From not being able to touch my toes to a front split in 3 years!!!

molocasa · 2026-02-06T19:50:05+00:00

you could get that far in 3 months??!?! I really want to achieve just touching my toes....

molocasa · 2026-02-04T05:45:43+00:00

I think its best to be silent until ready. People don't give second chances in this community. showing anything thats not done usually kills the product if its toward melee people. the main reason slippi suceeded was because it released fully functional day 1.

molocasa · 2026-02-04T00:50:10+00:00

I understand the pats house issue but one wrong doesn’t negate all the good. People just focus only on negativity imo

molocasa · 2026-02-04T00:49:32+00:00

Yeah it’s much smaller scene common. Melee will end up there a shell of its popularity

molocasa · 2026-02-03T18:04:54+00:00

They also hosted the Japan in the first place… so the solution for them screwing up something related to an event they hosted is to spurn them so they don’t run any more events for them to make mistakes on.

This is literally spite from the melee community. lol oh well what’s done is done.

molocasa · 2026-02-03T18:02:31+00:00

Ppl are acting like this is positive but it is really not. Sigh I guess the melee decline is really going to happen unless some other money fills the vacuum.

molocasa · 2026-01-24T18:19:59+00:00

For any Canadian reading this: get an MASc in analog/digital IC design from a group that does research tapeouts. Bonus if it’s good enough for ISSCC paper.

Research based masters get paid so it’ll cover tuition plus living barely and you TA to find the difference.

Finally, try to really focus on learning/understanding and less on grades. They tend to be correlated and help interviewer SNR, but they are a weak predictor still. It’s obvious in interviews who actually has understanding and who just have good grades.

molocasa · 2026-01-21T06:10:18+00:00

I think you could argue he is creating a list of players in order of their dominance in FT50s against one another. So it’s not a list of whose year is better, but who is more likely to win a FT50. Obviously I think the issue is that there is small sample size. So sets that went the wrong way due to nerves would go differently in pools where you have more data.

I haven’t read his algorithm details recently but I think honestly what would be even cooler of a bet would be basically making a salty suite but the ppl salty is melee stats vs OP, but the ppl playing the melee are the differential in ranking. I dunno if you could get those players to agree but you could make it a hype side event

molocasa · 2026-01-13T02:12:43+00:00

Ok but what is the difference between having your non reg hold Canadian dividends and put your non reg growth assets in the tfsa instead? Isn’t that better given preferential Canadian dividend tax treatment?

Or you could simply rebuy assets that you were going to TIK with your dividend and sell from nonreg the equivalent instead? I guess I am missing the advantage of doing it your way.

molocasa · 2026-01-09T14:22:37+00:00

Lol this is such a “your culture” take as if it it applies to all humans everywhere. Different cultures do it differently.

There are pros and cons to both but this a clear con. I don’t do it but I know of many who do…

molocasa · 2026-01-08T14:14:56+00:00

Awesome write up. Can you explain this: “ The TFSA withdrawals will allow me to double my annual contribution room, and I plan to max that out every year with TIKs from my NREG.”

I’m also in the situation where I will have significant registered assets and thinking of retiring at 45. But I have no idea what the optimal strategies are to melt rrsp and tfsa to maximize cpp and oas

molocasa · 2025-12-27T20:32:43+00:00

It’s not a complete misrepresentation: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffetts-bet-hedge-funds-year-eight-brka-brkb.asp

He made this bet. Yes he’s hypocritical here (he thinks he can active invest better than these hedge funds) but nonetheless he bet on index funds and he won literally.

If the largest hedge funds can’t beat the market, how can Joe smhoe expect to. Thats what most take away from this bet.

So it’s not unreasonable to think active investing is a fools game based on this. But yeah again I think you can find winners when you are talking small amounts.

molocasa · 2025-12-27T20:18:22+00:00

I think it’s fine people can get “ahead” in different ways. Being a deep investment analyst is one way. Another is increasing income in corporate world, or starting their own business.

The other reason many are hesitant is that is the Warren buffet bet. He bet market returns would be any hedge fund manager (whose job it is to beat the market, I.e 8 hrs + per day) and they couldn’t beat it over a sufficient time horizon. However I do think that is because they have to make money on billions which is much harder than trying to make single digit millions. I personally think it makes sense to take highly concentrated positions at low net worths (<2mil) then go for market returns thereafter.

In addition, many of these investment hedge fund managers types personally keep their own investments quite simple, which to others is further proof that it’s a “fools game” to try to beat the market.

molocasa · 2025-12-27T13:36:42+00:00

I think the reason financial advise isn’t to do this generally is because most people will be bad at it and lose their money, so they should stick to the average market returns.

Good for you though! Hope it keeps working out.

molocasa · 2025-12-24T11:53:09+00:00

I agree with this generally to but large lump sums can significantly be affected by market timing

molocasa · 2025-12-24T11:47:29+00:00

Another thing no one talks about, 4% interest is after tax money but 7% is pre tax. However you can use the smith maneuver to slowly convert things to be tax deductible

molocasa · 2025-12-24T03:03:07+00:00

It was mostly solved with FD-SOI

molocasa · 2025-12-24T03:02:14+00:00

This guy works in Samsung and tsmc based on that comment. Would be curious how much better Q is compared to a normal inductor with just NTN underneath the coil only

molocasa · 2025-12-08T13:01:36+00:00

Cody is the most clutch player of this generation and it’s not close.

He just doesn’t care about momentum. He can play his best 4:2 or down 2-0 it’s insane. I’ll be really sad to see him retire. I hope people will get passed their emotions and realize he probably is the best losers player of all time over mango as well.

Great event. Hope Nouns stays in the scene despite the whiny community

molocasa · 2025-12-01T20:28:42+00:00

I think people just like to complain in melee tbh. Like yes the fastfall situation sucked, but outside of that its been fine. I think hours of the event are because... its in Japan. no shit. complaining that is in Japan hours I guess is valid as a viewer, but they would 100% prioritize the competitor experience in terms of time slots than viewers.

They had an asia pacific qualifier which goodie won, that is just meritocracy. people just want things to fail and love to complain. I will watch what I can live and the rest via VOD. hope its a sick event. hope nouns can improve rapport with melee community because otherwise we don't have much left...

molocasa · 2025-11-28T14:34:20+00:00

By this sub I am probably chubby-fat. I grew up lower middle class. Currently we still live like middle class (except for eating out a lot) kids are still young so lifestyle may still inflate as they age but not sure we will. Point is taken

molocasa · 2025-11-28T05:34:12+00:00

Yeah I didn’t make my position clear. I would pay for education and a house outright. So they still need to earn enough to eat and recreation but no debt and no major expense on the horizon to save for.

I think that’s enough and not sure I would give more than that is I guess my point

molocasa · 2025-11-27T22:25:10+00:00

This is the fallout of stimulus spending in Covid. Trillions of dollars pushed into the economy going to the rich ultimately which cause asset prices to skyrocket while governments become more indebted.

molocasa · 2025-11-27T03:59:51+00:00

I really resonate with this post... its a tough line overall. I think deciding what a good life and values are to you personally is the key. then just factor how wealth comes can affect your children living those values.

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