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As an example of this ... At LT1 (via lactate measurements) at peak 100k fitness with elite economy (n=1) ratios were roughly 23% fat, 77% carb. FATMAX was near 28% at slower speed…

some maybe-biased data for a steel man in [1]: "The Census Bureau measure overstates current income inequality between the highest and lowest 20% of earners by more than 300% and c…

> I can't see any realistic way that the ergonomics would be better than your haphazard hotel room setup Looking down onto your lap sucks over time. Resting your head (pillow or ot…

2 anecdotes ... 1) The worst interview I ever had (BY FAR) was at Google--disrespectful people, no respect for time, I could go on and on. And I went back to try again to get that …

> when you have enough money to not worry. Unfortunately for most people ... paycheck to paycheck This is some truth to this argument, but the frequency with which it's brought out…

In about 1930, Keynes wrote "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" [1] wherein he wrote: "I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us…

I heard they did this for the Amazon Fire Phone, too

> It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is priority 1. You can work "for free" if investments cover …

At $45,000/yr of expenses (do-able in SF), it'll take 7 years to have passive income from a stock+bond portfolio cover those expenses. https://ibb.co/qyFz1C3 Of course, a bad marke…

> But that actually creates a deferred tax obligation. Let’s say the tax rate you pay that at is 20% (very optimistic There are also ways to get at this money with almost no taxes …

> If you save a third of that (which is not easy) This is very easy, actually. You just happen to like fancy things and houses, probably. > Now if you’re dual cogs with no kids, ma…

expected time to retirement is MUCH, MUCH higher at FAANG if you can save 50%+ of take-home pay after taxes.

> You also can’t withdraw at as high a “safe rate” as people planning for an ordinary retirement at ~65 do Solvable, including consideration of valuations via CAPE PE 10. Based on …

tl;dr: "You can't raise the bar if you can't pick the bar raisers. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619#21732841

> if this is the case, it doesn't feel like they tried very hard? I don't think you get it. The way this stuff is done is just as described - totally blindsiding, and potentially f…

> If you actually want to control the hardware you own, install Linux. It's not as if the alternatives to corporate control didn't exist. They exist, but break my touchpad upgradin…

> What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren? > ... for the first time sinc…

> never bothered to tell the part of Microsoft that writes the generic Windows UI code no, they just don't care.

> Android (and I believe iOS does too) enforce that. This is absolutely not true. Android simply detects that there has been no progress on the UI thread "for a few seconds" before…

> Are there some fundamental aspects of git that would make it either very difficult to improve that, or that would sacrifice some important benefits if they were made? I can't spe…

> I found myself spending time debugging basic issues like passing the wrong number or wrong kinds of arguments to functions You'll get over that pretty fast. The bigger issue is l…

same here - didn't realize it was the chair! Too lazy to have tried debugging it.

> How much of your unhappiness is your job, or more so a function of having a continually growing list of responsibilities I have none of the other, suggested, confounding factors.…

It's my understanding that firecalc uses only US data. Japan has "lost decades" of price-weighted, non-dividend returns that are flat since 1988 (Nikkei 225). Seems worth consideri…

> People should have contingencies ready in case something unprecedented happens. > What kind of contingencies? Money in mattress? The right to live in multiple countries on a perm…