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I live an conventional life now but I keep thinking about the vagrant life. I slept in my car for 6 months to see how it would be like and in a tent in my friend's backyard for a week. I also lived in hostels for two months, and in college I thought I wanted to be Thai Forest monk.

I'm married now and living the apartment life but I still keep consuming content about tents and vans and houseboats.

Published Fri, Jun 21 2024 11:23 AM EDT Updated Fri, Jun 21 2024 5:13 PM EDT

> Offshore wind is among the sources of new power generation that will cost the most, at about $100 per megawatt hour for new projects connecting to the grid in 2028, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration. That includes tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act, which reduces the cost of renewable technologies. But onshore wind is one of the cheapest sources, at about $31 on average for new projects.

I mean, I can see how numbers wise this decision makes sense.

> I don't see any systematic protection against this?

Snyk

His statement is still correct, even though he inverted the sign.

Fewer hours asleep means 2 more hours awake.

I consider myself a fairly normal person. On a recent flight from Istanbul to Taipei, I checked the flight path to make sure it wasn't flying over any "suspect" countries.

> In some parts of the internet > leaky gut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_gut_syndrome

It seems Rogan lets his guests cook and sits back with amusement.

I think it started with Razzlekhan the Bitcoin launderer.

Let's say every year your portfolio goes up 10%. Every year you borrow 3%. You never pay down the principal, and I think you can just let the interest payment get added to the principal. Also, the interest is tax-deductible.

Seizing it would also have the secondary effect of a mass exodus of investment capital from the country, like capital flight in China.

A more reasonable way is to seize it is through taxation, either by a wealth tax or tax on unrealized gains, but it would be very difficult to implement.

> "Vegetation covered less than 0.4 square miles of the Antarctic Peninsula in 1986 but had reached almost 5 square miles by 2021."

The Princess Bride. Some parts make me tear up, and I don't think I'm a softie.

+1 for Office Space that others mentioned.

Not true. Fees and interest if you owe and probably nothing if you overpaid.

To my knowledge the 40-yard dash (NFL combine) timer starts when the runner starts.

I don't think this method would be as entertaining to watch.

> Chevron is, as you know, an enormous fossil fuel corp. The simplest and best method of improving the environment would be simply to shut down their oil and gas operations.

The catastrophic levels of human deaths resulting from food shortages and supply chain disruption (and basically everything supporting civilization) would surely lower global CO2 emissions!

Potential problem: all three leagues are dominated by men, and no one watches leagues B or C.

The article says that many people with this condition don't even know until much later. So they were born, raised, and identified with a certain gender all their lives. It's hardly "using an identity."

Getting untrained people to do a one rep squat / bench / deadlift seems unsafe. It's probably easier to just do genetic testing or get biological markers and draw the line that way.

Genetic advantages as Phelps' seal-like features and Kawhi Leonard's giant hands and wingspan are culturally acceptable and even celebrated.

The BBC article doesn't seem to claim that there is no genetic advantage. I learned from it that there is some gray area in biological gender.

It may very well be that after this Olympics, the IOC will have to draw some arbitrary line (e.g., if you are a female with testosterone-sensitive Y chromosome, then you can't compete with females).

It is possible that the top athletes in many sports have a yet to be discovered rare genetic condition that allows their body to recover faster, gives them faster twitch muscles and supreme mental focus. That's certainly a genetic advantage.

There's papers that I haven't read or analyzed but I just trust the summary.

https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/en/research/cfa-digest/2015/10/...

I also listen to some trustworthy YouTubers like Plain Bagel and Ben Felix.

Stock markets are often uncorrelated with their country's GDP growth / decline.

Wix, on the other hand, is a website builder, not a cyber security firm.

2 hours for commute / eating / hygiene

You don't even have to stand next to them. They could smoke on their balconies several stories down and it'll drift through your bedroom window.

I think the $700 of fast gains won't feel like $700, so you probably wouldn't experience the full utility of whatever fancy thing you buy.

I see diversity (appearance) as a signaling tactic, and it's not always bad.

For example, I'm looking for a friendly kickboxing gym. I scroll through photos of various gyms and if I see a wall of tough looking men, I, a fellow man, am intimidated. If I see some women sprinkled in there, I think hey maybe this place is open and friendly and they won't punch my face off.

Same could apply to jobs. Of course we do want diversity of thought and experience but that's harder to measure upfront.

There's this theory that illegitimate or fast gains lead people to not value the gains as much, thus more frivolous purchases.

I spent a month in a co-living community in some village in Austria. They were a diverse group of professionals from a variety of backgrounds (programmers, architect, doctor). They often ate meals together in the community kitchen and we would work in the garden together. I thought before arriving it was a hippy commune but it definitely wasn't. I had a lovely time.

Anyways one family with three children were doing this unschooling thing and the kids seemed well-socialized and explored their own interests. The oldest daughter went to Vienna a lot to take acting classes or something.

I thought it was a fine idea but that it took a lot of resources - one parent was always home and because of the community it was like the kids were being raised by the whole village. There were other kids to hang out with and plenty of space to do stuff. It seemed like you'd need a certain degree of wealth and structure to make it work.

In suburban America, I think it'd be a lot more challenging. The only American homeschoolers I've met were well-off Christians (again, wealth + community).