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by cko 2y ago
Not to mention shilling Fundrise and other real estate crowdfunding sites every chance he gets. I guess there's no money in just telling people to buy VNQ in their ROTH.
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by cko 2y ago
Something to do with impulse control, keeping your word, and honest and open communication in the context of a relationship. Maybe there's a better word for it than immaturity.
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by cko 2y ago
I met my wife on Tinder. In some countries Tinder is less a hookup app and actually a dating app.
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by cko 2y ago
When I saw the photo in the article I thought, oh this is already available in my city in Romania.
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by cko 2y ago
You passed a Triplebyte interview? I heard they ask FAANG level leetcode or harder. That plus going through two boot amps plus SWE job experience looks like high market value to me.
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by cko 2y ago
> One side effect of the magnetic field shift is slight but primarily beneficial: It can help shield Earth from galactic cosmic rays — high-energy subatomic particles that travel at near light speed and can damage spacecraft and harm orb
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by cko 2y ago
Bulgarian split squats (or rear leg elevated squats) are pretty good, especially if you hold a kettlebell in front. If you have a good 40m to run, then I would also do interval sprints.
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by cko 2y ago
Just because someone wants plausible deniability doesn't mean they're considering doing something wrong. They could just not want to be even considered a candidate for blame. For example, if I was ever asked to babysit someone, I
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by cko 2y ago
No one is going to Vienna for a stag party, so tourists per capita may not tell the whole story.
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by cko 2y ago
It's not just half a million, he made more in business profits before the sale.
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by cko 2y ago
Alternatives like implantable contact lenses? I hesitated because something with cataracts and them needing replacement every ten years. My eyes are -10.5 each and my biggest risk is retinal detachment.
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by cko 2y ago
How do you "work on" philosophy? Asking because my web developer wife, who happened to have majored in art and philosophy, is currently unemployed and kinda bummed about it.
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by cko 2y ago
Median family income in 1980 was $21k. Also San Francisco back then may not have been the San Francisco of today. So if you factor in inflation and increase in desirability and local wages, this would make for a more meaningful comparison.
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by cko 2y ago
I hope you're right but think about it like this: with a high youth unemployment and supposedly more men than women, they can throw away a couple million people. Also them being a manufacturing powerhouse, I think they may have enough,
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by cko 2y ago
Not an artist but the Wacom-like graphic tablets are tethered to the laptop or workstation, with at least two cables (one for power, another for the HDMI) so some artists do prefer the more portable solution of iPad plus that nice Procreate
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by cko 2y ago
The thing is... rents rise over time while a fixed rate mortgage balance doesn't. So I think you'd need an additional 2-3% return on that interest-bearing account just to account for inflation. In most cities the price to rent rat
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by cko 2y ago
The theory sounds good but there's a difference between having to sell parts of your portfolio (which is volatile) and never touching the capital because you have blog/YouTube revenue. A big part of "retirement" is feeli
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by cko 2y ago
As someone who FIREd, his assumptions of 5% real returns and 4% SWR may not hold in the future. He himself also retired with a free and clear home and a free and clear rental home, which meant he didn't have to tap into his capital, no
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by cko 2y ago
I've (GP commenter) read the essay several times in the past and enjoyed it each time. My comment was a self-reflection of my failures in taking advantage of leisure time. I've backpacked for 8 months and moved to a different coun
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by cko 2y ago
This is wonderful but I guess what I'm saying is: whether I'm jobbing 24 hours a week like I do now, or 55 hours like I used to, or zero hours, I spend all the remaining time in pure frivolity (what he calls passive pleasures). Mo
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by cko 2y ago
I like this essay but I've found it hard to be idle. I jumped aboard the FIRE train so I could coast the rest of my life, and quit my job once when I was 31 and then when I was 33 after working for a year. Now I'm working the same
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by cko 2y ago
2.2 hours of moderate to vigorous activity per day? Lifting only takes like 5 minutes of actual movement per day. Guess I need to go play some basketball because walking one hour a day plus calisthenics just won't cut it.
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by cko 2y ago
https://collabfund.com/blog/the-fed-isnt-printing-as-much-mo... Yep it was an accounting change. Though the additional wave of stimmy checks plus continued buying of MBS during 2021 was definitely not good for inflatio
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by cko 2y ago
Twitter was taken private at like $44B. I've seen estimates that TikTok would be valued at $250B. Bytedance (parent company) had $120B revenue in 2023.
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by cko 2y ago
Or "rip" or "sound off" on them even. After all, they've been issued a FINAL WARNING.
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by cko 3y ago
I hope not, for my sake. Also cavities and gum disease are not the same.
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by cko 3y ago
Selena Gomez is supposedly worth more due to ownership in her own makeup line, though she is older.
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by cko 3y ago
I'm Taiwanese American so only slightly familiar. But from what I've heard from family and acquaintances still living there, it's the usual suspects: super high rent relative to salaries (and even crazier cost to own) especia
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by cko 3y ago
How did they get it so cheap? Even lower than OVH cloud.
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by cko 3y ago
Yep I've tried mouth tape and it's pretty good, especially when combined with side sleeping. Though I have this paranoia that mouth tape will increase my philtrum length, which I know is a vain worry. Another solution is one of th

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