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by UK-with-kids
Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:16 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: AstraZeneca vaccine
Replies: 1
Views: 2311

AstraZeneca vaccine

With this topic I am trying to open a discussion on a very specific topic. I hope I am not falling foul of any forum rules, and I politely request that nobody makes any political comments, as tempting as that may be :? There was another thread on this subject which has now been locked. I think it wa...
by UK-with-kids
Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:49 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: Which covid vaccine would you pick?
Replies: 30
Views: 10227

Re: Which covid vaccine would you pick?

In the UK all the older people have been given mainly Pfizer and we've got down to vaccinating people in their 40s but it's all AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine. This worries me because it's banned for under 60s in many countries. I think I remember hearing that Dr Fauci predicted it would never get FDA a...
by UK-with-kids
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:36 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: Dealing with anger in the face of everyday evil
Replies: 63
Views: 10903

Re: Dealing with anger in the face of everyday evil

On the having kids topic, I often read this claim that not having kids is the single biggest decision you can make (or have made for you) that will cut your carbon emissions. I would put that squarely in the category of "reassuring thoughts" - great for people if it provides some peace on ...
by UK-with-kids
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:20 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: Dealing with anger in the face of everyday evil
Replies: 63
Views: 10903

Re: Dealing with anger in the face of everyday evil

I've been through this process and seen others go through it. You start your life with a simplistic view of the world and think you can change it for the better, but as you get older you realise everything is more complicated and you can't change very much. Reading @DOF's comment above about an &quo...
by UK-with-kids
Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:43 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Sedentary indoor cold wear
Replies: 114
Views: 75192

Re: Sedentary indoor cold wear

Just thought I would pop back into this thread with a further observation about radiators. We just moved house and we now have a much more effective heating system and the radiators are now much too hot to hold your hand on. I keep noticing that radiation effect that @Jacob mentioned of feeling the ...
by UK-with-kids
Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:12 pm
Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
Topic: Radical Personal Finance Interview with Jacob: How ERE Protects from Catastrophic Risk
Replies: 30
Views: 6393

Re: Radical Personal Finance Interview with Jacob: How ERE Protects from Catastrophic Risk

Is this frequency of podcast interviews really sustainable or will we soon reach Peak Jacob?
by UK-with-kids
Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:23 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: The next big thing
Replies: 48
Views: 5682

The next big thing

After many years of saving and investing in boring trackers I've noticed that certain people have made massive amounts of money simply as a result of getting into something obscure very early on. In many cases the the risk/reward payoff would mean you could invest/speculate in hundreds of such outli...
by UK-with-kids
Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:59 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: COVID topic vol 2
Replies: 865
Views: 90455

Re: COVID topic vol 2

I found this post very interesting. Some people have taken to making their own vaccine. They are able to source all the materials, with the exception of peptides, on Amazon. Cost is $1000 total but with the materials bought you're able to do about 500 doses. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/niQ3heWw...
by UK-with-kids
Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:55 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: COVID topic vol 2
Replies: 865
Views: 90455

Re: COVID topic vol 2

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has 92% efficacy in trial https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55900622 It has also been deemed to be safe - and offer complete protection against hospitalisation and death. In a comment published alongside the Lancet paper, Profs Ian Jones and Polly Roy said: "The devel...
by UK-with-kids
Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: COVID topic vol 2
Replies: 865
Views: 90455

Re: COVID topic vol 2

A programme of door-to-door testing has started in certain areas of England where cases of the South African variant have been found. Police and others are literally knocking on your front door and asking you to take a test on the spot. The authorities are at the same time insisting that the vaccine...
by UK-with-kids
Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:47 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Just the Numbers, Ma'am
Replies: 6
Views: 566

Re: Just the Numbers, Ma'am

Half of your net worth of $925k is home equity and your outstanding mortgage is $85k. Therefore your home is valued at approx $550k. You also have between $462k to $500k in savings and investments (being either half of your Mint valuation of $925k or your $400K + $100k investments). By the end of th...
by UK-with-kids
Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:36 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: COVID topic vol 2
Replies: 865
Views: 90455

Re: COVID topic vol 2

In tonight's Coronavirus briefing the UK chief scientist Patrick Vallance stated that provisional data suggests the new UK variant may be 30% more deadly than the original virus. For every 1,000 men in their 60s who have the virus, 10 would die with the old version, but 13-14 would die with the new ...
by UK-with-kids
Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:23 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: COVID topic vol 2
Replies: 865
Views: 90455

Re: COVID topic vol 2

Thanks @Ego - yes, dying is not the only way to lose your life.

I'm surprised to see that things have been worse for people living in rural areas and better in urban areas. Intuitively I'd expect the opposite as all the benefits of City life have been shut down.
by UK-with-kids
Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:23 pm
Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
Topic: Singles interacting with couples
Replies: 38
Views: 7737

Re: Singles interacting with couples

These Pence style social customs, and their even stricter equivalents in certain societies, they surely came about precisely because they have EVERYTHING to do with avoiding temptation. Humans being animals after all, as much as we like to think we're more evolved than that. Anyway, as far as ERE is...
by UK-with-kids
Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:04 am
Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
Topic: Singles interacting with couples
Replies: 38
Views: 7737

Re: Singles interacting with couples

Depends on your culture and exact circumstances. E.g. if I (as a heterosexual male) asked a married woman to come out for drinks with me without her husband that could cause issues, even in a liberal western culture. But if I already knew her quite well, and maybe our friendship even pre-dated her m...
by UK-with-kids
Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:57 am
Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
Topic: jacob interviewed on the madFIentist podcast
Replies: 67
Views: 15028

Re: jacob interviewed on the madFIentist podcast

My favorite quote (rough transcription): Yeah that's right. In the way that somebody smashing windows and somebody else fixing windows increases GDP above windows being peacefully left as they are. I think there is a common hypothetical analogy in economics of one group digging holes and another gr...
by UK-with-kids
Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:36 pm
Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
Topic: jacob interviewed on the madFIentist podcast
Replies: 67
Views: 15028

Re: jacob interviewed on the madFIentist podcast

I enjoyed it, thank you. I've been following Mad Fientist for a few years now and he's a great interviewer. This particular interviewee is quite special though too :)
by UK-with-kids
Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:28 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Silicon spatula avoids food waste
Replies: 10
Views: 988

Re: Silicon spatula avoids food waste

I was using one of these last night and thought of this thread. When I pushed it into the bottom of the saucepan where bits of sauce normally get left behind it formed a kind of "silicon valley" and scooped it all out.
by UK-with-kids
Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:08 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Sedentary indoor cold wear
Replies: 114
Views: 75192

Re: Sedentary indoor cold wear

What I'm calling a "radiator" is just a sealed metal container on the wall with hot water inside it, and that hot water is being constantly being replenished with new hot water at the same temperature as it gets pumped through the system. This is by far the most common system in almost all...
by UK-with-kids
Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Sedentary indoor cold wear
Replies: 114
Views: 75192

Re: Sedentary indoor cold wear

That's interesting @Jacob but I wonder if it's entirely correct. Aren't "radiators" something of a misnomer as they don't actually radiate heat in the main, they heat the air around the radiator by convection? I thought the air around them rose to near the ceiling, and eventually once ther...