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What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by bsanr2 »

mrgordon wrote: post #226
bsanr2 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Confirming. In college, I received what I thought was a decent windfall for a young adult (and what was roughly what people say should be enough to "get started" investing). I invested it. This was just after the rally post-recession had hit its apex. Fast-forward 3 years later, when I've been laid off. Well, now I need that money, but the stock is worth less than when I bought it. I don't make enough to itemize taxe…

You don’t need to itemize to claim a capital loss

I filed with TurboTax that year.

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Post by Balgair »

theatraine wrote: post #282
GnarfGnarf wrote: post #277

Here it is: when your wife/girlfriend comes to you with a problem, she is not looking for you to propose a solution. She will work out the problem herself. She just needs you to be a sounding board. Listen and nod. Be patient. Pay attention. Shut up unless you are asked a direct question. This is the secret to a successful relationship. (Married thirty-three years)

I have never understood this and this very issue has caused trouble in my romantic relationships. Here's my thought process: why would someone talk about something if they don't want input? It seems like a waste of time. Where's the gap in my thinking? Is there some way I can mentally reframe my thought process so that I 1) Don't immediately try to solve the problem and 2) Don't get annoyed at my significant other fo…

> 2) Don't get annoyed at my significant other for wasting my time.

I mean, if your SO or anyone that you care about is talking with/to you and you could ever possibly think it's a waste of your time no matter what it is that they are saying, then I think you may need to re-evaluate a few things in the new year.

I know where it is you are coming from here, as I also had the same thought process for a long time. Honestly, you just have to find the right kinda people to be around. If you have siblings or parents, you know how it is that everything that you manage to talk about is interesting in some way and how you both know when it's not. Like, during a TV show/movie you really like, even the 'dull' parts are interesting and you are super pumped that they explored the world of the film/show just a bit more. How you want to learn everything there is to know about Star Wars, Marvel, Python 2.7, etc? Even how a Wookie sneezes or Thor shaves?

Yeah, people that you like to be around that much, those are the people to become romantically involved with. Don't become romantically involved with people that 'waste your time' when they tell you about their issues and problems.

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

tempsy wrote: post #35
Moodles wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stocks don’t need to pay out dividends for compound growth. Your last sentence is basically: “betting on compound growth is not the same as compound growth”. Yes ok, but a little pedantic imo. Over hundred years of evidence suggests betting on a diversified portfolio of stocks is a good idea in the long term.

It’s not being pedantic. When you talk about the theory of compound interest it’s essentially starting with $100, getting paid interest or a dividend, and then reinvesting that so now you have $102 that earns a dividend or interest and so on. Investing in 100 shares of company XYZ that does not pay a dividend, or investing in a company that does pay a dividend but isn’t being reinvested, is not compound interest in t…

You're missing a key component of how dividends tend to work. If a stock it trading at $102 and they announce a $2 dividend, the stock almost immediately drops to $2. If you buy/reinvest that $2 back into the stock, effectively nothing has changed.

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Post by dzonga »

rwnspace wrote: post #38

Take an hour to sit in a quiet room without any stimulation. You'll learn a lot about your mental situation, and understanding where you are is really helpful for understanding where to go (if anywhere).

if you want to strengthen your mental fortitude, I recommend folks to spend hours alone. or at least a month to maybe 6 with minimal human interaction i.e both online and offline. if you can go that period without going crazy, then you'll be surprised at what you can achieve.

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Post by ActsJuvenile »

amiga_500 wrote: post #145

Watch this 5 times then spend ten minutes passing it on: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0 Questions in this thread about real estate, "investing" etc. Comprehend it with the above.

Some sincere feedback: LVT sounds a cooky concept that might solve inherited / ossified land ownership problem in the UK, but it seems to have little relevance to the USA. Land is plentiful here.

LVT might also reward families with liquid assets, while burdening lower-income families whose main asset is their house.

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Post by newman8r »

fbnlsr wrote: post #64
timvisee wrote: post #34

Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.

Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?

If you're just coding, you're not going to have as much use for it as someone who spends a considerable amount of time in a terminal - but at that point it becomes a vital skill.

Still, I always use vim plugins in my IDE, it's just not as useful there, but it can save a small amount of time depending on your level of vim skills.

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Post by esotericn »

shantly wrote: post #198
esotericn wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are caps for contributing to tax-advantaged savings and pension accounts in the UK too. I wouldn't say that that 'disadvantages the poor and middle class'. It's the other way around - it disadvantages the upper-middle and wealthy because they hit the limit and have to find other ways to accumulate wealth.

The way 401k retirement accounts are set up in the US, you can't get anywhere near the contribution limit on your own, you have to have huge amounts of employer contribution, beyond simple matching, even. It's like (cough) it's designed to mainly benefit top-tier professional class folks and non-owning-class upper managers while chaining people to traditional employment or complex personal tax arrangements. The other…

I still don't see your point.

A poor person can put 100% of their wealth in. Someone who's well off can't.

I think you're just saying that a poor person has less money than a rich person.

Of course they do - that's what the words mean!

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Post by james_s_tayler »

capableweb wrote: post #274
77544cec wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those who don't get it: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...

Shocking stats about trying to exit vim: > In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.

That's fantastic. All the vim people always raving about how much productivity they gain from vim, we can point to an objective measure of how much productivity it's ux destroys too.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

zozbot234 wrote: post #279
GnarfGnarf wrote: post #277

Here it is: when your wife/girlfriend comes to you with a problem, she is not looking for you to propose a solution. She will work out the problem herself. She just needs you to be a sounding board. Listen and nod. Be patient. Pay attention. Shut up unless you are asked a direct question. This is the secret to a successful relationship. (Married thirty-three years)

> She just needs you to be a sounding board. Listen and nod. Be patient. Pay attention. I think figured out the actual problem there. Your wife/girlfriend needs a rubber ducky!

In all seriousness, I use my manager at my job as a rubber ducky, albeit about job-/coworker- related stress.
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