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by toastermoster 5y ago
Those who have borrowed money benefit from inflation though. If you have student loans or a mortgage, high inflation can work to effectively reduce how much you owe if salaries/wages go up with inflation.
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by toastermoster 5y ago
Wealthy people own assets that keep up with inflation. They may have 10% in cash which doesn’t keep up with inflation but in general most of their holdings either keep up or outperform inflation. Poor people have wages that don’t keep up wi
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by toastermoster 7y ago
This reminds me of my neighbor who had recently retired and began a side business making furniture in his garage. He was just looking to make a little beer money, but his business grew quickly just through word of mouth and he was complaini
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I've always thought this would be best. I recently saw signs instructing people to wait to merge in Duluth MN when I was visiting for work. People weren't abiding by the signs though and continued to behave in the normal random wa
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I remember seeing an article about a long term study of former participants of the show "The Biggest Loser." If I recall, almost all of them had gained the weight back and due to the extreme caloric restrictions they had placed on
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by toastermoster 8y ago
When you say "trapped at the zero bound" are you saying the control output is saturated basically? I'm thinking in terms of feedback control loops. I would agree that the FOMC doesn't have a lot of room to work with if w
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I'm waiting for an electric Toyota Tacoma. Meanwhile, I drive a Civic. It's not too bad, but it only gets 34.2 mpg (long term average) with 80% highway driving. I may need to review my driving habits though. I got used to 51 mpg w
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Apparently the president of the SIPC stated that Robinhood didn't contact the SIPC before making their announcement. The SIPC president Stephen Harbeck is on record saying that "SIPC protects cash that is deposited with a brokerag
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I've been listening to How I Built That with Guy Raz lately too. Also a good podcast. I spend a lot of time in my car so good podcasts help keep my sanity.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I came here to post that same link. It was an interesting Planet Money episode.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I wasn't familiar with Chandra. Just listened to a few songs. I think she sort of has a Siouxsie and the Banshees vibe. Now I want to go listen to Cities in Dust but it's too late for that today.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I agree. A financial guru I've listened to off and on for many years is Clark Howard and he suggests always using a financial advisor that you pay outright with fiduciary responsibility. His favorite recommendation is to talk to someon
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by toastermoster 8y ago
A few years ago I was watching a movie at my parents' house during a visit over the holidays and I noticed something wasn't right. I kept saying the video motion was strange and apparently nobody else thought anything was strange.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Or in perpetuity it could be about 4% of 1.8B per year. Which is only 360 students per class though (assuming a 4 year scholarship). Maybe that's 360 kids that wouldn't have otherwise been able to go to Johns Hopkins.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I'm surprised there was no mention about insurance and billing requirements, etc.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I'm pretty sure from that point on I started going down the same rabbit hole as the protagonist. The results of that are a bit of a mixed bag to be honest, but I wouldn't have it any othe
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I've often wondered how feasible it would be to combine thermal storage with battery storage and solar energy production. During the winter such a system could heat water while producing excess solar power and during the summer maybe p
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I'm visiting Toronto and nobody here at the bar had heard this yet.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I had heard from a third party vendor on the site that Profibus issues (for communication to drives) was one of the major issues at site. I wonder if that was accurate or still true if so.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I can't stand it, I know you planned it... gotta set straight this Watergate.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
The wait staff at the restaurants usually don't get tipped on those kinds of orders either. And in most of the US the wait staff are only making $2.13 an hour or something like that.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Until recently we had a few families in my neighborhood that had kids that played outside just like my brothers and I did as kids. They all recently upgraded their homes and moved out of the neighborhood though. Those kids were my dog'
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Your comment made me think of the Our Lady Peace album "Spiritual Machines."
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I'm smashed into an airplane right now waiting for boarding to finish. I can't imagine planes being any more cramped than they are now.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
I would ditto that for sure. It can work out well for some but in my case it was a bad call. That was probably the worst decision I've ever made. I went to a good state school for undergrad, but I always wanted to go somewhere more pre
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by toastermoster 8y ago
That's exactly how I felt getting off of Effexor. I stopped taking them completely one day and after trying to push past the zaps for two weeks I got back on them. I had to get of them gradually by splitting the pills open and splittin
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Been there...done that. It doesn't help that the cuisine is so delicious.
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by toastermoster 8y ago
So I couldn't resist adding this link to the SNL sketch of "The Bidet": http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bidet/n12737?sn...
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by toastermoster 8y ago
It was funny to see this HN post tonight. This week I'm doing upgrades to the DCS (distributed control system) operator stations at one of the largest tissue manufacturing sites in the US. I was just telling my fiancé how funny the sec
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by toastermoster 8y ago
Scorpions - Winds of Change is the first thing that came to my mind when you mentioned whistling.

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