1. pay off high interest debt

2. top off your emergency fund so you don’t run into expensive short-on-money situations

3. take care of deferred maintenance on your car or house that might turn into an expensive repair

4. If you have an employer sponsored 401k, increase the contribution amount to get 10k more tax free into it before the end of the year and use the $10k cash in hand for expenses.

5. Open a roth IRA and contribute the maximum amount you can (which may vary based on your income)

VT, VTI, and SPY are good broad-market funds with good historical growth.

Linkerbaan, where are you yourself from?

most Americans enjoy the benefits that come from being an economic, military, and diplomatic heavyweight

The threat to American citizens is that they are steered away from their own interests and the interest of furthering democracy throughout the world because they see a curated feed that excludes information critical of China and amplifies information that promotes China as a country of harmony, peace, and prosperity.

And in some cases, the trends amplified on Chinese social media apps directly fuel American political division.

Truly nuanced.

The “fucking corpos” are manufacturing in Mexico, Vietnam, and China. They don’t get the tax break.

The “guy I know who owns a machine shop” and “the car factory in Indiana with 10,000 union jobs that chooses to stay” are the intended recipients.

Let’s punish Biden anyway by voting for Jill Stein! Then, when President Trump gives Netanyahu the go ahead to “finish the job”, we will know we voted our conscience!

You still claim ignorance of the difference between “viable” and “spoiler” in the US election system?

Could be a crypto key, or a randomly distributed 64-bit database row ID, or a memory offset in a stack dump of a 64 bit program

And then JSON doesn’t restrict numbers to any range or precision; and at least when I deal with JSON values, I feel the need to represent them as a BigDecimal or similar arbitrary precision type to ensure I am not losing information.

That’s because the nearest representable float to 0.99999999999999 is 1.0 - not because Python is handling rationals correctly.

This is a float imprecision issue that just happens to work out in this case.

It’s worth wondering why, if Python is OK with “/“ producing a result of a different type than its arguments, don’t they implement a ratio type. e.g. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node18.html#SECTION00612000000000000000

How would you implement this in code?

JavaScript is truly a bizarre language - we don’t need to go as far as arbitrary-precision decimal, it does not even feature integers.

I have to wonder why it ever makes the cut as a backend language.

I don’t think they’re talking to you.

I wasn’t aware that the US built a pipeline in Afghanistan, can you give more details?

That would not be a good play if it results in the person who will get more of their family members killed gaining office.

I think it’s kind of presumptuous to assume that every Muslim has family in Gaza, as well.

When people say you twist words, this is what they mean.

“Murder” and “Violence” have well accepted meanings - redefining them to mean “anything that doesn’t line up with fringe-left communist ideals” is a propaganda tactic.

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v. publicly recommend or support

And, it is literally not. Assessing it as “not genocide” is saying they aren’t ok with genocide.

Can you link to a statement advocating for it?

Wait, which party are you saying does advocate for genocide?