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Is there a relative tax advantage to waiting to sell ESPP shares? AFAIK, an ESPP discount counts as earned income in the same year, and LTCG tax advantages would only apply to grow…

It seems your comment is characterizing the OP as a complaint mostly in search of sympathy. That doesn’t strike me to be the purpose of the post at all. The OP is using him or hers…

>it will always be cheaper to buy than rent. That's decidedly untrue. In many markets you can make the case that conservative assumptions result in a cheaper buy option. However, t…

I did the same thing to help me get my head around it. For anyone else finding it difficult to imagine the probabilities in Monty Hall intuitively, consider replacing the 3 doors w…

Yeah, the choice of a non-inertial reference frame for this example is a little confusing to me too. I also haven't been able to find an independent mention of the spinning astrona…

I think this thought experiment assumes the astronaut is spinning around an axis orthogonal to their belly. From the cartwheeling astronaut's perspective, the other one is also car…

This is a really nice explanation. I think it's helpful to go a little deeper and clarify that the virus itself isn't performing any electrical activity. Rather, the virus transfec…

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html

A lot of spam doesn't expect a response and only cares about link impressions.

20% of appreciation for 10% of assets [0]. Seems like decent leverage on your risk. From the point of view of a prospective homebuyer, at first this seems attractive as an avenue t…

>It also pains me to see such luxury spent on the elderly. While you may have a personal attachment to them, the rest of society would do much better with that money spent to educa…

> I heard it does strange things to the mind to cut rat heads for an hour straight I've spent a few years doing that. While I can see how the image might appear to folks who haven'…

I don't think suicide is inherently a much worse cause of death than many others, but it is often associated with a mental illness, outside of which the sufferer would not choose t…

Is this much different from Diffractive Optical Elements in use today?

According to the OP, it's because the distance cues from focal length and disparity are consistent with each other.

Rent-to-own in general exists as a concept in many places, but it has a sour reputation due to the predatory practice of vanishing equity. Essentially, a renter is sold on a higher…

Access to capital gives larger landlords preferential rates, terms, and prices compared to individual buyers. Unless the rental unit is a standalone single family home (and sometim…

Having worked with some physicians on AF diagnostic instrumentation, I took away that an outsized difficulty in this diagnosis is patient compliance. One doc called it a "one showe…

Recognizing that the spirit of your comment is about the utility of Wikipedian descriptions in general (I agree!), I thought I'd build out some of these concepts in case someone si…