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I agree that there is fat to be cut, as with a lot of the government. That said, hasn't it been pretty well documented that these areas that experience the riots have a drop in pol…

Interesting news. I've heard that real estate prices haven't budged much and with the stock market remaining relatively strong, I wonder if we will see a corresponding rebound in r…

> “Here you are free to criticize the government as well as to fight fake news. We have a great startup and tech ecosystem, your company would be a perfect fit and I will open any …

Yeah, but how many people come back to make a purchase after the site is back up? I don't think you can just extrapolate that 1 minute down equals $500k lost revenue.

The economist comes out weekly.

You mean like Walmart?

I think I overall enjoy WFH, that said, my quality of life would be greatly improved if I lived in a larger home rather than my one bedroom apartment. I've seen some people predict…

just buy VTI. No use in speculating when VTI alone will go buy 50% to reach the previous highs.

I think handing out checks during a crisis is vastly different than doing it all the time.

> In today’s world, the physical store can no longer compete with the web’s infinite selection, but can still offer value in curation and presentation. Could not agree more. I alwa…

I'm pretty sure you've fallen trap to the pie fallacy mentioned in the interview.

At what point does this logic stop? I see it all the time to justify taxes, but I'm sorry I think there is an upper bound of justifiable tax and a 40% exit tax certainly seems egre…

The Bogleheads wiki should really be the first stop for financial questions. It's a fanatic resource and I found the answers/content to be higher quality than Reddit.

It is my understand that it is highly unlikely an uninsured person would ever pay anything close to the billed "price." Same is true for insurance companies. Edit: Some are telling…

Why not just setup a cron job to run a reboot command daily?

Does anyone have suggestions for good books on the history of Mathematics?

Sure. Basically all these new checking and savings accounts that are coming out, Robinhood, Google, Credit Karma, etc., are actually being serviced by a real bank.

I saw the same questions asked on the Bogleheads forums and I'm curious to see what the HN crowd says.

I recently read The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life and a lot of that book focused on newspapers. Buffet delivered papers as a boy, had a big legal battle to buy a…

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Unfortunately, much of what we read isn't retained. However, the small amount that is retained compounds, so it's not a lost cause.