styrophone

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by styrophone 8y ago
Is there a relative tax advantage to waiting to sell ESPP shares? AFAIK, an ESPP discount counts as earned income in the same year, and LTCG tax advantages would only apply to growth, which would be the case for holding any other stock over
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by styrophone 9y ago
It seems your comment is characterizing the OP as a complaint mostly in search of sympathy. That doesn’t strike me to be the purpose of the post at all. The OP is using him or herself as an example of a real behavior in response to real eco
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by styrophone 9y ago
>it will always be cheaper to buy than rent. That's decidedly untrue. In many markets you can make the case that conservative assumptions result in a cheaper buy option. However, the Bay Area in particular throws that calculus in re
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by styrophone 9y ago
I did the same thing to help me get my head around it. For anyone else finding it difficult to imagine the probabilities in Monty Hall intuitively, consider replacing the 3 doors with 100 doors. After you choose the first door, the host ope
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by styrophone 9y ago
Yeah, the choice of a non-inertial reference frame for this example is a little confusing to me too. I also haven't been able to find an independent mention of the spinning astronaut experiment.
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by styrophone 9y ago
I think this thought experiment assumes the astronaut is spinning around an axis orthogonal to their belly. From the cartwheeling astronaut's perspective, the other one is also cartwheeling in their own plane.
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by styrophone 10y ago
This is a really nice explanation. I think it's helpful to go a little deeper and clarify that the virus itself isn't performing any electrical activity. Rather, the virus transfects the neural cells with a channel protein [0] tha
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by styrophone 10y ago
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html
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by styrophone 10y ago
A lot of spam doesn't expect a response and only cares about link impressions.
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by styrophone 10y ago
20% of appreciation for 10% of assets [0]. Seems like decent leverage on your risk. From the point of view of a prospective homebuyer, at first this seems attractive as an avenue toward mortgage reduction. However, as you point out, it&#x2
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by styrophone 10y ago
>It also pains me to see such luxury spent on the elderly. While you may have a personal attachment to them, the rest of society would do much better with that money spent to educate and help the new generations. I don't think we ha
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by styrophone 10y ago
> I heard it does strange things to the mind to cut rat heads for an hour straight I've spent a few years doing that. While I can see how the image might appear to folks who haven't been in that field, it's a bit hyperboli
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by styrophone 10y ago
I don't think suicide is inherently a much worse cause of death than many others, but it is often associated with a mental illness, outside of which the sufferer would not choose to die. Althoigh the illness manifests as free will, it
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by styrophone 10y ago
Is this much different from Diffractive Optical Elements in use today?
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by styrophone 10y ago
According to the OP, it's because the distance cues from focal length and disparity are consistent with each other.
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by styrophone 10y ago
Rent-to-own in general exists as a concept in many places, but it has a sour reputation due to the predatory practice of vanishing equity. Essentially, a renter is sold on a higher rent price on the premise that it will result in their even
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by styrophone 10y ago
Access to capital gives larger landlords preferential rates, terms, and prices compared to individual buyers. Unless the rental unit is a standalone single family home (and sometimes even then), economies of scale in maintenance and upkeep
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by styrophone 10y ago
Having worked with some physicians on AF diagnostic instrumentation, I took away that an outsized difficulty in this diagnosis is patient compliance. One doc called it a "one shower" problem; very many patients would wear holters
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by styrophone 10y ago
Recognizing that the spirit of your comment is about the utility of Wikipedian descriptions in general (I agree!), I thought I'd build out some of these concepts in case someone similarly frustrated also happens to be curious about the