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Index funds?

I can't eat index funds.

> I can't eat index funds

You can't eat cash either. If "can I eat it" is your asset metric, buy long-lasting preserved foods.


> I can't eat index funds

You can't eat cash either. If "can I eat it" is your metric, buy army rations.


I don't know why we treat large stock portfolios as if it's a convinient savings account in these talks.

My financial teachings were always emergency fund -> 3-6 months of savings immediately accessible -> consider stocks (hire a financial planner if you don't know stocks) -> consider asset management. your first foray into saving if you're barely spacing by isn't to rely on the S&P 500.


Army rations are much more expensive than human food though.

you can sell index funds and buy stuff. you will mostly be ahead of inflation.

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Using this event to think about what an asteroid hitting the ocean might be like is quite clever.

"The author suggested that with proper scale corrections, analogies could be drawn between the impulsive impact of the Lituya Bay rockfall to asteroid impact on ocean floor sediments and on such impulsive wave generation. Although, the trajectory angle, terminal velocity and total mass and density of material of an asteroid would be significantly different than those of the Lituya Bay rockfall, it was suggested that these could be scaled and adjusted for the purpose of validating a model of asteroid impact."


That's cool.


I've only done mushrooms once, and I've never wanted a cigarette more in my life than during that experience.


Why is that? What was causing the craving? Can you elaborate? I've heard that alcohol and cocaine cause this.

IME mushrooms cause any low-consciousness activities like smoking/drinking/mindless partying to seem repulsive.


Repulsive is absolutely the right word for this effect.

Edit for one more thought on this: it also gave me an appreciation for vegans and vegetarians. I was eating chicken while tripping once and really had some inner conflict over if it was ok to eat another animal. I'll never be a vegetarian, but for a brief moment I understood what all my hippie friends are on about :)


Can you really trust any mathematician's judgment who doesn't use serial commas? ;)


surge.sh is stupid-simple for static sites.


I love surge, it's been awesome.


Username checks out.


Also, what's actually said surprisingly influences what's seen as disparaging.


I wonder where the pressure came from that actually made him resign. His firm?


Maybe just the awkward air in the room that he just can't shake. Perhaps the comment in a different setting would have merited just an apology to the room...but tossing that out there, in that particular time and place. Just wow.


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