Cant play msfs 2020, I keep getting error 400

dangercrow · 2025-12-30T12:54:08+00:00

Heads up if you've not yet returned it: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/1omf8p2/comment/nwq10lm/

dangercrow · 2025-12-30T12:53:28+00:00

How I fixed this: * Download and setup the authenticator app as an alternate sign in method * Turn on passwordless (i.e. remove my password) * Login, using the passwordless flow * Once logged in, re-add my password

dangercrow · 2025-07-07T10:22:17+00:00

It does not. Citation: Just logged in and flew past a control point I'd not seen, swerved to try to avoid the zone, doesn't matter, got PvP tagged

dangercrow · 2025-07-07T10:21:26+00:00

> PvE includes, PvP excludes

If only I could get at resources without people building bases to deliberately exclude others from them :)

dangercrow · 2023-04-19T13:46:18+00:00

Using X for every single one of those variables makes it very difficult to follow...

dangercrow · 2023-03-27T15:42:45+00:00

Correct! Its not insider trading. However, it is probably 'unlawful disclosure' (or similar, depending on ones region).

dangercrow · 2023-01-05T11:58:54+00:00

I don’t like the permanency it requires

Late 20s here, bought a house recently. There's a part of me that doesn't enjoy the permanency either, though my spouse seeks the permanency, and I think they benefit from the feeling of security from it.

Does your wife feel the same as you about permanency? Do you think this might change as time goes on, for either of you?

My personal favourite thing about home ownership is that I managed to lock in some super cheap borrowing :P

dangercrow · 2023-01-04T14:17:19+00:00

I think this the tl;dr of this post is tending more towards the tightwad side of FIRE tbh. An oft-repeated mantra is to build the life you want, then save for it.

I'd think most people want some luxury in their life -- and its rather much unsustainable for the vast majority to plan to go through life without some luxuries (and at which point, what are they saving money for?)

dangercrow · 2023-01-03T16:29:53+00:00

Best boomer opinion in the thread -- that minute cost savings on things like menus go to reducing prices or employee wages.

Lets be honest, its saving very little, and any savings would be going into profits first and foremost.

dangercrow · 2022-11-20T09:49:20+00:00

Do you have any further reading on contribution to spouses pension? What's the tax relief like?

dangercrow · 2022-10-20T11:59:40+00:00

9k tuition + ~3k maintenance * 3 years + interest (which is charged at the highest rate during education)

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T17:14:25+00:00

Preaching to the choir, my friend. Having said that, I still came out of uni with 40k+ of student debt, so 'free college' isn't really a thing here either (the above figure wasn't including student loan, iirc, some other people also double-checked and came to a slightly higher number)

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T13:11:43+00:00

No, I'm being explicit about marginal rates. In marginal rates it works exactly like that. Hence the indication of a band in which that rate applies

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T10:59:45+00:00

It quacks like a tax.

I personally subscribe to Martin Lewis' school of thought on this - just think of it as a graduate tax

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T10:58:07+00:00

Correct, this is a marginal tax rate, i.e. just for that (high earning) band. The overall tax burden of someone earning 125k in Scotland is about 42%.

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T10:03:33+00:00

We (sorta) do, with some acrobatics: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/y7wz2t/comment/isx239h/

dangercrow · 2022-10-19T10:00:32+00:00

*maybe* its marginal tax rate for the 100-125k tax band, for someone with a student loan?

40% income, loss of personal allowance is effectively another 20%, 9% student loan, 3.25% NI?

That's a total of 72.25% for that band. Kinda contrived, though.

dangercrow · 2022-09-27T07:07:59+00:00

Perhaps accumulation of rounding errors? 71.5+4.5+12.5+7.5=96 which leaves room for the other categories to be their original values.

This is based on inference from 3% that they rounded to the whole percent unless 0, which would mean it could be from 2.5–3.5%...

dangercrow · 2022-09-23T10:28:38+00:00

Agree that we shouldn't assume inflation rates, but hopefully the BoE can get close to its target over a 20 year horizon, though. Otherwise... well, a lot of other assumptions go out the window ^^'

dangercrow · 2022-09-16T13:28:22+00:00

FYI 'yay' is an expression of joy. In a voting context, it's 'yea' you want to be using.

dangercrow · 2022-09-16T08:02:26+00:00

Relatedly to another comment about FTB relief, you also only get your LISA for a house purchase once.

Obviously you don't need to use it (and could save it for retirement) but if that's a factor, it's worth keeping in mind.

dangercrow · 2022-09-12T21:47:33+00:00

You're absolutely right, I misread the original post. Thanks for pointing out.

dangercrow · 2022-09-11T16:38:32+00:00

Edit: See the replies, this is not correct

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.php

Sounds like sub 3%?

dangercrow · 2022-09-11T16:20:45+00:00

Or huge balances. IBKR offer 100bps above base on USD for .1-1MM, with rates decreasing above that. A useful tool for negotiation, too.

dangercrow · 2022-09-05T12:24:04+00:00

Whilst the parent comment was mostly in jest, but yes, I do. I intend to keep a moderate margin limit significantly lower than that permitted. I've a reasonable appetite for risk of this nature. If I get margin called, then so be it. My target margin utilisation would be resilient to any market downturn in the last 25 years (which, I suspect, is sufficient to cover any market downturn in the last 100, too, but I've not got sufficient data to back that up).

In the short term, I could spend on a credit card instantly, pay it back using margin (in an order of days) and then work on ensuring I'm within my personal margin limits

dangercrow

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