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riverlong
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About riverlong
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Comment #34584793
It's much worse than that. You will be on the hook for garnished wages for years to pay off your creditors. And you will have plenty of creditors because the GP's advice says "go l…
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Comment #34584716
This is not legal advice, but here's what I would do: 1. Recognize that they have requested exactly four specific actions from you (bullet points, second page) 2. Do not follow the…
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Comment #34584541
This is absolutely terrible and irresponsible advice. "Declare bankruptcy immediately and protect your assets" is the worst possible way to handle the situation, since: 1. Losing t…
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Comment #32315109
> I increased my account by 5x since the lows of covid to present with simple large cap tech and etf strategies (...) You managed to make money on a levered high-beta strategy in a…
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Comment #32297589
That's not the right frame of reference to use. Yes, they're a little more pollutive than cycling or walking. However, they're also much faster. Scooters compete with cars, not wit…
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Comment #32132533
Thanks for this, you're one of the very few in this thread who get the point.
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Comment #32127949
Sure, food is a way of sharing cultures and connecting to some common history -- I agree with you that these are all means of self-expression and connection -- but I'm not really i…
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Comment #32127881
Been there, to some extent already: https://jayriverlong.github.io/2021/11/25/pornography.html
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Comment #29438234
Sorry, that was a typo on my end. I'll push a fix momentarily. (Do note that the math for $630k over 9y was right.)
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Comment #29438206
Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. I was under the impression that palliative care is (at least generally) end-of-life comfort for the dying. I wish I had chosen a more appropriate ter…
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Comment #28743175
I wouldn't count strcmp, etc. It returns 0 if str1 is longer. Returning 0 means there is 0 difference. That's not a True/False. "0" is not a "truthy" exit code for a system call, i…