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Steve Jobs is one of the most important historical figures of our lifetime, if not the most. Here is why. He broke the hold the carriers had over phones. In doing so changed the wo…

So who gets to keep the interest on the money while the case languishes through the court system?

The US was over 1 million/day during the last days of the Trump administration. I imagine now we are well beyond that level.

Does not work with PLA, only ABS.

Acetone will only work with ABS which has another set of issues. Reducing the layer height and a coat of paint will accomplish almost the same thing using PLA.

This is a bad example. The layer heights are too high. Look at thingiverse.com for examples of what you can do with a 3D printer.

An FDM printer can absolutely do the job. My kids are always breaking the battery covers, which I recreate via a FDM printer without issue. He needs to realign how the part is prin…

7 billion tickets. That must be good for the plastic spider, finger trap, and a Frisbee. Well not a real Frisbee brand Frisbee. More a flying disk.

I disagree with his assumptions and logic. Basically he is saying because you don’t need to live near work, people will not live in Manhattan. There are plenty of jobs outside of N…

It is easy for a high net worth person to change primary residence. This is going to backfire and cause a reduction of revenue.

The problem I have is pulling my money out immediately reduces it by 15-30% because of taxes. So for every $1000 in stocks gains, I will only have $850 to invest in the future. So …

And specifies where you are going from contextual clues to previous conversations.

I think everyone should take statistics and probability. Same reason, to change your world view.

Yup. Father in-law had this quarter collection. For whatever reason he spent decades collections quarters from each of the states and had well over $500 worth of quarters. None of …

I agree. It is laziness on the part of the educators. There is a trend in education where they try and make things “relevant” to today’s generation. In the process the actual mater…

Every worker in The US is already saving 15% year for retirement. It is called social security. If that system was managed correctly it would be all we need. But instead the money …

Every job in the US saves 15% of your income for retirement. It is called social security. The problem is the politicians control it instead of the individual so the money is not i…

Have you ever rented a car from a small company? The entire process sucks. Yea it is ok if it is a once a year vacation. But for a business trip it is such a waste of time.

The book “One Second After” deals with an EMP attack on the US. I don’t understand why we are not better prepared.

Ok 4s/hour. 8 hours/day of sitting. So 32s day of total exercise!?! Still probably will not do it.

From my understanding you would need to take an extreme amount for months before you overdose.

Watch a lecture by Peter Zeihan on YouTube. His entire thesis is the US is becoming isolationist. But yea I agree with you about China.

I’m on an iPhone and can not get past :-(