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  1. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    What does PayPal do going forward? What's their place in the tech world? I don't see how it doesn't lose it's purpose as the world moves forward
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    Best Credit Card with Cash Back Rewards

    I'm debating this. I have one card with an annual fee, Chase Sapphire $99/year. I then have a few other chace cards, discover, amex blue, few Wells Fargo and the US Bank + . Each month/quarter I could plan what card goes where, but I'm over it. I'm moving all my house bills to the US Bank...
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    Best Credit Card with Cash Back Rewards

    sign up for credit karma. free, will show you what's on your credit history and will give you a close idea to your score. i signed up during my divorce to ensure nothing shady happened. i log in about once a month just for fun.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    finally did a tier 100 nightmare last night. a few on my friends list I occasionally play w/ . there's zero reason too other than to talk w/ my friend while we play the same game. was playing with a random guy and at one point he said 'wait, what happened to that elite?'. i guess playing a...
  5. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    This probably isn't your last deal. If you pay off your home, you can swing the mortgage payment into dollar cost average into the market.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yup. Every home we looked at was priced at whatever the owner owed the bank at that time. Then my X took half of the equity about 5 years. After the divorce, I owed more on it than we. originally purchased it for I think. I've had a total of 4 mortgages on this place now. When we originally...
  7. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    I bought me home 14 years ago And still hey mail to previous owners. It was a short sale so not surprising
  8. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    well she texted me pics of 6 bills there were all in collections, 3 were in my name but to her address. 3 were in her name but to my address. what a cluster. i gave her cash to pay the 3 in my name, they wouldn't take my cc over the phone since the address didn't match and I didn't want them...
  9. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm fine paying the debt, it's owed. I've paid some smaller bills for our boys w/o asking for her half. I'll just call them offer to pay the debt w/o giving them my address for cell, i assume they don't have my SSN.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Anyone delt with medical collections? My X stopped opening her mail since she's been unemployed for so long. She messaged me last night that there's a medical collections letter addressed to me name but her address. It's for our son, so I'm fine paying, just pissed I never heard from them...
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    not sure if this is the best thread for this question, what's the best streaming service for nfl? looking for something to add to my amazon fire
  12. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    why? i don't see anything that will help disney's numbers anytime soon. writers strike, stuck in woke mindset, slow economy keeps people out of their parks. i say this while holding onto stock I bought just before D+ launched....
  13. fris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Holy shit, just watched this, what a dumpster fire. These are "have developers", someone that wanted to develop games? " How'd you get into game Dev?" "Wow, such a deep history, how can I summarize. I wanted to be a game Dev, but couldn't cause you had to know someone to get that kind of...
  14. fris

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    how much of these drops are those that initially signed up and were yearly, canceled but still have access? I canceled a while ago and I can still log in and watch.
  15. fris

    Investing General Discussion

    why not roll it into an ira? wouldn't moving from one 401k to another just retain the limited investment options vs anything ?
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    Home Improvement

    Hurricanes in Texas just means people in Austin finally get some rain. I'll check that out too.
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    Home Improvement

    My brother got that exact model and speaks highly of it. My debate I guess is a true window unit vs tower type that has hoses to the window.
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    Home Improvement

    As a fellow Texan, I can't be the only one dieing in this heat. My AC is close to 20 years old and I rather not have to spend more on it. At least once a summer, I get to spend something in it. Like replace the outside fan motor or capacitor. I got a hard start one a few years ago. Has anyone...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    and getting on your horse can usually prevent you from moving at all for a few seconds. this was the most annoying thing
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    are sorcerers the most frustrating class? i was looking up other builds, considering various options that use different rotations and are either more shard/blizzard/teleport focused. then i talk to a friend that has a warrior, he just smashes his 3 roar skills(?) and hold whirlwind until the...
  21. fris

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Why would they want to move on from Cavill though? I never heard a reason
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    Marvel Universe stuff

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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    A friend and I are playing this fairly casually. We've completed main quest and tree thing. Unlocked tier 3 and did a few nightmare dungeons. Got most of the lily statues unlocked, plan to finish those. Seems like we got the basics figured out. Trying to think what 2 classes we want to switch...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    i read teh white paper, they'll release 1 coin per email unemotionally deleted. shouldn't result in too much inflation.
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    Home buying thread

    in texas, i had to show divorce papers in order to buy out my X. after the court finalized the divorce, we went to the loan office and signed the 'cash out refi'. the cash out amount was equal to half the equity, she took that cash. i became sole owner w/ a slightly higher than market...
  26. fris

    So My Wife Died...

    damn dude, right in the feels my girlfriend died of cancer back in february. we were only dating about a year and a half, i can't imagine how much harder it was for you.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    It's systemic
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    Investing General Discussion

    I was talking to a guy at a bar tonight, since friend of my brothers. He was saying house much he made the other day of Nvidia. I said their jump in market cap was more than their lifetime rev and the dude said "No...hahahaa .... Just no" I didn't have my readers so I couldn't research on the...
  29. fris

    Home buying thread

    that's not how credit scores work. the account stays on your record for years. falling off won't 'hurt' your score for years after paying it off. sign up for credit karma and see what's really on his credit history.
  30. fris

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    "If it wasn't for my horse"
  31. fris

    LOTR Heroes of Middle Earth

    SW:GoH became an incredible cash grab. One of the worst I've seen in mobile gaming.
  32. fris

    STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ (PS5, XSX, Steam, Epic) - early 2023

    debating picking up a ps5 and this, been a few years since i've had a console and when I did they mostly collected dust.
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    Reacher

    my only gripe about s1 was how reacher kicked everyone's ass constantly, multiple at a time, many having weapons, then to get his shit pushed in by a tiny punk w/ a crowbar.
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    Investing General Discussion

    So many funny understand how credit scores work, and not surprising as if the industry doesn't want an educated customer. Credit score doesn't take into account net worth it income, just how well you manage your credit. And it's merciless if you make the tiniest mistake. I got a credit card...
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    Home buying thread

    ben does a good job explaining the changes
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Disney could pause all timeline development and fast track a bunch of new character intro movies in the mean time.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    I haven't seen the latest Antman, was there multiple versions of Kang in that or just Majors in different outfits? seems recast is easy w/ how many versions of Kang there are.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    hmmmm. i'll see if i can get a list of bots we've tried in house. i haven't been paying attention cause i'm a few degrees away. i know this will change the team i lead once it 'works', which i'm guessing is still a few years out. my director is hoping it's less.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    if you wanted to setup a chat bot to help customer's ask basic product questions, where data/answers were in mostly text files (word/ppt/etc) and some excel files, what platform would you recommend?