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- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 2 days ago:
Probably, but in most places the government can force buy the land. If you chop up a property in the middle of a big city and do this they may find the public interest outweighs your property rights. Or if you live in an authoritarian state.
- Comment on Are dating apps really as bad as people say? 3 days ago:
Incentives: you find a girlfriend the app lose a customer. They are not optimized for you finding a girlfriend.
Gender imbalance: there are about 3* guys for every girl. There is very little leftovers for you as an average guy. *Very crude counting from me 5 years ago.
Sure you may find one and it’s relatively low effort. Don’t get your hopes up.
Funny anecdote: I’ve had more luck getting dates from World of Warcraft.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 week ago:
You should be paid because you’re basically campaigning for the republicans.You don’t drive away any core republican voter, they would never vote D. You drive away the ones who voted democrat last election.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 week ago:
Troll grade: C-.
Does Trump pay you by the hour or per post?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 week ago:
I don’t follow the media and the debate where you live, but over here left leaning politicians and media tends to frame it as: women, minorites etc have a problem. Men are the problem.
You’re basically pushing any undecided man over to the right.
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 1 week ago:
Whatever-whatever. I don’t have any strict age limit, if you care to make your case I’ll listen. I’m not that busy.
That being said I do have the most in common with women in their 30s, being in my 30s myself
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 1 week ago:
They exist in the world. They are not very popular, judging by the fact that you’ve not heard of them.
You need much more than 1 acre per person. First Google result is 5-6 per person.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
No. Not in my experience.
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 1 week ago:
Using crypto as a second source of income is like playing hopscotch in a minefield.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 week ago:
If you try , make sure you film it.
- Comment on I don't know if I'm getting the most profitable SRI / climate change ETF, can you help? 2 weeks ago:
Just to be sure, annual performance is way more important than the cumulative index performance - net returns, right? Because here climate change is better than SRI.
You’re trying to stay on the road by looking at the road in the rear view mirror. It’s better than nothing because humans usually can’t see forwards in time. My point is that you should not worry too much about that. It could be because people bought the stocks thinking that they would make more money in the future and 10 years later realized they will not and sell it to the next sucker. It could be that genuinely the companies do better. You don’t know, I don’t know.
What are you buying? An ETF usually buys a few stocks from a lot of companies that fit their profile.
What is a stock in a company? It is a tiny fraction of ownership in a company.
Now would you rather have a tiny ownership in the companies that one ETF buys or a tiny ownership in the others? If you don’t know it does not matter.
As for buying in EUR or USD it depends. Tax rules can be different, that you will have to check. Since you use USD the EUR one is likely to change more, for the better or worse because the exchange rate will vary. Again 30 years noone knows how.
Don’t mind Trump, your horizon is 30 years, does not matter if he gets a 3rd term even. He will be dead long before. Unless you think he will crash the economy utterly, but then why are you saving for the future and not buying guns, ammo and non perishable food?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I can understand her hesitation if her parents are on the conservative side.
You live in a free country but until she is 18 the parents have a lot to say. Even after the age of 18 and moved away from home she has to consider their wishes or risk having her family refusing to have any contact.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 3 weeks ago:
I used to have a lot of these. Not sure where I lost my need to tell anyone about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you do them a disservice. But it’s your life story and your choice.
I can certainly appreciate your lack of appetite for being an activist. I have a mild aversion to activism even for causes I support.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 3 weeks ago:
You’d also have to solve the problems of them working with each other instead of against each other.
What happens to your blood pressure? Do they beat at the same time then how do you mitigate the pressure spike. You now have twice the capacity your blood vessels are meant to handle.
If they don’t beat at the same time how do you make sure blood does not just go back and forth between the hearts, but actually does something useful?
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah when I grew up I was a confused bag of hormones who had not yet learnt to deal with anything.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I’m more and more satisfied with life the older I get
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Better than a lot of other methods. What are you protecting, from who and how annoying would it be to recover if it went wrong. I don’t use a password manager because I’d lose the file for sure and it would be just as inconvenient to recover as if someone hacked me. I also don’t have any sensitive stuff. Work on the other hand I have a password manager.
The lowest hanging fruit is using a leaked/hacked/stolen list of accounts/emails and passwords and trying them on other sites. You should be safe from that.
If you have sensitive information someone would be willing to break the law and spend a few thousands of dollars to get you’re not safe.
- Comment on How do I rent a botnet? 3 weeks ago:
I’d double check that it’s legal.
Also you’re giving money to people who usually does not do legal things.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Books don’t require power or any complicated electronics to be of use.
Mostly an advantage in some apocalypse or stranded on a deserted island scenario.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 4 weeks ago:
- As long as i can stop smiling at funerals. I’m not unhappy but more is better.
Then 4. 5. Or 9. Are my options.
I’ll probably take 9. I have enough money today but I’ve been disciplined with my spending my entire life. It’s just something that I can stop thinking about.
- Or 5. Would just be vanity, but if I’m happy I don’t really see the problem. Maybe 2. So I don’t have to think about that either.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s usefulness is in it’s simplicity, not in the accuracy or precision at an individual level.
Especially if you like lifting weights you can get some wild errors.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 4 weeks ago:
French is probably the most wide spread. Mandarin has most people, but only in one country.
- Comment on How would you list the average democrat voters priorities vs democrat leadership priorities? 5 weeks ago:
Voters: economy, as far as maintain and increase their living standards.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If you can keep it at what you consider an acceptable level then it’s fine.
In my case I tend to go from keeping an acceptable level for a few weeks, then one becomes two that becomes three and then I’m back at the original unacceptable level.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Like riding a bike. If you’ve never done it it’s going to be hard but give it a few hours of deliberate practice you’ll be fine.
And again like with a bike you should probably practice away from traffic to begin with…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In my country they have enough support from both the left and right leaning voters. Also a vast majority of voters think there are more important issues to deal with.
Some parties (we have 8 with >4% votes) have an ideological position that we should abolish momarchy. No party is actively campaigning for it, because it’s seen as unimportant.
- Comment on if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics? 1 month ago:
Causes corrosion.
Causes circuit boards to swell and deform.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 1 month ago:
Can you show me the numbers?
The numbers I found unsubsidized gas is about USD0.5/kWh and battery is USD150 per kWh. This is a 10 minute search so the quality of those numbers are dubious, I’m prepared to have my mind changed.