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by vba616 3y ago
>The less extreme option is to find the cheapest online community college in your state If you start your education with 2 years of community college, it works even better to manage debt.
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Or moot.
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Could you give an example of something that is a market, unlike housing? And why? Is a super market a market? Or a stock market ?
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"Cleaning" used to mean eliminating germs as well as dirt. Although I saw a product in a grocery store labeled "pro-biotic" cleaner. Maybe it's a generational gap.
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It isn't going to compound though, at least that's what long term rates imply.
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>hedge funds that return 15-20% This is always a scam. Madoff died in prison, you know.
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by vba616 3y ago
"I don’t want to give details, but I have reliable reports of quite reprehensible behaviour by some attendees - even members of the convention volunteer staff" Wow. I'm wondering, is COVID currently more of a threat to vulner
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by vba616 3y ago
>e.g. sitting in cash I read somewhere (but didn't do my own research) Schwab's business model these days, maybe others, is making money off idle customer cash, now that they don't charge trading commissions. They may not
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by vba616 3y ago
>"Real" wealth management has a lot more legal work behind it This is just me, but if I had legal work and deep pockets, I'd hire a lawyer. >a majority of people think that when it comes to finance they can compete on a
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by vba616 3y ago
>Bismuth, lead, mercury It appears (I didn't previously know this) that iron, while less than 8 g/cm3 at our "normal" environment conditions, is thought to be closer to 13 g/cm3 (or more) at Earth's core. So
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by vba616 3y ago
> I would guess that this must be a gas giant core that had its outer envelope blown away Well yeah? From what I read, this is a larger star than average, as well as a really close orbit. I am failing to understand why this is surprising
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by vba616 3y ago
People have lots of ideas. I don't know if any of them are good ideas, but still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
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by vba616 3y ago
1. Excel. 2. KeePass. 3. Selenium. 4. VBA.
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"If the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted entirely, it would raise global sea levels by around 200 feet (60 meters)" Cool, I live 62 meters above sea level. It says something that the first three or so sea level rise visualizers I found
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by vba616 3y ago
I think you misinterpreted the parent comment and are misattributing a worldview.
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I wonder if anyone thinks of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Zimmer_Friedman
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It is unbelievable to me that he would've betrayed Putin and not expected something bad to happen. But it is not so unbelievable that he never betrayed Putin and his expectations were irrelevant, because he was following a path with no
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by vba616 3y ago
>Stop buying into the "Putin is a master planner" bullshit. Getting up in the morning and following dictatorship 101 rules like the day before is not being a "master planner". Authoritarian rulers fear coups. They use
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by vba616 3y ago
I can get a legit 55 mpg from my non-plug-in hybrid, and gas is nearly $4 where I am, so that's 7.3 cents / mile. The Model Y is said to go 3.8-3.9 miles / kWh and would've cost something like $22,000 more (both new, min
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by vba616 3y ago
Well...as it happens, I have a recent example of Google getting something trivial wrong and ChatGPT getting it right. But oddly that doesn't change my opinion of ChatGPT. The only reason I know that ChatGPT was right is because I blind
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by vba616 3y ago
The free version of ChatGPT, which is now calling itself 3.5, has a seemingly consistent type of answer whenever I ask it how to code something I don't know how to do. It outputs some boilerplate code, and inserts a method with comment
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by vba616 3y ago
I filled out a health care related online form recently, and it said my name was illegal. It turned out that there was a trailing space. The moral I took away from that was that if that is representative of a professional's grasp of th
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by vba616 3y ago
What does "work" mean? Any time someone suggests a tax that kind of, sort of, might be, correlated with energy efficiency, it is violating what should be the prime directive of climate change - every gram of CO2 emitted should be
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by vba616 3y ago
These articles are always implicitly claiming it's pathological to live the way everybody under 50 lives, by the fake standards of a 90 year old scarred by the Great Depression. The actual Silent Generation members who lived through th
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by vba616 3y ago
>Why memorise this to such precision Because that was the precision used by the particular author I got it from. It's not that the fourth s.f. really matters. I think the 7 actually helps my memory by making the number distinctive a
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by vba616 3y ago
>The arguments against are much more strenuous. English is funny. Both "strained" and "tenuous" work here, so why not "strenuous"? A dictionary definition says something like "characterized by great eff
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>Maybe older parts of the city are different? Maybe, but it would be the spread out grid that reflects what people do with fewer constraints, wouldn't it? The downtown center didn't have anything of interest to me that I can re
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3rd para specifically addresses that. I agree that $44B is an unlikely amount to spend on simply destroying it. But (a) he didn't put up nearly that much cash himself, and (b) what if the net cost was much less? The whole farce of tryi
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I'm a bit doubtful that it (assuming there is an "it") takes more than 1.5 years? 18 months is 30% of five years. A process that takes X amount of time can't really take Y >> X amount of time to get going. >we a
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by vba616 3y ago
I really thought that the most logical explanation for his behavior was that his plan was always to destroy Twitter due to it being a haven for journalists and activists that pester the rich and powerful. This seemed especially plausible co

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