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Nice. As often happens with maths, it's funny how a rather arbitrary feature of our body, determines our mathematical understanding of the world so strongly. B
by TZubiri 2y ago
Nice.
As often happens with maths, it's funny how a rather arbitrary feature of our body, determines our mathematical understanding of the world so strongly. But I do prefer owning that arbitrariness instead of fighting it.
I had a similar though with respect to money, and it's also funny on that realm that different thresholds become crossable with time. So that even if you get stuck on one (let's say you can't hit 1 million), as long as you persist or remain static, the challenge will expire and you will automatically be placed in the next round.
Also if you decide to go with the linear scaling approach, (say, going from 100k to 1M by doing the same thing more often), each time the duration of each level will increase, until you retire.
- thecosas 2y agoTour comment about the money made me think of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Read_(philanthropist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Read_(philanthropist)
- TZubiri 2y agoWow. I'm glad by the guy but I'm completely unimpressed by the story. In the context that this is sometimes sold as the american dream by BogleHeads and Warren Buffet. I used to be very sold on this idea, bought S&P stocks, even worked for them lol. I have saved up a whooping 3 stocks of Google by the time I left. But I believe from the bottom of my heart you can absolutely "beat the market" by just buying things for yourself or your company. "Hold and never sell" what a way to go about life. puts tinfoil hat And also this philosophy is government propaganda to appease the peoples and make them feel complicit in capitalism and voting for billionaires without actually reaping the rewards of the class they aspire to. Here's some poems about Bukowski's father. "when I die I pass it on to you. now in your lifetime you can acquire a house and then you’ll have two houses ... My father died [..] I sold his house after about a month." "He pretended to be rich Even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies [..] And because he wanted to be rich or because he actually thought he was rich" "Ahhh! Jello and whipped cream" https://www.poeticous.com/charles-bukowski/father-who-art-in-heaven- https://www.poeticous.com/charles-bukowski/father-who-art-in... https://www.poetryverse.com/charles-bukowski-poems/my-father https://www.poetryverse.com/charles-bukowski-poems/my-father http://lipstickandbread.com/dinner-charles-bukowski-1933 http://lipstickandbread.com/dinner-charles-bukowski-1933