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    Car engine damaged - oil drain plug missing

    About 25 minutes, actually
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    Finally, an inside look at the college textbook industry

    That's BS. I am a prof, and there is nothing stopping profs from telling the bookstore that there is no textbook for the class. I do this for almost all of my classes. I then email the class before the beginning of the semester and tell them to buy the slightly out of date older edition of the...
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    Child's Play 2014 - ninth annual donation drive, with matching $

    Order Placed: December 3, 2014 Amazon.com order number: 115-8346498-6174617 Order Total: $38.99 To UNM Children's Hospital: 1 of: Little Tikes Tikes Patrol - 30th Anniversary Thanks so much for doing this!
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    I've been traveling for over a month now... make it stop

    Once again, all of you trying to help him are missing the point of a trident thread. He wants an audience to complain to, not solutions to his many 'problems'.
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    aggressively trade your IRA account?

    I am working on a automated quantitative trading strategy with a paper (fake money) account that I have with Interactive Brokers. Once I feel that it is tweaked pretty well I plan to implement it using actual money in an IRA. I don't feel comfortable doing this with all of my retirement money...
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    I'm 34, and tired of working.

    Absolutely. The consequences of your choices change over time, potentially motivating you to make new ones.
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    I'm 34, and tired of working.

    I find that most people operate by a very simple rule with these things: If the consequences of maintaining the status quo (safety, reliable salary, self-hate, job dissatisfaction, being able to support your family, etc.) are preferred to the consequences of change (uncertainty, unreliable...
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    Your Christmas movies?

    Watch Rare Exports on Netflix streaming. Just saw it for the first time recently, it's easily one of my favorite Christmas movies.
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    The girlfriend and I are getting a kitten - what are we getting ourselves into?

    I'm wondering how that's going to work out myself. First kiddo is due to be born in two days, and we have three very active 1-year old cats. Should be exciting if nothing else.
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    Rooftop ski racks or cargo box for best gas mileage?

    Honestly, the wind noise of the rack bothered me more than the reduced gas mileage. I took it off for that reason.
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    Not getting calls from employers for my resume!!

    Did you see me blame anyone else? And besides, I love my job. I didn't do it for the money, obviously.
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    The girlfriend and I are getting a kitten - what are we getting ourselves into?

    Not my cat. She prefers to shit on the floor right in front of the litter box. It's better that way.
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    Not getting calls from employers for my resume!!

    Shame on you for thinking about the ROI from your tuition dollars! Knowledge is priceless! You should be like me and get 10 years of post-secondary education so that you can earn the same salary that you could have gotten straight out of high school. It's awesome! Also, your resume kind of...
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    Why you should wear seatbelts

    In fact, from these two statistics: p(wearing seatbelt given that you died) = 0.47 and p(wearing a seatbelt) = 0.85 you can determine that you have a roughly 6.4X higher chance of death if you don't wear a seatbelt.
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    Why you should wear seatbelts

    If I understand you correctly, you are confusing two conditional probabilities. If p(death given that you weren't wearing a seatbelt) = p(death given that you were wearing a seatbelt), then yes, that would indicate that wearing a seatbelt isn't particularly useful. The statistic you cite...