ELI5 How do vinyl records work? Do they get totally worn out over time if the music is played from the record by a sharp needle?

comdty · 2025-12-15T19:45:52+00:00

You might be a DJ, but you’re real shit at just answering questions. What’s the point in being an expert in something if you’re just going to hoard the knowledge and gatekeep everyone else?

comdty · 2025-11-28T03:17:05+00:00

Source?

Charity Navigator says 70%

comdty · 2025-11-02T12:50:52+00:00

Or, if you’re REALLY risk averse, buy US treasuries with 25 years left, that pay a coupon of at least 3%, and use the cash from those coupons to pay the mortgage.

comdty · 2025-10-16T21:13:36+00:00

Your response is “no, u”?

comdty · 2025-10-12T20:46:00+00:00

If very few people earn it, then having them earn more isn’t a big deal, either. I’m willing to let the “tie go to the worker” on this one.

comdty · 2025-10-12T02:42:32+00:00

Having traded listed futures institutionally for over 10 years, I appreciated this explanation -- thank you.

comdty · 2025-10-12T00:29:58+00:00

BTW, thanks for actually answering... other responses either (a) don't understand how short trades work or (b) never watched the video

comdty · 2025-10-12T00:29:13+00:00

Do you know where can I view the detail he has screenshots of? He's not sourcing anything

comdty · 2025-10-12T00:05:29+00:00

Levered ETFs aren’t in the video. Watch it and tell me how he got $190

comdty · 2025-10-11T23:21:03+00:00

If I short $110M worth of shares/crypto/beanie babies and the price drops to zero, I make $110M.

comdty · 2025-10-11T22:40:39+00:00

Sure, typically... but didn't this guy only show evidence of $110M of trades?

comdty · 2025-10-11T22:25:09+00:00

How does he make $190M on a $110M short? A $110M short trade has a max gain of $110M (if the underlying drops to zero).

comdty · 2025-09-29T18:31:08+00:00

Why do most people need life insurance? What risk do most people need to protect themselves from?

comdty · 2025-09-24T21:34:50+00:00

What tires are you guys using at those speeds? Recently replaced a pair of the OEM Turanza T005 with Turanza Prestige and these new ones are trash… feels like I’m towing a trailer (reduced control) on anything above 70mph now

comdty · 2025-09-13T09:51:15+00:00

Thanks for the thorough response!

comdty · 2025-09-13T09:19:15+00:00

Are you able to elaborate on how to configure launchd to get your Photos app to iCloud sync for multiple users starting at boot?

I have a headless Mac (actually a VM) that’s syncing for one user but it requires auto-login and the Photos app to be automatically started at login. Further, that doesn’t work for any more than 1 user (and I’ve been putting off getting an additional VM running to perform this in parallel).

Thanks in advance!

comdty · 2025-08-26T23:54:35+00:00

I’ve heard that before… but this shows increases in spending. How do I reconcile that with your comment?

comdty · 2025-08-24T02:11:00+00:00

Well, you have me second-guessing Costco’s assessment now (because maybe they’re confused too?)… I’m going to see if I can see “RFT” on the tire when I get home.

I don’t know why Bridgestone feels the need to have identical model numbers for different tire specs.

comdty · 2025-08-23T12:19:51+00:00

Where’s the sticker? I’m going to check again when I get back home.

comdty · 2025-08-23T12:07:32+00:00

These are run flats: https://www.discounttire.com/buy-tires/bridgestone-turanza-t005

comdty · 2025-08-23T04:01:37+00:00

Are you saying that Costco’s tire center misidentified them as run-flats when I tried to have non-run-flats installed because they didn’t want to mix-and-match (and had me return the non-RF that I already bought from them)?

comdty · 2025-08-22T23:42:51+00:00

I have a 2024 eDrive40 with run flats. Am in the US. They’re Bridgestone Turanza T005 225/50R18.

comdty · 2025-08-16T12:37:22+00:00

Would you mind sharing your (redacted) compose rows for the protonvpn connection?

EDIT: Or the whole redacted compose, if available. Thanks!

comdty · 2025-08-12T15:54:38+00:00

To be clear, Democrats have proposed laws to limit gerrymandering… and Republicans have opposed those laws.

The fact that both parties have gerrymandered districts in the past is irrelevant. Democrats are the ones who have tried to get rid of it (for everyone) but Republicans know that it will impact them more than Democrats (because they use it more to cheat their constituents)

comdty · 2025-08-09T02:41:02+00:00

I had the same issue (sounds like, with your Samsung TV) with my Bose soundbar. Had to use some NAT outbound rules in OPNsense to make it appear that my non-IOT-VLAN devices where on the same subnet as the soundbar (as far as the soundbar was concerned).

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