RhysU

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by RhysU 5mo ago
...except now you've incentivized everyone driving on bald tires and, unintentionally, killed a bunch of people when it rains.
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Teachers usually outsource negotiations to their unions and therefore largely cannot negotiate on their own behalf, even if they wanted to.
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Now, add in the pre-tax earnings that would be necessary to emulate a teacher's risk-free pension. One would need post-tax investments which must be turned into an annuity on retirement. It's not a small sum.
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by RhysU 5mo ago
You can. A bunch of companies offer SMAs like this. It's a retail product, usually labeled as some smart tax loss harvesting atop the indices where you can denylist particular stocks. Fidelity offers one: https://www.fidelit
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by RhysU 5mo ago
> But doing so would be a fair amount (by index standards) of overhead and hassle. Any product provider, like Blackrock, would jump at the opportunity to sell them an S&P499 given the scale of those pension funds. > Plus they&#x27
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Absent any restrictions on targeting adults, what would cigarette ads look like today?
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by RhysU 5mo ago
> The New York and California pension systems would become holders of SpaceX shares through their passive allocations if the company is admitted to major U.S. stock indexes. If they have discretion, these pensions can replicate the S&amp
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Doesn't check out. Not all recipients of US federal tax proceeds are classical liberal. It's a split.
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by RhysU 5mo ago
It's beyond belief how much California imports... > [California] imports about 60% of its crude from overseas--up from 5% in the mid-1980s- about a third of which comes from the Middle East. About 15% of the state's refined fue
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by RhysU 5mo ago
A friend once relayed his mental scale that people usually fall somewhere on... 1) Must plan to buy a meal out. 2) Must plan to take a vacation. 3) Must plan to buy a house. 4) Must plan to pass it on. ...and that these are useful subgroupi
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Cool. How sensitive is the Strouhal number to viscosity at Re = 100 indirectly via the shedding frequency? My hunch is not very and so the implicit diffusion from coarsening is not having a first order effect. See Implicit Large Eddy Simula
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Fun. Needs sound effects, in particular someone muttering "Hoyt–Schermerhorn next" over a crackling intercom.
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by RhysU 5mo ago
Seems legit for Google vs Kagi: https://sitemogging.com/mogged/google.com-vs-kagi.com
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by RhysU 6mo ago
Go read a few months worth of the National Review. Many prominent conservative thinkers are not particularly big fans of Trump. They like portions of his initiatives and policies but not him as a standard bearer, because he does dumb, ill-p
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by RhysU 6mo ago
Wilholt's essay is a nice one. But it amounts to defining the opposition in a way that's easy to tear apart followed by tearing it apart. It's a cute trick but isn't much of a basis for serious discussion. Watch: Wilholt
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by RhysU 6mo ago
> It really ought to be possible to structure the utility contracts such that a new data center lowers every one else’s rates instead of raising them. That would imply that increased demand strictly decreases prices, no? Given fixed supp
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by RhysU 6mo ago
Thank you for pointing out the sidebar. I missed this because I did not understand that footnotes/sidebars were presented as links.
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by RhysU 6mo ago
The author's framing "we have failed" suggests otherwise. This section, https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/30years/#ok-then-why , does not mention libraries at all.
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by RhysU 6mo ago
> we have failed to broadly adopt any new compiled programming languages for HPC The article neglects that all of C, C++, and Fortran have evolved over the last 30 years. Also, you'll find significant advances in the HPC library eco
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by RhysU 6mo ago
Many people do get more back than they put in. High earners do not: > Most American workers receive significantly more from Social Security over their lifetimes than they contribute through payroll taxes. https://legalclarity.
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by RhysU 6mo ago
> Social Security is almost completely disbursement charges but those disbursements aren't means tested so even quite wealthy individuals receive them. Only to those who paid into the system and far less than they personally could h
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by RhysU 6mo ago
A little over a third of production evidently goes to ethanol: https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339 No idea if subsidies disproportionately subsidize fuel ethanol over non-fuel usage.
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by RhysU 6mo ago
Beef prices are high right now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000703112 If the intent of the government is to pour subsidies into domestic beef production to stabilize prices they're doing a crap job. Com
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by RhysU 6mo ago
In the US agricultural subsidies for 2024 were overwhelmingly for corn ($3.2B), soybeans ($1.9B), cotton ($998M), and wheat ($960M). Pasture comes in 5th ($741M). https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-wha
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by RhysU 6mo ago
> Most roles let you settle into one way of thinking. Engineers think in systems and constraints. Designers think in experiences and affordances. Salespeople think in objections and value props... I don't think often, but when I do,
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by RhysU 6mo ago
The default page load hides plots for all models with negative returns? That's sketch.
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by RhysU 6mo ago
COBOL also came to mind. The COBOL thing seems to be working out just fine last I heard. Today a small number of people get paid well to know COBOL's depths and legacy platforms/software. The world moved on, where possible, to low
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by RhysU 6mo ago
> We estimate that these laws prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year and have decreased the total by 145,000 since 1980. 145K is roughly the population of Syracuse, NY or Mi
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by RhysU 6mo ago
A friend once remarked that it'd take particular dedication to so using a Miata.
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by RhysU 7mo ago
> Operable while tripping > We are often faced with 45-button remote controls, and multi-level menus of options to navigate. This can be ok in everyday life, but when you transport to the spiritual dimension of the Grateful Dead show,

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