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Season 2: Week 7 (jacob)

1 graphics card
2 memory sticks
4 books

- Several blog posts about whether the universe is "fine tuned" or not. Is it true that it's totally improbable that we live in a world with physics perfectly suited for our flourishing? I don't grok the math at all, but I like readying really smart people as they go back and forth on this. This ...

In my [brain] case, spoons are more specialized. There are creative spoons, social spoons, physical labor spoons, management spoons, etc. Burnout for me only happens if one set of spoons is overused in an uninspired way. However, I can often alleviate [this burnout] by using another set of spoons. E ...

What always makes me curious is that no one solved the self-driving train problem yet (apart from trivial cases).


Do you mean a big train or a light train ?

My wild guess is that driving the train is easy and that the reason for the existence of the engineer is to handle exceptions with big ...

This weekend I fixed the following things:

Broken handle on Italian coffee pot.

Solutions:
1) Buy a new one: $30
2) Use a dish towel to hold it: $0
3) Replace the handle: $9

Skills required for (3):
The ability to precision drill a 2mm hole in awkward plastic and tap out and replace the current ...

@ertyu - Yes, that ... one-way is doable. Back and forth is tedious (fixing the same mistakes over and over and eventually just letting them be). When I collaborate on docs, the draft might be written on another system (like my Neo2), but as soon as more people get involved to make the final edit ...

So .. homework for @benrickert:

1) Click on this link: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/
2) Click + to make a new document and write a bunch of stuff.
3) Figure out how to export this document to Word format and bring it over to "the other people"'s computer, e.g. mail it or use a USB stick.
4 ...

@benrickert - You can click on the links above (e.g. google docs) and make some documents and spreadsheets and see how easy it is to transfer back and forth without having to buy anything. The chromebook is just a convenient terminal but any computer (browser) can do it.

In general, though, import ...

To bring the discussion back on topic, what I was interested in was the likelihood that going forward, PE ratios will truly decline because a meaningful income distribution from capital to labor is expected.


For that reason, it's pretty much zero. It sounds good but it doesn't math out in terms ...

No politics reminder: viewtopic.php?p=301175#p301175

I think I'm the only OG left in this thread. Still this ...


Because the world is strained by consumerism, a nonsustainable dependence on finite resources, and a credit based monetary system that needs to grow to avoid massive defaults [There's your problem in a nutshell].
Because it provides ...

Would like to learn more about holding TIPS (inflation protected treasuries) in my 401k and/or precious metals as alternative stores of wealth/ sources of portfolio diversification instead of the bond market.


Typical strategies for this are https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Less-Prosper-Guide ...

I recognize that the availability of "spoons" may be a limit when concentrating full time on a job, but I think you guys could benefit from reading this thread: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=10897 If nothing else then just to see the alternative to the "sacrifice ...

In my opinion "not a computer persons" who are otherwise comfortable with a smartphone (especially android) and spend most of their computer time in a browser anyway should get a chromebook. The reason is that there's not much to learn and not much (anything) that can break. Once the hardware dies ...

Here you can say, well it's clearly because they're intellectually and psychologically inferior than me. Or you can say, well, they are given the solution, they're just dumb. By doing this, you blame them for the fact that your understanding of the problem is incomplete and for how your proposed ...

Ne has a much broader objective than error collection for Ti.


I don't think that's what I said.


It's primary purpose is to constantly gather new information on which Bayesian will be updated in collaboration with Ti. Ti asks "Does this make sense?" and Ne -> Ti is more towards "Does this ...

This is a good point and one I've made here previously regarding measuring workouts. Goodhart's Law is certainly a thing. The fact that the twitchy, exhausted feeling is something that I do not normally feel doing regular workouts leads me to - at least partially - believe some of the REHIIT hype ...

@7wb5 - From my perspective, you constantly misunderstand my [enthusiastic] use of categories. It's likely your Ti vs my Ni. The Ti-perspective on categories seem to be neatly separated boxes organized under some logical system in which one is either/or a member of a certain box. Much of the Ti ...

One wonders what will happen if people start to withdraw investments from the US. I can't imagine Americans sending goods to the rest of the world in return for dollars.


US exports is about 11% of GDP while US imports is about 14% of GDP which makes for a net trade deficit of 3% relative to GDP ...

Achieving true differentiation is quite difficult, but eventually one should be able to be fully present with others while not engaging responsibility or authority over their emotional states or behavior that does not directly effect you .


Well, that part is easy enough. The problem is that ...