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by sigstoat 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger#Wealth_and_phil...
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> It is only emergency rooms where I don't get a choice - if you need an emergency room close is important. i feel like the folks on here peddling this line have not ever spent any time watching who comes through an ER. most of the
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by sigstoat 7y ago
there's more than one query for most pages. that one also turns up for "linux kernel programming" which strikes me an utterly non-magical query.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
every home has a roof, and none of them are cheap to replace. it's a small factor difference in amount you're financing.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i don't know, there's a sibling comment demonstrating that titanium has managed to enter the popular consciousness as a near-magically strong metal, when there's still plenty of uses for steel, and aluminum (even ignoring cos
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and yet now i receive dense boxes of cat litter from amazon.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
combat zone pay, as well, perhaps? seems like a general with a 40 year career who could (and did) save all of his money could have accumulated a few million dollars in cars without very many shenanigans, if that was their sole financial goa
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Does that make sense? no, it does not. just add more bits of entropy to your password if you want more "unguessability". there's no benefit to putting it into the username. the username and password fields can be imagine
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> This is why major organisations don't allow usernames to be name_surname or nsurname. They pick random usernames. I remember when I was a student my username was a random string with characters and numbers. sounds more like an art
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The other thing I suppose is where literally every employee gets their own office. But is that really a thing? Because I've never heard of something like that. 2-3 people in an office with a small room, with a door and a window. p
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Weird. You'd at least think you'd get a phone call about something so serious. right? how many accounts are they shutting down every day that somebody can't pick up a phone?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
energy takes into account both mass and velocity. you can check the relative energies (and velocities) of common rounds on wikipedia. .308/7.62 has more energy, as the projectiles generally mass more than twice as much, and go only sli
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by sigstoat 7y ago
certainly they could elect board members who'll hire CEOs to execute that plan.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I just think it's funny that rich people can get billions of dollars to stay solvent in a sudden crisis, and I can't get a dime when I can't pay for lunch. i think that says more about your relationship with your friends
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i don't know about iceland specifically, but at least some countries offer various working visas, so you can stay in the country for a year and work to fund it. the folks using those are bit a more likely to end up with jobs in tourism
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Matching DeltaV for a short duration is easier than for a long duration, no? you don't match deltav, you'd match trajectory. you may be able to do that at the cost of more or less deltav, depending on how clever and patient y
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> How do you deny an app network access and allow it to share your data across your own devices? With your partner? commenting only the technical aspect, without suggesting anything is or is not a good idea, apple's operating system
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> This is one of the downsides of the rise of passive investing and ETFs based on market cap - less votes are going into the system and holding people accountable. uh. the fund managers vote their shares. and they've got way more ti
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> > Loher is also a slow-morning devotee and she started her routine a decade ago, frequently waking at 4:30 and spending the hours up to 9 a.m. as “strictly me time.” > So she started this routine when she was 16? i want to know w
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Amazon delivered packages have been: thrown from the street i watched a USPS driver do that. i'm amazed he could heft the package that far. > USPS consistently rings my doorbell i don't know that they've ever rung my
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by sigstoat 7y ago
equal-weight (instead of cap-weighted) funds are also a thing, and perhaps relevant if you want to spread your investment across more of the market: https://www.invesco.com/portal/site/us/ria/etfs/st
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you get tired easily?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Right, but that doesn't tell me how many other ways they carved the data up and didn't report it in the paper. i understand that and i don't believe i contradicted you, rather i was emphasizing: they _admitted_ to 9 diff
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I don't know how many ways they carved up the data before they found a segment of the population with increased suicide rate at the right time. and they still reported 9 different categorizations (overall/male/female * 3
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the title of the paper is at the bottom of the nih page. plugging that into google produces this page: https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(19)30288-6/pdf which combined with sci-hub, gets you full text.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Most major schools offer degrees called Software Engineering. name three.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> That's interesting. Taking a walk a few times a week can cost nothing (if one has the time). you keep just glossing over the costs. "if one has the time". it's an opportunity cost.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Not a native english speaker, but this seems like a nitpicky non-issue to me. How is it not the same as "could you please pass me a glass of water" vs. "would you please pass me a glass of water"? Both indicate a re
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i'm basically agreeing: > If I remember correctly, the bluetooth headset profile (if you require microphone input) is pretty low bandwidth (think gsm quality), which would explain low quality in that case. the headset profile is a b
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by sigstoat 7y ago
seems unlikely that the issue would've risen to the level of walmart's board, so they might not have even heard about.

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