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by vwcx 5y ago
The flip side to this jealousy, like many things in life, is the unsexy realities: even an investment in an index fund this past year would’ve outperformed the average year’s ROI several times over. The upside is right there, available just
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by vwcx 5y ago
Yes, but no one mentions the downside: that timing the exact bubble end, catching the proverbial falling knife without getting cut, is nearly impossible for the vast majority of bubble investors. The key would be to take your profit we’ll b
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by vwcx 5y ago
Not as much as you might imagine. White balance correction, some exposure compensation in the shadows, some sharpening. No overt pixel shifting/manipulation. Brian Skerry is an excellent photographer and knows how to make these types o
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by vwcx 5y ago
Similar to many of the newer $GME investors. Everyone is happy to keep investing in the hype bubble as long as they can enact the exit they imagine faster than the other guys. No one acknowledges how hard it is to catch a falling knife, and
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When innovation runs out: the vindication of maintenance(frontporchrepublic.com)
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by vwcx 6y ago
Could not agree more. I also maintain the unpopular opinion that speculatory colorization of black and white historical imagery is also doing damage to the accuracy of the general historical canon.
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by vwcx 6y ago
Not to traffic in huge generalizations, but it was very hard working in parts of the United States with a press badge and business card reading Al Jazeera. Best response I had from a subject who canceled on an interview last minute: "m
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by vwcx 6y ago
As a former employee of Al Jazeera America, I can’t stop laughing.
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Wall Street eyes profits from the Colorado River's waters(nytimes.com)
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by vwcx 6y ago
Generally campsites do not need the small-scale timber “clearing” that happens when humans go camping and look for firewood for their small fires. All that ends up happening is a brutal macro-deforestation in the 100 yard radius of the site
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How the grinch bots stole your PS5(undark.org)
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by vwcx 6y ago
I’ve often wondered about the ‘herd immunity’ that forms as a result of widespread cancel culture. Initially I assumed that prolific canceling would lead to a general societal understanding of the unsustainability of the cultural. The idea
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by vwcx 6y ago
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive fingertip oximeter?
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by vwcx 6y ago
The practice of compassion and empathy. Many people will tell you these are soft skill that doesn't need practicing, but the more you engage with these qualities in person , the richer your life can be.
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by vwcx 6y ago
I suspect you’re getting downvoted for the pneumatic tube sentence, because tube systems like that have proven to be way too inflexible for a rapidly changing city. And expensive. And hard to maintain. But I agree with the rest of your co
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by vwcx 6y ago
At both TIME and NatGeo, it wasn’t uncommon to focus group different headlines and covers before going to print. This coverline caused particular rage internally amongst staff: https://images.app.goo.gl/cGhZ8usRNCBqhcp49
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by vwcx 6y ago
I imagine arranging payments was also part of the 90-min average.
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by vwcx 6y ago
Thanks. I'm getting slopping here in the house with only a single conversation partner most days!
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by vwcx 6y ago
Public health is a constantly changing landscape made up of frequently shifting inputs and analysis. It’s only in recent decades that our desire for absolutes has really given people the idea that these things should be simple. Every countr
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by vwcx 6y ago
I understand what you're saying about the hyperbole, but we're also at the point where there are multiple, overlapping problems of a very serious nature to a species with 7.8 billion beings sharing a planet. The hyperbole isn&#x27
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by vwcx 6y ago
Re: Alaska, beavers are already getting there first and exasperating the climate effects upon the tundra. A fascinating read: https://alaskatrekker.com/2017/11/beavers-moving-northern-al...
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by vwcx 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I admire this guy's drive. The ideal world is one where environmental sustainability and server efficiency are hand in hand like this.
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by vwcx 6y ago
As a DC resident, it does feel really frustrating, at a time when the nation's politics feel especially important, to not even have a representative to speak with/pressure. Especially when the chief argument against DC statehood
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by vwcx 6y ago
With all the Amazon clones/fake/crap, I've found that eBay is quickly filling my needs. I used to overlook eBay because the same problems Amazon now has, but I'm finding eBay an easier platform to weed out the fakes...an
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by vwcx 6y ago
Source?
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by vwcx 6y ago
Non-paywall link: https://archive.vn/xj2db
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by vwcx 7y ago
Not necessarily. There are many moments during the operation of an aircraft where full attention is paramount. Yes, you see a pilot leaving the cockpit to use the lavatory while the co-pilot is monitoring the autopilot, but the margins are
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by vwcx 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree. Most of the US public lands are actively managed, and even the lesser-touched 'Wilderness Areas' are still highly influenced by the surrounding human communities. The continuing 100+ year old debate arou
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by vwcx 7y ago
Sure, their headline is accurate, but the way it is written creates ambiguity by relegating the factual turn to the end. Headlines are often skimmed and propagated. Unless every viewer reads the headline in full and every aggregator replica
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by vwcx 7y ago
Surprised, but not surprised, that Business Insider would run an ambiguous, panicky headline in a time like this. Imagine if web journalism wasn't funded by clicks and precision of headline/reporting was the metric that mattered.

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