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Basic financial literacy is important to learn. The items I mentioned are somethings everyone should be able to do after hours of reading. Worst case VTI/Vanguard funds require limited work. You can also get a bank to manage your money for you and pay the fee. If you learn it yourself though, you will always be able to save that MER fee. There are many people who work 9-5 and just put all their money in $BRK or an ETF fund or other investments and in their retirement are doing okay. The ones who didn't are struggling from the people I have interacted with.

As for the political instability, if it gets bad enough, we are all going to die of famine, so no point thinking doomsday. Also, since you are holding long term, who cares if it goes down, you are worried about 15/20/25 years from today. I think this is what stops many people from getting the market, thinking banks are corrupt, the system is crazy, and so on. Leave your politics to the side, this is the market, it doesn't care about conservatives or liberals, Chinese or American, black or white, it cares about dollars and cents.

Where I work hard is my options trade.

If you really want to see proof that you can make money, without working hard, shameless plug, www.marketgodfathers.com, I provide option trades before the market opens, I provide when I enter and when I exit. If someone follows my plans, they would make the same amount of money, percentage wise with a $30K account and no research required or work. So there are ways. Obviously, you might think this is incorrect, but if you spend time researching the market, you can definitely do what I do on your own. I do it in bull markets, and I will do it in bear markets.

The thing about money in the market is when you make more, you want more. It never stops. Also, when you learn one way to make it, you always want to enhance it and do better. It's a never ending journey.

Remember the richest people in the world pay people to manage their money, so the stock market is where you want to be.
It's the opposite. If people can default, then the bank has to avoid defaulters, staying away from financing expensive studies in dead end careers.

Otherwise the bank needs to get more defaulter, because they are more profitable than people who pay back.
1. You can indeed be invested in your own amusement, through sunk time & money for equipment & training, a social network of others invested in the same activity, and many things less tangible.

2. "Rights" have nothing to do with this discussion.

3. Unless you're talking about a national park, the residents/owners/official caretakers of the backcountry are often nobody, or at most a volunteer trail maintenance org.

4. Educating people costs money. Providing facilities costs money. Hiring personnel costs money. Ameliorating damage costs money. These things all happen, but they cost money, and nobody is champing at the bit to pay.

The approach many in the outdoors community take is indeed everything you suggest, plus an information diet to concentrate use on trails which have seen a lot of work and can handle the traffic.
Does anybody know what is the math background required for this course? Or do I need to go through the videos to find out?
$22K in debt isn't serfdom, that's the price of a Honda Civic. It takes few grand a year to keep up with interest.
It was the state tax payers (they were funding universities more aggressively), but we also didn’t have many fancy perks on campus back then (so kind of students also).

But who was really losing 20 years ago were underemployed administrators. There were much fewer of those cushy non-teaching non-research admin jobs.
"Hour-long" television programs have been 42 minutes since I was a child.

Amazon's ads are at least 1 minute long. How soon until they're 5 minutes?
In 1969, as John McCain was strapped into his fueled and armed aircraft, a missile accidentally fired from an aircraft across the carrier. The missile ruptured his aircraft's fuel tank, and wrecked the aircraft next to his. Both aircraft, and all the spilled fuel caught on fire. Both aircraft's bombs, old and with decomposing explosives, began to explode in the fire much sooner than the should have. McCain escaped injured. The pilot next to him was killed by the bombs, as was most of the carrier's fire team.

In all, 134 men on the carrier died from the fires and explosions that day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
I remember reading that McCain picked Palin over his handlers’ strong objections. Was it the other way around?
Yeah, if hackers are known for anything, it's being big fans of statesmen, especially ones that approved the PATRIOT Act (twice), extending its wiretapping provisions, and sponsoring a bill that would let the US government detain anyone in the world indefinitely without trial.

Truly a sad day.
Sadly there is not enough “conversation context” in your comment to use as a test in this analyzer.
IT is much much wider than software developers.
It's pretty compact, the whole reactor is about the size of a large house IIRC. Putting the whole core in a container and shipping it off is pointless, though- it's designed to operate for many decades and uses a continuous refueling process. They're also designed to be able to get really high utilization of fuel and not produce much waste. This design is very different from current commercial plant designs.

Operating costs are also not the problem for nuclear plants, they are dirt cheap to run relative to their energy production. It's the upfront capital cost of building a large plant that makes them uneconomical currently, which is why smaller-scale designs like this one are appealing.

Edit: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-as... is informative regarding the economics.
I'll always feel a little bad for guys who get stuck with the bound-to-lose candidacies. From Adlai Stevenson to Bob Dole to John McCain, it's basically, "Here, the fix is already in and we need you to lose to this other jerk." That's not the footnote I'd prefer for myself.

He was a real RINO though.
I don't think the parent was implying that everyone could or should live a life like McCain, or that anything else is "not enough", only that this is a remarkable person who led a remarkable existence on earth. He touched the lives more people and affected more change than most of us could ever dream of, and that's something to admire.
An Apology from the Dunderbeck Sausage Company
The largest monthly expense for anyone making $60,000 a year is most likely going to be rent, unless you are living in a car or a tent and showering at the gym like I was.

For that reason, $60,000 could either be a ton of money ($4,000 a month in post tax wealth accumulation is really good), or very little at all.

There are still some Europeans and plenty of Asians and Africans making less than $250 a month. If you are spending all of your income, you aren't terribly different from them in the end.
There was an existing soup/noodle culture. There was a black market and structures to divert central planning into commerce. It was a marriage made in heaven. I think the best Ramen I've had was either down the end of the toden line or out Shinjuku by a jr station
Redis labs website describes itself as the "home of Redis" and sells a product called "Redis Enterprise". If that doesn't sound exactly like textbook open core, I don't know what does.
Nothing ridiculous about it. He could see where the wind was blowing. 50+ million ppl voted for Trump.

Who do you think is going to get that vote bank post Trump?

Someone even more ridiculous unless a better McCain-Palin type arrangement happens.

We are just one Wall Street/Silicon Valley/Pentagon created fiasco away from Alex Jones being president given the current "us VS them" narratives 24*7 news, social media keep amplifying.
It's worth remembering Recycling is the least good thing we should be doing.

1. Reduce

2. Reuse

3. Recycle

I always find it interesting in developing countries to see tons and tons of stuff being reused, way more than in Developed countries. i.e. A 1 liter beer bottle in Ecuador is $0.75 for the beer, and $1 deposit on the glass. The bottles are cleaned and reused hundreds of times.
The money to pay off the student loans will come from somewhere. Somewhere includes me. Should I ask you to buy me a new car if I spend everthing I have on what turns out to be a lemon? Can one investment firm ask another to cover the losses of its bad positions? Surely, if good and bad decisions are smoothed out to nothing then there's no reason left to make good, sometimes hard choices.
It blows my mind how expensive real estate is. Rent shouldn’t be anywhere near the cost of a mortgage and yet it is, and it always goes up almost completely without recourse.
On the plus side, I'm guessing your CRUD app hasn't killed, maimed or otherwise destroyed buildings and lives for several years. (If nothing else because you just finished it)
They go after the little guy now because typically he or she can't fight back and is deathly afraid of prison.
"This research is able to reliably disentangle causation and correlation because a lottery effectively provides a randomized control trial"

This doesn't sound true. Many high earning workers never play the lottery, yet have the same economic power as those who only win hundreds of thousands like in the study. I imagine their lifestyle choices are different.

Lottery winners are an extremely small percentage of the population. They don't have the same responsibilities, anixities, or "golden handcuffs" that the majority of high earners have because they didn't need to go through that to achieve their economic level and don't need to maintain it.
FWIW, This American Life ran a great piece by Michael Lewis on John McCain's relationship with David Ifshin.

Ifshin was a prominent Vietnam war protestor (and Democrat) who later developed a relationship with McCain.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/41/politics/act-four
The RINO label was always very stupid. As if politicians in the USA had to always be factional, that they couldn’t have their own positions that came in either side of the spectrum. Just idiotic.

There is no such thing as true Republican anyways. I mean, look at Trump, he, like Bush, obviously isn’t a fiscal conservative and doesn’t care about the deficit. That anti deficit position only comes up when a democrat is in charge, and is promptly forgotten afterwards.

McCain was an effective politician because he was a maverick, and he shouldn't be chastised for his independence.
As someone who does agree with a lot of positions McCain represented, I can't blame anyone who feels the need to distance themselves from his political party before paying respects. Some of our key political disputes today aren't good-faith disagreements about policy. They're attacks on peoples' families and livelihoods. And when you attack people personally like that, decency is something that goes out the window: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-BQi0JjY2w.
Pay to play gets backlash from gamers with enough sophistication and experience to notice and care, which if sales figures are to be believed, until recently represented a small minority. Something like Manhunt or a serial killer sim outrages all sorts of people, fed by the media and congressional hearings, and game publishers would like to avoid that. It’s a different type and magnitude of backlash, and for what? You’re never going to make CoD or GTA money from a serial killer sim, so why take the heat? A serial killer sim also runs into the issue of just what a serial killer is, and why they do what they do. Serial killings unlike spree killings and mass killings are typically sexually motivated, and that’s pretty dark territory for a mainstream company to wade into. “Click X to masturbate on the corpse” is something that is probably a moral line for a lot of people, as would, “Rotate right stick to remove nipple, try to max scream meter!”

Games like GTA and Mortal Kombat have done edgy stuff, but they’re also really great games and technical achievements. Manhunt for example, was just boring and technically mediocre, which made it harder to defend and easier to hate. It’s the difference between a masterpiece of the horror genre or something like Nabokov’s Lolita, and a movie like Hostel or cp fanfics. How many developers and publishers will have great ideas that require shocking subjects, and then execute it so well that it’s defensible? Most publishers aren’t even taking risks with things aren’t divisive, they just want money and sequels and DLC. Serial killer or gore sims?... nah.
>We don't use money to "regulate and monitor the agency" people have over their own lives.

We might not advertise that we use them explicitly for this, but this is exactly what they end up doing. People that need money have to give away their time and do stuff for other people.

>We use money as a medium of exchange enabling people to get other people to do things for them.

Po-ta-toh, po-tah-to. Those people that do "things for them" give up part of their own agency of what to do and part of their own time in exchange of getting paid. They can still pick between this or that job (if they're lucky and there are plenty of jobs), but they can't choose not to give their time to a job, or to be too picky about which job to do (lest they starve).

>If all people wanted was agency over themselves most people could do it--living off the land in the middle of nowhere is still pretty cheap here in the U.S.

The agency doesn't end in subsistence, as people aren't animals. It includes being able to do things like e.g. travel, watch tv, eat a nice meal, surf the internet, etc. -- and that gets costly fast. Part of that agency also includes that is shouldn't involve others treating them like pariahs (because again, they're not animals).
I’ll rephrase:

could be charged to me one at a time when they leave their container
I've found 1 clip so far [1]; would you happen to have more? I'd love to be able to refer back to these in the future.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjenjANqAk
Actually many deleted comments are indeed uncalled for or criticize the creator in a personal way, so I don't have a problem with removing them.

Furthermore the discussion about type-classes is getting old. YES Haskell has them and NO Elm doesn't have them at the moment or maybe never. It's similar to the Go generic-type flame-wars that emerged in many Go discussions.
As far as I'm aware, he wanted Lieberman and caved to more conservative members of his party. Wikipedia seems to agree[1]. It does also say that he selected Palin because she appeared to be someone who would bolster his "maverick" image. He later regretted the choice.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_presidential_candidacy_of...
Just a reminder that McCain advocated for the violent overthrow of multiple other countries. How dignified you sound in a speech doesn't matter when there's the blood of the many on your hands. He reached across the aisle because the Democrats love killing people too. Rep. Barbara Lee was the sole no vote on the AUMF.

For those of you that met him in person and were impressed by his personality, most halfway decent politicians can pull that off, that's how they got elected. His domestic politics were standard conservative fare, and was against raising taxes on the rich to provide for human need. McCain failed us and menaced the world.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/john-mccain-wor...

https://www.liberationnews.org/john-mccain-war-criminal-not-...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/25/17778146/j...

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/john-mccain-for...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...
>I suspect the reason why many lottery winners end up broke soon is because most rational well adjusted people don't play lottery.

You'd be surprised. People of all kinds play lottery.

The real reason is far more likely to be that people who are not rich already are not prepared for sudden wealth, and do not know how to handle their finances. Plus all kinds of other people (relatives, advisors, etc) will prey on them.
There's an Econtalk episode on the economics of recycling.

http://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-recycling/

Aside from aluminium, there doesn't seem to be much of a point of recycling even though city governments keep doing it. (Even for stuff like aluminium cans, the rate of recycling has decreased, because the can design has improved and each can uses very little aluminium.)
I hope you are right. I had the chance to read some of it before it was removed. Atrocious.
I once described John McCain as an unprincipled torture apologist for his political positions during the Bush administration. I think I was probably mistaken, and I apologize to his ghost.
NASA uses shape memory alloy to fold F-18 wing
You're begging the question. I don't follow the assumption that anyone's interests have less societal benefit. Let's go with one example, taxpayers bail out student debt in tandem with some legislation that prevents moral hazard from being an issue. If that bailout prevents value destruction through economic collapse, or frees graduates to pursue vocations appropriate for their degree that could generate larger economic returns in the long run, there you have a rising tide lifting all boats. That scenario is loaded with assumptions, but my only aim is to open your mind to the possibility of a net win, not to describe an implementation.

And for the record, I get the feeling you've assumed that I support debt forgiveness. I don't, and the moral hazard involved does bother me. But I won't let that stop me from considering strong arguments in favor of it.
How does visiting help?
One other approach when you don't trust the market is to pay off debt (if you have any).

Depending on the interest rates of the debt you hold and how long it's supposed to take to pay it back, you could save yourself a lot of money long term. It's not an approach that investors often recommend but if you've got a 7% interest rate on a 30 year mortgage the return for paying it off early is 7% saved. Whether the market goes up or down, the loss for that percentage remains the same.

The more debt you get paid off, the more cash flow you free up to invest.

It doesn't always make sense, but it's worth considering. When interest rates were really low I locked up a 2.8% rate on a 15 year mortgage...and at that point there's really no incentive to pay it off early. Other forms of debt will vary though.
I think the problem with most of the layouts is that they are typist-oriented (e.g. people who enter mostly English text), so they mainly focus on the letters. Programmers' workflow is different.

I'm in the process of switching to an Ergodox keyboard and I logged all my keystrokes (on a regular QWERTY keyboard) for about a week. My work was maybe 80% writing code and 20% writing emails, Slack messages etc. Here are the top 10 most frequently used keys:

Key # %
---------+------+---
Down 14139 11.3
Up 11514 9.2
Backspace 6748 5.3
Right 6529 5.2
Space 5409 4.3
Left 4908 3.9
Tab 4847 3.8
R Ctrl 4665 3.7
E 3937 3.1
L Shift 3824 3.0

There's only one letter there!

The rest of the keys are pretty much in the same position in all the layouts discussed here. Therefore I think significant speed improvements for programmers can only come with a more radical re-think of a keyboard layout.
There are countless millions of people who are qualified and even have the capital required to finance/build a basic, durable shelter that is nice enough to have guests spend the night in. The materials, when purchased from Home Depot, would cost $20,000 and require maybe $7,000 worth of labor to construct.

When you consider that most suburban land about 1hr outside city by car can go for even just $20,000, it seems pretty ludicrous to pay $400,000 for something that can be had for $50,000.

The ONE thing stopping this from being a reality is the town government/mortgage lender junta.

They've basically made it illegal in most metropolitan areas to purchase anything other than a big, rotting house.
My main concern (I'm not a nuclear engineer) is that smaller nuclear plants means lots of radioactive material (fuel/waste) is being moved and stored in a piece-meal fashion, enabling "small scale" accidents or even theft.
It's easy to say nice things about members of your own tribe. It's easy to overlook the faults of someone on your side. "I didn't agree with him but..." just emphasises the sincerity of your admiration.

Good opponents are the foundation of a strong democracy. You're in real trouble when you honestly struggle to say anything nice about your opponents, or you're too tied up in tribalism to entertain the possibility that your opponents might be decent and principled people who just happen to have different principles. "I don't agree with you, but I respect you as a person" is the essential basis of civilization.
I linked this today after following a lark, an idle session of ZORK presented online.

These games meant a lot to me. They still do. It was fun to go back to that world for a time.

Today, we have voice recognition, spatial sounds, etc...

Someone needs to revisit this art form.
>"Crazy" is too strong, I agree, but it's certainly not the shrewdest investment.

It's not supposed to be an investment, it's something you do for the fun of the "what if".
my question is can you get similar results by doing a physical simulation of charges repelling each other
> his life's efforts were largely futile

Tell that to the guys he provided close air support for. I've been on the ground when it comes down. Years later I'm still thankful and it brings tears to my eyes.
This story is not supported by the article you posted.

Per the article:

> At about 10:51 (local time) on 29 July, an electrical power surge in the Phantom occurred during the switch from external to internal power. The electrical surge caused one of the four 5-inch Mk-32 Zuni unguided rockets in a pod on external stores station 2 (port inboard station) to fire.

What's interesting is that if you dig into the sources cited, they explicitly call out bullshit like yours:

> In recent years, articles have appeared on the internet that are extremely inaccurate and generally intend to unfairly tarnish the reputation of Senator John S. McCain III, who survived the fire.

From: https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/about-us/l...

What actually happened:

At 1050, Forrestal commenced early launch of two KA-3B tankers, an EA-1, and an E-2A in preparation for an 1100 launch of a 24-plane Alpha Strike, the second of the day. At that time, a VF-11 F-4B (No. 110,) was spotted on the extreme starboard quarter of the flight deck. As the pilot of F-4B 110 shifted from external to internal power, multiple electrical malfunctions ignited one of the four 5-inch Mk-32 Zuni unguided rockets in a pod on external stores station 2 (port inboard station), which fired across the flight deck and struck VF-46 A-4E No. 405, piloted by LCDR Fred White, rupturing its fuel tank, igniting the fuel, and initiating the fire. Although the board of investigation reached the opinion that the Zuni rocket hit 405, there is some ambiguity in eyewitness accounts as to whether the rocket hit 405 or the plane next to it, 416, piloted by Lieutenant Commander John McCain. The rocket itself actually impacted the ocean beyond both aircraft. Regardless, shrapnel ripped into both aircraft, and both were immediately sprayed by fuel; a pool of fuel ignited between and under the two aircraft. Both pilots initially escaped from the flames around their aircraft.
When comparing salaries I think in terms of "disposable income / hour". That is: how much $ worked hour you have after you pay taxes, retirement, average rent in the location, medical insurance, basic food, small car and gas. At least it makes europe/US and intra US comparison much simpler.
I like regulating things that are radioactive or can potentially go boom. Especially both.

[And yes, I know some designs are theoretically not able to melt/blow up]
my other question is has anyone ever tried to find this with rational points only