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Anyone who thinks you can go through BUDS/RASP/RIP/Q-Course/whatever injured and "fight through it" is a delusional fanboy. The reality is that it has very little to do with willpower and everything to do with your physical condition before the course and your genetic potential.

If you get hurt, you are out, and you are checking gates for 12 hours a day or go regular infantry. Yes, there are second chances, but that's another story.


all of your stuff for at least the last month has been shadowbanned. idk why.


It seemed to start after sctb said "We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop." 37 days ago.


Makes sense. I missed that when I was skimming through their history :c


Thanks for the heads up. I have no idea why either, but I appreciate knowing.


Why would they divest now all of a sudden? As far as I know most of the Chinese money went into Toronto houses anyway, though I am not sure why.

As far as SF - everyone there seems to think they will never lose money on real estate and it will pick back up within a year or two whenever it drops.

SF was weird to me - I expected it to be a huge city, and it's this town with a cool bridge, expensive park, a bunch of overpriced houses, and a scooter app which gives you a distinct map of the "bad" neighborhoods.


I am decent at chess, as in, I will generally beat any casual player and lose to any professional player. I have no feeling of "strategy" in chess. The only "strategical" difference is that I brute-force pressure newer players by moving pawns up in a diagonal and forcing them into a corner. Whereas vs good players I just do the "right" thing all the time and try to force dilemmas. At that point its just tactics the whole game.


So probably will loose against any club player.


I just read all the solutions here, and this seems fair. That way they have no reason to be upset - they can take some profit now, or risk holding.


Same - as said already, not a single one of the characters was memorable, except the comically stereotypical ones (rich daddy tree-hugger fanatic).

As far as scientific ideas - they were all a stretch. He is neither Stephenson in accuracy, nor Gibson in the vague, but accurate, predictions.


In defense of American cars - the Corvette can't be beat for the price, period.


Don't forget that these cars are a huge pain to maintain.


They're German. Germans expect that you will take care of things on a schedule if you are told to do so. That's why German cars have a much more detailed list of required maintenance than American cars do. The Germans don't think it's unusual.


Indeed, I'm planning to buy a (probably German) used car in Germany around April, and pretty much the first thing I've figured out is you never buy anything that doesn't have its full service history meticulously documented, with receipts.


Come on now, there's a hell of a lot more going on with the reliability of vehicles coming out of Germany than slack maintenance cycles.


It seems it really depends. My '12 Jetta TDI was super reliable, never had a single problem apart from it destroying the earth and lying about it. But other people with the same year, same car, had all sorts of problems. I feel like there's perhaps quality control issues coming off the line in Mexico.

Our new-used '13 Audi Q5 is made in Bavaria. So we shall see how its quality compares. So far no problems.


I took this course with someone I was teaching webdev. It wasn't the best course for me by any means because I already knew the material.

But it WAS the best introduction to software development I have ever seen, and I have seen quite a few.

I did see a couple of people quit the course because it was "too complicated" - in reality, it's just complicated enough, and the progression is natural and well-presented.


Let's not forget that the US was buying up USSR tech as much as it could during those times. The US bought the designs for the YAK-141, which helped the development of the F-35. Oh, and the Russians invented stealth.

I was wondering why you were trying to prove your invalid point that the USSR did not lead in innovation in some, limited sectors - looks like the only thing your account does is hate on Russia.

Which is fine, but I am kind of interested in the why.


Yes, USSR invented stealth, internet, iphone, google and whatnot.

Ok, on the serious side - US obtained that design in joint agreement with a huge financial boon for YAK bureau to develop another plane for Russia.

Guess what - nothing from Yak design went into F-35 and nothing was produced in Russia by Yak.

Coincidence? I think not(c).


Average expenditure at 30: $45,000

That's strange to me - is everyone living on debt? Factor in median household income for a fam with Bachelors degrees: $68,728, which is $52,000ish net of tax.

How are people spending that much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...


"Millennials spend huge amounts on rent, using up 45% of income made by age 30"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-es...


"GenX adults spent only 41% of their income on rent by age 30"

Doesn't seem out of line with the previous generation?


The majority of individuals and households spend all of their money. That's the 'how'.

The more salient question is 'why'.


I'm guessing it's mean average, so probably being skewed by higher spenders. It's also household numbers, so even more skewed if you have two high income people living together vs two low income living together.


That may be the spending on education. That is mostly debt.


Where do you live? Here in Chicago that's a pretty reasonable amount of spending for my family of 2.


You're comparing average expenditure with people with a bachelor's degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_... indicates only about a quarter of people have that (it's a bit hard to read).


People are in debt yeah. I lucked out but I know a lot of people with student debt.


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