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by rchaud 9mo ago
70% in a stock fund is extremely risky if you are close to retirement. You will not have fresh income to dollar-cost-average your way back into the black in the event of another market crash.
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Back then it was possible for authors and artists to maintain a mystique about who they were. What you saw was what you got and that was it. Making social media a necessity for product marketing changed that forever.
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Sometimes people just get to retirement age, realize they don't have much longer to go and choose to stop hiding who they are. Morrissey of The Smiths is another guy who's alienated his audience. Moe Tucker, drummer in the legenda
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Affirmations and law of attraction stuff are just repackaged version of prayers for the "not religious, but spiritual" crowd.
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with more than a whiff of neo-colonialist "why aren't they greeting us as liberators?" thinking.
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For it to be a legitimate dig at DEI, there would need to be some evidence of significant black advancement in corporate world for reasons unrelated to their qualifications. Have there been any?
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It's in Chapter 1 of his autobiography. He used to work at a bank in the 80s, and was turned down for a managerial or executive position (can't remember) which went to an Asian candidate. He was certain it was due to DEI (in the 8
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Sites written by hand don't need RSS. If you absolutely need RSS, you can start a WordPress blog before you can say "what the hell is XML?"
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Get them in the door now and jack up the price later.
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The walled garden never claimed to offer equal treatment under its laws.
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Discrete GPU + laptop means 2 hours of battery life. The average customer isn't buying those.
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The whole point of going private is to make the private equity partners a boatload of money by going public again in the future.
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There were purges aplenty during the Communist times, to make way for loyalist bureaucrats. What's taking place is the incipience of not just a stable regime but a calcified one. - A non-independent monetary authority - A Department of
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GDP per capita is about the crudest possible metric for economic well-being. Nobody in Australia is going into bankruptcy over hospital bills or student loans.
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Seems to me like it's American businesses that are increasingly operating like governments. Acquiring media outlets to manufacture consent, bending the courts to deregulate their operations, trading political favors and engaging in cen
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people have never posted weird shit on Instagram. Pinterest maybe, but not Instagram. I have been on it since the early days. It is either milquetoast "pics from my vacation" or influencer garbage. Even normal people do not post t
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That's easily solved by turning off comments or forcing every comment to be approved by an admin before it was displayed; much easier back then as there simply weren't that many people online. The "Web 2.0 read/write web
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> However, 95% of the sites there haven't been updated in 15+ years. You just explained why those sites are amazing. The pressure to update sites is what starts the slow descent into personal op-ed oblivion. These are sites , not b
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Indeed. The first Syndicate game is still in my memory due to the UI alone. I don't remember getting very far in it though, too difficult.
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Destroyed? It's far more likely that China will find a diplomatic solution to prevent sabotage of the foundries. Supply capacity will collapse for the US, but only because it will blanket ban imports of TSMC-made products, i.e. a self-
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This is the same kind of spam that overwhelmed blog comment sections and sent everyone scurrying to Reddit and Facebook 15 years ago. The spam was always had a generic comment praising the post and a line below shilling dick pills and Prada
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It's not 2018 anymore, the NRA doesn't have any money to make guns an election issue, and America will have way bigger problems than guns, trans people and abortion in 2028.
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Office has a monopoly and has reached the upper bound of how much more they can sell each year. The only option to force number to go up is to rebrand it and jack up the price. People know how much office suite should cost. They don't
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Name recognition only matters if there are competitors. Office is profitable because it is sold in bulk licenses to companies who don't care what it's called. They aren't going to switch to Google Office or Facebook Office be
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by rchaud 10mo ago
I had forgotten about FXTec. I think Clicks could be different though. For one thing they have already shipped keyboard accessories for the iPhone and the Moto Razr. The core technology is there. Additionally, a small company like Unihertz
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Blackberry made regular slab phones too and they were massively outsold by the keyboard ones. Why would anyone buy a slab phone running an obscure OS that lacked any major apps, when Android and iPhone were available? The keyboard was alway
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HTC Touch Pro 2 running Windows Mobile. I remember writing a 4,000 word essay on it for a magazine, mostly while travelling to and from my summer job.
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You can do that on websites with Firefox and UBO. Unfortunately not many transit authorities consider the website as a firsr class citizen anymore.
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Allocate it to a bank account with deposit insurance and go long on "peace of mind". Losing 3-5% of purchasing power over 12 months' time is better than losing 15% or more in an overnight crash and have to wait for the govern
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Wow, pkb, 3.5mm jack, microSD and display out? That's a winning set of specs in my book. Well done!

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