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by zrail 6y ago
My kids are almost four and almost two. After a cumulative almost 4,000 readings through a small library of their favorites I can now recite classics like Goodnight Moon from memory. Not exactly great literature but they are usually structu
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by zrail 6y ago
The thing that really feels possible to me is long haul autonomous trucks only on the highway. They can transport themselves between depots and then an actual driver does the tricky in-city transit and delivery/pickup.
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by zrail 6y ago
> Yes! You could have history of heart attacks and not find cheaper private insurance but I am hoping that isn't you! Major medical health insurance in the United States for the individual and small business markets has had communit
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by zrail 6y ago
In the US do you know how many Amazon warehouse workers are employed by Amazon directly vs 3rd party contractors? Do your statements hold for those contractors?
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by zrail 6y ago
It’s hard to get a refi because there was a huge demand spike when the Fed dropped the rate to zero. As that gets cleared out it’ll get easier again.
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by zrail 7y ago
> I strongly suspect that Norway will use the entire fund cushioning the transition away from being an oil producer My very cursory understanding of the Fund is that cushioning that known inevitable circumstance was the entire point in t
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by zrail 7y ago
Good.
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by zrail 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by zrail 7y ago
It’s not true.
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by zrail 7y ago
As a full time remote worker, one of my favorite things about my setup is that I have a 43" 4k monitor set about 6 feet away from my eyes. I use macOS's scaling feature to make everything bigger. This has significantly reduced my
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by zrail 7y ago
The Federal Reserve is not misleadingly named. It was created by an act of the US Congress. The board is appointed by the President and the Congress sets their salaries. It’s completely appropriate for it to bear the word “Federal” in it’s
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by zrail 7y ago
The Fed has promised to basically prop up the market for however long it takes.
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by zrail 7y ago
You are definitely not alone.
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by zrail 7y ago
The tricky thing is that your cell phone needs a number in order to receive calls.
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by zrail 7y ago
The reason why this plan doesn’t work is because 20% of people who get this disease (regardless of age bracket I believe) require hospitalization and a good number of them require an ICU bed. There simply aren’t enough beds or health care w
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by zrail 7y ago
Or, and I’m just saying maybe, we could use this crisis as an opportunity to create a Federal-level reinsurance program. This isn’t quite Medicare for all but it would guarantee costs higher than some reasonable number are spread across the
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by zrail 7y ago
I think until relatively recently minidisc recorders were a standard piece of kit for radio sound engineers.
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by zrail 7y ago
Where would we find operation masks? s far as I can tell they’re still sold out literally everywhere.
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by zrail 7y ago
Thanks, I wasn't super clear on the timeline there.
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by zrail 7y ago
Rails' ActiveRecord is both a query builder and also the canonical Active Record pattern. For example, one can say book = Books.joins(:authors).where(author_name: 'James S. A. Corey').first book.title = "Tiamat&#x2
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by zrail 7y ago
How do you buy a put option if you have zero savings and donate your income?
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by zrail 7y ago
BSD didn’t need legislation but it did need a long legal process to resolve in its favor.
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by zrail 7y ago
Influenza and coronovirus are two broad non-intersecting categories of viruses. They're not the same thing.
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by zrail 7y ago
Supply chains have already started to break down in at least a few sectors. China, Japan, India and Korea are where lots of stuff is made, including electronic components and drugs and drug components. China at least slowed shipping way dow
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by zrail 7y ago
Honesty I can’t imagine how a private company can offer single trigger RSUs. I would never accept an offer at a place where I knew I would have to write them a year after joining to cover taxes for illiquid not-quite-equity.
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by zrail 7y ago
Depends on the kid but my sample size of two says very bad. If they don’t get at least 12 hours they’re a mess the next day and it starts a horrible cycle of not enough rest leading to it being hard to sleep.
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by zrail 7y ago
I think OP is referring to the "Institutional" class of funds. They have much higher minimums because their target market is pension funds and large 401(k) plans that invest using pooled accounts.
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by zrail 7y ago
> I eventually ended up investing in building my own "detached" office in the back yard This is the thing I want most in work life right now. I have a separate semi-dedicated office room but it splits time as the guest room and
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by zrail 7y ago
In the US if you leave your job for any reason you don't lose your insurance. You have access to the same plan for at least 18 months (some situations up to 36 months) through a law named COBRA. You have to pay all the premiums but tha
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by zrail 7y ago
This is where my family was in 2017. In 2018 I took a FT job with my biggest client when they offered to pay 100% of a significantly better health plan for my entire family. I didn't regret it then and I don't regret it now.

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