arrow74
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- Comment on Hotel prices 3 weeks ago:
Construction or archeology?
- Comment on Hotel prices 3 weeks ago:
It really depends. Holiday Inn Express can run close to 115-125 depending on location and nearby events. And there are certainly a lot of hotels under 100.
But if you’re anywhere near a decent metro under 100 is basically non-existent
- Comment on Disappointed 3 weeks ago:
They do plan on using the tech for those applications though.
The “dire wolf” is just a media strategy to show off their technologies.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
Travelers was good and honestly I’d love a reboot that continues the story. It’s literally designed for it
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 5 weeks ago:
They call it a job for teenagers, but will actually have a meltdown if mcdonalds isn’t open during school hours. God help if they have to wait 2 minutes because staff is low
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 5 weeks ago:
Plus, at least here, if you lose your job the following happens:
- for 2 years you’ll get 80% of your previous paycheck (assuming you worked long enough to qualify, iirc 5 years. if not you get time deducted)
- at the same time as the end of your current employment you have the option to stop/reduce payments on the loan for a time due to special circumstances (technically not mandatory but not bank will give you a large loan without this added insurance, iirc interest will still accrue in this time essentially extending the length of the loan)
And that’s the difference. Here you just get to be foreclosed on.
So yeah with having reasonable social safety nets in place the idea is a lot more reasonable
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 1 month ago:
Disagree, sure you can make more in the open market over time by getting another mortgage on a paid off home.
But that invested money means absolutely nothing if the market has a downturn and you lose your job. Now you’re on the hook to a mortgage you can’t pay and risk losing a place to live.
While on paper you can make more money, it’s very dumb to gamble with things you need to survive. And that’s all any loan is, a gamble that you will be in good health and have the means to pay it back.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 1 month ago:
At least in the US inheritance tax really isn’t a thing. It’s only a couple of states that do it, and for federal taxes the estate has to be very large. In 2025 the exemption is 13.99 million per individual from any estate taxes. I certainly have never had a family member with an estate anywhere near that size
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 1 month ago:
She wasn’t even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to read.
Ironically her “method” did start to show some success
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 month ago:
I had a proffessor in college that only allowed the use of 1mm black G2s. He was ancient and claimed he could not read anything else
- Comment on pain plant 1 month ago:
Are you calling shenanigans?
- Comment on How did I get here? 1 month ago:
I’ll follow you
- Comment on Po-tay-toes 1 month ago:
Keep the po and the ta
Just toes for me thanks
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 1 month ago:
Once I read the caption I can only see the bag of popcorn now. The effect is gone
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
I didn’t say it was magic. Part of the issue is we don’t know what modifications he made in making his artificial version. I won’t pretend like there aren’t a lot of unknowns there. It could alter the effectiveness in numerous ways.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
Having a heterozygous deletion is still effecting the right gene. Without knowing both of her parents genetics it’s hard to say if it was natural. What he did could produce either a heterozygous or homozygous result on the gene, but only the homozygous presentation is effective at prevention.
So 1 was a full success and the other showed activation on the appropriate gene, but not enough to confer resistance. Although it is possible it does since he used an artificial gene. We know the natural one is not effective in a heterozygous presentation. I still think that was his greatest mistake. He should have just used the naturally effective gene.
You do make a good point with the full backing rigor of the scientific method this procedure would always be successful.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
Per the wikipedia page it states that it is not clear if it effective because they’re not going to intentionally infect the children to test it. But we see the results specifically on the targeted gene. That’s a success and demonstrates the technology works.
I’d argue the folly was inserting an artificial gene as opposed to the natural gene that we already know works. Either way the technology showed expression on the correct gene, that is a success.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
By all accounts what he did worked. The potential to end HIV is huge. The amount of human suffering that could be reduced by rolling out what he did is very real.
The technology is here. It’s better to strictly manage it for the public good than to lock it away.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 month ago:
And to keep the private tax filing agencies afloat
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 month ago:
Oddly enough it kinda does. OT can make you pay out more taxes on that one check since withholdings are calculated by check. Basically the government/payroll system thinks you’re going to be making that every week so more taxes will be taken out.
In reality this only effects the size of your tax bill or return at the end of the year.