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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"Meanwhile, Microsoft stock is about 10x over the last 10 years. Transaction costs are minimal. I can sell it on a moment's notice. I was paid dividends. No insurance costs, no property tax, no maintenance." If you manage to
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It depends on where you live. In CA renting is usually cheaper than a mortgage for the same property. Here in New Mexico my mortgage (2.6%) is cheaper than renting the same thing. With higher mortgage rates it’s not that clear but it still
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
They are not very useful as attack weapons because they contaminate an area and produce fallout. If you can get the explosive power of a nuke without the fallout it's much more tempting to use one.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I knew some fighters. One of them was a low kick specialist and his shin felt like one solid piece of concrete. Not sure if it was fused but he couldn’t do certain movements , but he could kick with unbelievable force. I have no idea how hi
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
We already know everything that’s to know about nuclear weapons if used for defense and deterrence. A pure fusion bomb would be relatively clean so it would be much more tempting to use as a regular weapon. What if Putin had such bombs rig
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
There are two shin bones and if they fuse there is a lack of mobility. A lot of muay Thai fighters have problems with their legs later on. That in addition to the obvious which is brain damage and a lot of scar tissue in the face.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It’s pretty crazy that they are still working on improving nuclear bombs. If there is one area where the current state is “good enough” it should be that area. I can see the need for maintaining what we have already but why try to advance t
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Totally agree. But a long time ago I saw a take kwon do guy break stones like you find in a river bed with his fist. I remember later on I saw his hands and they were almost crippled. They were huge and didn’t seem to have too much movement
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
This works only if everybody negotiates in good faith which isn't the case in the US system. Insurances deny legitimate claims, hospitals inflate prices as much as they can. You don't need AI to fix this. You just need more transp
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Must be how their visual system works. My bearded dragon generally didn’t have great eyesight but he would immediately attack when he saw himself in a mirror.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
One of our foster dogs would bark and growl at dogs on TV. I am pretty sure she would have interacted with them if the TV dogs would have responded to her.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I am not sure about the exact numbers but I would think objects of a certain size would fall apart if they spin too fast. I think I read that this is 1m. Spinning that fast creates some significant centrifugal force.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I had a good ride with Mint for several years now. I am definitely very worried that enshittification starts now. I see the $15 promise but what happens with the other plans? I have 15GB for $20 which is perfect for me. I don't care fo
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
They are probably helpful but are also a symptom of a perverse system.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I was thinking the same. Insurance companies should get punished if the ratio of denied claims vs accepted claims after appeal. If that ration is high, it’s pretty much clear that insurance denies claims by default although they know the cl
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
“One of the worst parts about this for me was that while I was dealing with trying to get my life back together from that kind of injury, I thought I was also going to go bankrupt as well.” I have seen the same with people I knew who had ca
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Totally. It’s getting difficult in Outlook to figure where window boundaries are. A lot of menus also look pretty amateurish compared to native menus.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Oh my. Same here. I mined quite a few bitcoins on a friend’s PC a long time ago. Then we tried to do something with them but you couldn’t even buy a beer. So we forgot about the bitcoins and the disk is probably on a trash heap somewhere n
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Seems more and more companies are learning how to do customer service from US health insurance. Make people wait, give wrong information and hope they will just go away.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
That's the latest trick in news reporting these days. Sometimes they report the total cost, sometimes the yearly cost, sometimes over ten years. I guess that's part of the effort to make numbers have an emotional effect while maki
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Alaska gave me a 12 month voucher that expired because I had no need to fly with them. I asked about extending it or a cash refund but they refused.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Correct.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Also the potential for massive job losses and even more wealth inequality. I feel a lot of the people who are philosophizing about AI safety are well-off people who are worried about losing their position of influence and power. They don&#x
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
In the short term dictatorships usually are superior to democracies because they can move fast and have less stakeholders to satisfy. So a capitalist business will usually beat out a co-op. That doesn't mean that society as a whole gai
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Found a video with the sound. It sounds cleaner live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBnqHqOrG0
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
He probably had a cannon to make sure the birds were in the air during the eclipse :-)
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
So let's stop creating music, painting and writing fiction books because GenAI can do it. Also no cooking at home because restaurants do it. Also no point playing chess.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Reminds me of Angkor Wat in Cambodia when I visited. There was a constant, really load sound like singing bowls everywhere. First I thought it's some Buddhist monks but then I realized it was cicadas. It was really bizarre.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
There is the old quote “we overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the effect in the long run”. I watched this with the internet. First it was a toy (before maybe 1991}, then it was massively overhyped (199
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Same for technology used. You won’t get much credit for keeping costs down and keeping things simple. The real money is in developing super complex systems. That will give you respect.

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