RhysU

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by RhysU 5y ago
Mean reversion! Either the world works as you describe it or, due to momentum, civilization (either collapses or hits a golden age).
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by RhysU 5y ago
International Surveillance Machines.
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by RhysU 5y ago
Uh, all that money is taxed at withdrawal.
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by RhysU 5y ago
This. Saving, say, 10% of income is a whole different game in a HCOL area vs saving 10% in a low one provided that one retires outside of the HCOL area.
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by RhysU 5y ago
Good point about tobacco-free campuses. I forgot about that trend.
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by RhysU 5y ago
> WATCH A wooden nail is hammered through three boards. Having just spent the morning driving nails with a 10-year-old, it pained me to watch this adult use a hammer.
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by RhysU 5y ago
Go hang out with the smokers. They are right outside now. Smokers see everyone go past and say hey to anyone they know, even if only briefly. Smoking not recommended.
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by RhysU 5y ago
I find it encouraging. No matter whether one says Yes or No or Meh to this particular evolution in American dialog, making mindful and deliberate choices matters.
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by RhysU 5y ago
And the public raises pitchforks when one person in a castle controls too many of those mechanical creatures at once.
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by RhysU 5y ago
The test ban treaty was a slick example of pulling up the ladder after arriving somewhere first. Want weapons research? Now you need weapons researchers and supercomputers...
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by RhysU 5y ago
I attended Strange Loop. https://www.thestrangeloop.com/
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by RhysU 5y ago
So, uh, what do the seed-to-seed variance studies look like on a network of this size? Surely someone trained 100 to see the distribution. ducks
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by RhysU 5y ago
As a meat eater I liked the occasional Boca burger. They were always just stupid expensive (recollecting college) and never stuck in my mind as a periodic way to reduce meat consumption. But I am one of those people with a hybrid only becau
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by RhysU 5y ago
So make local friends and trust your neighbors. Be part of the community. And periodically visit the extended family. We live a five-hour drive from family and it's the closest to them that we've ever been. This isn't ideal b
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by RhysU 5y ago
To expand, seriously, pretend that you are buying an annuity providing a guaranteed, life-long annual payout equivalent to a teacher's salary in your town. It's a slug of cash that will make you blush. For example, https:/&#
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by RhysU 5y ago
This is underappreciated. Think about what contributions one has to make to a self-funded retirement plan to acquire a pension equivalent to that available to teachers.
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by RhysU 5y ago
Give them an allowance. Let them blow it on goofy things like bubblegum or candy bars. Eventually, they'll learn delayed gratification by realizing that bubblegum isn't as good as waiting for a toy they want to buy. They have to f
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by RhysU 5y ago
The GP asked if Facebook database, accounting, etc are complicit. Yes. You're asking if capital flows between 2 unrelated entities sharing ownership matter? No. You're asking if diffuse responsibility via elected representation ma
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by RhysU 5y ago
In all cases, yes, the hypothetical employee contributes to FB-spread societal damage. For example, if I design a boring mechanical part for a bomb my labor is integral to when that bomb kills civilians. So, if you are in the defense indus
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by RhysU 5y ago
Then she hasn't seen Pilkey's literary cleverness. I about fell out of a chair when, after chapters and chapters of set up, Pilkey titled a chapter "The Great Cat's Bee" at the turning point in a narrative. Then I t
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by RhysU 5y ago
We have something like those already. Primary and secondary education are free (and compulsory) and one cannot refuse treatment to individuals in the emergency room. The appeal of free public transportation, to me, is that it allows more pe
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by RhysU 5y ago
I like this idea better than most local government UBI proposals. E.g., instead of suggesting UBI in NYC just make the trains free. It's not straight currency but it's unlimited transportation on high capacity, environmentally nic
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by RhysU 5y ago
Taking into account trading costs, a meh strategy and its inverse can both lose money.
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by RhysU 5y ago
You had me at NaN.
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by RhysU 5y ago
This is the fault of the people who elected these representatives.
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by RhysU 5y ago
Just tonight a friend told me that he was starting a small business. I encouraged him to look into financing some of his business by selling equity to his own Roth IRA. I have no idea if that's possible but he'd be nuts not to do
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by RhysU 5y ago
And yet one can find 20 year old software in many domains that just keeps plugging away. The problem isn't infancy. It's an industry that monetizes planned obsolescence and chases shiny. Many of us might as well sell bellbottoms f
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by RhysU 5y ago
I often see that payroll taxes are regressive. But the benefits from payroll taxes are progressive... Replacing a top 1% income or standard of living with unemployment or social security doesn't happen in the US system. Are payroll tax
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by RhysU 5y ago
As a person who grew up in rural Appalachia certainly Phillips was not an option. But, choosing a municipality with an emphasis on the value of education certainly was something my parents actively did. And, we had families across the econo
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by RhysU 5y ago
As a Westerner, I revere the person who makes an amazing mathematical or scientific contribution. I respect those who understand it and who can use it. I revere the person who extends it. Mimicry, no matter how complete, is not the same as

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