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by stockresearcher 2mo ago
Oh sure, I can help. 1000 acre feet is approximately 40 hectare meters. Or, you know, about 1.2 billion liters. Over on this side of the ocean, we’ve got freshwater lakes larger than entire European countries. There’s a lake over here, it
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by stockresearcher 2mo ago
> traveling east of the Mississippi for the first time. The author probably means “east of the Ohio [River] for the first time [since the restoration].”
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by stockresearcher 2mo ago
Worst is now New York. Should make that “association football championship” match they’re hosting tomorrow in an outdoor stadium with tickets costing many thousands of dollars quite “interesting”
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
Looking through the analysis of the legislation [1], I really don’t see how it makes much of any impact. Places where it’s hard to build on purpose have little incentive to change, and places where it’s easy to build on purpose can make so
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
It’s federal regulations. If the reverse camera screen doesn’t appear quickly enough, the car gets recalled and fixed. This has happened to many manufacturers. Ford, Toyota, Lexus, etc. This notice from Tesla actually specifies the regul
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
> you'd save $3149 USD flying from London to New York City Hey, Infantino was ahead of the curve! For the same price as an English MBP, you can get an American one and see the Three Lions disappoint against Panama!
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
In America, dude. Pick your favorite engineering school and read syllabi for core classes such as statics. Read department policies on number of tries you get on core classes before you’re kicked out of the civil engineering program. The
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
It probably doesn’t make a difference, but this isn’t a modern stamp act. While the law states that platforms have to report the average number of monthly Illinois users, it clearly states that the tax is only paid on Illinois users that yo
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
My wife has a civil engineering degree. There were a number of courses where partial credit was not permitted and the final exam was 2 questions. It was common for students to take those courses 3 or 4 times before passing. Giving a fail
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
A long-ago colleague got a junk classic car and took night classes at the local community college to learn how to fix/restore everything. He finished the degree and quit the tech job. Anyone currently with a tech job can pay for it ou
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
Also buried deep in that bill was a provision that will require AirBNB, VRBO and the like to collect and remit state and local hotel taxes on behalf of the property owners.
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by stockresearcher 3mo ago
Attempts to inject malware
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
Major rule of investing: Don’t panic, but if you do, panic early.
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
A long time ago, 500 was about the largest nice round number that could be calculated in a reasonable amount of time. No longer. But it has an extremely valuable brand - did you know S&P has hundreds of indexes? Do any others readily
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
“Every index fund is different.” Say that to yourself over and over until it sinks in. Some funds were dumb ideas last year, and will be even dumber ideas next month. You can change which one you have. 50 years ago the S&P500 updated
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
Every single index fund is different. They all have publicly available methodology guides; you can read them to understand how it works and to model various scenarios. This particular one, the CRSP total market - which Vanguard uses for VT
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
Strongly recommend reading this linked paper, written by CRSP folks: https://indexes.morningstar.com/insights/analysis/bltcd8e699... These IPOs will have minuscule impact on the indexes initially. They will have
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Illinois budget – new tax on targeted advertising, social media data collection [pdf](ilga.gov)
8 points by stockresearcher 4mo ago|1 comments
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
Targeted Advertising Tax - Page 6 Social Media Data Collection tax - Page 39 AirBNB/VRBO will be responsible for collecting hotel taxes - Page 68
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
We use GH Copilot at work and this week sat for a presentation by GH about optimizing token usage and maximizing ROI on tokens used. Anyone else get this presentation? They didn’t have time for questions because they had to run and give i
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by stockresearcher 4mo ago
> I shared a link to my personal project with the interviewer. It was a website for learning how to program > We, the developers, are no longer the gatekeepers This word you keep using: I do not think you know what it means.
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
To expand: the Chicago Harbors close over the winter. You can do whatever you want with your boat, but you can’t keep it there. Second, the Chicago River system is a navigable waterway according to federal law. The bridges must open for
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
At my employer, everybody who has an opinion that matters is convinced that all of the overages by the high users will be more than made up for by the people who barely use it. Maybe they’re right. But it’s really hard to see how.
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
FYI, The version of clang that ships with Xcode can compile openMP code if you provide the right compiler flags. You have to provide libomp.dylib and a few header files, but the folks that run R compile it and provide it for distribution (
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
> Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer. Highly recommend a visit to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. They have a belt-driven workshop that demonstrates that this abstra
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
> Where will tourists celebrate Mardi Gras after it's gone? Mardi Gras is celebrated all along the Gulf Coast, from New Orleans to Pensacola. Go to a parade in Alabama, for example, and every third or fourth person will be from New
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
Anecdotally, this seems much more common among women than men. In my office, I’ll see 10 young women with full-time headphones for every man doing it. And just glancing around the train car I’m currently on, women with headphones are defin
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
3 people beat the previous world record in this race! This is some combination of improved tech and extraordinarily good weather. London is a fast course. Let’s see what happens in Chicago and Berlin. If it was primarily tech that did it
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
It’s a lot closer to a 40% larger screen, btw.
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by stockresearcher 5mo ago
I’ve met a lot of “passive income” folks over the last few years, and all of them sounded like their businesses were very actively managed. Never made much sense to me. I do disagree that all sub$100 blenders are the same, though. But sti

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