kyteland

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by kyteland 12y ago
25x (or 4%) is widely accepted as a safe withdrawal rate for retirement assets. It leaves enough that your investments can still grow over the long term to keep pace with inflation. If your investments have been doing better than that in
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by kyteland 12y ago
Not if you can selectively winnow through and take the 100 best. Then it's a guaranteed home run.
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by kyteland 12y ago
In situations like this you already have a job lined up that you are going to. Since they must pay you, it's up to your old employer to make a business case for themselves that it is in their best interest to pay you rather than just
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by kyteland 16y ago
You don't exactly need calculus for that one, just n*(n+1)/2. That works out to $47,785.875. Assuming they round up to the nearest penny on each transaction you get $42,827.50.
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by kyteland 16y ago
Don't ba absurd. He didn't rule out the possibility of a time traveller with an AM/FM radio, just that it's not a 1928 era radio. Let's keep this grounded in reality. ;)
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by kyteland 16y ago
I don't buy his argument that the cost of artificial lighting alone would be ~100x the current market value of the produce, especially when you use the solar collector analogy for farmland. Some quick googleing puts wheat in the 1% efficie
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by kyteland 16y ago
(-1 + 3) * 3 * 7 = 42
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by kyteland 16y ago
I don't see what that has to do Job's decision. The board offered this to every employee individually. Steve could take it or leave it without affecting anybody else.
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by kyteland 17y ago
If we can measure time spent productively in man-months then I say we can measure time wasted by the same metric.
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by kyteland 17y ago
The United States will always be a first world country because that is the definition of first world. First/second/third world status never changes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_world htt
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by kyteland 17y ago
The United States will always be a first world country because that is the definition of first world. First/second/third world status never changes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_second_third_worlds_...
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by kyteland 17y ago
I tend to agree with the sentiment put forward by Karl Denninger at http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1791-Finally-Mai... "Years ago there was stigma - a man's word was his bond. But that is gone now, and it is not you, the con
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by kyteland 17y ago
This is a case of "You had to be there." The assignment was pretty brutal, meant to weed out those who really shouldn't be in the class. In the aftermath those that were left got a pretty good laugh from Johnny. I still smile every time