rfinney

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by rfinney 8y ago
Contributory IRA and regular 401K are basically the same thing: deferred taxes, required distributions. Roth IRA is different: no required distributions, no tax. (or a least they promise no taxes). You might want a Roth IRA because of ...
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by rfinney 8y ago
Check. "Ireland [...] was the poorest country in Europe" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_... Check 1972 figures. Spain and Greece were poorer. The unlisted Soviet client states
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U.S. Withdraws from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty(reuters.com)
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The World's Most Admired Companies 2019(fortune.com)
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“The Dark Side of the Kremlin”(thehill.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
... or drop the quality of the current products. aka "The Walmart Playbook".
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State of Digital Media(app.hubspot.com)
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U.S. Recognizes Opposition Leader Guaido to Replace Venezuela's Maduro(text.npr.org)
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by rfinney 8y ago
"The change also raised more questions about the future of Robinhood’s cash management accounts, which attracted the attention of U.S. senators after it was revealed that Robinhood had not consulted federal regulators about insuring th
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Viacom Has Acquired Pluto TV Streaming Service for $340M(variety.com)
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How anonymous tweets helped ignite a national controversy(washingtonpost.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Generally not for credit cards. It is used for debit cards. It's a problem buying gas (petrol) at unattended stations in Europe for Americans using credit cards. We don't know our PIN for credit cards.
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by rfinney 8y ago
It's called "protectionism". China did the same thing by banning Google and supporting Baidu.
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Unicorns to Chew an $80B Hole in the Surface of Stocks(bloomberg.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
"easily replaceable service" Yeah. It's called "cash" and "checks".
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San Francisco is a 'train wreck' of inequality(finance.yahoo.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Last time I was there, US passports lane was slow, foreign was very fast.
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Judge rejects citizenship question for 2020 U.S. census(news.trust.org)
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What If Cities Are No Longer the Land of Opportunity for Low-Skilled Workers?(nytimes.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Postwar analysis Postwar analysis placed the overall accuracy of daylight precision attacks with the Norden at about the same level as radar bombing efforts. The 8th Air Force put 31.8% of its bombs within 300 metres (1,000 ft) from an ave
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by rfinney 8y ago
Please check: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=support+for+vietnam+war+chart++&t=...
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by rfinney 8y ago
Hmmm. Time magazine, the morning newspapers and CBS/ABC/NBC evening news was much more middle of the road than today's Drudge/Huffpost, CNN/Fox and google/reddit (and HN) type ideological bubbles. More straigh
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by rfinney 8y ago
Check: https://www.thebalance.com/who-funds-biomedical-research-266... "In a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study published in January 2010, the largest study to date to attempt to quantify U.S. fu
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Tech shares dive after hours on Apple warning(finance.yahoo.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Nasdaq composite was 4698 in Feb 2000. Currently it is 6584. ( see here : https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC/history?period1=9467... )
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by rfinney 8y ago
what the heck ... (my karma in this thread is like the stock market today) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
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by rfinney 8y ago
Isn't "attacking the motive" a logical fallacy? https://study.com/academy/lesson/attacking-the-motive-fallac...
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by rfinney 8y ago
Every trick in the book? https://climateaudit.org/2016/04/19/gavin-schmidt-and-refere... Who is right?
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by rfinney 8y ago
I keep seeing charts that say otherwise: https://cei.org/sites/default/files/Figure%201.JPG . This suggests the models are not accurate. Who is right?
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U.S. and more than a dozen allies to condemn China for economic espionage(washingtonpost.com)
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