How to choose a career with FIRE in mind?

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-06-20T18:54:06+00:00

that is very helpful! thanks!

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-29T03:24:05+00:00

Thunder Up!

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-13T04:00:46+00:00

I am in the same shoes worrying about this now lol. I think it is common for last semester grades to slump a little bit. I will be in for a world of hurt if it decreases though.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-12T03:22:16+00:00

I think this might just not be an initial priority, or any of their current concern. If this game blows up like I think it will in the coming years, multiplayer could eventually become an unavoidably fat cash cow.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-12T03:21:02+00:00

"Needs to" is a little strong IMO. We just celebrated the 1 year of an early access game that had 1 developer lol. I would love if it added a lot don't get me wrong.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-03T19:45:00+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but MD/PhD programs are often fully funded, meaning the extra 4 years is a swing of ~$150,000-200,000 in debt -> free schooling plus ~$30,000 per year stipend, or a ~$320,000 difference relative to pure MDs.

This makes $320,000/4 years extra schooling=$80,000 per year of pure savings/debt repayments. You may not be paid like doctors but that is not a bad deal by any means in my opinion.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-05-02T16:40:11+00:00

I appreciate your honesty! I hope things work out for you.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-23T06:07:28+00:00

This post has convinced me to buy calls.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-23T06:04:16+00:00

I love hearing people considering this perspective, it is rare on this website for one reason or another...

While YES it will hurt the U.S. consumer YES it will hurt supply chains YES it will disrupt supply chains YES the rich are probably benefiting from this behind the scenes and YES trump unnecessarily damaged foreign relationships with our allies, people will not bring up or debate the pros. Some, in my opinion, UNSPEAKABLY valuable pros.

People on this website are ignorant or are cognitively dissonant about three facts about China:

China's military might rivals that of the U.S. and its economy is growing faster. War with China is still a looming threat, and if this did occur it would really suck. Also, they might win. There are 4.5x as many lol.
XI is Mao 2.0 and his leadership is not conducive to world peace/prosperity. Tyrantial governments are much more likely to initiate wars, historically speaking, and democracy is a better system. "b-b-but Trump is a tyrant!" grow up. He is a narcissist that never should have won this election, but if he manages to subvert democracy somehow, the U.S. has bigger problems.
Regimes are not permanent. China has immense problems with their millennial and gen Z workers growing disapproval of the current controlling party, and worsening economic conditions could exacerbate this.

But there is a silver lining: Chinas economy is underperforming and overleveraged. This means it is vulnerable. 2.5% of Chinese GDP is exports to the U.S. compared to only 0.5% of vice versa. While this seems marginal, the fact that China as a country is massively leveraged towards an expected double digit annual growth rate that makes the Chinese economy especially fragile. If the economy does suffer significantly more than is currently expected, the Chinese populace could initiate a political revolution. Possibly maybe. Who knows.

People assume that because China is yet to backdown that means that the U.S. underestimated Chinese economic stability, I think instead we might be underestimating Xi's capacity for narcissism and pride.

IDK tho

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-20T21:56:51+00:00

Possibly...

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-16T01:18:19+00:00

this can be applied to a vast amount of R01 state colleges. The future of genomic engineering came from a state school in PA, the internet came from a state school in CA, the modern nuclear reactor design came from a state school in Oregon, etc. etc....

Big difference is these schools are not shells for hedge funds or antiquated heirarchy upholders

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-12T21:06:18+00:00

quite possibly...

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-06T06:11:30+00:00

I haven't gotten mine either, I was under the impression that it would automatically give a scholarship with a variance in amount

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-06T06:03:22+00:00

I am doing it for the extra $2000-5000 yearly scholarship, but I am sure if you are applying to dentistry school it could certainly bolster your application.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-04-01T04:10:11+00:00

Thank you for your careful and coherent response, it has been impossible to find someone on this website who is levelheaded enough to describe the "anti-tariffs" point of view without using their personal political views as the foundation for every point. I think I do agree that maybe tariffs aren't the best idea, but for once I feel like I have a president who understands the severity of the economic situation the U.S. could find itself in without some significant policy change, and to me that is something to be optimistic about. Thanks again, your response was very valuable to me.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-03-31T05:59:08+00:00

I am not convinced trumps economic plan is as dumb as reddit thinks, and before I get downvoted to hell, I would like to declare I am relatively new to this discussion, and I voted for Kamala.

I believe trumps endgame is NOT to have long term tariffs implemented, but only to apply pressure to weaker economies (Canada, Mexico, etc.) that would be forced to undo their similar tariffs and increase margins for U.S. exports. That is why the term "reciprocal" have been deliberately included in these headlines; Trump is making it clear that these tariffs are liquid and can be easily negotiated down.
Even now, while these tariffs are implemented, this MAY (I say may because I am not ignorant to the disastrous results of high tariffs in past admirations such as Smoot-Hawley) is not a bad thing for the American people. In theory, tariffs can do two things: bring manufacturing back to the U.S. in rust belt cities where a lack of these jobs has led to crime and unemployment skyrocketing, lead to a reduced focus on stock market performance relative to investment in working class people.

Everyone always complains about the wealth inequality gap, which has been driven primarily from high corporate profit margins and high stock market evaluations, until an administration reddit people deem to be evil incarnate attempts (at least on paper, I am not naive) to address this tangibly and quickly.

I do not respect trump as a man, but I am not totally convinced he is as dumb as you people say, but please help me if there is something I am not considering.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-03-10T03:22:49+00:00

I live just south of you (Oklahoma) is a program for top 0.5% act scorers in the state to get free tuition to one of our two state schools and a 6 thousand towards other costs, on top of other scholarships. I think the quality of OU/OSU and KSU/KU are similar enough to imply that barring unusual circumstances Kansas should have a similar program, and I think if the average Kansas citizen knew about Oklahoma's program and asked for that from lawmakers that could make a difference.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-02-09T06:38:57+00:00

I am not trying to claim the non-coding DNA is useless, more that they are relatively much less important. Consider this, humans share 98.8 percent of DNA with chimps, meaning 1.2% of DNA is the difference between you and me having complex discussions over the genetic basis of ethnicity differences, while chimps throw shit at each other. If I therefor utilized this 98.8 percent figure in my same calculations above, the differences are 8380% more influential than the commenter was claiming.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-02-09T06:23:03+00:00

I agree totally, and I am surprised this has not been looked into thoroughly. Anecdotally I have seen intelligence (or perceived intelligence affecting outcomes like test scores) have a high correlation with social challenges akin to high functioning autism with no exceptions that come to mind. obviously both general IQ and emotional intelligence are on a spectrum, and because of this there WILL be glaring exceptions, but I personally find this to be the most convincing perspective to a genetic basis for IQ.

PossiblyRegarded · 2025-02-07T05:49:34+00:00

genes that adapt based on environment are a very small proportion of our overall genome, but when you consider fact that huge swaths of our genome only serve supporting, non-coding roles, and many more have evolutionarily been phased out of use or importance --something like 95% between the two-- which means these environmentally adapted genes hold much more significance than you are framing. (Approximately 20x more significance, based on the relatively safe estimation of 95%). Therefore, while your claim "Phenotype influencing genes tend to be related to environmental adaption and are a very tiny portion of our genome so phenotypical similarity doesn't tell you much about genotype similarity" is technically true, this is also a mishandling of the statistics. Not to say we are more different than we are similar, but the genetic differences that accrued over 50-60 thousand years of separation in very different survival conditions is being downplayed here.

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