CompassRed

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[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just say you recently came into some inheritance and that you are looking into investment opportunities. Then they will expect you to be out of your element, so you won't need to try to pretend you're someone you're not. If they ask about the inheritance, say your grandfather made a fortune selling lumber or something boring like that.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard it was supposed to be human body temperature, but they used horse body temperature instead because it was close to human body temperature but more... stable.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A vector space is a collection of vectors in which you can scale vectors and add vectors together such that the scaling and addition operations satisfy some nice relationships. The 2D and 3D vectors that we are used to are common examples. A less common example is polynomials. It's hard to think of a polynomial as having a direction and a magnitude, but it's easy to think of polynomials as elements of the vector space of polynomials.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago

Something has already happened and they didn't touch my rates. I've been saving hundreds of dollars a year. I've saved well into the thousands of dollars at this point. I'm not saying the insurance companies are my friends and while I am better off using the tracker than not using it, that wasn't even my point. My point was that the trackers all function differently and some are better than others.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's crazy how most of those programs work. The way my insurance handles it is way better. For example, no matter how bad you are at driving, they never raise the premiums above the normal rate, so it almost always makes sense to get the tracker from a finance perspective. (The only exception is that they will raise your rates if you drive farther in 6 months than you estimated on your initial application. The flip side is that they lower your rates if you don't drive very much. I only drive about 1000 miles every 6 months, so my premium is really low.) They also have a Bluetooth device that stays in your car that your phone must be connected to in order for it to record trip data, and if you happen to be riding as the passenger in the car, the app has an option that allows you to clarify for each trip that you weren't the driver. I was surprised to learn they aren't all like that.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago

It's supposed to be E^2 = (mc^2 )^2 + AI^2 , which implies that AI = pc, because AI is the momentum that will carry us into the future. These rookies clearly just took the square root using freshman's dream.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

My superiority complex is stronger than your inferiority complex.