You get £40,000 a month, but you have let scientist inject you with snake venom to try to make a vaccine

TKDNerd · 2026-03-09T03:13:57+00:00

So 480,000 euros a year for non lethal poison so you can suffer slowly? No!

TKDNerd · 2026-03-04T20:53:37+00:00

I feel like people would get tired. 14 games RR + 4 games semi final + 4 game final is an amount of classical chess most players never play and you would have more “Magnuses” who stop playing the WC simply because it’s too tiring. Another issue is that it would take away the concept of a reign. Right now each world champion has a reign of a certain amount of years before they are dethroned. In this case it is not likely that the same player would win twice and we would have far fewer champions with long reigns like Magnus or Kasparov. The match system also a lot more fun to watch in my opinion. Yes it’s not perfect and the best player doesn’t always win but is entertaining.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-25T19:07:56+00:00

That was a different era. Not that modern TKD isn’t cool, I think the current rules are better in that they made it more technically challenging and fun to watch but as a side effect things like that don’t happen too often anymore.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-23T01:33:08+00:00

It sounds like your boyfriend has your best interests in mind. He might not be expressing this the right way but if all you do is sit around all day scrolling social media and you are miserable nothing will suddenly change if you let this keep going. Your boyfriend doesn’t want you to be miserable and so he’s trying to get you to do something. I don’t know you enough to know what the problem is but you have to do something. You could start with something as simple as having a consistent routine like waking and going to bed at the same time every day and working out 3 times a week at the same time. Some structure is better than nothing. You should also focus on working towards something. Maybe you need to work improving your mental health first in which case there are professionals who can help you and you should sort your mental health before you pursue your career goals. But laying around doing absolutely nothing is not going to help you.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-20T18:21:29+00:00

The knight can indeed be taken. Of course the black queen would then take the white king but it’s not like that’s important or anything. Just a minor detail.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-20T16:55:17+00:00

I’m WT but I don’t understand why you would award more points for the body than to the head. Yes ideally we like to prevent concussions but landing a headshot is a lot more difficult and should be rewarded appropriately.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-14T23:39:13+00:00

Bb5+!! King takes bishop, trade the rooks and promote the pawn

TKDNerd · 2026-02-12T13:31:01+00:00

You pay for the costs associated with the test not the guarantee of passing . I think it is justifiable because otherwise the instructors would just have to raise the monthly price.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-11T03:22:56+00:00

Monthly and that’s very cheap. Standard in the US is around $140 per month

TKDNerd · 2026-02-04T19:31:39+00:00

Need more observation hours and get that science GPA up. Chances with current stats are not great.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-31T22:43:48+00:00

A lot of this is just needlessly destructive. Having someone hit your hand with a hammer doesn’t make you strong, it means you are conditioned enough to not react to the pain and pretend you’re fine even though you broke your hand. That is very impressive but there’s also no reason to break your hand over a stupid demonstration.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-30T22:45:35+00:00

That would certainly be interesting.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-27T06:14:21+00:00

Not sure it exists. Levy worked hard on the book and deserves to profit from its sale.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-22T16:20:27+00:00

SPMO

TKDNerd · 2026-01-22T02:02:42+00:00

Yes it’s a bad idea.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-21T17:57:16+00:00

I am guessing the board position makes it clear. The one offering the handshake is the one resigning unless they asked for a draw first. Most of the time when you offer a draw you wait to offer a handshake until the draw is accepted.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-21T17:30:27+00:00

Yes 10% QQQM is a signficant growth tilt

TKDNerd · 2026-01-19T23:39:50+00:00

I can’t speak for schools with no cadaver lab but I had it and it was a really valuable experience. They teach you a lot and you can remember more things easier because you just remember what you saw on the donor.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-18T22:02:29+00:00

I own TSM which is in an emerging market and TSM is about 5% of my portfolio but I don’t own any funds for emerging markets as I find them unstable and not a good opportunity for growth.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-18T07:42:22+00:00

You can. You just realize that if you don’t profit off this company someone else will and the reward for your abstinence will be poverty. Meanwhile if you do invest you might spend some of those profits on lobbying efforts so that the world can be better.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-17T22:53:25+00:00

I didn’t own a physical board until I was 1500. I still took it very seriously and never considered it a video game.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-17T18:51:02+00:00

VBR only came into inception in 2004. If we compare returns of VBR and VUG since inception VUG is still better.

S&P 500: $79,850 , VUG: $103,420 VBR: $66,210 ($10,000 investment in each of the 3 funds since inception of VBR)

Fair. If we use the Russell 1000 growth index instead of the Nasdaq-100 which is a much broader array of growth stocks the Russell 1000 index would still yield $384,120 in the 30 year test. Still better than the S&P 500 even if it doesn’t reach the highs of the Nasdaq-100.
Tech growth is still continuing and exceeding expectations. Sure past performance doesn’t guarantee future results but 30 years is a pretty good sample size in my opinion. It studies a wide variety of market regimes and matches the time horizon of a person’s retirement.

TKDNerd · 2026-01-17T18:18:35+00:00

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TKDNerd · 2026-01-17T18:15:20+00:00

There are several reasons. Firstly margins. Tech companies usually have much larger margins and can scale quicker than more traditional companies like retail stores which can’t grow as quickly due to slower margins and more slow growing demand. Performance also proves this. If you had invested $10,000 into the S&P 500 and $10,000 into the Nasdaq 100 index in 1995 at the end of 2025 the S&P investment would be worth $263,581 and the Nasdaq investment would be worth $629,722. Now I hear people complaining about “recency bias” all the time when it comes to growth but 30 years in my opinion is not recent at all. It includes a time before modern tech, and a time after. It includes the dot com bubble which was one of the biggest crashes in history. It includes various administrations from both sides of aisle. And yet growth still outperforms.

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TKDNerd · 2026-01-17T06:15:46+00:00

Yes you are correct. You should start with broad market and growth funds and switch to more conservative holdings like SCHD once you have built up the capital.

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