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Bros., Lecce: We Eat at the Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever(medium.com)
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My two cents while trying to avoid too well-known outlets: >YouTube channels: Forgotten Weapons (world-class firearms history) The Tim Traveller (general European infrastructure et al history) Project Farm (one-man Consumer Reports-esque
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FWIW, Monobook remains my preferred Wikipedia UI, and perhaps my favorite UI design period. A true marriage of form and function. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin...
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Well this post certainly aged well. Context for future readers: the stock price for Docusign fell 40% in one day the week after OP asked this question.
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Warehouse employees in Bessemer are not making $40k. More like $20k with minimal benefits if they're lucky. Keep in mind that's before a couple grand in income and sales taxes.
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Honorable mention to Rock Auto, which has a similarly dead simple shopping UI.
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Hence my caveat about the BLS having to be honest. That said, while they do massage the CPI numbers (hedonic adjustments making cars cost the same over a 20 year period being the worst example), it has been historically vaguely accurate.
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I don't know of anyone who advocates holding cash beyond an emergency reserve in any virtually any circumstance.
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At the start of the stagflation of the 70's, the S&P 500 rallied nearly 36% from June 1970 to June 1971. In proceeding decade, the nominal value of the S&P 500 went from $73 to $114, a respectable 56%. However, cumulative infla
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One very straightforward investment are Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS. They're adjusted to meet CPI, so that does mean trusting the BLS will be honest with their assessment. Very poor investment most of the time (the
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Of course, you're assuming that a quality life is measured by the amount of worldly pleasures experienced.
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The United States has eight uniformed services: 1) Army 2) Marine Corps 3) Navy 4) Air Force 5) Space Force 6) Coast Guard 7) Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (aka the Surgeon General) 8) NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
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Money is largely controlled by a small group of investors and central banks. [citation needed]
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Not sure about OP, but Spitznagel's fund returned 4,144% in Q1 2020. It averaged 105.2% annually from 2009 to 2019. https://news.yahoo.com/mark-spitznagel-univesa-cio-on-risk-m... https://www.institutionalin
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It's a play on their flag design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Maryland
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Even more interesting to consider is the imperial Varangian Guard, comprised of Norse recruits. It's entirely possible that one of these Viking explorers in North America (or their descendants) later resided at court in Constantinople.
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Genetic research suggests American Indian descendants in modern day Iceland. https://phys.org/news/2010-11-vikings-brought-amerindian-ice...
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Pentium 4: supported CPU for Windows 11(twitter.com)
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The very first bullet point states that it has Discord compatibility. Also, that isn't Discord's logo. I'm not sure if it's "legally distinct" enough, but it isn't stolen.
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(A) applies to a number of metals, including ruthenium, iridium, rhodium, and osmium, all of which are less abundant than gold. Although industrial demand has caused the price of those to rise in recent years, the difficulty of extracting t
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>the majority of demand for gold comes from non-investors (which appears to be the case in I think most quarters but perhaps not most recently) There's actually been far more industrial usage proportionally recently than any prior y
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US Dollars would be a wise investment if the supply was fixed but also continued being used as a medium of exchange.
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Roughly 50% of gold's demand comes from private investors and central banks, with another 40% of demand being driven by (para-investment) jewelry. https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-supply-and-demand-sta..
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In 2020, newspaper, radio, and magazine ad spending was $85 billion compared to all online ad spending (which is far more targeted and thus more valuable) at around $500 billion. Television advertising was around $193 billion. Unless we&#x2
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Banks have successfully and legally blacklisted pornographers for decades due to "reputational risk".
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I'm a big fan of this audio retelling of a bit of his life: https://www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue/episodes/babylon
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I think it's supposed to be taken literally, per this paragraph: >The company recently took the Uptis out in public for the first time and even invited a limited number of people for the test drive.
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (2003)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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I would just like to point out the fact that the S&P 500 is almost four times higher capitalized than it was a decade ago. There are three obvious reasons for this that come to my mind: * There has been massive asset inflation. * The ma

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