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- Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:06 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Something From Nothing Log
- Replies: 868
- Views: 262063
Re: Something From Nothing Log
This feels like it fits in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3bdVxuFBs
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:43 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Gross's Bond Supernova
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6416
Re: Gross's Bond Supernova
A bit of further explanation: https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:52 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Ebola and fragility
- Replies: 145
- Views: 57112
Re: Ebola and fragility
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06 ... ebola.html
Hint: When you declare the Ebola outbreak "now over" four different times in one year... it probably isn't.
Hint: When you declare the Ebola outbreak "now over" four different times in one year... it probably isn't.
- Mon May 30, 2016 12:16 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: Fitbit One and Whitings Scale
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36230
Re: Fitbit One and Withings scale
http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/McLellan_et_al_v_Fitbit_Inc_Docket_No_316cv00036_ND_Cal_Jan_05_20/4?1464440183 There is a class action suit against FitBit with respect to the accuracy of their heart-rate monitoring features. Apparently it isn't very good, particularly for elevate...
- Mon May 30, 2016 10:51 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Anyone else FI now but still working for a bit longer?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 36731
Re: Anyone else FI now but still working for a bit longer?
Never thought I would publicly say this, but "I'm a member of Team Jacob !". I highly recommend to those who haven't, to really sit down with the Dunning-Kruger papers and mull over them for a bit. They aren't too technical- they are actually pretty easy to read. A few years ago, I spent a...
- Fri May 20, 2016 8:11 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Ebola and fragility
- Replies: 145
- Views: 57112
Re: Ebola and fragility
@ Ego: I actually agree with your linked article - thanks for posting it. I guess I was just responding to a literal interpretation to your comments. There are obvious reasons to publish the paper, but I wholeheartedly agree that editorial decisions at the most prestigious science journals are a big...
- Thu May 19, 2016 12:00 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Ebola and fragility
- Replies: 145
- Views: 57112
Re: Ebola and fragility
There is no reason to publish the fact that it was done for zika. No reason except to create fodder for the news cycle, to create fear, to create funding. Yeah there is. The authors are offering up their cDNA clone so that other people can use it as a resource to help study the virus. Generally whe...
- Mon May 16, 2016 9:21 pm
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Dealing with net worth losses
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3583
Dealing with net worth losses
The journey to early retirement has many stages. Early on, accumulation of assets and increases in net worth tend to be strongly driven from job income. As a result, net worth goes up steadily and with large relative gains per year (e.g. "My net worth increased 35% last year!"). Things cha...
- Tue May 03, 2016 6:19 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: Exercise/Fitness Log
- Replies: 554
- Views: 230192
Re: Exercise/Fitness Log
A lot of the sets are diminishing triangles (I'm sure there's a technical term for this) in which the next set is an easier exercise e.g. one goes from narrow to wide plyo pushups to narrow plyo to narrow to knees down narrow/wide to knees down slow to knees down holds. Sounds similar in concept to...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
- Replies: 255
- Views: 67148
Re: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
WRT growing plants: Another issue is that, while the mean overall temperature/precipitation may change slightly in a region, the variability of that weather is incredibly important. Relatively short term droughts, heat waves, or early/late frosts can seriously damage an entire crop. Said another way...
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:21 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Mini-retirements vs ERE?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 25446
Re: Mini-retirements vs ERE?
@OP you might want to check out this thread for a more gradual approach: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6452
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:12 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
- Replies: 255
- Views: 67148
Re: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
@Brute: for example, a country might dive into agressive cloud seeding, whether effective or not, as an attempt to manipulate rainfall or to try to influence the Earth's albedo.
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:51 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: Trump - Clown Genius
- Replies: 2040
- Views: 398375
Re: Trump - Clown Genius
Something about the whole piece didn't feel right to me, though. It took a couple of days to figure out what it was. Kristof pointed out errors the news media made wrt Trump, but he didn't see the bigger issue--that the news media itself has been too big a part of the story this election cycle. Kri...
- Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:52 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
- Replies: 255
- Views: 67148
Re: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-cRqCQRc8
Lead author discussing the paper Jacob linked to in previous post (in case you don't want to read a 50 page science paper)
Lead author discussing the paper Jacob linked to in previous post (in case you don't want to read a 50 page science paper)
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:40 am
- Forum: Inspiration
- Topic: Memorable Documentaries
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17505
- Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:37 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 538
- Views: 163259
Re: Portfolio Charts
I also suspect that the "head" at the top left represents the preponderance of all-stock portfolios. I'm looking into that. Related suggestion: make it possible for someone to color specific data points within the cloud based on their composition? E.g. Let's say that a person wants to see...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:02 am
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: Procreation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5858
Re: Procreation
Is anything that you have a natural compulsion to do virtuous?thrifty++ wrote:Is it virtuous?
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: Bicycle maintenance costs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4103
Re: Bicycle maintenance costs
I'm an all-weather commuter coming in at ~1500 mi/year. Paid ~$200 for my current bike about 4 or 5 years ago... I figure I will probably get a couple more years before something expensive like the wheels need to be replaced (at which point I'll try to build some myself). My maintenance costs about ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:37 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
- Replies: 255
- Views: 67148
Re: Global warming: Regional climate change impacts
There are some unexpected consequences to the appropriate response to the California drought. Trees, which give lots of benefits, are dying. Tax incentives at the state level are being treated as income at the federal level and taxed :roll: Residents started conserving so much water that the utiliti...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:24 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Graduate School: Lifestyle and Hours?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15185
Re: Graduate School: Lifestyle and Hours?
What does research feel like? Most of the time it's an exercise in frustration. This. If the degree would be in a basic science, have you ever worked in a laboratory or ever done an independent project (course labs don't count)? If not, you probably want to know if you like that before committing t...