You really, really, really need to take a class or a few webinars on investing. Unless you're in your 20's, you shouldn't have your entire 401k in stocks, and you have the option of investing in bonds, index funds, or cash via 401k anyway. Stocks and bonds have an almost inverse relationship, so if you balance your 401k investment (what all those 'balance your portfolio' commercials are trying to sell), you will avoid the peaks and valleys of boom-bust cycles and average a similar rate of return to if you were trying to predict peaks.
Biggest thing, as someone else mentioned, is company matches. If you aren't taking advantage of company matches you're making a huge miss. Even if your 401k was to earn 0%, if you had a 1:1 match on 5% with your employer and you made $50k, that means you put in $2,500 and your employer gave you an additional $2,500, a 100% return on your personal contribution. You'd have to be really shortsighted not to take that advantage.
The biggest and most obvious one, and the one that gets people feeling that way, has to be the set layout. The sets for the two apartments are almost identical and shot from the exact same perspective. The only difference is that the kitchens are on opposite sides of the room.
Not only that, people move. If you do well enough to get into college and leave town (because a town of 6000 rarely has a college) you can usually make more than that part time in the college town than you could working at home. Lack of opportunity in the home town, once you finish your education, calls for immediate relocation in almost all circumstances. Its a chicken and egg - without a critical mass of jobs in the town to attract college grads, none will stay there, so the town has a low education rate and makes it a less lucrative office location for companies. Employers rarely open an office in a town like that unless the benefits (cost of living, geographical advantage) outweigh the downside (low talent pool, lack of infrastructure, low desirability among applicants). Most towns that are small and stay small do so because they are an awful place to live for one reason or another.
They wear special g-suits to somewhat constrict blood flow. When they perform G maneuvers they do have to flex and hold certain muscle groups, including their breath and take in small gasps of air - think constipated shitting - to keep blood from rushing out of their head and blacking out. So yes, for this reason, tall fighter pilots are rare and smaller pilots are typically better performers.
You wouldn't think it, but fighter pilots do have to stay in great shape and take an absolutely ridiculous toll on their body from what they do. I had a teacher, retired air force pilot, who looked about 15 years older than he looked pretty worn out. That constant G exertion on the body does serious damage to blood vessels.
Here's a short demonstration of the kind of training they do, I'm sure you can find more if you look around. Looks pretty awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not a dentist, but just wanted to chime in on this one too.
I drink those G2's as well, typically when I work out, and they tend to add about 10 more minutes of productivity to my workout. However, after workouts I do know that you already have some increased acid production in your stomach even without that gatorade. It can be significant enough in my case to end workouts. My mouth feels funny after workouts regardless of G2 consumption, and with G2 its more noticeable, so what I do is brush my teeth after I take my shower after a workout anyway.
I do know an alternative though: Protein shakes. All of the serious gym rats drink a couple of sips of a homemade protein shake instead of gatorade. I personally can't be assed to make it before a workout because I like it cold after a workout, blended with ice. Not sure if its better for the teeth or not, the dentist would have to answer that.
I've always wondered what it would be like to grow up in a household where family traditions haven't been passed down. Just think, your parents learned from your grandparents who learned from...you get the picture. Then you come to the AA subset of the populations, where Africans were taken forcibly hundreds of years ago, families broken apart, and lived doing manual labor with no true family until slavery was abolished, destroying family traditions. I'm not talking about traditions like a Sunday dinner, I'm talking about how you call your mom up when you have a baby and look for guidance. Some people didn't have that and had to make it up as they went along, and I think it shows through with some of the family unit issues.
Or, she's fairly normal as a nice neighbor and you're the exception. Possibly because you're a cynical asshole know-it-all and no one wants to associate. Claiming to know what everyone in your office does on their spare time with their vehicles is incredibly pompous.
No one wants to borrow a car, everyone wants to borrow a truck, especially people with big yard projects. Most people I know who have trucks, actually use the trucks, and all of them have helped others with their truck. Of the who guys with the bigger trucks that always look clean, one has an RV and one has a boat.
But, if demonizing people who own trucks makes you feel better, keep on keeping on. And for the record, I own a standard commuter and have received truck help twice, once from the mother and once from a neighbor.
I'm a daily commuter, and while an EV sounds like a great idea...I don't have the ability to get a charging port. I live in a condo, and many people live in apartments. Charging availability is a real concern.
Let's be fair here, when you own a truck, you will never only use it for grocery shopping. When you own a truck, you become everybody's best friend. Towing, furniture, and lawn supply requests from neighbors become a regular occurrence, almost weekly. If you aren't helping directly, they'll definitely ask to borrow the truck for a day or two. I never owned one, but my mother did for her business - she couldn't have been happier the day she got rid of it for the very reasons I mentioned.
Pickups tend to end up partly as community vehicles, and because the person who has one sees it get so much use, a lot owners want to keep it around for that reliability. There are a lot of daily towing and carrying needs in the suburban community lifestyle.
The only way to beat this situation is good leadership, something woefully undereducated in early schooling. If you take over the leadership role quickly, divide the work out based on your expectations of the members including pairing who you think will work OK together, and still divvy yourself a big portion to ensure success, you can manage to win these situations. If you don't have the charisma to do it naturally, your best choice is an appeal to authority. Estimate time to complete each task and then volunteer for one task yourself, giving them no choice but to fill the other tasks themselves. The fact that you're introverted and seen as 'smart' gives your time estimations a veil of authority.
Really, what wins these situations is the ability to be a manager, not necessarily an extrovert.
While this article is targeted as a chip review, I can't really get behind the idea of outlawing 3d game benchmarks on phones based on pixel resolution. In any case like a desktop where the screen wasn't a big part of the device, I can get behind what you're saying, but with phones its not like you can simply swap out the screen. I think it should be tested because no matter how good the processor is, it doesn't matter if you don't scale the phone performance demand properly. If your processor is pushing a screen with 20% more pixels than it can handle and constantly throttles itself or lags, that would show up in these tests, and that's the metric that matters most.
Based on the extremely high percentage points in all the game categories, its not likely a simple polling of all kids, but instead kids who responded to a gaming-specific survey.
Gaming, up until about 5-7 years ago, has always been heavily dominated by males. Mobile games and Facebook games have made it more socially acceptable for girls to game, whereas previously it was a "boy" thing. Based on the extremely high percentage points in all the game categories, its likely a simple polling of all kids instead of kids who responded to a gaming-specific survey. As such, the decreases may be somewhat artificial - more people are identifying as gamers because of casual games rather than significant playerbase reductions on consoles and PCs.
Oddly, the weirdest one for me is the sensation when you get off a treadmill, so its essentially the opposite of VR - no visual sensation of movement but physical sensation of movement. However, many people report that the sensation I experience gets less frequent and of lower duration the more often you do it, so maybe there is some truth in the idea that we'll adapt to VR if we do it a lot. I would imagine that any adaptation would result in dulling the senses associated with inner ear balance, which would be interesting to say the least. Society full of clumsy dolts.
Gravity introduced the average Joe to the concept and danger of space debris, and reintroduced the fact that there is no sound in space. This along with simple things like how momentum works in space with things as simple as a spinning astronaut, while finding a way to make it entertaining. Interstellar, while having a lot more of the fi part of sci-fi, focused heavily how theory might apply in practice, like on relativity and tesseracts and how other planets might look, while also addressing the thought of some that we need to diversify our species survival by expanding into space.
If you have to do significant research to understand a concept before seeing a movie, the movie failed. If a movie is so dry and dull that it lacks viewership, it fails. These two movies provided clear communication of some science concepts without being a lecture, and are amazing examples of great communication in sci-fi. They are sci-fi with light true science bases that touched a large audience and made them think while entertaining them. I think this is a wonderful thing. It's much better for the minds than sci-fantasy stuff like star wars.
People didn't expect Gravity to do as well as it did. This paved the way for Interstellar and The Martian. There is a big market for these kinds of movies that was untapped for quite a while, and its finally getting quite a few good developments.
While its just a movie, and a lot of it is drama oriented, a key in all these movies is that they limit their plot choices via science to some extent. A lot of recent sci-fi movies decided to use science as a dues ex to do whatever the hell they wanted instead, which removes the focus from the science entirely and turns it into just an action movie in space. Its a very different approach that produces very different results, and in my opinion, good results. I like movies that make you think.
If you work for a company that tolerates these kinds of management ethics, you should pack your bags immediately. There are good managers and good companies that do the right thing, thinking otherwise and working for said corrupt company is simply a rationalization and coping mechanism out of not making the hard and right choice of leaving the company.
Case in point: We recently got a benefits decision for a closed location. After looking at the numbers, we noticed they were 10% lower than they should be because of a decimal error on step 3 of the calculation. What do we do? We tell them, fix it, and pay more - the correct amount for the rules in place. This comes on top of discovering a tax mistake not caught by the gov't for 3 years. What do we do? We fix it and pay more.
Dirty companies are not the norm. Working for a dirty company plays tricks on your mind, and makes you think they are the norm because there is no other way to cope in that shitty job.
As long as you're fine having your desktop on all the time, the steam gamestream mode actually works extremely well. I built a HTPC and stuck a high end graphics card in it for couch gaming, but soon after, they made their gamestream service respectable. I moved the graphics card into the desktop and SLI'd it and instead used on-chip graphics for the HTPC. The HTPC played games as flawless as before using the streaming with better quality b/c of more power on the desktop. I'm looking forward to the steam link boxes coming out, and recently sold that HTPC for a pretty penny.
Were you looking at comparable cars, or trying to buy something more expensive due to increased income? The luxury sedans from Lexus/BMW/etc have garbage gas mileage because they are tanks with massive sacrifices in efficiency. A Camry 5 years ago was like 25 city 35 highway, and likely weighed more while having cleaner emissions than your older car. If you wanted something efficient, you could even go for an EconoBox like the Focus and get some ridiculous MPG.
Notice the syllables. A vast majority of those brand generics are shortening mechanisms. Brand names that become commonplace enough and are easier to say or shorter to write tend to become generics.
You should see the kind of quotes we get for building insanely simple things from IT. Stuff I can create a one-click workaround in two hours with excel, they want to charge 6 figures. Then charge us again if we initiate a change request.
Excel is popular because it allows people to get things done without going through a 6 month mess with IT.
I think politicians are afraid to touch campaign finance reform because they see it as an 'industry' in a world where industries are quickly vanishing or employing less people. The sheer volume of people employed by campaigns, news agencies covering these campaigns, and ad dollars made by news agencies during these campaigns is staggering.
Not that they aren't touching it because its their gravy train, but I think the jobs factor is a big one. I imagine major leaders of this country have nightmares every night wondering how in the actual fuck to choose policies that keep people employed in this country, a country that ties success and well being entirely to employment. I also think this is a big reason for the Military Industrial Complex, and some of the frivolous wars we fight, as well.
Bike paths are combined with sidewalks and the sidewalks are asphalt instead of tiled concrete. The sidewalks are about 2-3x as wide as US sidewalks and it is common knowledge to walk as far right as possible to allow through traffic on the left (like US greenways). Once you get into more urban areas, the sidewalks are even wider and tend to have a line in them segregating bikes and people. I think, but am not sure, that the bikes must also have a horn? Bike lanes mixed into regular road traffic was a monumental and non-correctable mistake.
Digital-only is tunnelvision, unless they're fine making multiple versions of the system and still having to produce discs in some markets. The sheer volume of consoles in soldier deployments and countries with limited internet will see to it.
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You really, really, really need to take a class or a few webinars on investing. Unless you're in your 20's, you shouldn't have your entire 401k in stocks, and you have the option of investing in bonds, index funds, or cash via 401k anyway. Stocks and bonds have an almost inverse relationship, so if you balance your 401k investment (what all those 'balance your portfolio' commercials are trying to sell), you will avoid the peaks and valleys of boom-bust cycles and average a similar rate of return to if you were trying to predict peaks.
Biggest thing, as someone else mentioned, is company matches. If you aren't taking advantage of company matches you're making a huge miss. Even if your 401k was to earn 0%, if you had a 1:1 match on 5% with your employer and you made $50k, that means you put in $2,500 and your employer gave you an additional $2,500, a 100% return on your personal contribution. You'd have to be really shortsighted not to take that advantage.
It has similarities to Friends, for sure.
The biggest and most obvious one, and the one that gets people feeling that way, has to be the set layout. The sets for the two apartments are almost identical and shot from the exact same perspective. The only difference is that the kitchens are on opposite sides of the room.
Not only that, people move. If you do well enough to get into college and leave town (because a town of 6000 rarely has a college) you can usually make more than that part time in the college town than you could working at home. Lack of opportunity in the home town, once you finish your education, calls for immediate relocation in almost all circumstances. Its a chicken and egg - without a critical mass of jobs in the town to attract college grads, none will stay there, so the town has a low education rate and makes it a less lucrative office location for companies. Employers rarely open an office in a town like that unless the benefits (cost of living, geographical advantage) outweigh the downside (low talent pool, lack of infrastructure, low desirability among applicants). Most towns that are small and stay small do so because they are an awful place to live for one reason or another.
They wear special g-suits to somewhat constrict blood flow. When they perform G maneuvers they do have to flex and hold certain muscle groups, including their breath and take in small gasps of air - think constipated shitting - to keep blood from rushing out of their head and blacking out. So yes, for this reason, tall fighter pilots are rare and smaller pilots are typically better performers.
You wouldn't think it, but fighter pilots do have to stay in great shape and take an absolutely ridiculous toll on their body from what they do. I had a teacher, retired air force pilot, who looked about 15 years older than he looked pretty worn out. That constant G exertion on the body does serious damage to blood vessels.
Here's a short demonstration of the kind of training they do, I'm sure you can find more if you look around. Looks pretty awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not a dentist, but just wanted to chime in on this one too.
I drink those G2's as well, typically when I work out, and they tend to add about 10 more minutes of productivity to my workout. However, after workouts I do know that you already have some increased acid production in your stomach even without that gatorade. It can be significant enough in my case to end workouts. My mouth feels funny after workouts regardless of G2 consumption, and with G2 its more noticeable, so what I do is brush my teeth after I take my shower after a workout anyway.
I do know an alternative though: Protein shakes. All of the serious gym rats drink a couple of sips of a homemade protein shake instead of gatorade. I personally can't be assed to make it before a workout because I like it cold after a workout, blended with ice. Not sure if its better for the teeth or not, the dentist would have to answer that.
I've always wondered what it would be like to grow up in a household where family traditions haven't been passed down. Just think, your parents learned from your grandparents who learned from...you get the picture. Then you come to the AA subset of the populations, where Africans were taken forcibly hundreds of years ago, families broken apart, and lived doing manual labor with no true family until slavery was abolished, destroying family traditions. I'm not talking about traditions like a Sunday dinner, I'm talking about how you call your mom up when you have a baby and look for guidance. Some people didn't have that and had to make it up as they went along, and I think it shows through with some of the family unit issues.
Or, she's fairly normal as a nice neighbor and you're the exception. Possibly because you're a cynical asshole know-it-all and no one wants to associate. Claiming to know what everyone in your office does on their spare time with their vehicles is incredibly pompous.
No one wants to borrow a car, everyone wants to borrow a truck, especially people with big yard projects. Most people I know who have trucks, actually use the trucks, and all of them have helped others with their truck. Of the who guys with the bigger trucks that always look clean, one has an RV and one has a boat.
But, if demonizing people who own trucks makes you feel better, keep on keeping on. And for the record, I own a standard commuter and have received truck help twice, once from the mother and once from a neighbor.
I'm a daily commuter, and while an EV sounds like a great idea...I don't have the ability to get a charging port. I live in a condo, and many people live in apartments. Charging availability is a real concern.
Let's be fair here, when you own a truck, you will never only use it for grocery shopping. When you own a truck, you become everybody's best friend. Towing, furniture, and lawn supply requests from neighbors become a regular occurrence, almost weekly. If you aren't helping directly, they'll definitely ask to borrow the truck for a day or two. I never owned one, but my mother did for her business - she couldn't have been happier the day she got rid of it for the very reasons I mentioned.
Pickups tend to end up partly as community vehicles, and because the person who has one sees it get so much use, a lot owners want to keep it around for that reliability. There are a lot of daily towing and carrying needs in the suburban community lifestyle.
The only way to beat this situation is good leadership, something woefully undereducated in early schooling. If you take over the leadership role quickly, divide the work out based on your expectations of the members including pairing who you think will work OK together, and still divvy yourself a big portion to ensure success, you can manage to win these situations. If you don't have the charisma to do it naturally, your best choice is an appeal to authority. Estimate time to complete each task and then volunteer for one task yourself, giving them no choice but to fill the other tasks themselves. The fact that you're introverted and seen as 'smart' gives your time estimations a veil of authority.
Really, what wins these situations is the ability to be a manager, not necessarily an extrovert.
While this article is targeted as a chip review, I can't really get behind the idea of outlawing 3d game benchmarks on phones based on pixel resolution. In any case like a desktop where the screen wasn't a big part of the device, I can get behind what you're saying, but with phones its not like you can simply swap out the screen. I think it should be tested because no matter how good the processor is, it doesn't matter if you don't scale the phone performance demand properly. If your processor is pushing a screen with 20% more pixels than it can handle and constantly throttles itself or lags, that would show up in these tests, and that's the metric that matters most.
Ugh, proofreading fail.....
Third sentence should read:
Based on the extremely high percentage points in all the game categories, its not likely a simple polling of all kids, but instead kids who responded to a gaming-specific survey.
Gaming, up until about 5-7 years ago, has always been heavily dominated by males. Mobile games and Facebook games have made it more socially acceptable for girls to game, whereas previously it was a "boy" thing. Based on the extremely high percentage points in all the game categories, its likely a simple polling of all kids instead of kids who responded to a gaming-specific survey. As such, the decreases may be somewhat artificial - more people are identifying as gamers because of casual games rather than significant playerbase reductions on consoles and PCs.
Oddly, the weirdest one for me is the sensation when you get off a treadmill, so its essentially the opposite of VR - no visual sensation of movement but physical sensation of movement. However, many people report that the sensation I experience gets less frequent and of lower duration the more often you do it, so maybe there is some truth in the idea that we'll adapt to VR if we do it a lot. I would imagine that any adaptation would result in dulling the senses associated with inner ear balance, which would be interesting to say the least. Society full of clumsy dolts.
Gravity introduced the average Joe to the concept and danger of space debris, and reintroduced the fact that there is no sound in space. This along with simple things like how momentum works in space with things as simple as a spinning astronaut, while finding a way to make it entertaining. Interstellar, while having a lot more of the fi part of sci-fi, focused heavily how theory might apply in practice, like on relativity and tesseracts and how other planets might look, while also addressing the thought of some that we need to diversify our species survival by expanding into space.
If you have to do significant research to understand a concept before seeing a movie, the movie failed. If a movie is so dry and dull that it lacks viewership, it fails. These two movies provided clear communication of some science concepts without being a lecture, and are amazing examples of great communication in sci-fi. They are sci-fi with light true science bases that touched a large audience and made them think while entertaining them. I think this is a wonderful thing. It's much better for the minds than sci-fantasy stuff like star wars.
People didn't expect Gravity to do as well as it did. This paved the way for Interstellar and The Martian. There is a big market for these kinds of movies that was untapped for quite a while, and its finally getting quite a few good developments.
While its just a movie, and a lot of it is drama oriented, a key in all these movies is that they limit their plot choices via science to some extent. A lot of recent sci-fi movies decided to use science as a dues ex to do whatever the hell they wanted instead, which removes the focus from the science entirely and turns it into just an action movie in space. Its a very different approach that produces very different results, and in my opinion, good results. I like movies that make you think.
If you work for a company that tolerates these kinds of management ethics, you should pack your bags immediately. There are good managers and good companies that do the right thing, thinking otherwise and working for said corrupt company is simply a rationalization and coping mechanism out of not making the hard and right choice of leaving the company.
Case in point: We recently got a benefits decision for a closed location. After looking at the numbers, we noticed they were 10% lower than they should be because of a decimal error on step 3 of the calculation. What do we do? We tell them, fix it, and pay more - the correct amount for the rules in place. This comes on top of discovering a tax mistake not caught by the gov't for 3 years. What do we do? We fix it and pay more.
Dirty companies are not the norm. Working for a dirty company plays tricks on your mind, and makes you think they are the norm because there is no other way to cope in that shitty job.
As long as you're fine having your desktop on all the time, the steam gamestream mode actually works extremely well. I built a HTPC and stuck a high end graphics card in it for couch gaming, but soon after, they made their gamestream service respectable. I moved the graphics card into the desktop and SLI'd it and instead used on-chip graphics for the HTPC. The HTPC played games as flawless as before using the streaming with better quality b/c of more power on the desktop. I'm looking forward to the steam link boxes coming out, and recently sold that HTPC for a pretty penny.
Were you looking at comparable cars, or trying to buy something more expensive due to increased income? The luxury sedans from Lexus/BMW/etc have garbage gas mileage because they are tanks with massive sacrifices in efficiency. A Camry 5 years ago was like 25 city 35 highway, and likely weighed more while having cleaner emissions than your older car. If you wanted something efficient, you could even go for an EconoBox like the Focus and get some ridiculous MPG.
Notice the syllables. A vast majority of those brand generics are shortening mechanisms. Brand names that become commonplace enough and are easier to say or shorter to write tend to become generics.
Yo Dawg, something something feels in your feels. I know that feel bro.
Deserves 99 recs but I aint got one.
You should see the kind of quotes we get for building insanely simple things from IT. Stuff I can create a one-click workaround in two hours with excel, they want to charge 6 figures. Then charge us again if we initiate a change request.
Excel is popular because it allows people to get things done without going through a 6 month mess with IT.
I think politicians are afraid to touch campaign finance reform because they see it as an 'industry' in a world where industries are quickly vanishing or employing less people. The sheer volume of people employed by campaigns, news agencies covering these campaigns, and ad dollars made by news agencies during these campaigns is staggering.
Not that they aren't touching it because its their gravy train, but I think the jobs factor is a big one. I imagine major leaders of this country have nightmares every night wondering how in the actual fuck to choose policies that keep people employed in this country, a country that ties success and well being entirely to employment. I also think this is a big reason for the Military Industrial Complex, and some of the frivolous wars we fight, as well.
Bike paths are combined with sidewalks and the sidewalks are asphalt instead of tiled concrete. The sidewalks are about 2-3x as wide as US sidewalks and it is common knowledge to walk as far right as possible to allow through traffic on the left (like US greenways). Once you get into more urban areas, the sidewalks are even wider and tend to have a line in them segregating bikes and people. I think, but am not sure, that the bikes must also have a horn? Bike lanes mixed into regular road traffic was a monumental and non-correctable mistake.
Digital-only is tunnelvision, unless they're fine making multiple versions of the system and still having to produce discs in some markets. The sheer volume of consoles in soldier deployments and countries with limited internet will see to it.