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Blaming an event that happened in 1789 for the first and second world wars seems incredibly far fetched. Maybe we should blame the aggressors who started the wars.

Is income tax stealing?

Did you not read the article? Ellison's warning came during an hour-long Q&A at an Oracle financial analyst meeting in September 2024.

From the article: the Moneypoint plant will continue to serve a limited backup role, burning heavy fuel oil under emergency instruction from Ireland’s transmission system operator …

The top comment currently on this post is talking about the cost impacts being transferred to the poor and middle class with lots of discussion. I think people are well aware of an…

The same way that an employed person would plan for this. Catastrophic insurance plans put a cap on how much your medical bills can be.

FIRE doesn't depend on having a tech job. Its all about income to expense ratio. Planning for medical events is something that gets talked to death in these communities.

Manhattan doesn't have enough groceries? Do you have a source for that? Everywhere in the city I go has plenty of grocery stores.

How does that not violate their right to freedom of speech and assembly?

Non-citizens have constitutional rights as well. The DHS having the ability to produce subpoenas without judicial oversight is definitely a bad thing.

You really think that every other administration has had this level of incompetence? The current bumbling and corruption is absolutely unparalleled.

Sure, but they are accounting for size shrinkage which the original poster was saying they didn't. I don't really know how you can account for quality either. User surveys? Ingredi…

Even if ice cream is lower, if the price of staples is going up you have to make cuts elsewhere.

In the article it says: To account for possible changes in package sizes, we focused on the price per unit, whether it was an ounce of salsa or a square foot of aluminum foil.

I might have missed it, but I don't see this quote in the article. Either way, it feels disingenuous when a place like business insider posts these criticisms of FIRE like it is th…

Why would you ever think this an acceptable thing to say?

Its probably because you don't know many under 40 year olds. Its been a popular game for a long time.

My banking app works without any issues, but I do have google play enabled.

The U.S. government won’t have a seat on the board and agreed to vote with Intel’s board on matters requiring shareholder approval “with limited exceptions.”

I was going to post this link as well. That site has really helped me understand many things.

The cumulative ROI for basic research is positive, but I don't think that is true for many individual research efforts, which is what a company is more likely to support. An indivi…

You can always lift machine code to assembly. Its a 1 to 1 process.

Until they don't.

Mire things down in bureaucracy. Try and make everything take substantially longer than it should. Throw up hurdles in the face of progress. "Forget" to do important steps in the p…