tagoregrtst

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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I’ve lived in Cali. I wont make that mistake again. Czechia and Hungary sliding sliding into authoritarianism? Please. That just not serious.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
“ at least in those countries you don't have to resign for what you do in your bedroom, consensually, behind closed doors...” No, you go to jail instead for offending someone. But you still have a job to pay off your court debts with (
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Agreed, its very common. But this doesn’t apply to me. Allow me to explain: I lived in four different countries across three continents seven different times by age 15. Throughout, middle class. Leaving Europe for Canada as a teen was extre
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I speak three European languages at native level (Im ESL. Or is it ETL?) and can get along well enough in a fourth. I have the luxury of choice. And my problem isn't with Europeans, that is Englishmen, Ukrainians, Russians, or normal
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Get off your high horse. This is a long term international effort where irrelevant Western countries in the peripheries (that’s the EU) have nibbled away at encryption protections to make it easier for the US to do the same. It’s part of a
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
If they fall within the lifetime of the loan. 11% interest rates werent a one year thing. That being said, I keep forgetting refinancing is one of the great American blessing we dont enjoy elsewhere. And Ive refinanced twice already :D
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
You can get cheap houses in the US if you’re willing to live outside select cities. If you’re an IT guy with potentially little impact on your salary. That being said, we’re in this weird regime where interest rates set the market price of
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
they paid more than double then what they bought it for. Interest at 11% over 30 years is larger than the principle.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Sorry, I meant higher than my mortgage. Corrected. I already had a low rate from ‘17 and we refinanced it again.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
My math might be wrong, but according your source isn't the annualized month-to-month inflation 7.5%? (1+0.6/100)^12 = 1.0744. The year-to-year (multiply all seven rates and then power to 12/7) is 7.1% which is pretty close t
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Atlanta is not the South but its also not not the South ;)
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
<Hick’s mocking voice> but but but but its not censorship if the givernment is not doing iiiiit </Hicks>
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Bill Hicks saw what most 30 years ago wouldn't and that has become painfully obvious today. - The war on drugs - Imperial hubris - Safetism The foresight of Hicks is evident by the fact that most Republican voters agree with Hicks on
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
In the South, where he’s from, I feel that people know him. There’s been a poster of him and other comedy greats in Midtown ATL at the Vortex since at least the mid naughts. In the North East I haven't met anyone who knows him; I find
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Hicks has been dead for almost 30 years. Its not fair to say who he’d vote for today. He was also preforming in the early 90s where Bush Sr. was conducting a stupid war that set the stage for our current collapse and imperial hubris. Im a s
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Why were you surprised? Aside from the government mandated minimum CND content the majority of media Canadians consume is American. Then consider that that, percent wise, the number of English speaking Canadians in Hollywood are over repres
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
It blows my mind how annoying it is to watch TV nowadays
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I meant its a solution to a specific problem set up using Hooke’s law
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Do you have to solve it to use it? NS is a case in point. No general solution, but thousands of special cases that are solved and many more that can be understood using numerical methods
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
No? Hooks law is an approximation to a material (and spring) property that sets the PDE up. Sin(x) is the solution. But I could be wrong :S
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I enjoyed CW more than FC. I think FC was more depressing. I like Ivan Denisovich most though - theres a message of hope in it that that the others lack. I agree about the romanticism of CW. Why dismiss love as asinine?
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
You’re in Kyrgyzstan? Thats awesome! I want to visit the central stans and Mongolia so much.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Have you read “In the first circle”? Great read, and they made a mini series out of it that I believe Solzhenitsyn himself narrates.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Children, universally as far as I can tell, want to be with other children. As we mature we want other things, more time alone, and with abusive schools we might recoil at being forced to periodically be with our tormentors. Forcing 16 year
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Im an introvert, Id happily only interact with my family (some of them), my wife’s family (fewer of them) and my two closest friends. But I wouldn't say Im normal. Far from it
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Its not my kids career that Im worried about, its her mental well being. There might have been no school, but I doubt the kids didn’t go out and play with their little gangs.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
The only thing worse than school is not being around kids your age. Also, as far as I can tell, “school sucks” is very much an Anglo thing. I went to primary school in English, in continental Europe, and in Latin America. The latter two wer
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
If you liked the link, read Solzhenitsyn. Amazing. But start with “A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich”, short and to the point and skip the Gulag. The Gulag is brilliant, but its too long and depressing (Ive never made it past half way th
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Jobs wasn't Solzhenitsyn.
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The Root from Issyk-Kul Revisited(undark.org)
44 points by tagoregrtst 5y ago|8 comments

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