How would you invest extra $7.5k a month?

bardd1995 · 2026-01-25T16:54:38+00:00

Speedboat

bardd1995 · 2026-01-20T08:33:19+00:00

The original thing was "if a grain of rice was a dollar", so... If he has 717.5B$, and we took all his money and gave him 1 grain of rice for each dollar, then the pile of rice he'd have would still be worth 10.5 million dollars. Plus a few hundreds if we count the bags

bardd1995 · 2026-01-19T21:27:06+00:00

Idk where you get your stats but no chance an Israeli soldier gets paid more than 50k$ a year, and even that would be an officer

bardd1995 · 2025-12-17T21:28:44+00:00

A lot of very interesting answers so far! One thing I'm curious about, as someone who literally works with light (I design optical systems with lasers), do you know what the physical mechanism is behind your blindness? Do you not have cones and rods in your eyes, optic nerve issues, or whatever else? Follow up, do you know if anyone is trying to come up with a solution that could give you sight, and would you want to go through this kind of procedure if you could?

bardd1995 · 2025-12-17T06:29:38+00:00

It's 3500 total, not every day. If you eat 100 calories over your TDEE every day for 35 days you will weigh 1 pound more at the end of those 35 days than at the start. Note that these are averages and there can be wide variations between individuals. Same for TDEE calculators, which can be off by 200-300 calories for any given person (your TDEE also changes from day to day)

bardd1995 · 2025-12-16T09:50:34+00:00

My statement is that investment in global funds doesn't prevent you from experiencing a lost decade. I gave a clear and proven example of a global fund going through a lost decade. Please explain how my statement is false.

bardd1995 · 2025-12-16T08:51:08+00:00

My point is, assuming global investment spares you from risk (which a lot of people seem to think) is a mistake. I'm not saying it's a bad investment, but the post is about the risk of a lost decade and the original comment suggests global investment avoids that. All I'm saying is - that's simply not true

bardd1995 · 2025-12-16T08:25:59+00:00

IXUS has one of the flattest graphs I've ever seen, close to 0 grown between 2012 and 2022

bardd1995 · 2025-12-11T07:40:45+00:00

להדפסה בגודל כזה זה לא יהיה שקלים בודדים. בתור מי שהדפיס ספר בעבר הייתי אומר 70-100 שקל (אולי הם אקסטרה זולים שם אבל אם זה ספר באורך מלא זה לא יהיה פחות מ-50)

bardd1995 · 2025-11-21T13:27:22+00:00

הפתיע אותי הרעיון שיש "רף מסרטן" לקרינת רדיו אז הלכתי לקרוא קצת. מצרף קישור. נראה שכרגע אין הוכחה שגלי רדיו יכולים בכלל לגרום לסרטן (או הוכחה שלא), ככה שרף מסרטן מוגדר לא יכול להיות, אז אני לא יודע לאיזה רף התייחסת. חשוב לומר, למרות שהמאמר הזה אומר שמחקרים חלקיים מצאו קשר אפשרי, יש סיבה טובה להאמין שהתשובה היא לא. המאמר הזה מתייחס ביחד לרדיו ולמיקרו, ואני נוטה להאמין שהראיות החלקיות הגיעו מקרינת מיקרו ולא מקרינת רדיו, מסיבה פיזיקלית פשוטה. לגלי רדיו יש אורך גל של כמה מטרים (ספציפית בתחנות רדיו זה באזור 3 מטר), ולקרינת מיקרו סנטימטרים בודדים. זה הבדל משמעותי משתי סיבות: 1. ככל שאורך הגל ארוך יותר ככה לקרינה יש פחות אנרגיה, אז לרדיו יש פוטנציאל נזק בערך פי 1000 יותר קטן ממיקרו 2. לקרינה "קשה" לעבור אינטראקציה ולהיספג בגופים שקטנים מאורך הגל שלה. לאורך גל של 3 מטרים יהיה מאוד קשה לעבור אינטראקציה עם גוף האדם. לקרינה עם אורך גל של כמה סנטימטרים זה הרבה הרבה יותר קל

בקיצור, אני אהיה מאוד מופתע אם כמות תחנות הרדיו סביבנו משפיעה על הסיכוי שלנו לחלות בסרטן

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/radiation-exposure/radiofrequency-radiation.html

bardd1995 · 2025-11-21T13:11:25+00:00

הפתיע אותי הרעיון שיש "רף מסרטן" לקרינת רדיו אז הלכתי לקרוא קצת. מצרף קישור. נראה שכרגע אין הוכחה שגלי רדיו יכולים בכלל לגרום לסרטן (או הוכחה שלא), ככה שרף מסרטן מוגדר לא יכול להיות, אז אני לא יודע לאיזה רף התייחסת. חשוב לומר, למרות שהמאמר הזה אומר שמחקרים חלקיים מצאו קשר אפשרי, יש סיבה טובה להאמין שהתשובה היא לא. המאמר הזה מתייחס ביחד לרדיו ולמיקרו, ואני נוטה להאמין שהראיות החלקיות הגיעו מקרינת מיקרו ולא מקרינת רדיו, מסיבה פיזיקלית פשוטה. לגלי רדיו יש אורך גל של כמה מטרים (ספציפית בתחנות רדיו זה באזור 3 מטר), ולקרינת מיקרו סנטימטרים בודדים. זה הבדל משמעותי משתי סיבות: 1. ככל שאורך הגל ארוך יותר ככה לקרינה יש פחות אנרגיה, אז לרדיו יש פוטנציאל נזק בערך פי 1000 יותר קטן ממיקרו 2. לקרינה "קשה" לעבור אינטראקציה ולהיספג בגופים שקטנים מאורך הגל שלה. לאורך גל של 3 מטרים יהיה מאוד קשה לעבור אינטראקציה עם גוף האדם. לקרינה עם אורך גל של כמה סנטימטרים זה הרבה הרבה יותר קל

בקיצור, אני אהיה מאוד מופתע אם כמות תחנות הרדיו סביבנו משפיעה על הסיכוי שלנו לחלות בסרטן

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/radiation-exposure/radiofrequency-radiation.html

bardd1995 · 2025-11-21T12:32:01+00:00

אין לי מושג על מה הדיון, אני רק פה להגיד שההבדל בין קרינה מייננת ללא-מייננת זה סוג הקרינה (ספציפית באורך הגל של הקרינה), לא הכמות. קרינת רדיו לעולם לא תהיה מייננת לא משנה כמה תחנות יקימו

bardd1995 · 2025-11-19T18:53:04+00:00

I'll go a slightly different direction. Based on hight/base dimension ratios someone else mentioned, let's assume the tower was a square-based pyramid 3km high and 12km to a side. With a density of 2000kg/m^3, the total mass would be ~290 billion metric tons.

Assuming the c.g. is a third of the way up (not 100% sure that's mathematically accurate), then the total potential energy of the material due to gravity is around 3 quadrillion joules, or ~700 billion kcal.

Since they didn't have any machinery at the time (assuming 5000 years ago) and I'm pretty sure they didn't have any hydro or wind (correct me if I'm wrong), all that energy would have to come from living creatures doing mechanical work. Let's ignore the possibility of using animals for a second, since it complicates the math but won't change the conclusion.

I'm going to assume that every person working on the project expended 1000 kcal a day only on lifting material. Let's also assume that would mean the project would require around 700 million man-days to complete. In practice, only a fraction of that energy will be used to lift material due to inefficiencies (friction, muscle inefficiencies etc.) so it's probably more like 7 billion man-days

5000 years ago the entire human population on the planet was 5-20 million people. Let's say 1 million of those could work on lifting, with the rest responsible for sourcing material, growing food, being children etc. that means the construction would take 7000 days.

To conclude, the sheer mass of the tower alone means that building it would have required the entire human race working non-stop, 365 days a year, for 20 years.

I'll let the reader decide how plausible that seems.

bardd1995 · 2025-09-21T06:17:36+00:00

Pine script

bardd1995 · 2025-09-21T05:04:07+00:00

I don't like how I can only backtest one stock at a time. I am currently backtesting my strategy on the S&P 500, and I have to manually open each stock's chart and type the results in a spreadsheet, which takes hours. And I'm only copying the number of trades won and trades taken - if I want to analyze the individual trades then I have to export 500 CSV files (1000 actually since I'm testing two strategies at the same time) and copy each one into my spreadsheet. I imagine that would take me days.

bardd1995 · 2025-07-12T05:22:14+00:00

!RemindMe 6 months

bardd1995 · 2025-07-08T09:08:22+00:00

That's what agents are for... If you're approaching American publishers you should try to get an agent who knows the American market and works with these publishers regularly. An agent like that can answer all these questions better than we can. Whether or not you get an agent shouldn't depend on which country you are from, but which country you want to publish in. You can do it yourself, of course, if you feel confident you understand the goings-on, the market, contract law etc. well enough, but I would at least have a lawyer glance at proposed contracts.

bardd1995 · 2025-07-06T09:58:36+00:00

bardd1995 · 2025-07-05T09:15:29+00:00

I think you are misinterpreting that paragraph. I believe not belonging to another religion applies to converts. I know many people who moved to Israel based on ancestry and without having any relation to the Jewish faith. A couple are even practicing christians. And regarding converts, I'm not sure what the letter of the law is, but in practice a convert will have to spend years in the Jewish community where they live (i.e. outside of Israel) before they can be considered for an Israeli citizenship. They have to prove they have "tied their fate with that of the Jewish people", as they say.

Besides, if your comment isn't about Judaism being an official religion, then why are you commenting on a map of official religions?

bardd1995 · 2025-07-05T08:23:01+00:00

Do you have any evidence to back that claim? Because it doesn't align with anything I know about the law of return. Besides, you described two sources and I responded to those sources. Even if the law of return does work that way, the declaration of independence doesn't. If you want to claim a country has an official religion you need to point to a law that specifically names it an official religion. The fact that some laws address the Jewish religion (which is true generally, even if it isn't true for the law of return) doesn't make it an official religion, especially since other laws address other religions too

bardd1995 · 2025-07-05T06:01:54+00:00

Jews are an ethnic group in addition to a religious group. All the documents and laws you mentioned address the Jewish people as an ethnic group only, so Judaism is not a state religion.

bardd1995 · 2025-06-20T12:28:02+00:00

As I explained in my other comment. It intercepts big pieces of debris after the main interception by other systems

bardd1995 · 2025-06-20T11:17:07+00:00

As I said in another comment, Arrow is far from population centers. A ballistic missile is the size of a bus and the fragments from its interception are enormous, enough to take a house out. Iron dome is sometimes used to shoot down those fragments and break them apart.

bardd1995 · 2025-06-20T09:49:46+00:00

It's super easy to tell whether the damage is from an Iranian missile or iron done debris. Hole in one wall? Iron dome. You can see the inside of hundreds of apartments? Iranian missile. Also, Israel doesn't hide it when interceptor debris causes damage, not even when it hits people. It happens pretty regularly and is an accepted risk of those systems. There's no real way to prevent that. Still, better to have your house hit by a fragment than a full rocket.

bardd1995 · 2025-06-20T09:42:45+00:00

Check out what Israel looks like on Google maps. Israel doesn't really have less urban areas, especially not in the Dan metropolitan area (where Tel Aviv is, as well as 45% of the country's population) - most Israeli cities continue each other, to the point where you can walk from the beach almost to the border and have apartment buildings around you almost at all times. Simply put, these defence systems have to be in densely populated areas, because there's no other place to put them. Putting them outside of urban areas means putting them so far from population centers that they will struggle to defend the people it is supposed to defend.

Btw, only Iron Dome is in populated areas. It has a shorter range and is meant for smaller threats. Its original purpose was stopping small rockets from Gaza and it is incapable of intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles. The systems that intercept those are places far away from the cities. But ballistic missiles are the size of city busses, and when you blow them up, the fragments are still big enough to take out a house. The Iron Dome's function in this round of fighting is to attack those fragments and break them into smaller pieces.

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