lazerpants

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by lazerpants 6mo ago
I actually dig the patinated look of my dented and scratched old MBP and my current MBA. My plastic Dells from work always look terrible after a few trips living in my backpack and getting banged around. Haven't had actual usability is
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by lazerpants 1y ago
She was at the land border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego. Still not an excuse for her uncontested deportation to take two weeks though.
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by lazerpants 2y ago
Thanks! I wasn't directly involved in that discussion, but I imagine anyone can do it. It is a requirement for some grants and for some research funders. Edit: if you need to know I would just ask the editor if it's an option
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by lazerpants 2y ago
Our organization (the American Federation for Aging Research) is hosting a webinar with Jay Olshansky (author of the paper) and Andrew Scott, a leading economist in longevity to discuss Jay's results on 10/22. The gist is that thi
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by lazerpants 2y ago
I think I would be more likely to use this if it were a subscription model despite usually hating subscriptions. Looking for a job is a time bound process and I want to know that I have full access to the tools needed for the entire time it
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by lazerpants 2y ago
Here's a great and kind of terrifying story on CLEAR: https://onezero.medium.com/clear-conquered-u-s-airports-now-...
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by lazerpants 3y ago
Interesting product but it's a shame that Chromebooks typically just turn into e-waste after 2-3 years due to lack of support from Google. They're cheap but terrible for the environment.
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by lazerpants 3y ago
The Aeropress shouldn't be as much of a problem, right? It's rigid plastic and contains far fewer polymers and is less prone to breakdown I believe.
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by lazerpants 3y ago
I am not a PE expert but I will try to explain using the mortgage analogy. This is drastically simplified. The shoehorned part of the analogy is that a bank won't exactly lend as described below. You take out a mortgage for a property
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by lazerpants 4y ago
The invisible ink screen effect (blurs the message/photo until you touch it) in iMessage is essential if you're in a long distance relationship or away from your partner and still trying to have some fun!
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by lazerpants 4y ago
Most Americans are using gasoline produced from crude drilled by Americans, Canadians, workers in Saudi Arabia, and Mexicans, that has been refined by Americans, in America, and supporting jobs in those countries. Russia accounted for only
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by lazerpants 4y ago
The implied gun ownership rate given by the firearm suicide rate in Hungary, for example, is rather high. It is also surprisingly high in Austria. Neither are like the US of course, but unless the primary reason people own firearms in those
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by lazerpants 4y ago
To be fair, I went to a Yankees game for $30 last week and had okay seats. Food and drinks are expensive Yankee Stadium, but you can bring snacks in, so it's actually pretty affordable as an occasional activity for a family.
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by lazerpants 4y ago
The article you reference is specifically on very young mice, and does not attempt to prove that this happens in adult brains of mice or humans.
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by lazerpants 4y ago
But USPS is underfunded and according to the source below they made $13.9B from marketing mail in 2020. As long as USPS is underfunded it is a necessary evil. https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/2062562/
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by lazerpants 5y ago
After considering the risks I put some of my money into Gemini as GUSD yielding around 8%. After paying the taxes on that you're at least close to inflation. I chose Gemini because of their NY state compliance and their attempts to be
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by lazerpants 5y ago
The Chemistry Department specifically has horrible infrastructure and a huge part of the problem is that construction is very difficult. NYC isn't a college town like Cambridge or New Haven and Columbia has to pay more to get stuff bui
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by lazerpants 5y ago
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/21/what-is-a-class-a-...
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Most universities I'm familiar with spend 100% of their tuition on operations and some amount over that from endowment income. While they do have endowments, those are restricted and cannot be used for anything except their contractual
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by lazerpants 5y ago
It's like looking at the Wright Flyer and saying that it is neat proof of concept, but that affordable transatlantic flight will simply never be possible. Prescient at that point in history, but myopic over a long enough time frame.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Oil prices literally went negative last year when speculators did exactly that.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Look for Oeko-Tex certifications too. My wife is in textiles and is impressed with their processes. A lot of "organic" sheets are not carefully sourced and are not actually organic.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Big fast SUVs aren't as fun as a Boxster, but the Range Rover Supercharged (as an example) is very fun to drive for a large SUV. Same with the Cayenne Turbo. With adaptive dampening a lot of big cars can feel much smaller if you'r
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by lazerpants 5y ago
The truth is that I suffered for depression for all of high school too. But either way, I credit the program I was in with saving my life essentially. Also, very few people were willing to put in the work needed for this program. My high sc
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by lazerpants 5y ago
The market for industrial metal and chemical recycling is completely different than consumer plastics. Metals are often recycled because there is significant money in it. Recycling plastic is not profitable and frequently not even possible.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
As a person who came from a poor family and is now at least moderately successful due to participating in gifted programs, I completely disagree with you. The people I went to school with ranged from first generation immigrants to children
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by lazerpants 5y ago
My suspicion is that Kia/Hyundai's current marketing position is about capturing new car purchasers, not differentiating brands. Your average consumer will only drive a few cars before buying one, 3-5 maybe? So if you can own two
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Thank you for writing this, it's a very thoughtful explanation of what some of us have experienced.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
Have you had the opportunity to try ketamine treatments for chronic pain? I know they have been highly successful for some people.
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by lazerpants 5y ago
The population also exploded from ~280MM in 2000 to an estimated 331MM in 2020... so maybe all of those extra people created a glut of workers.

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