Well, has the value of your home appreciated at all?  I recently sold my condo that I owned for 3 years and 7 months, and got what amounted to a CAGR of 4.67% each year.  It’s not a huge return, but condos don’t appreciate quite like SFHs do, on average.  And rent in that area for what I owned was about the same…

If I remember correctly, the game didn’t limit you to five in-game days as a forklift operator.  You have to do some things on your breaks and question the right people to advance.  I could have sworn I spent waaaaay more than five in-game days as a forklift operator. 

On your last point, the thing is, the way stuff works is you often fail upwards.  People make bad decisions then get promoted to make larger, worse decisions!

There is a complicated history here. First of all, unlike Japan and Germany, Italy switched sides after Mussolini was deposed. Secondly, while control of Germany was divided between the allies, Italy remained independent with a strong Communist party.  The fascists were obviously anti commie and were kept around to…

I mean, what high school?  Most kids who play at public high schools aren’t even looked at for the major college programs or pro prep programs.  The kids I knew who wanted to try and make it in hockey, baseball, and basketball all went to the snooty, elite New England prep schools.  Maybe you have to do the AAU or…

I’m not one to promote Fenway, because it’s kind of a dump with a lot of lipstick thrown on it, but I appreciate that you don’t need to park to go there.  Sure, the MBTA is kind of a mess at times, but at least east and west of the park, you can take the Green Line, or if you live along the Worcester line, the…

The ChiSox must be terrible at player evaluation then. Maybe Tatis Jr. doesn’t develop quite the same way in Chicago as he does with San Diego, but the kid was always toolsy. He may have had holes in his game, but you don’t trade a tooled up guy like him when he’s only 17 for 2016 James Fucking Shields (a -1.0 WAR…

The hardest matchup to pick is Geor’quarius Spivey vs. Lionel Pimpin. And I could see either of them making a run past the Sweet 16.

Revenues are up, but are profits? Do shareholders want a greater return on expenses? What is going on with Japan and Russia that is causing them to ramp down operations there?  They have to boost revenue and trim fat.  Cutting devs limits your ability to boost revenue more than cutting marketing people.  

Here’s the thing, GOATS is as much the execution as it is the composition.  When I play OW and people are saying “PICK GOATS” it’s like, sometimes the individual players who aren’t part of a team know their roles, and it kind of works.  But it takes a ton of coordination and practice to play and effectively counter. …

From my understanding, the German model (sometimes called Rhenish Capitalism) with a Works Council that elects a member of the board of directors, and must be consulted on corporate policy changes.  They are not a union, but do co-exist with unions, and compliment each other, as well as the company.

I don’t make them much anymore, and my recipe is pretty loose, but not a closely guarded secret, mostly in ratios.

I think the biggest issues with it IS the fact that it’s a manifesto. If it was more actionable where funds were allocated for imperatives, and broad goals like “decrease carbon emissions” had goals within them like, “increase wind power capacity by doing X,” I could see this being an easier sell.

Leaders of men!

When Ichiro came over to MLB, I was in the throes of Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball.  I had a league with friends from my class I had in high school (I think it was like, HTML or web design or something) where we had a fantasy league.  Ichiro was my “secret weapon” that year, because nobody thought a scrawny, unproven,…

Eh, I don’t think that’s how it went. Poor animations, and unevenly executed story with characters that weren’t super easy to love, were big drivers of this. The combat was actually pretty OK, but a lot of the systems, everything we built up in the original trilogy was lost in this new world, and the “choices…

Prime Video is a freebie if you already have Prime. But HBO is $15, Netflix is $15 if you want to stream it appropriately on a 4K TV, Hulu I think is $11 or $12 if you want the ad-free version (which I do), more if you wanted to add like, Showtime (lulz) to your Hulu package. So now you’re getting close to a basic…

Re: Toxicity. They’ve done such a good job with it on YouTube comments!

If you get a nice, thick, bone-in pork chop (that comes with all the requisite fat) you won’t have to worry as much about drying out a chop.  

Yes, let’s bury something that doesn’t biodegrade in our backyards full of dead animals.  That sounds like the best thing.  And other animals that have great senses of smell will definitely not still smell it though a flimsy garbage bag and try to dig it up anyway.  Fool proof!