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  1. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Plus I doubt Rothwell draws any fans, unlike those two.
  2. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    You've been hacked. Post all your brokerage logins so we can make sure they're secure.
  3. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    If you mean like what this guy is doing, he adds a secondary nosing with the laminate. The stairs seem to end up with roughly the same area but the nosing projected forward by 0.5-0.75'' from the original position. Seems like a wash, practically.
  4. Captain Suave

    Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

    This is exactly the bullshit I was complaining about in modern cartoons in the parenting thread, and some dickweed was trying to tell me I'm just old and don't understand "good editing".
  5. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/03/14/fact-check-fda-did-not-say-vaccines-linked-heart-attacks/6844945001/
  6. Captain Suave

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    I know Babs through jiu jitsu (he's a long-time black belt). He's a really good dude. Great to see him having this success.
  7. Captain Suave

    Going to College as an Adult

    I think this isn't true, though you're right in the way most people use the phrase "math person". For sure, great many people do themselves a huge disservice by making excuses instead of learning themselves over the math entry barriers. But real "math people" are definitely a different breed...
  8. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    It's a game of percentages and avoiding sunk cost fallacies. The only thing that matters is what action you can take now to benefit your future. If you're under 100k then that's all the more reason to load up on indices and focus on your earned income and savings. You'd need to take insane risks...
  9. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    God what an asshole. I'm sure he's lost his audience uncountable amounts of wealth while keeping his safe and collecting a paycheck as a taking head. They should know better, but still.
  10. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    This is 99% of my investing activity, for all that I read here fairly regularly as social infotainment. I know perfectly well I don't have the daily discipline to collect and act on all the necessary information, so I don't dabble. It's worked out just fine.
  11. Captain Suave

    Profiting from corporate acquisitions as a key employee

    AFAIK they're being operated as a separate entity and not rolled in as a business unit, so no change.
  12. Captain Suave

    Profiting from corporate acquisitions as a key employee

    She's already a Chief, though not Officer and thus not fully part of the C-suite. EVP analog, probably.
  13. Captain Suave

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Sorry, my mistake referencing the infrastructure bill. I misread something and didn't think about it. But regardless, the IRS is only hiring 5,000 agents this and next year (never mind that they're having trouble filling those positions). The plan for 87,000 positions or whatever would take a...
  14. Captain Suave

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    That was attached to the infrastructure bill, which will never pass Congress. As of right now it looks like 10k is the actual figure.
  15. Captain Suave

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Citation needed. Articles I find say they're hiring 5,000 this season and 5,000 next. That would bring the staffing level to 10,000 less than in 2010. They're paying $15/hr, which is sure to get some top-tier talent auditing you. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce...
  16. Captain Suave

    Profiting from corporate acquisitions as a key employee

    Fair take. It's probably a ~$100M deal in total. A third party audit firm came and did risk assessment for them and identified her as a single point of failure for the company, as she has designed and built the current product suite, is the only one who really knows how it works, and will need...
  17. Captain Suave

    Profiting from corporate acquisitions as a key employee

    Kinda yes. They're cash flow positive but not growing fast enough for the liking of the current PE owners. The pandemic has been tough because a lot of hospitals (firm's clients) are having cash problems due to high ER costs and lack of elective surgeries, so their budget for new services has...
  18. Captain Suave

    Profiting from corporate acquisitions as a key employee

    Hey bros. So my wife finds herself in a position of leverage. Her employer, a mid-sized health care AI firm, is being acquired in the very near term future. She is head of the 10-person data science department and has been there essentially since founding 10 years ago. She is the #1 key...
  19. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    For doing that in the Netherlands, yeah, probably
  20. Captain Suave

    Will Smith n Oscar Town

    What does Chris have to live down, other than that lame joke which barely anyone remembers the next day? He took Smith's weak-ass seventh grade slap on the chin, smiled, and then did the adult thing of finishing his job.
  21. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    In my part of LA you can't even get a vacant lot for under a million. Prices have run up so far it's fucking insane. A 2k sq ft 3/2 in decent condition is closing for $1.4-1.7M, all cash, in three days, with literally 50-60 bids. Granted, it's a small city with buyer competition for A+++...
  22. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    If you can control the spread of shoots, bamboo.
  23. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Huge difference in size of network effect. IMO Twitter has shown us that there are negative returns at the extreme.
  24. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    No. Given his age and otherwise good health, an autopsy was done. Found no trauma, stroke, aneurism, or heart attack. He didn't drink or do drugs that anyone knows of, though toxicology will take a few weeks to clear to be 100% sure. Not obese and had no medical diagnoses or medications, beyond...
  25. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm happy with a compromise that burns Twitter to the ground. Speech should be free, yes, but we don't need to give every idiot a megaphone.
  26. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I can't imagine it would be safe or legally advisable to sell real carolina reaper seasoning in a commercial grocery without a massive "do not eat upon pain of a seared asshole" warning on it. The capsaicin content overlaps with pepper spray.
  27. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    In case anyone ever felt like they'd put a lot of work into a house...
  28. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Crossover with the 3d printing thread. I might try this one:
  29. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Take care of yourselves, forum bros. I just got that word that my best friend growing up was found dead at 42, suspected heart attack. Man...
  30. Captain Suave

    Tunic

    Finished this. Oh, man, there were some Souls-worthy frustrating fights. After you finish the main plot there's an entire aftergame of INCREDIBLY obscure puzzles to solve, which if you do there's a "real" ending. I didn't have the patience for it and looked up a bunch of the solutions, but...
  31. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    Dude, I'm in the market for a fitness device, not a second mortgage.
  32. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    One of the worst things the modern economy has done is to train everyone to outsource their cash flow management, at a premium, obviously, and accept everything as a subscription (or debt payments). Cars, medical/dental care, consumer goods, entertainment... The lifetime cost of that business...
  33. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    My dad just had this done. His vision is now better than it was when he was a teenager.
  34. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Speaking of planes, Paul Sellers has put together a kit for a router plane. At $46 it compares favorably to all but the most bare-bones DIY versions. Temporarily out of stock, but should refresh in a month. Link has instructions and parts list to make your own if that's your jam...
  35. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That board looks like the kind of thing that inspired the invention of card scrapers and abrasives.
  36. Captain Suave

    Reacher

    Jack Reacher is male justice porn fantasy about always being able to do the right thing, kicking everyone's ass along the way while ignoring inconvenient rules and expectations, and getting the girl. I wouldn't say he's a Marty/Gary Sue, but the plots definitely stick to the character's...
  37. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Worth noting that there's a difference here between "reinforcing" traditional joints with dowels and using dowels as the actual joining mechanism, a la a doweling jig. I assume he means the latter.
  38. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    All the woodworking pundits will tell you to find one of the millions of cheap vintage tools on ebay or local flea markets, which in my experience don't exist or will take you months to procure. I ended up buying a package of Wood River planes. They're not inexpensive by any means, but they're...
  39. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I remember feeling lucky to get 5.25% in the 00's.