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by jf271 10y ago
If I remember right the first (and maybe only) comment in the TECO source code was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
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by jf271 10y ago
If you have relatives from Europe look into citizenship via decent. My grandmother was born in Ireland and I was able to acquire Irish citizenship because of that. Now I have dual US/Irish citizenship
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by jf271 10y ago
My wife still teaches "Consumer and Family Studies" in one of the few school systems here that still has that curriculum. From how amazed the kids are that you can prepare things from scratch I don't think there are too many
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by jf271 10y ago
The S&P is growing because companies are borrowing to buy back their stock. It is illegal stock manipulation but that law is no longer enforced. This makes money that used to be taxed as dividends eligible for capital gains treatment an
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by jf271 10y ago
It is amazing to hear people that would find "3/5 a person" to be revolting talk this way when a vote doesn't go their way.
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by jf271 10y ago
You are lucky you got a reply. All I got was another bill.
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by jf271 11y ago
Disgusting. A bitter old man with a Don Quixote complex thinking he is going to ride in and save the day in a brokered convention.
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by jf271 11y ago
And people wonder why I call my job "Data Janitor".
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by jf271 13y ago
Google "nicaragua neighborhood watch". It doesn't need to be high tech.
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by jf271 13y ago
Yes. In Massachusetts for a startup by MIT professors and graduates. MA will enforce NDAs and non-compete agreements. It is nothing like California here.
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by jf271 13y ago
Because MBs during that era were basically Chryslers. MB picked up on the cost cutting when they owned Chrysler and produced a lot of junk during that time.In later years they got back to producing quality products.
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by jf271 14y ago
If he will let them work from home I bet a few Yahoo employees would be willing to join on.
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by jf271 14y ago
I have a cell phone and cash. A cell phone can never be what cash is. Anonymous.
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by jf271 14y ago
Just look at the US tax code to figure out why most of the money in the hands of old white people. The tax benefits of IRA/401K accounts really favor people who have the guts to cut back on consumption and save over the years.That is all mo
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by jf271 14y ago
"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day." isn't a specious argument. You would have enough to pay your bills whether or not you got paid for a multiple of months.An emergency fund
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by jf271 14y ago
An interesting post on a board the almost solely exists to help people find private equity investments. Leveraged buyouts <> private equity. It is just one form of it. Sometimes the money is borrowed from investors who expect a retu
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by jf271 14y ago
Which is why tax flight would be a big risk.It compounds over time. You pay taxes on the same money year after year. Nevermind what happens if you save even more. Why stay in an economy that is dying from taxation when you could move to an
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by jf271 14y ago
That is a tax that never made sense to me. I know they do it because it is easy to quantify equipment but once you start taxing the means of production all you get is less production and less means of production to tax.
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by jf271 14y ago
I'm thankful that the construction companies have enough sense to not build more new houses when the is a 6-12 backlog in existing houses. This kind of common sense isn't common in the USA.
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by jf271 14y ago
And yet as an older citizen of HN I am very concerned about privacy, enough that I use cash for at least half my purchases. Cash is wonderful because cash is anonymous. I wise boss I had one time told me "Don't worry about the banks and US
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by jf271 14y ago
I bought my first house in 1984. Banks were begging you to take out a mortgage and prices were in the tank. I bought the house with 5% down, PMI and a 14 percent, 1 year adjustable mortgage (interest rates were so high they had to go down).
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by jf271 14y ago
OK, I'm confused. Are you saying that it would have been better for Honduras to allow Zelaya to install himself as a dictator for life, Chavez style?
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by jf271 14y ago
They deserve a lot of praise for defending their constitution without violence. The interim president stepped down when he said he would and did not run for the office. Elections went off without problems. It should serve as an example for
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by jf271 14y ago
That is the whole idea behind fashion. There is a big difference between fashion and style.
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by jf271 14y ago
It has been that way for years, at least since Windows 3.1. You trade off skill in programming for speed and memory usage in programming via GUI tools that do an OK job but not great.I'm not sure it is better but it does make programming av
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by jf271 14y ago
WAAS is a combination of GPS and ground stations. It is accurate to about 6 feet. Widely used in aviation.
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by jf271 14y ago
I the US I can think of two. Number one: you are in charge of you life and education. Don't depend on teachers to teach you everything or the government to guarantee your happiness. Number two: learn to accept criticism and act on it. You w
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by jf271 14y ago
Yes, Thank you for doing this.
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by jf271 14y ago
There are a lot of ways to get through college without being in debt for 5 or 6 figures. Too many people think that it matters where they went to school rather than what they actually learned at the school they went to. I worked at a colleg
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by jf271 14y ago
If you completely understand the weaknesses of eventual consistency you will use is only where it is viable and the risk is justified. There is a reason the relational databases haven't gone away completely.

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