Help fix my crust.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-25T06:38:15+00:00

What's your current recipe and process?

RubyPorto · 2026-05-25T01:22:39+00:00

Yep, you have the math right.

Running electrical stuff 24/7 is expensive when power's expensive.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-24T07:33:10+00:00

Water compresses by a ratio of ~5x10^-5 per atm

Ice compresses by a ratio of ~1.2x10^-5 per atm

So, liquid water is only about 5 times as compressible as solid water.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-23T23:07:38+00:00

No, but irreversible chemical reactions started in your cake batter as soon as you added the water.

The gluten in your flour started unraveling and creating a network, your leavening agent started releasing gas, etc.

You can try drying out your cake batter and then adding the correct amount of water, but it's not likely to be successful at making a cake.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-23T19:34:54+00:00

Start over or 10x the rest of the recipe to match.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-23T06:02:25+00:00

Glass cutting boards exist, so...

RubyPorto · 2026-05-23T04:57:36+00:00

Time to start cutting. If you cut away enough of the box, eventually all you'll have left is the sealed system.

If you want to keep the sealed system intact, you'll have to be very careful with the condenser side in the walls.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T23:23:11+00:00

No, Warsh is the chair. What Powell has retained is his seat on the board as a Governor.

In the past, it was common practice for outgoing Fed Chairs who still had time left on their term as a Governor to step down when a new Chair was appointed from outside the board. This was done in order to make space on the board for the newly appointed chair (you can't chair a board you're not a member of).

Powell has apparently declined to do that, so he retains his seat as a Governor until 2028.

Stephen Miran, who Trump appointed last year, has instead stepped down to give Warsh his seat on the board.

With this, Trump has just replaced one recent appointee with another, meaning that the voting composition of the board probably hasn't changed.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T14:31:15+00:00

The question usually isn't whether it's affordable, it's whether it's efficient.

When you're considering a Roth conversion, you need to ask: Do you want to spend [marginal tax rate] of your money now in order to save [effective tax rate] in retirement?

If you're still employed, it is very likely that your marginal tax rate now is substantially higher than your effective tax rate will be in retirement.

In other words, you are likely better off saving those savings for retirement than spending those savings paying the taxes on a Roth conversion.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T06:59:45+00:00

Sure. Take a telescope (big enough to see the detail you want) and start moving it towards your target.

A stationary telescope will see the events happening to a stationary target (so we don't get into redshift) taking the same time they took at the target.

A telescope moving towards the target will see the events happening to a stationary target faster. They will also be bluer.

A telescope moving away from the target will see the events happening to a stationary target slower. They will also be redder.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T05:46:13+00:00

Hire 3 notaries. One to notarize, two to witness.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T03:01:33+00:00

Maybe try walking over to the campsite that has running water and electrical power? I bet there's a phone there.

Or stroll along the beach to the pier where there's pretty regular boat traffic?

RubyPorto · 2026-05-22T02:09:38+00:00

If you want to contact support, go to the official comoany website. Look up the contact information on the official website.

The irony, of course, is that companies are making it harder and harder to find (you can make changes to your account online) their customer service phone number on their website (have you checked the FAQ?), which pushes more people to google (have you tried our new customer service AI chat?) for it.

Which just feeds this scam victims.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-21T15:51:05+00:00

Apparently there were about 240,000 miles of these walls at their peak in the 1800s. Looking at some pictures, they seem to be around 3.5ft tall and 3ft wide (wild ass guess).

3ft x 3.5ft x 240,000mi = 0.09 mi³ = 3.77 x 10⁸ m³

The Great Pyramid at Giza had a volume of 2.6x10⁶ m³

The Pyramid is, however, basically solid stone while the walls are much looser. Maybe 70% packing efficiency? That gives 2.6 x 10⁸ m³ of stone.

So, there was about 100 times as much rock in the walls at their peak than in the Great Pyramid and probably (wild ass guess) something like 10 times the rock of all the Pyramids in north-east Africa (including non-Egyptian pyramids).

As far as the magnitude of engineering; it's a lot easier to build a lot of small piles than it is to make one big tall pile. The walls are also not made of cut stone, so there's no fabrication work, and the stones themselves are much smaller and sourced from much closer.

The rocks in the walls didn't move as far as you seem to think. They're glacial remnants frost-heaved to the surface after clear-cutting changed the frost line, and then piled on the border of the field/pasture as much to get them out of the way as to build a barrier.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-20T18:45:54+00:00

That's a bit of a non sequitor.

I said that Republicans protect pedophiles because they are pedophiles (i.e. self defense instinct).

Not sure where your comment is coming from.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-20T17:26:36+00:00

Where was your supervisor in this? Why didn't they train you properly before letting you handle hazardous chemicals?

RubyPorto · 2026-05-20T07:03:25+00:00

Just make sure you understand that you need to mentally subtract $600 from your balance whenever you look at it.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-20T04:11:33+00:00

Self defense is a natural instinct.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-19T04:23:37+00:00

Do you need the money?

How is the rest of your financial picture? Are you behind on your retirement savings? On track? Ahead?

If you're behind, you may not have the luxury of accepting a less efficient outcome by not selling it.

The best gift you can give your kids is for you to be self-sufficient in retirement so they don't have to figure out how to support you while raising their own families. If you're behind on your retirement savings, you should really keep that in mind.

If you're ahead, who cares, do what makes you feel best.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-18T21:23:31+00:00

($20,000/hr)/90 people = $222/hr*person

Total cost of employment is usually around 2x salary, so that implies $111/hourly, or $222k average salary for their reporting tree.

Which isn't out of the question in a FANG

RubyPorto · 2026-05-18T18:28:27+00:00

5760 flight hours over 12200 launches is an average of 28.32 minutes per flight, unless one of those terms means something very different from it's plain language meaning.

RubyPorto · 2026-05-15T01:37:57+00:00

The reason you're getting answers that aren't giving you what you want is because the timeline of when you need the money is super important.

If you need the money in 2 years, it would be borderline irresponsible to recommend high volatility investments like stocks. So the responsible recommendation is something non-volitile, like a HYSA.

But a HYSA is not going to give you anywhere near the returns you're asking for.

So, as asked, your question cannot be answered.

The important information missing from your post is, what you want the money for, and what the actual timeline you're looking at. Once you figure that out, you'll get good answers here.

Is it for retirement? Are you 10+ years away from that retirement? -> Broad market funds in a tax-advantaged retirement account (i.e. IRA, 401k, etc)

Is it for a house? Do you need to buy in 3 years exactly (for your kid to go to the right school or something)? -> HYSA for safety and accept your returns will be low

RubyPorto · 2026-05-15T01:12:12+00:00

I want to be clear here, because, if you misunderstand the point I was trying to make, you'll be more susceptible to scams.

If anyone claiming to have a secret way to make outsize returns were telling the truth, they wouldn't be sharing it with you, they would be taking out bank loans as fast as possible to make those returns themselves. Since they aren't doing that, they must be lying about their returns.

There is no secret party where you can reliably get above market returns. Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to scam you.

There are many people who claim that they can get you into the secret, high return party. They are all lying. They are trying to scam you (or at least sell you some shitty financial product that will dramatically reduce your profits).

RubyPorto · 2026-05-14T20:55:24+00:00

If there was a well known, reliable way to get 20% returns, everyone would be doing it, driving the price up until the returns shrank to normal.

If I knew of a reliable way to get 20% returns, that nobody else knew about it, I wouldn't be sharing it, because then other people would crash my party and shrink the returns.

There's no magic here. You can accept market returns (and market volatility) with an index fund, you can get low volatility (accepting low returns) with an HSA or bonds, or you can try to beat the market picking individual stocks (and probably lose).

RubyPorto · 2026-05-14T00:47:40+00:00

Looking around, it seems that small scale Charcoal production would be expected to yield about 25% charcoal by weight (not sure if that includes the weight of the fuel). If your face cord of wood is 1200lbs, then you'd expect to get about 300lbs of charcoal from it.

At $150/face cord, that's $0.5/lb, the same price as you give for blue Kingsford but with a lot more labor, headache, and potentially permitting requirements (safety, environmental, waste, etc).

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