 gal bucket with his bare hands. She asked "shouldn't you use gloves for that?" "I used to, but the acid kept dissolving them.&q
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by positr0n 3y ago
Seems like a bad idea from an anchoring perspective. People buy $20 socks with a $300 suit because $20 seems inconsequential compared to the suit. What's $90/mo compared to $50M to acquire them :-P
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by positr0n 3y ago
I think the SEC loves cut and dry cases like this. You see enforcement actions all the time about similar situations. Usually some VP of one of the two companies is behind it and they amateurishly try to cover their trails by getting their
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by positr0n 3y ago
In what context? From or to multiple people? I don't think I've ever sent or received a bathroom selfie.
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by positr0n 3y ago
I don’t see how a lien is the same as #1. Say retired couple owns a $500k home and can't pay $5k/yr property tax. They will live for 10 more years. With no lien, they are forced to sell and buy a cheaper $450k house, using the equ
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by positr0n 3y ago
It's a pretty standard option in contracts for industrial sized consumers of electricity anywhere in the world.
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by positr0n 3y ago
What do you use to block obnoxious YouTube channels?
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by positr0n 3y ago
The first part of this argument has always made sense to me, but the stats don't seem to back it up. Birth rates have declined just as much or more in the socialist utopias in Europe.
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by positr0n 3y ago
If a company goes bankrupt, short sellers do not have to buy the stock to return it. The stock ceases to exist and the position is closed. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/maintain-short-posi... Agreed abo
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by positr0n 3y ago
I can't believe a 30% performance improvement has been sitting there.. for 12 Android versions??
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by positr0n 3y ago
I live Dallas area, Texas. The whole area is commonly referred to as "North Texas". A common vacation is to drive to the mountains in Colorado, a state to the north west. To even get out of Texas from my house is an 8 hour, 500 mi
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by positr0n 3y ago
> They’re going to drag down the next two or three generations with their idiocy. Or it'll last forever because when non baby boomers buy those houses, their entire retirement/net worth will be based on the same system and they
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by positr0n 3y ago
I don't know where you live, but I did that two years ago in Texas and it was... straightforward [0]. First buy the land. I didn't even use a real estate agent. Seller and I figured out the forms ourselves and went to a title comp
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by positr0n 3y ago
I may be out of my depth here, but I thought MC was Master of Ceremonies. Even in a rap context MC Hammer got the MC part of his name from being master of ceremonies at various clubs. Aka the guy who controls the mic.
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by positr0n 3y ago
FWIW cosmonaut isn’t Soviet era, it's the Russian term for astronaut. Though I've never understood why in the West we use that essentially untranslated term* when we don't anglicize the Russian pronunciation of any other jobs
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by positr0n 3y ago
What sucked about the school?
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by positr0n 3y ago
Without knowledge of the details of the contract it's impossible to state anything about this arrangement isn't it? There's not much of a difference between paying $20,000 for a wafer holding 400 chips with a known 50% defect
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by positr0n 3y ago
My huge dental hygiene improvement anecdote is switching to an electronic vibrating toothbrush. My gums were always bad so I thought I needed to floss more. But once I started using an electronic tooth brush all my gum problems are gone.
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by positr0n 3y ago
> According to you, owning the houses is an completely irrelevant factor No, they're saying the price of the house is irrelevant. If they bought both houses for $250k, say they're now worth $750k, they're a millionaire a
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by positr0n 3y ago
I usually list it for $5. Free seems to attract too many high maintenance or scary customers.
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by positr0n 3y ago
> Also - planting trees is largely pointless. Clearly this is a metaphor for doing things that will benefit future generations after you are gone. Planting a shade tree in a park, or planting trees (of appropriate species) along a street

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