[–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    Most companies realize that the time to replace employees with AI is not here, and despite the hype, it isn't soon. What they're doing is putting a freeze on hiring and hoping the right thing to do becomes evident. In the mean time, attrition is reducing headcount to prepare for some level of layoffs.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 hours 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.

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