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by phil21 6mo ago
The point is though, that no one pitches it this way. Everyone knows if you have millions of dollars you can generate passive income. That's simply not interesting to anyone. If you have to grind out making millions over the course of
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by phil21 6mo ago
Not just one word though. Also hard work and grit. Telling someone interested in escaping the rat race (who is not in the top 10% of income earners) to just stick with a job they despise for 15-25 years is just not going to hit home. They k
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by phil21 6mo ago
This is not what people mean by passive income. Yeah, if you have a few million dollars of capital already you can easily just toss it in the market and collect 4% every year indefinitely. Pretty much one of the only truly passive income st
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by phil21 6mo ago
Military spending has been trending downwards the entire time I’ve been alive. All that’s happened is increased spending elsewhere and even more debt. With very little apparent improvement to those social services spending outcomes. Usually
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by phil21 6mo ago
Your friend was heavily using a cheap tool at a job site. After the first one broke, the course of action is to go to home depot and buy the prosumer Milwaukee or Dewalt and return the harbor freight as time allows. The point is you only ne
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by phil21 6mo ago
The best rule of thumb for tools, at least if you have a decent collection of them for diverse but hobby/homeowner level projects is buy the cheapest to do the immediate job and then replace it with an expensive one if it breaks or you
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by phil21 6mo ago
Electricians. Top skilled folks for the most part who can do industrial level conduit work and the type who can operate switching gear and control systems. There is enough of this ongoing work for these huge facilities to effectively employ
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by phil21 6mo ago
> Except of course there would be no complaints about the power plants if we did not need them in the first place to power the data centers. And you only need stupid designs like tiny natural gas turbines on-site because NIMBY and lack o
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by phil21 6mo ago
That's only if you co-locate a power plant near it. With proper setbacks and decent design, there is very little to no noise pollution for the vast majority of these facilities. Most folks near them do not even know they exist. Plus yo
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by phil21 6mo ago
> increases electricity costs for the region This is really the only legitimate complaint that has any basis in reality. But "region" is doing a lot of work here. This is typically a multi-state sized region. There are local co
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by phil21 6mo ago
Sounds good to me. As far as industrial neighbors go it doesn't get any better than a glorified warehouse. The scale of these facilities means keeping a few local contractors in the trades in business indefinitely - electricians, plumb
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by phil21 6mo ago
> Why? I think such indifference or rather apathy/torpor is a result of people becoming tired of constant stream of crises (either imaginary or real) that we're being flooded by. The capacity to react with something more than a
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by phil21 6mo ago
I was off it for 6mo or so while I lost the weight. It wasn’t especially hard to stop, but water is in no way a replacement for it in any way. It’s the thing I prefer. Don’t like chocolate or really other sweet things in general. Even full
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by phil21 6mo ago
It's harm reduction. If you are going to be drinking 6 cans of soda a day, then diet soda is going to be better for you based on all available evidence today. By a large margin. Drinking zero cans of soda is quite obviously better than
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by phil21 6mo ago
It's the reverse. As price per coin goes up, more folks will find mining profitable and invest in mining operations. Difficulty goes up until it's no longer attractive for anyone to add to the global hash rate. As price per coin g
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by phil21 7mo ago
Ironically exactly now - while we are at or close to peak natural gas extraction - would be the best time to fill up strategic helium reserves worldwide. If every natural gas well was required to capture and store helium for future use we c
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by phil21 7mo ago
It was a penny wise and pound foolish political move to pretend to be financially responsible and reduce the deficit by some tiny rounding error on top of a rounding error amount. Basically political bike shedding so elected officials could
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by phil21 7mo ago
If society breaks down it will be too late to join such groups for nearly all outsiders. Unless you bring very valuable skills or other attributes to the table. The time to build your community is now, before things get so bad every helples
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by phil21 7mo ago
It’s 10x easier to destroy things and block stuff than it is to build anything. As witnessed by the US inability to build anything for a generation or two. It’s all NIMBY (or worse) all the time. Anti-anything is fighting a nearly unwinnabl
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by phil21 7mo ago
I have used both my PCP and telehealth for prescription writing, never once have I used a compounding pharmacy. It's slightly cheaper for me to use telehealth vs. billing through my insurance. The downside is it doesn't go towards
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by phil21 7mo ago
I don't doubt it. You make casual friends sometimes at certain gyms, especially if any sort of sports are involved like tennis or even group classes. I am a super introvert and know at least half a dozen folks with such issues, more if
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by phil21 7mo ago
> The prescription hurdle is absolutely necessary You're totally missing the point thought. The prescription hurdle effectively does not exist. It's just a paywall. You pay your $100, get a 3 minute call with a NP/PA/
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by phil21 7mo ago
> I’m curious what you mean by this. I’m not sure what you mean by “prescription system” specifically. They basically operate as a "pay for a prescription" service. Figure out what drug you want, google the drug name and telehe
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by phil21 7mo ago
Why would you stop going to a real doctor though? It's not one or the other. I'm very on the fence over BPC-157/TB500, I really want to see some actual clinical trials ran on it. I have a feeling the effects are overstated,
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by phil21 7mo ago
> People don't want change? Nah, people like change when it is obvious to them that the change is good. I agree with more or less everything but this one. I would modify it. People don't want change? Nah, people like change whe
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by phil21 7mo ago
Finding investors willing to take less than 5% return (after paying for overhead and uncollectable loans being written off due to death/injury/ability to pay/etc) would probably be the primary one. You would likely be offerin
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by phil21 7mo ago
Risk is only one component. Opportunity cost and the time value of money is another. Risk premium is on top of the other bits.
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by phil21 7mo ago
Or reduce the demand on the legal system? Just adding more expense to an outright broken thing isn't an actual fix. It's a half-measure patch at best. And no, I don't mean create a workaround like arbitration. Why do court ca
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by phil21 7mo ago
Most people are not Steve Jobs, and do not have such a vision. Or the ability and capital to see such a thing through to the end. Steve Jobs also had a number of visions that didn't work out so well too - he learned and interated from
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yeah. Not true. Or send me the name of your server vendor. I’m buying. Having issues with both price and availability on NVMe, SATA flash, starting to see some CPUs, and for a personal project high density spinning rust (24TB+).

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