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kerbs
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About kerbs
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Comment #49038614
There are non-stimulant ADHD meds. Strattera being a big one.
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Comment #47280807
Looked crazy at the time too!
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Comment #46945874
It's mostly appetite suppressing. Affects the perception of hunger and the brain/reward function of eating, which must also be part of what also helps for drug and alcohol addictio…
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Comment #43645943
Also dying for an explanation here
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Comment #42065992
It is used for those things I agree. Those things alone do not hold up a $1.5T market cap. I would say they don’t hold up a $1.5B cap either.
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Comment #42065970
You made a subtle, but important, pivot from the topic of “Bitcoin” to the broader topic of “crypto”. Bitcoin specifically, with its multi-trillion dollar market cap, is built up t…
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Comment #42063230
Gold is used to make things. You can argue what its value should be as a material alone, but it’s not entirely speculation.
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Comment #41814007
It is not easy on the mind and body as to just cut carbs.
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Comment #39827863
Memories of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. I lived <1 mile from it at the time it went down, and had crossed it earlier in the day on my commute.
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Comment #39175916
If you’ve played Kerbal, you feel for this.
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Comment #38547408
The average cost will far exceed $125000 fwiw
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Comment #37976355
A cursory Google search on Shell Shock doesn’t resonate with this statement.
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Comment #36526057
People don't go to GitHub for the Git They go for the Pull Requests, Issues, and general collaboration and workflow tools.
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Comment #36207147
Airpods Max are 100% everywhere. And not in affluent areas either. I probably see people wear them on public transit most often—and when I visited NY the subway was by far the most…
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Comment #34397335
lmcpgtfy
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Comment #34250073
I read that they will technically be on payroll until late March. If that's the case, it's not so much accelerated vesting as it is vesting while not being "employed". So same resu…
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Comment #34200413
Like Mike Judge’s other office masterpiece, Silicon Valley, where the main characters literally drop a folder titled “Skunkworks Project” in front of the CEOs door.
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Comment #34128716
Very against the rules. The Packers aren’t savvy here, they just existed long before business interests shut that practice down.
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Comment #33667038
They still have their equity grants that will vest each quarter as they would before. The difference is they are vesting a cash value equal to the price-per-share of when it was bo…
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Comment #33583261
If you’re the kind of person who has cash to buy a house (or a significant down payment), what are the odds those assets were in cash and didn’t go down with the greater market? Fe…
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Comment #33456102
Was it obvious Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers would collapse? That Morgan Stanley would need a bailout? The crisis with the housing criss wasn't that housing collapsed, it's that…
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Comment #33456046
The part of the housing crash that I was inferring was hidden to most was how deep the credit markets were tied up in housing, to the point where a housing bust meant banks collaps…
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Comment #33454214
I was young too, but I think the .com bust was far more obvious than the housing crash which snuck up on a lot of people.
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Comment #32434115
Yeah I'm ambivalent about if what they do is good . I do think that what they've done with Star Wars is better than whatever Lucasfilm did with the franchise between 1983 and when …
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Comment #32426218
Yeah that was a weird comment. Disney+ is huge , and it got there so fast. It's absolutely dizzying to think how fast they are going to blow past Netflix with Disney+ alone. It mus…