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by svggrfgovgf 2y ago
I think the tech sector was pumped up by the long period of zero interest rates and falling back down since interest rates are up, have been up for a while, and looks like they will stay up longer than expected. Meanwhile, most of the rest
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by svggrfgovgf 2y ago
"And this week a ruling from a federal judge in Texas could put the ban on hold." See also: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/ftc-noncompete-rule-...
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by svggrfgovgf 2y ago
Shorten from: How thousands of Americans got caught in fintech’s false promise and lost access to bank accounts. I thought this was new information: "Regulators have already been moving to punish the banks that provide services to fi
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Thousands got caught in fintech's false promise lost access to bank accounts(cnbc.com)
3 points by svggrfgovgf 2y ago|1 comments
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Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85M of customer savings is missing(cnbc.com)
82 points by svggrfgovgf 2y ago|31 comments
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by svggrfgovgf 2y ago
States part of the pilot program (i.e., 2023 tax year): Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (state), Wyoming as per https://www.irs.gov/
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by svggrfgovgf 2y ago
I think it's a matter of expectations. When I go to a restaurant, I'm OK knowing the price is X, but today (or right now due to whatever) the price is lower, but I don't want the "surprise" the price is X+Y when it&
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Really sorry to see that.
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Before you move, be sure to check out the local vaccination rate. For example, according to: https://www.ppic.org/blog/school-vaccination-rates-vary-acro... >More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Does anyone check their credit card bills or bank statements to be sure that all of the charges are valid and for the correct amount? It seems like if you use electronic payment for everything there would be a lot of items to verify. Or do
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NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed Osiris-Apex for New Journey(nasa.gov)
1 points by svggrfgovgf 3y ago|0 comments
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
May 30 2023 Bloomberg article: Why Low Interest Rates Will Return – Again and Again ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848416 ) Of course, the May 30 article is about the decline in interest rates over the last 8 centur
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Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips(cnbc.com)
12 points by svggrfgovgf 3y ago|5 comments
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Full title: Canon, known for its cameras, launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
The ft article is from 20 September 2022 and is based on Fed paper dated 06 September 2022.
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
> nobody goes into it wanting to go it alone I think this is missing the point of the controversy. The argument at the time was that it was fine for women to chose to have a child without being married. It was not about "couples sho
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Not surprising. A part of the cultural war in the US (in 1992) was that it was fine, even encouraged, for a woman to be a single parent. The controversy started between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown (a fictional character that decided to beco
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Another take from a local news source ... "New COVID-19 stats from CDC just defy belief" https://veronews.com/2023/09/07/new-covid-19-stats-from-cdc-...
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Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants(zenodo.org)
18 points by svggrfgovgf 3y ago|24 comments
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Full title: Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants and the possibility of deliberate natural selection
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
tl;dr Exchange between pilot and ATC with pilot complaining about having to go around twice, i.e., break off a landing approach and go around to try again. There's not much info other than the exchange between the pilot and ATC. But it
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
I'd like to understand you situation a little better. I'm wondering what people mean when they say they are living paycheck to paycheck. I think paycheck to paycheck means essentially spending 100% of your paycheck on average ever
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by svggrfgovgf 3y ago
Am I understanding this right? It means a student must have a phone and must carry it with them always (or at least almost always)? Does the phone also have to have a subscription, ie, is the student required to pay one of the cell phon
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
On April 3rd, Florida became the 26th state that allows concealed carry without a permit[0]. This means over half the states now allow concealed carry without a permit. And it's likely that Nebraska will also pass constitutional carry
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
I think that this new spending and new staff will be used to further weaponize the IRS against political opponents. We already saw the Obama administration use the IRS to suppress political opponents without any real consequences.
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
"if everyone in the bottom 25% of wealth got cut a check that doubled their wealth, inflation would not double" What makes you say inflation wouldn't double? It's not clear to me that there's a linear relation betwe
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
People value things differently. You'd have to pay me way more than the 8 cents/kwh it cost me to use my battery. I'd want to be heavily compensated for the inconvenience of replacing the battery or car prematurely.
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
I wonder if it would make any difference if the giver could specify how the donation is to be used? For example, say you supported student debt forgiveness and your donation could only be used for that purpose. Would that make donating to t
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
Probably because these statistics are based on reported burglaries as opposed to the actual number of burglaries. It's my impression from various threads and news articles that people in California have given up on reporting all sorts
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by svggrfgovgf 4y ago
I found these two books interesting w.r.t. weight loss/diet: Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight, by Herman Pontzer Pontzer measures total energy expenditure vs exercise. Acco

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