UnpoppedCorn

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[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Real estate has the potential to be cheap in 20 years as the baby boomers die leaving smaller generations to buy their larger number of homes.

Any kind of asset can be a good investment. If you have a place to store it, classic cars only go up in price and some of them are under 10K. Bonus: you get to drive them. I know someone whose 401k is mostly collectable guns (rare, 100+ years old guns). You just need to choose something with lasting value. Don't repeat the Beanie Baby crash.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They hear something, and turn in the direction of the noise to see what it was, in this case to their left.

As someone who walks the trails a lot, having someone say "on your left" every two minutes is annoying. Just don't hit me and let me enjoy the trail in silence. The people who are walking need to treat it like the sidewalk that it is and not suddenly jump out where people are biking and running. With half of the people wearing earbuds, they can't hear you anyway.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Timing the market usually fails. Dollar cost averaging can give you a small advantage.

Assuming that AI follows a similar path as the .com boom... A lot of companies will go under leaving a few companies who will benefit greatly. It's not that AI is going away. We're just pruning the dead wood.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Japan has a large percentage of the oldest people in the world. The country has been digging into this to understand what is special about Japan. The biggest reason people in Japan live so long is because their children lie about them still being alive.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No one has ever asked me for ID to vote. We just say our name and someone crossed our name off of the list in the big book of registered voters (it went electronic this year). There is nothing stopping someone from giving the name of any registered voter in our district and voting. Our judge of elections has had people come in and it turned out that their name had already been crossed off. They call the county who issues them a special ballot and they get to vote.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If you're storing appointments on your electronic calendar like Google's, they know too. Calendars are a wealth of private information: when is your home empty, what kind of vacations do you take, what conditions are you being treated for, etc.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree. Home computing has a lot to offer, but it's not for most people who never even change the application defaults. They certainly don't want to configure and maintain home services. For most people, the alternative isn't a privacy-centric service, it's no service at all.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

No one is trying to fix anything. People just want to make their lives better while making the opposition's lives worse and pretending it's moral by making up lies about about the opposition.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If you have a place to park it that will earn more or lose less, definitely. Putting into cash will lose at least 3% per year.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the long run that makes sense. In the short term, they're linked. SpaceX doesn't have contracts to fill every launch, so they fill in the extra space with Starlilnk launches. Starlink doesn't exist without SpaceX.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The private industry is doing everything NASA was doing at 1/10th of the cost.

[–] UnpoppedCorn@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

They don't have the ability to squeeze them. They are offering more launches, with fewer costs overruns, at a better cost.

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