PopAlongKid

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by PopAlongKid 1mo ago
There is an enthusiast discussion group at https://groups.io/g/DIGI-COMP/topics
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by PopAlongKid 1mo ago
In late 1970s, I spent two months hitching and riding trains around Europe, just an external frame backpack and a sleeping bag. A few years ago, I spent 2.5 weeks in U.K. and Ireland, with an 18-liter backpack and a waist bag (a.k.a. fanny
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by PopAlongKid 1mo ago
>My dad talks of regular Nuclear War drills in elementary school. The boomer generation covers 18 years. While such drills may have been common for those in school during the 1950s, I suspect it was much less by the 1960s.
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
>Yes, there is a five year waiting period to withdraw contributions from a Roth IRA No, there is not. Per IRS Publication 590-B, "You don't include in your gross income qualified distributions or distributions that are a retu
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
There is no five year clock for withdrawing your own Roth contributions. Contributions (not earnings or conversions) can be withdrawn at any time with no tax or penalty.
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
I just finished re-reading this a month ago. In the book, the process went a little further. The books were shredded into confetti-sized pieces first, then as the shreds were blown about in the air, many photos were taken, and then AI was
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
Perhaps related to a recent change, where you now must be logged in to IMDB.com in order to view the User Reviews for movies.
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
(2017) >Dismissed by some as Monopoly or plastic money, the new £5 and £10 notes in particular have come in for heavy criticism.
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
Also featured in the 1985 novel Footfall by Niven and Pournelle.
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by PopAlongKid 2mo ago
>Stay tuned for Part 2 where I explore the why for this practice. Took me a minute or two scrolling through the article before I found what I was looking for, at the very end.
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by PopAlongKid 3mo ago
To me, this was not about the buying guide or directory, but the regular monthly printed issues received in the terrestrial mail. Among other benefits, I attribute my fondness of Western classical music to eagerly reading this rag from cove
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HiFi/Stereo Review-Stereo Review – Audiophile Magazine from 1958 to 1999(worldradiohistory.com)
4 points by PopAlongKid 3mo ago|1 comments
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
>It's like taking out a mortgage on a house, but letting the house owe the debt. Isn't that a non-recourse loan, which in some states is the default for the initial loan to acquire the housel
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
> living primarily off the unrealized gains on their home equity. How is that paying for food? Insurance? Electricity? Gasoline? Health care? Gifts and charity? Or even taxes?
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
From the article: "As older people take up a greater share of society, the likelihood that society as a whole will adopt new technologies more slowly may increase"
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Age Shapes the Adoption of New Technologies(insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu)
3 points by PopAlongKid 4mo ago|1 comments
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
It's odd that you confuse a massive capital investment with maintenance.
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
From the title I thought this was going to be about basis points, as used in finance. (A basis point is one hundredth of 1 percentage point).
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
>Research often defines heavy drinking as more than 40 grams pure alcohol a day for women and 60 grams a day for men. Translated, that’s 1.4 ounces of liquor for women and 2.1 ounces for men. To clarify this muddled statement (it's
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by PopAlongKid 4mo ago
>This is something I tell people I am generally politically/socially align with (liberals/progressives) when they start talking about “handouts for red states.” California and other areas were not developed on their own, they r
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by PopAlongKid 5mo ago
DAFs (U.S. tax law) were never meant to benefit charities, they are a way to give donors a tax break today by putting money in the hands of for-profit entities like Fidelity in exchange for a vague promise to maybe someday donate to an actu
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by PopAlongKid 5mo ago
It also helps to spread your lifetime Soc Sec benefits over more tax years, thereby lowering the total tax you pay (because pushing higher payouts into fewer tax years by delayed filing will typically increase your marginal tax bracket).
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by PopAlongKid 5mo ago
> the monthly payment is about 1/4 of what I was paying for health insurance before I was eligible. Maybe not, if you take into account the >$500/month subsidy of your Medicare Part A benefits (assuming you had the minimum n
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by PopAlongKid 5mo ago
Unlike Pournelle, Niven is still alive (87 year old), but I don't think he is writing new science fiction these days (although he has collaborated on some stories this century and has made guest appearances at some conferences in the l
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by PopAlongKid 5mo ago
I too prefer POP. I don't read email on my phone, I alternate between a desktop and notebook computer for that (and most everything else), and simply copy my Thunderbird profile back and forth (using robocopy) when I switch. I have fo
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by PopAlongKid 6mo ago
>Time turns out to be a great universal organizer, just like how a photo collection is wonderfully organized by date more than by any other single dimension. I have found this same thing to be true. I even tell my family that if for some
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by PopAlongKid 6mo ago
>launched in the 99% of the US >excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado. I question your basic math skills if you conclude that those jurisdictions amount to only 1% of the U.S.
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by PopAlongKid 6mo ago
I don't understand how LLMs can ask questions at a press conference.
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by PopAlongKid 6mo ago
I was waiting to read about what these "wildly incorrect intuitions" were, but it's never explained. The maps correctly matched my own intuitions.
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by PopAlongKid 6mo ago
Most of the time 1245 property is not real property, it is personal property, which is why I didn't mention it in this context.

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