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There's too much noise at large organizations

I see what you did there.

They're focused on soaking up big money first.

They'll optimize down the stack once they've sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Little players won't be able to grow through the ceiling the giants create.


Why would they do that? Once they have their win-condition, there's no reason to innovate. Only to reduce the costs of existing solutions. I expect that unless voice becomes a parameter which drives competition and first-choice for adoption, it will never become a focus of the frontier orgs. Which is curious to me, as almost the opposite of how I'm reading your comment.

Hi Kyle,

I'm a big fan of projectionlabs and have recommended it to a few people. It's the best tool I've found in this niche. You've done a great job on the UI to keep it simple while being extremely powerful and I love moving milestones around and seeing how things react.

The Tax side is where things get interesting/complicated. In my case, I'll be retiring in a different country to where I'm working and so the tax for drawdowns doesn't really work


Hey thanks! It's come a long way, but there is still a ton of additional functionality I'm excited to build.

Re: moving/retiring to a different country, would it potentially help to create a milestone to model this and add Tax Consequences to that milestone? That can be used to switch your tax config to a different international preset starting in a certain year, or apply new custom brackets/config, etc.


Yes, if it'd be possible to switch to another international preset on a milestone then that'd get us mostly the way there. I already have a milestone for the move where I sell current house, factor in moving expenses and buying car/house in retirement country.

I am not really sure the consequences of e.g. withdrawing from a US 401k while UK resident (as a US citizen). But treating the 401k as an analogous UK pension for withdrawal purposes would probably be correct enough for forecasting.


Good question, I just checked my credit card statement and they billed what the UI said they would...

I can also still see the orders in the my order history with the incorrect amount


I get spam messages on iMessage and never on WhatsApp, weird


I mistakenly gave my number to a bot on Tinder, and now I get random texts on WhatsApp all the time, consisting of a highly photoshopped photo of a woman and some short intro.


I don't know if I have ever received an iMessage spam, and I have 6 addresses associated (5 emails, 1 phone number).

SMS I get spam almost daily.


I've gotten local political messages from volunteers, but those were sent from their cellphones (and may have resulted in them being banned from iMessage a few days later)

I've never gotten an automated spam via iMessage protocol.


It's not clear to me if the full transcripts are available here but I found the book of transcripts at my college library during my studies and found it fascinating.

Looks like you can now buy it on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Epsilon-Farm-Hall-Transcrip...


Of note, these are the translations of the transcripts. The original transcripts unfortunately were not preserved.


wow I didn't think they meant checkerboard pattern literally. I'd be interested to know why the land was partitioned that way across such a wide area


I remember looking at old Metsker maps of Washington counties when I was a kid and wondering about all those checkerboards of green and white land. My dad told me the green was public land, and couldn't really explain why it was divided that way. So it is, literally, divided up like a checkerboard. Wikipedia has an enlightening article on it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)


You can see this pattern all across the west, a result of land grants meant to subsidize railroad development. The federal government platted all the land into sections, then gave every other section along each new rail corridor to the developer. The idea was to encourage the creation of higher-quality infrastructure, by motivating the railroad to increase the value of their land holdings, instead of simply laying track as cheaply as possible like they might do if they were paid by the mile.


Was that for an undergraduate at Cambridge?


Undergraduate, yes


I also saw this and was disappointed about it. He said it multiple times, "20fps, it's not a problem" when it clearly is a problem


To be fair, it doesn't run well, or sometimes at all, on Windows


It's too early to say. The devs have said they considered extending KSP1 but chose to rebuild the game from scratch to enable things that never would have been possible in KSP1. Namely, acceleration during time warp.

So I think it's fair to expect that KSP2 today will be lower on the y-axis of features than KSP1, but has a greater slope and will pass it and keep going at some time in the future.

It's anyone's guess when that time in the future will be


Except there are mods like KSPIE and PersistentThrust that allow acceleration during time warp in KSP1.


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