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by quickthrowman 5d ago
It has been conjectured that the easiest way to locate a buried fiber optic cable is to start digging. (The actual easiest method is to install the conduit or direct burial cable with tracer wire)
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by quickthrowman 5d ago
You’re leaving out the speculators who usually end up assuming the risk of both the producer and buyer.
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by quickthrowman 6d ago
> You know it if you've driven past any road construction project. 90% of the people at any given time are standing around. If 90% of the people onsite are unnecessary, a competitor will simply bid for the project without the extra
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by quickthrowman 6d ago
The model in reality is “Hope the producers like you enough to write you into the show as the winner.” Survivor is hyperreality, not an actual competition.
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by quickthrowman 6d ago
Porsche’s induction charging strategy seems a lot smarter and much more reliable than a robot arm.
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by quickthrowman 6d ago
That would have wide ranging negative effects on the middle and upper middle classes (and wallstreetbets), consider HELOCs (home equity loan), ag loans using farmland as collateral, and brokerage margin loans. I’m fine with it provided ther
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by quickthrowman 6d ago
> Where is your source for this? For one, the lack of any secure computing systems.
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
Futures are a mechanism to transfer risk from one party to another, more or less.
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
When did you pass the bar exam in whatever state you practice law in?
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
This looks like it’ll be a good book for me to learn more about electrical theory and circuit design, I know a bit about AC and DC electricity from working in electrical construction which should help me dive right in, thanks for sharing th
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
I still need to watch that movie, I feel obligated to see it after so many people suffered so many injuries while filming it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film)#Injuries_and_set_d...
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
What are they going to do if you’re not carrying anything illegal and you’re a citizen? You cannot be refused entry to the US as a citizen and they can’t charge you or hold you without evidence. You don’t have to tell them why your phone is
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
I will be wiping my before I pass through US Customs next, no matter who the president is. I have no idea what some guard might randomly take issue with, best not to risk it.
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by quickthrowman 7d ago
I think the lady that got mauled to death in 2018 at the lion preserve that guy works at might disagree with you if she hadn’t been y’know, mauled to death by a lion. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/afric
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by quickthrowman 8d ago
I would like to make a wager on this law being ignored the first time Samsung or another chaebol violates it and is facing a fine equal to 10% of revenue. I can almost guarantee it, it’s a high enough fine to turn some low-margin businesses
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by quickthrowman 8d ago
> I would be set for the rest of my life if I got half a mill falling from sky today, I guess I could even make it work with 250k. Maybe you only have a few years left to live? If not, I’m not sure where one can live on $10,000 to $15,00
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by quickthrowman 8d ago
There are an excess of dollars floating around internationally and only so many ‘risk free’ dollar-denominated assets. US Treasuries will continue to be purchased. There are plenty of buyers who are obligated to buy risk-free assets and US
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by quickthrowman 8d ago
> The order directs the Missouri Department of Public Safety to create safeguards for state agencies and state-funded law enforcement departments using the automatic license plate readers. There’s no restrictions on private ALPRs in MO r
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by quickthrowman 9d ago
> Objects like this make me think of grimdark (steam|diesel)punk works like the video games Dishonored or BioShock. It feels like there's a touch of occultism or corruption whenever one creates a device that exploits analog side eff
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by quickthrowman 9d ago
Some of it is due to the explosion in options trading and the resultant hedging by market makers, but large institutions still have valuation models based on fundamentals that they trade on. It’s entirely possible that the market is wrong a
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by quickthrowman 9d ago
> A 0.25% rate hike is going to cause a recession? How, exactly, would that happen? I didn’t see anyone claim a single 25 bps hike will cause a recession. The 30 day FFR futures (/ZQ) curve is pricing in an 80% chance of two more hi
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
I’ve traded over a million dollars of equity volume this year but my brokerage account has less than $50,000 in it. You can wager the same dollar more than once.
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
I’m confused, are these suicide attempts due to gambling addiction or is it mental health ER patients looking to enter a gambling addiction treatment program? I’m having a hard time thinking of any other reason that a gambling addiction wou
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
Place the tungsten ring against concrete, hit the top of the ring gently with a hammer and increasing the force with each hammer blow until the ring cracks. Search YouTube for “break tungsten ring” for examples.
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
I agree with you, but I believe the person you responded to meant that someone with an expensive mechanical doesn’t want to wear a smart watch in place of their mechanical watch. As someone with an expensive mechanical watch who wants to we
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
Baumol’s cost disease makes building ornamentation cost prohibitive for all except the highest profile (and budget) projects.
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by quickthrowman 10d ago
> Someone go ahead and explain to me the actual rationale that RDDT has a higher P/E ratio than Nvidia. Investors in RDDT are pricing more growth than they are into NVDA. NVDA had a high P/E until their net income grew ($4B and
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by quickthrowman 12d ago
Sears did this over a hundred years ago, except in a rail car instead of a truck trailer. You can buy kit homes and outbuildings from Menards and other places.
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by quickthrowman 12d ago
It doesn’t cost that much more to frame up a house in the field vs framing it in a warehouse.
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by quickthrowman 13d ago
> I’d say Terrance has recently left the denial phase, … There’s a byline at the top of the article that lists the authors of this blog post, neither of which are Terry Tao. > [This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Dued

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