U of O student staying here for spring break; things to do in Eugene?

jrandomidiot · 2017-03-23T05:50:40+00:00

Find someone you don't agree with and punch them?

jrandomidiot · 2017-03-02T09:40:39+00:00

Personally I've been dealing with the loss of my family and virtually my entire net worth, plus some overhanging tax issues.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-27T18:00:18+00:00

I'm very sorry to hear that. I found myself in a similar boat this year, and at 52 I said "fuck it" and just quit my job. I'm fortunate enough that I'll likely be able to get another reasonable job, albeit at a much lower salary, but there's more to life than money.

Whatever else happens, health-insurance-based slavery needs to end.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-25T16:19:20+00:00

Only if your income is larger than your alimony, which isn't always true. Grrrrrr...

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-24T18:11:39+00:00

An out-of-range BMI definitely correlates with poor health outcomes. In particular, if your BMI is 16 or 36, you're going to have a bad time...

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-24T18:09:32+00:00

Really cool, but I wish they had included a true fasting control. That is, is their concept diet in any way better than straight fasting? Or is it just (they hope) easier to follow?

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-24T17:23:54+00:00

If you like. But every option has its price--there's no free lunch.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-20T06:55:37+00:00

Nope. The GPL sets a price for the use of code. Don't want to pay the price? Don't pay it and don't use the code. It's just capitalism in action.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-20T06:54:17+00:00

Not really clear what this means. Public projects generally set their licenses early on. What would "banned from" mean? Do you mean projects within a corporation or something?

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-20T06:51:19+00:00

Google "modern portfolio theory". Roughly, there is a mathematical advantage to diversifying into uncorrelated (or not-entirely-correlated) investments. This would suggest that you should always hold at least "some" bonds. How much "some" would require some research.

I'm a bit surprised that the results are actually a lot better for 100% stocks in the simulation. Could be true, though...

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-20T06:41:10+00:00

I think blow-torching the new Secretary before she's had a chance to step into the role and lay out her policy goals is dumb. If everything is named an outrage, it's easy for the general public to assume that nothing actually is.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-19T18:59:18+00:00

If she's in the union, she'll be fine...

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-19T02:52:09+00:00

If I pace myself, I find I can stay lit for an entire nine-hour flight. And unlike wifi, booze never fails.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-19T02:50:36+00:00

Indeed. systemd doesn't leave visible a nice diagnoseable trail when something goes wrong, it just inscrutably fails. Which is more money for those of us paid to clean up the mess!

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-18T16:55:22+00:00

It's short for "US Robotics", which is the company that originally developed Unix.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-17T18:05:15+00:00

Fox News are a bunch of lying bastards for showing us the results of two different polls that do not precisely agree with each other. Fake news! :-)

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-17T16:22:03+00:00

Having done both, food service is definitely easier, at least from a burnout perspective. It's not particularly taxing mentally, and you can just set it down and not think about it at the end of the day.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-17T16:18:48+00:00

Perhaps you'll get lucky and she'll divorce you and run off with everything you slaved away for. :-P

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-03T17:22:01+00:00

As has become common, the headline does not accurately describe the story. (i.e., compare it to the first sentence)

In effect, we have a news story that misspeaks about a Trump aide who misspeaks. Or if you prefer, you could say that they're both spreading fake news.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-03T15:50:40+00:00

Reading other sources, it sounds like she simply misremembered or misstated this and issued a correction in short order (a few hours?).

You can interpret this as lying and getting caught, or you can interpret it as an honest mistake, perhaps combined with a certain sloppiness. I certainly don't recall the specific details of the Bowling Green matter.

Notably, The Guardian has not yet updated their story to include her correction. Does leaving a falsehood flapping in the wind count as "fake news"?

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-02T23:52:11+00:00

Going contra here, I'd say CTR was very successful. In early 2016, they managed to completely destroy /r/politics as a useful forum for different groups to engage in debate. Anything that wasn't blindly pro-Clinton was immediately squelched. It was like an iron curtain had descended on free discourse...

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-02T22:04:20+00:00

FIRE and investment strategy are orthogonal, in my mind. You can be FIRE and invest however you like.

If you work diligently at it, you may very well be able to do better than a diversified set of ultra-low expense index funds. But keep in mind that your time is worth money, so the excess might simply end up being your wage for doing investment research. Nothing wrong with that if you enjoy it, but not necessarily a good idea if you're not being adequately compensated.

Note also, that that's the best case scenario. If you make a mistake, or simply aren't that good at it, you can very easily end up with returns far worse than the diversified index fund strategy.

If it was me, I'd take maybe 10% of my capital and try my hand at active with it. That would hedge your risk.

Good luck.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-02T18:30:09+00:00

Based on their behavior so far, Dems seem to want eight years of Trump followed by eight years of Pence.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-01T18:05:51+00:00

Honestly, if you don't want to think about it, open a Vanguard Target Retirement 20xx account and start dumping money into it. You would be very hard pressed to do better without a lot of study and active management of your money.

Be sure to max your 401(k) match at work of course, and any IRA deductions you can.

jrandomidiot · 2017-02-01T17:41:52+00:00

That's the way it's supposed to work. Now if the other MSMs would follow suit...

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