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It was posted by the author on Twitter, so it was absolutely for the world: https://twitter.com/invtym/status/1227321408469909504

The important part is that if you really set your contributions to 65% then you will max out your annual retirement contribution limits early on (front loading). So the rest of the…

Yes, that's true. If you're wanting to buy a house that is a good reason to not put additional money in the Roth 401k. It still makes sense to do the Roth IRA, since you can withdr…

It would be good to add something on mentoring. This isn't covered very well in new employee orientation. But it's hard to figure out what advice to give because it's so team and r…

It felt odd writing it. You are right, but when people do suddenly come into money (the initial cash signing bonus), they will sometimes do irrational things. Being able to step ba…

> Also forgot to mention open a Fidelity BrokerageLink account for your 401k. I thought about adding it, but BrokerageLink requires a minimum balance transfer. By then, I figure th…

How many more groups are left to join? There's no easy to way as far as I can tell to get a sense of completion. The extension goes in reverse alphabetical order, but also loops ar…

You can join as many groups as you want. For example: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar...

It's hard to say if it was worth the price. I purchased a lifetime subscription a while back at a discounted rate. I'm not sure if this a product that I would pay for monthly perpe…

What is a recommended VM size on Azure to use?

Keyboard-Video-Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

Ignoring for the moment the active jamming, it's interesting to consider otherwise how perspectives on cell phones have changed over time. When I was in high school (circa 1998), t…

I agree. In 2000 or so when I first started blogging, pingbacks [1] (or its variation, trackbacks) seemed like it would take off as a popular mechanism for link notification. Unfor…

> which is to motivate me to do something today which I will be able to talk about tomorrow. I've actually wondered about this, ever since finding inconsistencies in the psychology…

You actually indirectly highlighted one of the problems with these types of "brain teaser" questions. Condition 1: If you are actually as brilliant as Donald Knuth, and independent…

Just a couple of notes. The "Rizos et al. in JAMA 2012;308:1024-1033" refers to the article: Rizos E. C., Ntzani E. E., Bika E., Kostapanos M. S., Elisaf M. S. (2012). Association …

Like many ggplot articles, they seem to consider the primary output being the Web, and not print publications. One thing I haven't quite figured out with ggplot2 is how to keep the…

I think what's more frightening to me is how non-systematic this sort of thing is. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to who wins the "doxing lottery". I was looking at my own …

The article is a bit too fluffy for my taste, but in observing my own online behavior, I think that this part is key: > People are searching for products on Amazon, rather than usi…

I think what's alarming to me is that these actions by private citizens are necessary in the first place. If the problem is as widespread as the article seems to imply, then I thin…

Using a term like 'hn' isn't really a representative example, since it's unlikely that any advertising would be purchased for such a term or have any custom "knowledge panels". So,…

> Sorry? Apple is an adjective? For purposes of a trademark, actually, yes. From Apple's own site [1], "Trademarks are adjectives, and should not be made into verbs or made plural …