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I guess annual income also hints at annual expenses which should be important for the study. There are people who constantly spend all they make, and probably score low on self ass…

> What is the shape of the relationship between money and happiness, and what are its implications? 1. money != income. 2. Zip codes. 3. Age. 4. Social class. a) 65 year old profes…

I think that Model M (Unicomp/Lexmark) was a cost cut for Model F. Just recently, a company resurrected true Model F: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

I’m hearing that Lexmark/Unicomp keyboards were/are a cost cutting project compared to original Model F. Interestingly there is a company that resurrected true, pre cost cutting, m…

Using Windows Server as a personal OS can be an option: https://www.windowsworkstation.com/win2016-2019/

Vanguard just tracks indexes. Indexes that include all publicly traded auto manufacturers in the world. E.g. Toyota: https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/vtiax/portfolio Most of …

Interestingly enough, Vanguard voted against the package originally in 2018, and Black Rock voted for it (according to nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/business/tesla-elo…

I actually think that for VTSAX manages, the fact that they have to vote is sort of a liability for them. My guess is that they would rather not vote at all. They own the whole mar…

For the record, Vanguard also has significant interest in the success of all Tesla competitors that are part of the index. Did Vanguard officially stated that they have "significan…

I guess the point here is that a huge percentage (7% just for Vanguard) of votes was not decided by the actual share holders. These shares are passively invested because Tesla is i…

Does anyone know about BlackRock and State Street votes? But Vanguard, which has total assets of about $9 trillion, and other big index fund managers were always likely to be key t…

"Half of it is regurgitating" "how you behave as a human being, what happens when I throw in a curve ball." So it's half hazing, half theatrical performance?

Answering "Design Uber" questions is like playing a weird charade game in a LARP camp. It is very convenient for the interviewer because they set the rules and can change them anyt…

Obligatory MySQL Big Deletes: https://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/deletebig

Good paper on UTF-8 validation performance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03090 The relatively simple algorithm (lookup) can be several times faster than conventional algorithms at a …

Not specifically about ML, but a good paper about unnecessary complexity introduced by a premature 'scalabilitization': The COST of a given platform for a given problem is the hard…

Related concept is Datensparsamkeit: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Datensparsamkeit.html

And there is a way to pay no taxes on the growth. You need to have 1) a tax advantaged account and 2) a regular brokerage with 2x your savings Technically tax is deferred or litera…