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by rory 6y ago
"I found an exploit in mom and dad's electric account!" =D
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by rory 6y ago
This was (is?) the idea behind Paper & Plastick Records [0] in the MP3 heyday. The "paper" is a download code, and the "plastick" is a vinyl record along with it. Pretty fun concept IMO. [0] http://www.pap
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by rory 6y ago
Yeah that's what I was aiming at. "Early employee stock options" or equivalent. I assume that kind of thing didn't exist in the periods this "wisdom" comes from, but I could be totally wrong.
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by rory 6y ago
Genuine question-- How new is this phenomenon? What were the first companies to make non-founder employees rich?
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by rory 6y ago
But it's not really an empty (using the first example) slice because I can have either an empty slice or a nil slice, right? So in Rust or Scala terms, every instance of a type is really an option of that type? It just seems like a
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by rory 6y ago
The author is a money manager, so it shouldn't be surprising he mixed in a bunch of feel-good simplifications and tautologies about rich people. But regardless of the source of his wealth, the subject still faced the temptation of gree
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by rory 6y ago
Is the "benefits" portion mostly money in a retirement account or something though? Otherwise I don't understand how a single person can have $125,900 in benefits.
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by rory 6y ago
Immigration thing aside (I don't think personal-income-maximizing necessarily equals logical), I feel like this point is often missed. Most people who lobby for strict zoning don't do it with the intention of restricting supply to
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by rory 6y ago
Oh wow: > You may pay less Council Tax for a property you own or rent that’s not your main home. > Councils can give furnished second homes or holiday homes a discount of up to 50%. Contact your council to find out if you can get a
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by rory 6y ago
You are the only one using the words autism and ASD in this thread. There was no such prior context.
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by rory 6y ago
What happens when a property is unoccupied?
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by rory 6y ago
Oh yeah-- I've seen this in my online bank account but ignored it. I guess because it's superfluous to my social network who already use Venmo as the default option. I talked to someone who runs an investment fund about crypto and
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by rory 6y ago
I clearly stated I'm not diagnosing any conditions, so the accusation is uncalled for. Neurotypical is hardly a scientific word, but to the extent it applies to anyone, you'd have a hard time convincing me it applies to RMS.
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by rory 6y ago
> Yes, the point with selling electricity is that you need to guarantee that you will deliver some fixed amount of electricity Surely this can change, no? You'd just have to sell it at a cheaper rate to make up for the fact that t
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by rory 6y ago
Regardless of which classifications he fits or does not fit into, it's pretty obvious he's not neurotypical.
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by rory 6y ago
Yeah US banks generally can't (or won't) move money that quickly, so Paypal/Venmo/CashApp fill the niche. I've only seen the $25 fee when sending money from a US bank to a UK bank though-- I think it was because it
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by rory 6y ago
These two are the same network now, so if a vendor accepts Discover, they accept Diners Club and vice versa. Discover bought out DC in 2008. My understanding is it's pretty tough to compete with the big guys in this market because you
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by rory 6y ago
I don't mean to imply that, it is a nice city. The parent is actually more likely referring to a city further west.
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by rory 6y ago
So specific to not just say the city haha. Let me guess, you're talking about Raleigh and you live in either Durham or Cary?
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by rory 6y ago
This would probably be the case for the imagined suburban neighborhoods in the article. Select cities in the USA (notably NYC and LA, perhaps SF as well) have disproportionate homeless population because people travel there to live a homele
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by rory 6y ago
Yeah maybe a better phrasing is "Perl has more in common with languages still in heavy use" since it also has its own quirks. Interesting about the layout-- admittedly I know very little about COBOL or FORTRAN. I'm just react
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by rory 6y ago
It really is pretty terrifying. I'd go as far to say that the most likely thing the next World War (pray there isn't one) will be fought over is TSMC.
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by rory 6y ago
I'm not drawing a distinction between smart and not-smart people here. I'm suggesting that perhaps the 99% of people qualified for Mensa who don't join are better-adjusted than the 1% who do join.
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by rory 6y ago
> Do you think gay people in pride parades, minorities in various race groups, etc are insecure? Well, uh, yeah, sort of.. I thought the whole point of gay/ethnic/etc pride events was to overcome the insecurity caused by marg
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by rory 6y ago
In my experience, mostly DevOps.
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by rory 6y ago
I never said I hold IQ with disdain. It's just an attribute, not a hobby. Mensa is more like a tall-people's club (descriptive, generally regarded as positive, quantitative cutoff) than it is like an ethnic club (shared culture) o
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by rory 6y ago
I'm not exactly sure, I've just been told so by others. My guess is that since you take it as a teenager, it's considered strange to include it as an adult. But I haven't taken any standardized quasi-intelligence tests a
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by rory 6y ago
I can relate to this. I put my SAT score on my resume until I was 23 or 24. Kind of embarrassing, but I was desperate for a way to show I was smart.
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by rory 6y ago
That makes me want to crash a meeting wearing some nonsensical number like 500 and challenge anyone who questioned it to a "battle of wits".
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by rory 6y ago
No need to walk back your comment! I'm glad you had a positive experience, and didn't mean the "insecure" thing as an attack. I guess it feels weird to me because according to the scores page, I could join this club, but

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