ticviking

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by ticviking 4y ago
> What is the part of this product that you have an issue with? What part of any of this effort improves either the gameplay of backers or the state of conservation? There is no need in any edition of the game for another book of 100 mon
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by ticviking 4y ago
Software has gotten so complicated that it is inevitable that each of us only deeply understand part of it. Add to that the constantly changing standards and UIs, and things I knew how to do a year ago in Win 10, or 5 years ago in linux wor
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by ticviking 4y ago
I’ve slowly begun to accept that the solution for my parents and maybe for me is going to have to be to unplug a lot more. Do business with a local bank where I can see my banker in person. Begin to actually verify trust numbers in signal a
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by ticviking 4y ago
A way to work around busy work is exactly what schools need to make them stop assigning busy work.
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by ticviking 4y ago
But a firstborn is a good way for everybody involved to save face
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by ticviking 4y ago
But they don't advertise our relationship in that way. They say, "Buy for kindle" or "Buy in iTunes" The contract they advertise doesn't match the fine-print in their clickwrap contract
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by ticviking 4y ago
One of the things that most frustrates me about pension funds and even 401k funds is how my retirement is managed by someone who has no concern for my values and could in fact use my money to oppose my values and best interest(as a whole) i
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by ticviking 4y ago
The risk becomes that the pension is holding up value and price discovery is damaged.
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by ticviking 4y ago
The problem is that the company is blatantly trying to undermine the labor protections and quality of life my ancestors fought hard for.
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by ticviking 4y ago
> If anything, I'd expect a crackdown on illegal labor practices here to result in funneling more money to criminal organizations (i.e., "the cartels") and tying the immigrant community more deeply with them. It really loo
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by ticviking 4y ago
Read over the history of the US settlement. While they came from the UK and Germany, the vast majority are not descendants of the Normans. One of the major draws to the US has always been the opportunity to do a little crusading of ones own
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by ticviking 4y ago
Perhaps we'll be forced to accept that we cannot continue to have "endless growth" with a declining workforce. The cost of Labor is going to go up at all levels, and that will mean smaller profits and more inflation until thi
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by ticviking 4y ago
I mean cheap notebooks and a recycled thinkpad are basically the perfect portable tools for thinking.
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by ticviking 4y ago
I've had reasonable luck at local print shops. They can do custom sizes in a plastic spiral binding for a reasonable price. I haven't found someone who can do a sewn binding, but I wonder about asking a leatherworker in town if hi
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by ticviking 4y ago
I've lived in homes built that way. They're always a little janky, but usually much higher quality overall because they're built for a family and not for quick turnaround. I know guys who are literally growing the timber for
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by ticviking 4y ago
Savings are just delayed consumption. If I want returns I should seek an investment.
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by ticviking 4y ago
It is a fact that the IRS requires me to pay taxes in federal reserve notes. That makes them real enough.
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by ticviking 4y ago
I own a few CDs. They’re not an unusual financial product.
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by ticviking 4y ago
Savings. Frugality. Only consuming what we can actually afford. Investment with real skin in the game. If you have to take on much higher risk to get returns we will find ourselves being more careful about those returns actually happening.
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by ticviking 4y ago
Those proxies tend to make the risk and liability much much clearer than usury does. And generally speaking you can’t honestly use those proxies to build financial skyhooks
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by ticviking 4y ago
I think the second one comes from the idea that we inherit the residence and customs as something akin to property. The 'right' to inhabit a particular region in the same way of life, could be defended if people coming to a place
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by ticviking 4y ago
Sure. And the settlers nearly starved the first few winters in every colony despite that.
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by ticviking 4y ago
This is exactly how America became America.
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by ticviking 4y ago
That or a Toyota Tacoma in the same age range. I've been keeping my eye out for a Ridgeline also, something in that "I do enough on my land to need a hauler but I'm more ex-urban than rural, and don't load the whole bed
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by ticviking 4y ago
This matches my experience. The number of farmers I know who are running 20+ year old pickups because they can't find any suitable replacement at all is too darn high
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by ticviking 4y ago
CEOs generally aren’t racketeering so they can’t usually be hit with that
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by ticviking 4y ago
The idea that a 10000 year jail sentence must be served by every share holder disturbed in proportion to how much they owe would make “shareholder value” mean “not making me check into jail to serve my 2 days of the sentence for my 1 share”
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by ticviking 4y ago
In my experience anyone using something other than VSCode, or Major IDE is a noteworthy signal that the developer cares about their tools and is probably better than the median. There's an interesting blog post from a recruiting compan
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by ticviking 4y ago
The idea of having direct first-hand contact with a thing is part of the understanding of the word "experience." Second hand contact or learning is generally some other noun or verb, depending on what we're talking about.
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by ticviking 4y ago
> Citation provided https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy#:~:text=by... . Functional literacy means more than simply knowing specific vocabulary words. It includes the shared knowledge to use and understand id

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