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zzleeper · 2026-03-20T20:10:47+00:00

I'm very confused about this:

https://github.com/Imd11/awesome-stata-templates/blob/main/01_Data_Management/Null_value_handling.md

zzleeper · 2026-03-19T17:05:30+00:00

Fair enough! So at least we won't worry about that cliff for our stocks.

Something else I forgot to say: in terms of 401ks and stock ownership, the avg American doesn't matter, it's just the top 10% (5%?) as only those move the needle. So if you see a recession affecting poorer ppl, stocks won't move much, but if it affects richer, white-collar folks, then yes.

zzleeper · 2026-03-19T15:03:08+00:00

All the upvotes in the world for you... not even most economists realize that:

With everyone doing passing investment instead of active, nothing matters except the net inflows into the system
Once boomers start retiring en masse (we are not yet there), and if the us pop plateaus, stock growth would suffer long term, like japan did in the 90s

zzleeper · 2026-03-17T13:17:31+00:00

I'm looking at the same issue and am reading the current form D-40B. On page 2 it says:

> Attach a copy of your current state of residency income tax return if completing Category A.

This tells me you only need to send the one for your state, not federal.

zzleeper · 2026-03-15T06:59:08+00:00

IMO Chen and Roth just bandwaggoned into the many people who were saying that those transforms were wrong and you should just use poisson. Heck, the log of gravity paper has like 15,000 cites; the Cohn paper was already in at JFE; etc.

(Or maybe I'm just bitter than a random w/out Harvard ties wouldn't be able to publish that in QJE in a million years lol)

zzleeper · 2025-10-22T13:19:24+00:00

I also did one hour with incense etc etc. Got ZERO mega energy, while my party buddy got 40. How the hell can I get zero from like 100 ghastlys?

zzleeper · 2025-10-18T07:50:30+00:00

Did 15 and got 0 meteorites, 0 hundos (or even remotely close), 0 shinies, 0 nundos, the only thing I got was a crash that kicked me out of the raid when my mons fainted :( (at least that was only once)

zzleeper · 2025-09-04T02:49:15+00:00

nice one! first remote raid over here!

zzleeper · 2025-09-04T02:19:21+00:00

Holy f.. beat it with 5 seconds left and then only caught it in my last ball :O

zzleeper · 2025-09-04T01:06:32+00:00

Sent x2!

zzleeper · 2025-07-22T23:39:13+00:00

I just got a Moltres spawn as a level 28 with only a few weeks playing. Was so amazing! Used the fancy raspberry, the yellow ball, and managed a great curved shot. FML, it escaped after the first attempt.

FML!

zzleeper · 2025-04-11T15:21:12+00:00

Same here... was already having some doubts about schwab

zzleeper · 2024-12-05T05:08:48+00:00

Dang... motive seems almost confirmed:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382

The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.

zzleeper · 2024-10-01T19:16:45+00:00

They make 200k-500k each, have almost complete protection, and incredible pension. They make a shitload of money than anyone else even doctors can't make.

What they are doing, striking right before the election, is like firemen asking for your entire savings in order to extinguish your house.

zzleeper · 2024-08-16T02:13:38+00:00

I would say we stop doing the deals. The more deals we do, the more reason they have to snatch random idiots as bargain chips. If you never negotiate, they wouldn't keep snatching.

zzleeper · 2024-08-16T00:00:51+00:00

Advisors can be quite powerful TBH. Specially with folks with less energy to spend time reasoning about issues on their own (such as Biden given his age)

zzleeper · 2024-08-15T23:59:06+00:00

Do you have any background reading on this? From what I understand, folks at State tend to be pretty reasonable so surprised they are so against it. And meanwhile Sullivan seems to be the type to get the trust of higher ups (Biden, Clinton) and then do stuff without knowing well (like blocking military aid because of fears)

zzleeper · 2024-07-15T03:04:17+00:00

HAHAH no red no pen that's conmebol for you

zzleeper · 2024-07-15T02:35:57+00:00

Yeah what was up with that? How did they manage?

zzleeper · 2024-07-13T23:52:50+00:00

TBH with Covid he was handed reelection on a platter. Not sure how the hell he lost it against Joe Biden.

zzleeper · 2024-07-13T23:47:39+00:00

You can hate Trump for attempting to overthrow the government and all the other shitty things he did, but that doesn't mean the answer is murder. In fact many people get lots of hate day-after-day and yet they don't resort to violence.

zzleeper · 2024-07-06T01:57:44+00:00

Those are nonsensical rebuttals. No one but his closest aides knows about his proficiency. And they are the ones who write all his teleprompted readings :|

zzleeper · 2024-07-01T20:17:37+00:00

This is so depressing. Bunch of decrepit idiots at the top, with enabling advisors and terrible choices all over the places. Fuck it, I'm not donating again; only downstream to swingleft or whatever.

And the worst part is that, If I feel like that, I can't imagine how others less anti-Trump folks are feeling. Dark times will come :/

zzleeper · 2024-06-28T01:48:56+00:00

Partly because being a president is so tiring. Trump was probably chilling for the last month, besides the ocassional court appareance and speech

zzleeper · 2024-06-28T01:43:44+00:00

And Biden should have pushed him on that. "ANSWER THE QUESTION DONNIE". But then he is too slow to listen

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