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Gold's price floor is not the cost of production. It's more like its industrial value. The speculative value is well out of line with its use value.

you can easily live on the peninsula with 6-figures (in a shared apartment). No need to go deep-east bay.

That is not in the definition of a bubble. Nor does it preclude there being a bubble.

by pure luck?

wait do people actually think this position requires Unix (not linux) experience? I assumed the recruiter must just be wrong there.

Eh, honestly I would've been similarly frustrated. The recruiter seems like they are being needlessly bureaucratic. Either they are familiar with Unix and thus should know that Uni…

In a few years when the windows linux subsystem has more traction I expect putty will become mainly unnecessary.

The administration wrote the policy then the DHS interpreted it. Then the administration overruled that interpretation. And then about a day later the administration changed its mi…

Gated communities mean they are unimpacted? What is it you think the impact of the wall is? Most of it the justification for the wall I'm hearing is based on economic ("they're tak…

I almost never post here but this "mansion walls" to "Mexico wall" false equivalence bothers me. They are totally different things. Mansions have walls/hedges for lots of reasons: …

Not sure if you are joking, but Pauling was pretty wrong when talking about vitamin C. His ideas were repeatedly rejected by actual research studies and yet he kept pursuing vitami…