It varies. One grandmother is 96, and only in the last couple of years has she had what I'd call any serious reduction in quality of life. Before that she lived on her own capably and happily. At 88 she was still doing great.
On the other side, my grandparents are 88 and 92. They played tennis well into their 70's, and at least as of 5 years ago neither of them took any prescription medication, not sure about now.
They may yet have some undignified years ahead of them, but all of that is happening *after* age 88. Setting the bar at 68 is seriously low.
Now institutions have an incentive to be very selective about the students they choose, and the amount of funding they give to various majors. I'm guessing that poetry majors will get a lot less money per student than say CS or mechanical engineering.
Also, instead of taking the SAT for admissions, they'll take the $AT (money accumulation test) to see what kind of earnings potential they can demonstrate.
I've been playing Baseball Stars on NES. Something about baseball being around the corner makes me want to build a team and hit a few home runs. Also it's fast and simple and easy to play around the schedule of a toddler who takes a few tries to go to sleep.
That looks correct to me. "Death threat" is a phrase. It doesn't get a gratuitous hyphen stuck inside it just because there's one put at the end. Properly you'd use a different length of dash here to indicate that it's a whole phrase being hyphenated rather than just the last word, but 1) most non-copy editors don't know that, and 2) dashes on the internet tend to be more pain to figure out than they're worth.
You don't think technology's pace has played a part in this? There's not only more tech and more complicated tech, so that it's hard for one person to know it all, particularly while also learning how to manage people, but it's also changing such that even if you were pretty technically sharp early in your career, by the time you've had a chance to rise to manager you're completely out of date, or quickly get there. I wonder if the environment is stacked against managers learning to be both good leaders and also keep up with tech in a way that used to be less true?
They ask a question that has an objective true or false value.
Well let's see. Astrology wouldn't exist without knowledge of planets and constellations and their location in the sky. That is objectively scientific, right?
Well, it's a confusing market right at the moment. I used to run a web-based computer game, and out of uneasiness with the term "buy" for digital goods I asked players to "donate" in return for which they'd get a thank-you gift. I treated every transaction as a purchase, but I didn't want to imply they had ownership of the digital goods. One of the merchants I used (Amazon) had a serious problem with this wording because they were convinced I was running an unregistered charity, based entirely on the word donate. They disabled my account and even after multiple emails wouldn't accept my explanation. They weren't a significant part of my sales so I let it go, but if they'd been more important to my business model I definitely would have been stuck with using the words "buy" for things my players definitely didn't properly own.
Well, if you don't want to completely kill the sense of this being a discussion site, there really needs to be a way to:
1) see if anyone has responded to your past comments 2) see if your comments have been moderated
Both of these things are easily accomplished in Classic, but I couldn't figure it out in Beta. Maybe I just overlooked the display somewhere, but assuming I didn't, will those things be worked in before launch?
I just saw that note. Tried the beta. Didn't particularly *like* the ginormous layout, but figured I could live with it. What stopped me is I couldn't figure out how to see if anyone had replied to any of my prior comments. The current non-beta comments page shows a nice list at a glance with both indications of replies and moderation; the beta comments page shows each of my comments like an article, with no indication of whether anyone had replied or moderated the post. Am I just missing something, or is that feature unavailable in beta?
An old RPG scenario I played in included some meddlesome wizard who appeared and disappeared repeatedly with what the DM enunciated as *bamf* each time. So your user name fits exceedingly well with what you just did there.
Since they not only give you the letters but show them on the board before you pick yours, I suspect smart contestants rarely just pick the "next most common" and instead try to strategically pick letters that look like they'll fill in words. If you see "T_O" it may be worthwhile to pick a W even if it's an uncommon letter.
I saw that once or twice and liked it. I'd say about half of what we order isn't a rush, but the other half we do want quickly. I'd gladly defer the priority shipping in exchange for a small kickback.
I don't *feel* particularly rich, but the household income is over $50k, so maybe by some definitions I am. Lifestyle expands to meet the income, almost inevitably.
I understand is a median household income is around 50k currently. 5% of 1m is 50k, so in theory that's adequate now for at least half of all households. Thing is, I'm still in my 30s, and my grandparents are still kicking around in their 90s, so I'm hoping (and planning for) retirement to last me that long. If I retired now, I'd have to live on investments for 60 years, and inflation is going to demolish that 50k over half a century. That's why 1m wouldn't be enough to quit tomorrow.
The guy reading every new text about programming and fiddling with every new programming language will sooner or later end up using YOUR project as a proving ground for HIS passion.
One of the happy coincidences in my life occurred when I needed to build a classroom reservation and scheduling tool for a university at the same time I was building an in-game auction tool for an RPG. There was a surprising amount over overlap in the code between the two, juggling calendars, users making claims on entries, placing restictions, etc. Just doing my day job, I could learn things that I'd need to re-apply in the evening, and testing in the game gave me insights that funneled back into the code for the day job. It was very satisfying.
I still get those, too, after about the same duration. I think it hasn't helped recently that I've signed up for too many Coursera classes, and in several cases I've either had life come up or simply forgot to visit for a while, and then realized I missed too many items to get the certification.
One million? Even ignoring taxes, I'd still be working. My retirement goal is in the $3m to $5m range, $1m probably isn't nearly enough to last me for 40-60 years. Now, it would definitely speed up the retirement plan by quite a bit, that's for sure.
Yeah, I was going to say the same. Even without a watch I'm usually accurate to 5 or 10 minutes just based on my internal clock. I don't need a smell to suggest it's morning, afternoon, or evening, any more than I need a foghorn to announce the changing of the seasons.
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It varies. One grandmother is 96, and only in the last couple of years has she had what I'd call any serious reduction in quality of life. Before that she lived on her own capably and happily. At 88 she was still doing great.
On the other side, my grandparents are 88 and 92. They played tennis well into their 70's, and at least as of 5 years ago neither of them took any prescription medication, not sure about now.
They may yet have some undignified years ahead of them, but all of that is happening *after* age 88. Setting the bar at 68 is seriously low.
Well played, Anonymous Coward.
Now institutions have an incentive to be very selective about the students they choose, and the amount of funding they give to various majors. I'm guessing that poetry majors will get a lot less money per student than say CS or mechanical engineering.
Also, instead of taking the SAT for admissions, they'll take the $AT (money accumulation test) to see what kind of earnings potential they can demonstrate.
I've been playing Baseball Stars on NES. Something about baseball being around the corner makes me want to build a team and hit a few home runs. Also it's fast and simple and easy to play around the schedule of a toddler who takes a few tries to go to sleep.
we are can not spell
Nor sentence put together can we. :)
That looks correct to me. "Death threat" is a phrase. It doesn't get a gratuitous hyphen stuck inside it just because there's one put at the end. Properly you'd use a different length of dash here to indicate that it's a whole phrase being hyphenated rather than just the last word, but 1) most non-copy editors don't know that, and 2) dashes on the internet tend to be more pain to figure out than they're worth.
You don't think technology's pace has played a part in this? There's not only more tech and more complicated tech, so that it's hard for one person to know it all, particularly while also learning how to manage people, but it's also changing such that even if you were pretty technically sharp early in your career, by the time you've had a chance to rise to manager you're completely out of date, or quickly get there. I wonder if the environment is stacked against managers learning to be both good leaders and also keep up with tech in a way that used to be less true?
Or they give it "sort of" credit because it starts with planets and stars, even if they don't take the rest of it seriously.
They ask a question that has an objective true or false value.
Well let's see. Astrology wouldn't exist without knowledge of planets and constellations and their location in the sky. That is objectively scientific, right?
Because 'Murica?
Well, it's a confusing market right at the moment. I used to run a web-based computer game, and out of uneasiness with the term "buy" for digital goods I asked players to "donate" in return for which they'd get a thank-you gift. I treated every transaction as a purchase, but I didn't want to imply they had ownership of the digital goods. One of the merchants I used (Amazon) had a serious problem with this wording because they were convinced I was running an unregistered charity, based entirely on the word donate. They disabled my account and even after multiple emails wouldn't accept my explanation. They weren't a significant part of my sales so I let it go, but if they'd been more important to my business model I definitely would have been stuck with using the words "buy" for things my players definitely didn't properly own.
I can't get it over the air. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I can't. I'm only 5 miles outside a town of 20,000, but there's a mountain in the way. Somehow Fox and CBS come through, but no NBC.
Well, if you don't want to completely kill the sense of this being a discussion site, there really needs to be a way to:
1) see if anyone has responded to your past comments
2) see if your comments have been moderated
Both of these things are easily accomplished in Classic, but I couldn't figure it out in Beta. Maybe I just overlooked the display somewhere, but assuming I didn't, will those things be worked in before launch?
I just saw that note. Tried the beta. Didn't particularly *like* the ginormous layout, but figured I could live with it. What stopped me is I couldn't figure out how to see if anyone had replied to any of my prior comments. The current non-beta comments page shows a nice list at a glance with both indications of replies and moderation; the beta comments page shows each of my comments like an article, with no indication of whether anyone had replied or moderated the post. Am I just missing something, or is that feature unavailable in beta?
An old RPG scenario I played in included some meddlesome wizard who appeared and disappeared repeatedly with what the DM enunciated as *bamf* each time. So your user name fits exceedingly well with what you just did there.
Since they not only give you the letters but show them on the board before you pick yours, I suspect smart contestants rarely just pick the "next most common" and instead try to strategically pick letters that look like they'll fill in words. If you see "T_O" it may be worthwhile to pick a W even if it's an uncommon letter.
Amazon lets you choose whether or not to include it. Big publishers may have their own policy, but self-published works can go either way.
I saw that once or twice and liked it. I'd say about half of what we order isn't a rush, but the other half we do want quickly. I'd gladly defer the priority shipping in exchange for a small kickback.
I don't *feel* particularly rich, but the household income is over $50k, so maybe by some definitions I am. Lifestyle expands to meet the income, almost inevitably.
I understand is a median household income is around 50k currently. 5% of 1m is 50k, so in theory that's adequate now for at least half of all households. Thing is, I'm still in my 30s, and my grandparents are still kicking around in their 90s, so I'm hoping (and planning for) retirement to last me that long. If I retired now, I'd have to live on investments for 60 years, and inflation is going to demolish that 50k over half a century. That's why 1m wouldn't be enough to quit tomorrow.
I agree, but I put it like this. 1 Million is enough for me to retire* 10-20 years earlier.
Absolutely. I said as much myself.
The guy reading every new text about programming and fiddling with every new programming language will sooner or later end up using YOUR project as a proving ground for HIS passion.
One of the happy coincidences in my life occurred when I needed to build a classroom reservation and scheduling tool for a university at the same time I was building an in-game auction tool for an RPG. There was a surprising amount over overlap in the code between the two, juggling calendars, users making claims on entries, placing restictions, etc. Just doing my day job, I could learn things that I'd need to re-apply in the evening, and testing in the game gave me insights that funneled back into the code for the day job. It was very satisfying.
I still get those, too, after about the same duration. I think it hasn't helped recently that I've signed up for too many Coursera classes, and in several cases I've either had life come up or simply forgot to visit for a while, and then realized I missed too many items to get the certification.
One million? Even ignoring taxes, I'd still be working. My retirement goal is in the $3m to $5m range, $1m probably isn't nearly enough to last me for 40-60 years. Now, it would definitely speed up the retirement plan by quite a bit, that's for sure.
Yeah, I was going to say the same. Even without a watch I'm usually accurate to 5 or 10 minutes just based on my internal clock. I don't need a smell to suggest it's morning, afternoon, or evening, any more than I need a foghorn to announce the changing of the seasons.