jerry80

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by jerry80 9mo ago
I think you're missing August 13th. As the other commenter pointed out, 13*28 = 264.
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by jerry80 9mo ago
It appears to have 30 days in October and 31 days in November.
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by jerry80 2y ago
Such as?
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by jerry80 3y ago
Many small aircraft are still required, by law, to use leaded gasoline. Meanwhile, leaded gas has been outlawed for use in cars for decades.
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by jerry80 3y ago
What is Google paying for, exactly? Reddit's content is already public. Even free tools like F5Bot are already continuously downloading all of Reddit, and I'm sure they aren't paying $60M.
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by jerry80 3y ago
I installed Windows 11. A couple hours later, I was horrified to find that Windows 11 uploaded all files on my desktop to Microsoft. There's no warning or opt-in. OneDrive is set up by default to silently copy all your files. How is th
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by jerry80 3y ago
I recently got a new Windows 11 computer. I was forced to create a Microsoft account to login in. There is no reasonable option to bypass it. I copied some files over to the Desktop, and I was later completely horrified to realize that Micr
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by jerry80 3y ago
Income tax is specifically prohibited under the original US constitution. The modern federal income tax was enacted in 1913 at 1% for incomes over $3,000 (about $93,000 in today's money). By WWII, we had universal payroll withholding.
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by jerry80 3y ago
>You see, the reason you pay so much money on your tax income... Or is it because government spending has gotten so wasteful? It's interesting to think about how much government used to accomplish with less, or even no, income tax i
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by jerry80 3y ago
You could literally have "firearms, drugs, cats, dogs, alligators, and weapons" in your car and still not be breaking any laws at all. None of those things are a priori illegal in all, or even most, cases.
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by jerry80 3y ago
Reddit has been on a downward spiral for years. I guess they are in a tough spot, because they're trying to monetize it, but the way they are simply ignoring the needs of their users will surely lead to their downfall.
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by jerry80 3y ago
Since you're too busy to do basic research to answer your own curiosity, of course I'll let you know that speeding is a misdemeanor in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada,
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by jerry80 3y ago
Actually, speeding is criminal in many states.
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by jerry80 3y ago
A lot of crimes things require intent. Perhaps using AI could actually circumvent the intent requirement of crime, thus making a lot of otherwise illegal things totally legal. That is to say, it not only makes it hard to pin responsibility,
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by jerry80 4y ago
The contractors aren't idiots. They got an extra 7 years and a 140% bonus.
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by jerry80 5y ago
FYI, bupropion is not an SSRI. Escitalopram is.
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by jerry80 5y ago
Yeah. OP might be conflating arithmetic mean with geometric mean. This is a common problem that many investors make. I see it all the time. People mistakenly think that if their investment made 50% and then lost 50% that they broken even, b
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by jerry80 5y ago
Fiat means it's backed by a state. The definition and etymology of the word makes it clear [1][2]. I wouldn't go so far as to say that fiat must have "actual utility" though. Being forced to use a currency in order to av
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by jerry80 6y ago
>It makes a lot of sense to specify energy in Wh in electrical engineering. It's much easier to convert to other useful measurements involving volts, amps, and watts than joules are. Easier how? A watt-hour is just 3600 joules - the
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by jerry80 6y ago
>The post is about SO, the top comment is complaining that the moderation is too strict and draconian, and the second comment is this one complaining that the moderation isn't enough. They're both right. SO is moderating on the
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by jerry80 6y ago
Google isn't forcing anyone to use ReCaptcha, but in my state many government websites use it. So I actually am forced to use it. This is even more true with Covid, where many in-person services have transitioned to online-only. What&#
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by jerry80 6y ago
I would take a long-term short on it. I've been using Reddit for 12 years (just checked my badge), and it gets a little worse each year. I just don't see it being relevant in another 12.
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by jerry80 6y ago
FYI, eTrade is still allowing these trades. I sold a put on AMC just now.
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by jerry80 6y ago
>Would the person holding that last 1 share have suddenly 100% of Apple? Yes!
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by jerry80 6y ago
Sorry, but you don't understand how stock buybacks work. The purpose of a stock buyback is to reward shareholders by increasing stock price. The increase is caused because of the reduction in float. Each share represents more of the co
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by jerry80 6y ago
Yes, and the manipulation doesn't only affect Robinhood customers.
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by jerry80 6y ago
Why do you say they're less beholden to shareholders? Regardless of how much they buy back, shareholders still own 100% of the company.
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by jerry80 6y ago
DFV also has a YouTube channel called RoaringKitty [1]. It's pretty entertaining. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/RoaringKitty/videos
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by jerry80 6y ago
Yes. Plaid can be used to verify banking details (many stock brokers use it for this, for example). Plaid works by asking the user to give their banking username and password to Plaid, and then their two factor authentication token too. Pla
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by jerry80 6y ago
Same thing happened to me when I changed ISPs. I never lost my password, but Gmail locked me out anyway.

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