Early Retirement Extreme Forums

Naturally, I tend to take control of everything and put it on a spreadsheet, so I have a tendency to overstep in the name of financial solvency. >:D Each time you overstep and take control today you are sending them a message that you will do so in the future. Another way to tackle the problem woul...

7Wannabe5 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:59 am

Both books are around 80% on track, 20% off on personal tangent cuckoo-bananas.

Two levels or more above seems crazy.

It depends on the criteria you are using in your rating. Looks? Good provider? Confidence? Charisma/Personality? Kindness? A cis-male who is an 8 in kindness and confidence as well as a 9 in situation-appropriate goofiness and silliness gets a big points boost in overall attractiveness because women...

Your worst nightmare. What if you retired at a stock market peak and continued to live off 4% a year?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGu2Aj ... e=youtu.be
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/1 ... rket-peak/

For those who are adamantly against, what amount would make it okay to give her the money? $100? $500? How long would the relationship have to be to make it okay to give her the $1500? 1 year? Marriage? Never? He seems to respect her despite her inability to save. What if she is the love of his life...

Yesterday the Union of Concerned Scientists reversed their position on nuclear power. Decommissioned plants are being replaced by fossil fuels so they now want to keep nuke plants open.

https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/co ... etirements

Some things are more important than money. Do you see the relationship going anywhere? Do you see the potential that your girlfriend will someday get her financial situation together?

Is multi-generational adaptation possible? There are so many unknown variables.

The first adaptation should be to not have a child. How could anyone who knows the scientific consensus and grasps the severity of the predictions do otherwise?

Funding plan b

http://carbon.ycombinator.com/

https://www.outline.com/pxuurs When I was struggling with “how to retire”, the most impactful insight came from Tom Gilovich, a leading psychologist and former chair of the Cornell Psychology Department. He told me that I was more likely to find fulfillment and balance in retirement if I focused on ...

Government cannot fix this, it never could. This isn't a group coordination problem. It never was. But right now, all across the world, a lot of people are suffering and dieing. I'm not sure how much more I should care about the suffering of theoretical people from a problem that cannot be solved t...

BRUTE wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:11 pm

climate physics are just a small part of the discussion

What other parts of the discussion are not dependent variables to climate physics?

brute continues to be a "luke-warmist", even (or especially after) the new IPCC report. the climate is probably warming, and humans probably contributed to it. it's probably going to be fine, unless the government gets involved. (especially since the "expert advice" from the IPC...

Pretty good NPR interview

Want To Retire In Your 30s? Millennials Say They've Got The Formula
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/10/ ... t-rieckens

This is a very complicated kind of clusterfuck. Interesting times! I'm morbidly curious to see it but I won't live long enough. Assuming there is nothing that can be done to solve the problem, If you were Donald Trump what would you do? As I read the report I selfishly thought that building walls, ...

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/

The summary for policymakers presents the main findings of the report, based on an assessment of all available scientific, technical and socio-economic research.

It compares the impact of global warming of 1.5C and 2C.

https://domains.google/#/

She really rants...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbeLhKKg9RI

I have already lived outside of Denmark for too many years to receive anything from Danish social security, even if I move back now. Conversely, I do have enough points to get US SS. Under the new rules, if you had used government benefits including the ACA for health insurance you could lose your ...

Right now I'm just working to get to a point where diversification is easier. I'm leaning towards flag theory(*) but first I need to get closer to a point where flag theory is possible. Knowing what you know today, if you could go back in time, what would you have done differently and when would yo...