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  1. cadillac?
  2. The ~30B gap between book value and market cap happens to be the exact same as the "goodwill" and "intangibles" on their balance sheet. Maybe investors recognize the worthlessness of those accounting. Other fabs then earn a premium on growth.
  3. you could also walk around like Midas
  4. And its the industrialization from corporate-farming and its large-scale effects that has improved agricultural yield all over the world, outpacing population growth. Wealthier countries like the US are synonymous with larger farms, which are more productive (per capita), providing its people with lowest cost of food.
  5. My employer provides defined-benefits pension for expat contract. At mid-career I have a chunk of my retirement pot from that. But my friend of similar age, who is a cop, has full retirement in a few years, and that aint so bad either. Well, compared to having dealt with stabbers and getting shot at and piss thrown at, thats the least they can do for him.
  6. It is a 100% easier and more sensible to tax that scenario than to implement unrealized cg tax. it would almost be akin to a tax on consumption (a notional consumption of capital)…which is the fairest form of tax but we’ll save that diversion for another day.
  7. The answer you seek is embedded in your sentence.
  8. The best source for credit card data is from the consumer finance protection bureau. https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_consumer-credit-card-market-report_2023.pdf My favorite takeaway from this is what the industry call “prime” borrower is actually prime to the lenders: they generate tons of interest fees. Their scores are 660-720. Theres a category above them called “prime plus”; and its not until you get to the “superprime” (800+) who use the card for transacting purposes aka float. They make up 1/3rd of cardholders, not 1/2.
  9. 52-80

    3D Printing

    Real example my niece just got into super mario bros because of the movie, and started grade school this year, so i printed her this pencil holder.
  10. 52-80

    3D Printing

    I expected this to happen but ive already run through 5 spools of filament and steadily printing more. A few things are functional household items like workshop organizers and etc, but most are toys for the little ones in my family: sandcastle molds, model cars, spinning tops, boomerangs, spirographs, articulating figurines, and neat stuff like these surprise eggs most of these work really well, but you also learn the limitations of the materials and process. an unexpected outcome out of all of this is an appreciation for high volume industrial manufacturing. when im looking at my kids hot wheels-sized car thats made out of 4 types of plastics in different colors and finishes and has metal axles and rubber tires that all fits perfectly and survives being stomped on and abandoned in the backyard through multiple winters and costs all of $1 to purchase…in which contains profit for the seller, the distributor, the manufacturer, and everyone in between, its tantamount to a fucking miracle.
  11. 52-80

    White Tennies

    With or without rhinestones?
  12. Denmark for the city Norway for the nature Sweden for neither
  13. All the NBA announcers call dennis schröder “shru - der” 😪
  14. I counted 7 to 11 lashes
  15. Thats what I considered too but I thought it might be unfair to the fishies in there or the other extant turtles and whatever. For sure this bastard just runs on hate. Though what I like to do is in the summer, when I swat the house flies, I feed em to him and it feels like everybody wins.
  16. wtf. if thats real, thats fucked up. that said, we have an aquatic turtle that is mean as fuck and he chewed up the tails of all the other turtles he shared a tank with, so we had to separate him into a tiny barren tank. and hes been there for YEARS cuz the fucker simply refuses to die. i kinda feel bad, but i also dont.
  17. its been surprisingly a very long time since ive really lost anything... but i cant find the most recent shirt i bought, and i cant find a few precious metals things i bought for fun. searched the house up and down. nowhere. theyre not monetarily consequential, but theyre fucking mine and i want them goddamnit and more than that i just want to know where they went
  18. I've never done a cruise, ever, but it might be the better way to get a snapshot of the whole country. I would normally recommend driving, but Norway is longgggcat -- same as Vancouver to San Diego -- and most of the major road (E6) is single lane 80kmh limit. You'd have to fly, drive, fly, drive, to hit the major stops.
  19. 1:50 it wouldn't be a japanese animation without tentacles in it...
  20. this guy has gone through more in 4 years of college than even bru mccoy
  21. 1. There are no big cities in Norway 2. Touristed places are touristed for a reason. Like, the Eiffel tower is touristed...but it's the Eiffel tower. 3. In June/July you'll optimize for most daylight and lowest chance of rain and most glorious sunshine. 4. I don't know if cruises have hikes scheduled but summer is the only window for some popular routes that would otherwise be snow-covered or require guides (eg Trolltunga) 5. Keep in mind many of the 'oh my god' photos you see are from drones or mountain tops, like those of Senja and Lofoten. From ground level you'll have nice views...but not the same postcard views.
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