americanjetset

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by americanjetset 7y ago
This is exactly what I thought. In fact, when I got to the section that listed the right-truncatable primes, I immediately searched Euler because I knew there was a problem about them -- turns out I had already solved it though lol.
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by americanjetset 8y ago
My wife has signed up for 3 half-marathons in the last year and the maximum cost was $60 (and they all came with a t-shirt).
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by americanjetset 8y ago
>According to the New York Times, the total cost of running a marathon—arguably the least gear-intensive and costly of all endurance sports—can easily be north of $1,600. Wat. What marathons are they signing up for?
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by americanjetset 8y ago
I have no idea. I'm not an Austrian, but I can tell you that stating they are "nonexistent" in modern academia is just wrong. Go look up Peter Boettke at George Mason -- he is a current, publishing Austrian Economist (he gave
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by americanjetset 8y ago
Having graduated with an Econ degree just 5 years ago, I can tell you that this is 100% false.
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by americanjetset 8y ago
>Lotus and eight other ridiculous cards Well, Lotus, 7 other ridiculous cards, and then Timetwister.
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by americanjetset 9y ago
This is basically what I was referring to, along with the redistribution and redirection of capital towards the "war effort."
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by americanjetset 9y ago
I would wager that the two World Wars impact on capital had a lot to do with the decrease of the 1%'s wealth.
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by americanjetset 9y ago
>So your definition of "solidly upper class" is the top 10% of earners? That's a pretty loose definition IMO. You stated that above. I'd say your definition here is quite a bit more "loose."
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by americanjetset 9y ago
This is exactly what I use it for.
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by americanjetset 10y ago
> Terminal copy and paste key bindings on Windows have changed to Ctrl+C (when text is selected) and Ctrl+V respectively. So happy.
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by americanjetset 10y ago
Every time I do a fresh install of Debian on my laptop, I whip out the Ethernet cable and do the strange, hour-long dance of installing and uninstalling broadcom-sta-common while modprobing various kernel modules until my wifi works. BCM431
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by americanjetset 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/196/