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Hahahahaha I love this! Almost as good as fixing race conditions with sleep statements ( which I see a lot )

mmm… donuts…

Was on a jury for a murder trial dec 2021. The trial gave me a new found respect for how trials are conducted, what evidence is allowed in, how defendants are protected, and the ge…

~$50,000 USD per year in dividends from individual, public stocks, which isn't bad considering I do not seek out dividend payers specifically. Was earning another $25,000 or so ren…

What are you looking to get for it?

My first thought after reading the article was that it was ridiculous to fire/scapegoat the author for hitting the wrong key, too. This has happened to me before, where a single ke…

If I were a pizza parlor owner, I would frame this letter and hang it in my restaurant.

A simplified example of what happens when trade deficits occur over a long enough period of time: Squanderville versus Thriftville (Warren Buffet) - http://www.freerepublic.com/foc…

Why take a minimum wage job when you can probably contract yourself out doing a number of different things? I worked part-time one summer for $6/hr ( ~ 0.75 higher than minimum wag…

Let's say you have $1M ( and you won't need any of the cash for more than a decade ). How would you invest it? Curious to get the hacker perspective on this.

1.) Graduated from a top engineering school with little debt ( ~$10k ) thanks to wonderful parents who planned from day one to send my sisters and I to our top choice colleges. 2.)…