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Horsehair is a pretty commonly utilized material for the super premium segment of mattresses. A Swedish company, Hastens, is widely considered to make the finest innerspring mattress purchasable on the market. https://www.hastens.com/us/beds/vividus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-02/hastens-vividus-mattress-review-price this is a $150k mattress
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The fines for an EMTALA violation are astronomical, and it's corporate malfeasance levels of BWM to think about playing around with that hand grenade. If someone comes in to the ER, you treat them and street them, bill them for 10x what you'd get reimbursed from Medicare, let them negotiate or bankrupt out of it and treat the bad debt as a tax write-down assuming you're a hospital that even pays taxes.
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Jun 20, 2017 20:29
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I like when people try to explain to me what they do and don't like about government intervention in healthcare.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:31
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To be perfectly honest, that seems like it would be an incredible amount of fun, and that picture is absolutely incredible. Hope you had a good time.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:59
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I've always found the whole wedding princess trope a little weird, but I feel like a lot of people really go for that.
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Jun 21, 2017 23:30
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Dillbag posted:Wasn't sure whether to post this in this thread or the schadenfreude thread... Coinbase has, hilariously, taken their whole ETH exchange offline.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:04
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BarbarianElephant posted:You need to talk to him about taking control of his finances. He's at grave risk of losing the money he needs for his care as dementia develops. Came to echo this. In the United States this is known as a durable power of attorney and his financial arrangements need to know that he is becoming senile (condolences) and he can't be allowed to conduct business as usual himself. Honestly, I would probably take this opportunity to move him into a financial vehicle like a guaranteed annuity or something, because while this kind of instrument has lower returns, it is basically idiot-proof to operate and just means guaranteed money in the mail every month and it will be a lot less complicated in the shadow of the rising specter of dementia.
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Jun 22, 2017 14:18
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Ashcans posted:I wasn't really paying too much attention to this because lol, cryptocurrency: I hope they mean an actual, Hollywood actor because  that's how my brain read it.
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Jun 22, 2017 19:15
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Solice Kirsk posted:Man, I hope so. I hope so with every fiber of my being. I also hope they wired all the funds immediately to another account so they can't claw it back. I don't think there will be any clawing back. These exchanges are live fire asset transaction platforms, there aren't training wheels.
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Jun 22, 2017 20:10
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Brides-neiiiighed? Bridles-neiiighed? I'll see myself out.
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Jun 26, 2017 22:38
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Nail Rat posted:I think I'll die in a Mad Max style wasteland brought on by climate change. Mad Maxine if the leftists get their way. EDIT FOR CONTENT The Moneyologist on MarketWatch always has some good ones http://www.marketwatch.com/story/my-father-took-out-a-100000-loan-to-buy-my-sister-a-vacation-home-2016-08-05 EAT FASTER!!!!!! fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Jun 27, 2017 18:47
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BarbarianElephant posted:No they didn't. They lived to about 60. We live until our 80s or 90s. Here's a cite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/
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Jun 27, 2017 18:54
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Here's another cite showing increased life expectancy at age 65 just within the last 100 years courtesy of the US Federal Government Figure 2a and 2b https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html EAT FASTER!!!!!! fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Jun 27, 2017 18:58
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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/images/LD_fig3b.html These data show that life expectancy at age 65 has increased 5 years for women and 7 years for men just in this last century.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:25
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My two coworkers are talking about taking their kids to the doctor. One of them is trying to convince the other one to take their 3-year old to a chiropractor. She says it has done wonders for her kid's sleeping and performance on schoolwork (???). I just looked into this recently because I was involved in an internet slap-fight but it turns out some insurance (including medicare) DOES cover chiropractic for evidence based interventions (chiefly low back spinal manipulations for chronic lower back pain). Weirdly, they do not cover any interventions for chiropractors to treat ADD? I can't fathom why that would be?
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Jun 29, 2017 16:18
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This may or may not be a legitimate thing, but it still sounds funny to me. This is, in fact, a legitimate thing
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Jun 29, 2017 16:21
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Someone at work got in trouble for using the "ALL" email address to send this out to several hundred people. He's just looking out (for the bigger fool)!
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Barry posted:Hook it straight in my loving veins Leon Trotsky has the purest loving BWM smack, man.
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Jun 29, 2017 21:03
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I mean I get that the uncertainty would be pretty obnoxious for them, but talk about your unbelivable windfalls. Just save the balance somewhere generating (even modest) interest and keep your loving mouth shut.
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Jun 30, 2017 23:12
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Generously cross-posted from the Footballers Gone Feral thread quote:Sportswear tycoon Mike Ashley once hosted a management meeting in a pub where he drank 12 pints and vomited into a fireplace, a court has heard.
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Jul 3, 2017 20:48
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All of this stuff - decades of it. Holy poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2017 22:39
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So I was on vacation last week and this thread got LITTTT!
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Jul 19, 2017 08:22
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I lost my Mom young and received a pretty sizable inheritance as a result. There isn't a day that goes by that I wouldn't exchange all that money and more for even one more hour of time with her. The poster who stayed "neutral" sounds like a selfish loving rear end in a top hat and I wish he could inherit cancer instead of nothing as a consequence of the way he treated his Mom. Just because your parents get divorced doesn't mean you can't love both deeply and sympathize with the complicated way in which they relate to one another.
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Jul 20, 2017 15:40
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Hoodwinker posted:Being beautiful and fit is GWM. Unless you didn't start that way and had to work for it, then it's only NWM (neutral) because it takes a lot of time, work and money but probably pays off.
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Jul 21, 2017 19:09
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Krispy Kareem posted:All of this sucks, but why didn't she apply for disability already if she's been unable to work for 2 years and 100% dependent on her boyfriend? Starting now is going to take forever if she's really disabled. On a scale of "capable of working but choosing not to" to "quadriplegia with traumatic brain injury" how disabled do you think this individual probably is?
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Jul 24, 2017 20:42
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potatoducks posted:Whoa whoa whoa. Just because TB is on probation doesn't mean you can say racist things like that. More ablest than racist. I need to get my buddy John Smith in here to back me up. And because TB is gone, I can post graphical data showing that since the great recession, more and more Americans are considering themselves "disabled" and electing not to participate in the labor force. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU05074597
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Jul 24, 2017 20:51
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:It's weird how all the claims that people are hanging out on disability instead of getting iobs by choice turn out to be total bullshit No no no, you've missed the key distinction here that actually proves the point. Exiting from the labor force and reporting ones self disabled doesn't automatically come with any benefits. Applications are stable to down but terminations are consistently (except one year) below approved applications, hence the number of people in current status actually has grown. The burden of people on benefits for proven disability has increased. Further increased are those self-reporting as disabled WITHOUT government benefits. In total, the chart you see from FRED is correct. You can also see the mirror image of this with labor force participation rate, which has dwindled dramatically.
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Jul 25, 2017 00:28
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We've looked serially into laundry-bot and for whatever reason the tech just isn't there yet. That (and robo chef?) are going to be in EVERY home of means, though.
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That's a nice lookin piece of apparel, honestly.
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Jul 26, 2017 23:32
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Good Parmesan posted:Friend's girlfriend has no savings, has student loans, is currently attending nursing school, and owns a perfectly fine working car. Most nurses I know are crazy loving bad with money. They have these reasonably high salaries with good job protection but I know so many of them that came from poorer backgrounds who now spend every dollar like they're "boss bitches" on tacky loving shoes, bags and cars.
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GamingHyena posted:It might have something to do with the $280 they spend on weed every month. Buy fewer candles.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My sister in law works a good job high all the time. They would care, but they can't tell you're high if they never see you sober. They should teach this in schools.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:She does them with charred sticks and "natural" inks. Listen Leon, go ahead and be straight with us, how the gently caress do you know so many people who are so, SO bad with money?
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Hello everyone don't worry we've safely arrived at peak capitalism - where the gig economy meets the cartoonishly rich: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ofc/6256376954.html Literally "we need a wageslave who will pretend to be our friend."
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:I suspect they will get approximately one hundred million billion applications for this job offering up to $70k plus overtime I don't know that they'll be getting sufficient qualified applicants, though, this job basically asks for someone with the qualifications of a personal chef, a maid, an executive assistant and an animal trainer all in one. edit: in the interest of full disclosure I did apply for this position with the caveat that my fee would be $500 an hour.
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Ashcans posted:A high-class butler doesn't walk your dog and clean up vomit, he tells the hall boy and the the scullery maid to do that. Your butler only handles housekeeping if you are a shiftless bachelor like Wooster or an eccentric misanthrope like Bruce Wayne and can't keep a proper staff on. Imagine the audacity of these petit bourgeois to think they can roll up all of the duties of a literal household of servants into one job for $15 an hour for 40 hours a week. I bet if there was a baby in the mix (I guess here played by "Doggo") they'd want that taken care of too.
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I can almost taste these modern day success stories drafting this "genius plan" among a constellation of overpriced furniture in a modest, messy living space while sipping Napa wine and smiling like, "we've got it figured out, we're just smarter than everyone! Gig economy!" I hope their company craters harder than Theranos.
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The red flag for me was dose for does. Like literally just wanna drown this woman.
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That bitcoin wallet find is exhilarating. Holding a speculative position with funny money that goes 4x is fun enough, but can you imagine if your position went from "a used car" to "2.5x 'gently caress-you' money" at age 35? Plus it's been long enough that his tax rate on this sale is going to be LTCG, it's like a 25% bonus versus if he'd won this same amount in a lottery ticket. I wonder if he's going to liquidate the whole position (I wouldn't) or just diversify it down so that his BTC is only 10% of his remaining net worth?
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My crypto holdings are approximately 1% of my net worth, varying depending on the market price. I think it should be a much higher percentage of this guy's portfolio, and I'll justify why: this guy has more money than he ever had any idea he would have, and has been living a presumably frugal existence devoid of the untold riches that this could bring his way. Bitcoin is still a speculative asset with enormous variability of what it's probably worth. I don't think anyone really knows what this asset is worth (lol buttcoin), and I definitely think he should liquidate enough that he'll never have to worry about money again (90% of his position would do quite nicely). But given that he's young and probably has some appetite for risk, I don't think it's an entirely stupid idea to hold on to 10% of that position for the possibility that a bitcoin is worth $10,000 or $20,000 or $100,000 or $1,000,000. It's an asset that's treated him quite richly so far, and he's shown his ability to hold onto it and forget about it while playing a long, long position. If I had a net worth 5 times what we have now, I might have crypto as 10% of my portfolio instead of 1%, but I think it's a foolish decision not to hold some.
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