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Why aren't we all getting rich from compound interest?

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  • Imagine your dollar would be worth more tomorrow if you didn't spend it today.

    That's basically what happens with technology. Plenty of people still buy the latest TV even when there will be a better and cheaper one in a year or two.

    • We've all been there

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  • In fact driving is the single most dangerous thing many people do in their whole lives, and they do it every day...

    • Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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  • I have one in Arizona - trade?

    • Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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  • I have one in Arizona - trade?

    • I still like this meme

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  • runs in a web browser.

    Or its an electron app.

    Something something something history repeating

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  • All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs...

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  • But then big companies wouldn't be able to keep milking the consumer via planned obsolescence. Won't somebody think of the shareholders?

    • wrong again

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  • Yes.

    • Who owns the boats?

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  • Don't even need to not look like a bum, I've gone on a few test drives looking like a bum.

    • 1987

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  • This. I didn't know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?

    • 1987

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  • It's kind of Bostonian too, but then it's pronounced "suppah".

    • An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

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  • Yeah, but at least he didn't have autism!

    • More Americans approve of Trump than Biden on every issue, poll finds

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  • So someone enters the country illegally, commits a crime, you want to just send them back? To do it all again? Rather than, you know, put them in jail for the crime?

    • Do people in America actually believe Vaccine cause autism or is bad for health? Or Is it a joke?

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  • it's tied in with how US citizens feel about being "different."

    I want to be different, just like everybody else I want to be like. I want to be just like all of the different people.

    -John S Hall, 1992

    • Do people in America actually believe Vaccine cause autism or is bad for health? Or Is it a joke?

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  • It's Poe's law- sometimes it's a joke, sometimes they're serious, and it's nearly impossible to determine which at any given time.

    • If you had to jump off of the space station with with your friends, and all you could bring with you were your spacesuits, parachutes for each of you, and you had a magic device that had enough oxygen

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  • Minor nitpick, it's not friction, its compression. The air can't move out of your way fast enough, so you push it ahead of you, and as more air gets smooshed together, it gets hotter.

    • Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits

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  • John Gomez, John Smallberries, John Bigboote, John Yaya... November 1st 1939.

    • Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits

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  • Lolololol tell that to literally every major bank, I'm sure they'll get right on it just for you.

    • Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits

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  • I've been surprised multiple times by coworkers who don't know the significance of midnight January 1st 1970... We support an embedded Linux device, among other things...

    • 11-year-old Texas girl bullied over family’s immigration status takes her own life

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  • Never fitting in, but pretending to

    Not trying to deny your experience or anything like that, but a lot of people feel that way, especially around that age, are you sure it was because of your lack of citizenship? I know I have always felt like that, and I was born in Boston, Mayflower descendant too...

    Not the point, I know.