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by arielweisberg 7y ago
When you are high or growing income I think it’s helpful to have a financial plan that gets you towards you end goals at the rate you want and then tune your lifestyle to that. So for instance driving a Corolla when you are making 500k a ye
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
I thought flu vaccine efficacy varies year to year and is frequently not that great.
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
Google has definitely stopped being able to find the things I need. Pasting stack traces and error messages. Needle in a haystack phrases from an article or book. None of it works anymore. Does this mean they are ripe for disruption or has
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
Oh this is fun. So how clear is your hue? There was an anime about where this might head https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass Classic Dr. Who also had a fictional place where you had to be happy, but I don’t rec
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
In theory if I check both Uber and Lyft the price of one or the other should be lower since they want my business to offset their fixed costs. The price I am willing to pay Is simply the lowest price I can get for the service. How rich I am
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
Interesting idea, but the “Go” button is not appearing for me on Safari mobile.
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by arielweisberg 7y ago
I just want to stop seeing an ad that drives my spouse absolutely insane. Nope. No option to not see it anymore.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
My issue with it is that index funds don't compete on the quality of their contribution to governance. Many index funds are kind of fungible with similar low costs and performance relatively to the index they are supposed to track. So
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Huh. That sounds bad. That sounds like power collecting where it shouldn't for the wrong reasons. Bad enough that maybe it needs a legal or regulatory solution.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Oh they do. Interesting. https://about.vanguard.com/investment-stewardship/how-our-fu... Not clear to me how they decided how to vote.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
If you own an index fund does the fund actually vote? I wouldn't want my passive investment vehicle to be actively influencing the companies I am investing in.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
https://www.zennioptical.com/b/rimless-glasses Anecdata being what it is the last non-Zenni glasses I bought were from Lenscrafters and had a blurry spot they refused to acknowledge or fix and I lived with it for years
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
When you have 256 gigabytes of RAM 8 gigs of swap isn't going to move the needle on OOM and it will put you at risk of having things you didn't want swapped out swapped preemptively. At various points in history Linux would swap o
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
VoltDB doesn’t use 2PC? At least as not as I understand it? Source: I was the third engineer working on VoltDB and I worked on it for six years. VoltDB orders deterministic stored procedure invocations and then executes them serially.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Another satisfied Zenni customer. The lenses are not always perfect and the frames are not always the best. Sizing is hit or miss. What I do is buy the frame with cheap lenses to check fit, then I buy it with nice lenses if I like it. They
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Medical notes are largely fiction IME. You should request all your medical records from any doctor you have seen and start demanding they correct them. You will be shocked at the lies they tell about you. You will be even more shocked down
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
It really depends on where you live. Rust will eat up your car in a lot of the world. Sure you can replace a lot of the things that rust until the frame goes, but it starts to get expensive. Pumps, hard to get to filters, starters, alternat
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Yeah I had the exact same response.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Bigger houses tend to not get dirty as quickly. But it is more nooks and crannies that need attention on an infrequent basis. So many houses I step into have parts that have never been cleaned since they took ownership. Wow it gets nasty!
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Gas infrastructure works when the power is out... It can't survive all natural disasters, but some. When it's -6 degrees outside and you have hot water, heat, and a fireplace that are all still working you'll get it real quic
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Ouch... I ended up with Mazda for one of my cars because in the US market it had the full range of safety features, and was available with manual transmission. Automatic braking and collision detection at low and high speeds, pedestrian col
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
And this is where the MX-5 and other suitably configured cars excel. They give you a sense of motion and acceleration at legal and safe speeds that a typical car won't. Even some that are supposed to be sporty, but define sporty as &qu
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
I learned to drive stick at 34 just for fun. Now own a Mazda 3 and MX-5. Worth it. It's not about out performing an automatic transmission it's about engagement. For some people that's not going to have any value. For others
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
I have never seen that outside of finance. I think they are fine as long as the company is willing to give up something of similar value to get it.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Big city. There are reams of them to choose from I just don’t invest much time in it because I am mostly healthy.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Maybe? I feel like interacting with lawyers is a losing proposition. I never consulted one to see what was possible. I am not the kind of person who uses the legal system to make a point.
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Single? I just gave two. This not the only anecdata. Friends, family, and a family business. It’s not a scientific study. I was trying to give practical advice. If things are hunky dory in your neck of the woods great!
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
The medical profession really scares me. They have no respect or concern for patients and are largely going through the motions of providing care with no concern for successful outcomes. I find this to be consistently true in every encounte
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Last I checked Jepsen was more of a toolkit for checking consistency then simply plug and play. What is the process for adapting Jepsen to your specific database and its capabilities and how broadly is Jepsen checking the various guarantees
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by arielweisberg 8y ago
Past performance doesn't guarantee future performance. Your strategy has no floor. A strategy based on investing in the entire market has a floor (and ceiling) which is the performance of the market itself. It also performs the same fo

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