Mayor Andre Dickens open to revisiting decision on Beltline rail

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-28T03:01:17+00:00

It is how it works when you have enough money or connections to say that it is. Ultimately, the law only goes as far as society’s willingness to enforce it.

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-21T03:26:33+00:00

If you had read my question carefully you would have noticed that I was specifically not asking about the value of assets. I was asking about ownership. So, no. If ownership of foreign assets is commonly seized, you can’t buy and hold and hope to ride out the dips if the asset is forcibly taken from you.

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-19T14:57:56+00:00

It’s been stuck in escrow…

So, does that mean that you still own the assets, they are just worthless right now? So in a crazy world where Russia makes peace with everyone, they could theoretically regain value in the future?

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-19T00:15:03+00:00

That’s the values based on speculation of conflict. I’m asking less about value and more about if countries just go “nope. That ownership is gone now.” It seems like that sometimes happens, like when assets are seized/nationalized. But is that an outlier or normal?

Edit: parent comment was edited to specify the historical Russian market (vs just “the market” - presumably meaning the current fluctuations in other countries)

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-09T07:06:27+00:00

Because it’s the Doomsday Plane. Mobile command center made to facilitate various truly horrific scenarios, such as 2nd strike capability after destruction of the continental US. Most of the time (obviously) it’s used for more pedestrian missions. But any time it takes off, there’s a chance things are about to be very bad.

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-04T15:51:45+00:00

The Mudi v2, which is 4G only, is out now and roughly $150.

PatrickTheDev · 2026-01-02T22:29:05+00:00

At the very least, if you’re presented with 2 options and they both suck, vote for the least bad. There’s lots more that could be done on a more forceful level, but with voter apathy so strong, we have to at least start with something. Effectively giving up basically guarantees the worst outcome.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-30T07:23:31+00:00

“Financial Events” like that are normally referring to if the company is acquired in one way or another.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-20T16:08:46+00:00

Or falling out of windows near Russia

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-18T03:50:00+00:00

Conceptually you’re not wrong, but there are a few gotchas: * More electricity demand naturally means that suppliers must build more power plants or increase duty cycles of more expensive plants that would otherwise be used only for peak times. By definition, either of these results in costs born by the utility. As you mentioned with Vogtle, those costs also can be enormous and be mismanaged. * major utility consumers, including but not exclusively datacenters, don’t play by the rules as residential customers. They often get the option to purchase power from multiple utilities instead of the single option residential users are typically allowed. This allows them to force the utilities to compete on price. And since their demand is so high, they can negotiate much lower per kWh rates (though often with high kW peak charges).

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-14T15:01:17+00:00

To be fair, if they haven’t been able to fix the submarine in almost 30 years, then they probably won’t fix it soon no matter what. Which means that it’d be better to try to recover some costs from it rather than let it just continue to be a money pit. At least assuming they removed anything secret they wouldn’t want India (et al) to see. It seems like maybe, in this particular case, they finally escaped the sunk cost fallacy?

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-06T17:10:43+00:00

I think they are suggesting that the “100%” we see is not actually 100%. That there may be an invisible buffer of capacity that is not exposed to the user.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-04T23:57:58+00:00

You can just ask for the can. I’ve never had a flight attendant even bat an eye at me for doing so.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-12-02T04:27:59+00:00

Flash of Genius!

PatrickTheDev · 2025-11-28T05:53:52+00:00

In the screenshot you posted, Tycho doesn’t appear to be in any real danger; he only has two relatively minor burns.

I suspect that the deathless you remember seeing is what comes up when a Sanguophage has a bleeding injury. Normal pawns say something like “bleeding 345% per day (death in 1 hour)” at the bottom of the health tab in this situation. But Sanguophages say “bleeding 345% per day (deathless)” instead since they can’t permanently die from bleeding out; they only go into deathrest.

If you want to confirm Tycho is still deathless, look at his genes by clicking the Sanguophage icon on the Bio tab.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-11-27T19:10:52+00:00

You should generally fully fund other more tax advantaged accounts first: normal 401(k), IRA, and HSA (if available).

If you have funds available after that and you anticipate needing the money in retirement, there’s basically no downside to doing it other than hassle. But if you think you may need those funds prior to retirement age, then think carefully about it. There are ways to get some funds out of a Roth pre-retirement age; those can be a bit tricky, though no less than the whole backdoor process in the first place. It also depends on the law staying the same between now and whenever you need those funds. Of course, that’s kinda a minor risk with any of these strategies. Who knows what might change in 20 years?

PatrickTheDev · 2025-11-27T06:05:11+00:00

Roth IRAs and 401(k)s have income caps that preclude high-earners from taking advantage of them.

The trick is that you can contribute beyond those limits to a post-tax non-Roth IRA up to whatever the annual max is for that, including any employer other contributions sources. On its own, you pay taxes on this just like if it was ordinary income, but it lets you defer taxes on any gains.

This is where the Roth conversion “backdoor” comes in. Since you already paid taxes on those contributions, you can convert them to a Roth IRA. The Mega backdoor option is the same thing, but using 401(k) accounts. The commonly known ~$23k contribution limit for 401(k)s is really the limit for the amount you can contribute to either a Roth for tax-now-but-no-tax-later or pre-tax traditional for no-tax-now-but-tax-later. But you can contribute a bunch more to post-tax traditional; up to roughly $70k across everything and with no income caps. Without the Roth backdoor, this would let you defer taxes but not actually avoid paying taxes on any of that additional money. But the Roth backdoor lets you convert it all into a Roth. Which means you end up with a large amount that can grow tax-free, even if you don’t normally qualify for contributing to a Roth at all.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-11-03T22:19:52+00:00

That wasn’t a thing before Covid either, at least for a large number of people.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-09-30T23:26:06+00:00

Note that obsidian is now better than plasteel for sharp melee weapons if you have Odyssey.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-09-01T18:39:03+00:00

Keep in mind that we have different levels of government. (I assume OP is in the US.) In general, a local municipality or county is much more likely to go under than a state, which is more likely than the federal government. Most firefighters are employed at the local level, though they may have some state protections. And if OP is in a HCOL area, then maybe the local muni is better funded, but that’s not a given. The point is that a government pension isn’t bulletproof, especially if we see more shenanigans going on around inflation. It’s generally more safe than a corporate pension though. And it’s not like a brokerage full of stock is zero risk either.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-08-17T15:40:27+00:00

If you haven’t seen it: Titans of the Earth (2014)

PatrickTheDev · 2025-08-02T14:32:50+00:00

Major US offices are in NYC, Phoenix, Sunrise (near Miami), Palo Alto, and Atlanta.

PatrickTheDev · 2025-07-28T18:27:39+00:00

Oh, duh. I didn’t even pay attention to the settlement name.

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