VincentEvans

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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Trailing 10 year performance is a standard reporting metric used to facilitate risk-and-return decisions in an uncertain world. Here it serves to simply add weight to an argument that expecting a 5% annual return for invested endowment fund
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
… which just serves to reinforce the point that the interview becomes a rehearsed dog and pony show where interviewer asks contrived questions that are compiled and put into an “interview prep course” shilled on Linked In, and interviewee “
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I hear a question like “tell me about a time…” - I simply can’t remember. These routine job-related things just don’t stick out in my mind as something to catalog for some future contrived performance and di
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
“As of October 2023, Harvard's endowment has an 8.2% 10-year return. In fiscal year 2023, endowment returns averaged 7.7%, with smaller endowments posting larger returns. Institutions with over $5 billion in assets have historically ha
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
I didn’t say risk-free, I said “conservative”. But let’s turn to examples: “As of October 2023, Harvard's endowment has an 8.2% 10-year return. In fiscal year 2023, endowment returns averaged 7.7%, with smaller endowments posting large
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
- 1B in donations at 5% APR conservatively invested will yield 50M every year. - At yearly tuition rate of 59K the earned interest is enough to pay for 850 students without drawing down the invested principal. - Albert Einstein college of m
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
:|
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
It’s not “declining” but rather being actively replaced and rejected by the population. When your nation suffers brutal aggression perpetrated by the neighbor - it makes it no longer fashionable to speak the language of the aggressor. The f
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Pfft. I like my car.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
So far their ambition seems to be focused on moving the power button around on my phone and getting rid of other buttons and ports.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
If you stand by the pumpjack, and the sun is at just the right height, and you carefully position yourself in such way as to place the pumpjack structure directly between yourself and the sun - you could personally experience the abject mis
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Lol, thats it? This is the downside compared to the oil and coal?
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
If someone wants an alternative quick and easy solution to this problem that is a bit more out of the box: look into TimescaleDB extension.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Elaborate. Haven’t stood next to either. My curiosity is piqued. What should I be expecting when I find myself so lucky?
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Here’s an idea - ChatGPT app for Apple Carplay. Right now while driving i often do “hey siri” - but instead of carrying on a conversation where I can ask clarifying questions, I am most greeted with “i cannot show you this information while
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Quickly, how many feet in a mile? What about quarter of a mile? Eighth of a mile? How many inches is a half of a mile? Now try with kilometers, meters, and centimeters. I think this is the point that is being made.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Lol, it’s clearly not for you. I’ve been actually living this lifestyle, but even at the planning stage i never bothered to even make a list of cons, speaking nothing of the long and detailed one you manifested on the spot just to post on H
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Maybe there’s a market opportunity for an EV trailer - something that has own batteries for extra distance, or even it’s own electric assist motors.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
I see, indeed, I misread the sentence.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Not californian, but my interest was piqued by this “idea”. So what you are saying is - if my property values double - so do my taxes? Is the goal here to force me out of my home?
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
By the way, you mileage may vary based on construction etc, but in brick row homes where I rented - I found that roaches from neighbors weren’t an issue. Once eliminated in my unit - I didn’t see them coming back from the neighbors. Mice ho
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
When I was a landlord - i found foggers that I bought at Home Depot very effective. Nuked roach populations between tenants multiple times. Had personal experience living in the same unit - after putting out traps, fogging, and subsequently
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Bookmarked
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
I think someone is deliberately (?) confusing standards and interoperability with service and capacity to suit their argument. If interoperability is standardized - I can run my own servers.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
I find it a pretty optimistic take when someone claims success of a safety system after conducting a test that basically equals 600 people using it for an average year worth of driving… Is it enough to support a pretty extraordinary claim t
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Wouldn’t adjusting historical values for inflation actually increase the magnitude of the numbers? Eg $100 in 1980s is $300 in 2023 (or whatever, not real numbers) - the number is larger, not smaller.
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Climate change denial has fluently shifted from outright refusal to accept the reality of an impending catastrophic change in climate - to refusing to accept human origins of the change. It now goes along the lines of “weather has always fl
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
When authoritarian regimes can outwait their democratically elected opponents while manipulating populist politics to achieve their desired outcomes - we need to face what will ultimately happen: condemn if not ourselves, then our children
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
Normal people choose an app that works for everyone. If they can’t be bothered to switch to something, like Telegram, or Whatsapp, or Discord, or Line or Signal, or… is because they value your companionship not worth the bother. So buy an i
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by VincentEvans 3y ago
There are a couple of cars: Plymouth Prowler, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Volkswagen new Beetle, and now Tesla Truck … that after initial splash will look super lame, fad-ey, gaudy, and dorky. Close your eyes and visualize two Plymouth Prowlers ne

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