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You just described a total market fund like VTI :)
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Calakmul is so cool’s. So is the nearby volcano of the bats.
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~3500 calories of orange juice and ~3500 calories of soda will both add 1 pound of mass I to your body.
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It could be pension fraud! “Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says” => https://youtu.be/VpwXswyt-zg?si=EyT1KpxA0JY7kk17
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I avoided injury when backpacking through the Himalayas by tying helium balloons to by backpack for neutral buoyancy. Had to make slight adjustments as altitude changed, but it all worked out. I had my porter carry the helium tanks.
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“Hey look, it’s a tokay gecko. Yoink! Can you tell me where to find that twenty footer?”
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by devoutsalsa 2y ago
>> Did we build this so we can nuke anybody on the planet at any time? This was actually a concern with the space shuttle! I suppose it could be a concern for any spacecraft that can carry a payload into orbit. I’m not sure what valu
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Artificial super intelligence.
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by devoutsalsa 2y ago
You can always self host in the cloud. I think the parent comment intended to communicate run on an instance controlled by you (e.g. your data isn’t leaving your system). That instance doesn’t have to literally be your personal physical c
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In 5 days I’m flying to Nepal to trek up to Everest Base Camp. I’d also love to do the Annapurna Circuit. Maybe next year :)
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PolishedTurd.ai
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I liked him as Admiral Greer in the Jack Ryan movies (The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger).
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In my opinion, the 30 year old B5 CGI is better than the most recent season of Star Trek Discovery in 2024, which I found to be quite bad, especially in the opening scene of the first episode.
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Not OP, but thanks for the suggestion. I’m starting to play around with LLMs and will explore locally hosted versions.
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For example, you can have an exactly once implementation that is essentially implemented as at least once with repeated idempotent calls until a confirmation is received. Idempotency handling has a cost, confirmation reply has a cost, retr
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Borrowing against your assets might make mathematical sense, but I think it’s kind of stupid to burden yourself with that kind of debt. The tax you pay is your peace of mind and the interest in the loan. Paying taxes on the sale of your i
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>> Why are you so oddly fixated on SLS? Because I'm not a rocket scientist & if I knew how this stuff worked I wouldn't have to ask!
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If SLS is only getting a few launches, and we’re planning to establish a permanent presence on the moon, what will replace SLS? Starship and New Glenn?
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One service that SVB provided that is uncommon for a typical bank is venture debt financing. I'm curious what percent of venture debt financing was provided by SVB, how big the market for that was before SVB collapsed, and how much ve
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Maybe they can just leave it in place, cut a hole in the bottom, and install a new docking port!
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I drove a Toyota Prius into some really ridiculous terrain. It was all I had and I really wanted to see some places that weren’t accessible by paved roads. Here’s what I Learned about driving a 2WD car into questionable situations: - drivi
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If you say "I barely know AWS, we mostly used GCP", that will be a turn off for anyone screening for heavy AWS experience. If you say "we use the cloud extensively & 100% of our infrastructure the made extensive use of A
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I used live in the Tenderloin and work in the Twitter building. My walk to work required me to be mindful of both stationary and recently minted poop in transit. This was in 2019.
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About 5% to 10% on cash compensation. Some employers in Europe pay better than others.
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Fair enough. I was focusing more on the procedural aspects of immigrating as come with a special skill. I haven’t really had a truly Dutch living experience yet. All of my coworkers are expats and the center of Amsterdam is largely Engli
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You're right. It was a CGA monitor. Forgot that detail.
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I'm an American living in Amsterdam. I moved here last year on a highly skilled migrant visa as a software engineer. [1] Unlike the USA, immigrating to many countries is easier. The company's onboarding team handled all the immi
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As a teenager, I once plugged a 9-pin VGA monitor into a 9-pin serial port. The computer turned on, did beeps and boops for a few seconds, and then white smoke started pouring out of the power supply. I quickly turned it off. After it co
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How many conversations have you had with people at work about how something was a bad idea, only to unsuccessfully avoid it?
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You don't have to quit your day job while starting a business. And a business can be started for nearly $0.

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