mbbutler

I like the idea of FIRE but so many of its practitioners developed their passive income by becoming parasitic landlords. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

You're not lowering anything because the listed minimums aren't what is actually required.

All you're doing is filtering for people who are willing to bullshit their way into a job.

Yes, the authors published their article in the Journal of Bioethics, which is exactly where this type of article/argument is supposed to be published.

What is your complaint exactly?

At this point, I really don't care if some people who plead down to non-violent charges get released along with the immense number of actual non-violent offenders.

> When I talked to her about it, she was very much on the side that she wished she didn't have to study for it because it didn't have much to do with her job at all.

I assume you're referring to your ex's exam to become Board Certified in her specialty, which, if you are, makes this statement incredibly hard to believe.

A specialty's Board exam is comprised of simulated cases from that specialty. Your ex wouldn't have to prep for geriatric internal medicine or stroke rehab in pm&r. Basically everything asked in the exam for board certification is related to one's specialty.

It is not a general exam like the STEP exams.

While also significantly increasing the energy input of the earth.

The 17% false positive rate could be a large problem here depending on the prevalence of asymptomatic infection.

It's not that tough of a sell when you consider that many/most medical students are math-phobic and would most likely be unable to obtain a high-paying SWE gig in lieu of becoming a doctor.

There is a significant difference between the skillset that produces a medical student (work ethic and drive) and a SWE (analytical reasoning).

Yeah, it's a shame. I have a Bolt and absolutely love it.

Chevy and Hyundai already offer EVs with better range than the Model 3 SR+ at a lower cost.

Thanks for the sentiment. I assume it has something to do with speaking favorably about an EV vehicle that isn't a Tesla while in a Tesla thread.

I honestly don't know. I got a 2019 at the end of this year right before the 2020's were released. I had found a couple decent deals on Hyundai Konas, which still have the full federal tax credit, and when I pointed this out to the Chevy dealer they came back with a significant amount of dealer cash back.

In the end I got $9k off from the dealer and $2k off from a Maine-exclusive tax credit that is related to VW's emissions fraud settlement.

I think I just got really lucky.

Your Model 3 also cost ~$15k more than my bolt. Possibly even more since I was able to get out the door for $25k before taxes and ~$2k tax refund.

The Tesla competitor to the Bolt is not the Model 3 Long Range, it is the Model 3 SR with ~250 miles of range. The 2020 Bolt beats the Model 3 SR in terms of both range and price.

There are some good EVs that can compete with Tesla's range. The Hyundai Kona has a range of 258 miles and the Chevy Bolt has a range of 238-258, depending on if you get the 2019 or 2020 model.

I own a Bolt in Maine and absolutely love it.

Oh, I'm sorry. I misread your first claim. I thought you said the benefit WAS linear.

The benefit is linear but the distribution of people getting it is not evenly distributed around the middle of the benefit range. Therefore the average benefit is not just the mean of the min and max SS benefits.

> 2. Avg social security is ~25k/yr (mostly untaxed)

Where are you getting that number?

One source I found said that the average SS benefit in January 2019 was $1461/month which works out to $17.5k/year. [0] This seems to agree with the SSA's snapshot from May. [1]

[0] https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/social-security/ar...

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/

It doesn't look like the drivers get any tactile feedback from the wheel or the seat. Am I correct in that understanding?

The supply of doctors is limited by the availability of residency positions, not medical school seats. Congress needs to start funding more residencies or relaxing the regulations on foreign doctors coming to practice in the US.

Would that not risk heating the brain and injuring the neurons?

The UK will be faster, but that does not mean it will necessarily be better. What are you goals post-PhD? Are trying to stay in Academia? If so, then the US is most likely better.

On the average, US PhD students graduate with more, and higher impact, publications than UK PhD students. The reason for this is that US PhD graduation is typically contingent upon producing two or three significant publications in your field. So you might have to stay for six or seven years, but you will have an established publication record when you leave.

As far as I am aware of, no such publication requirement exists for any UK university. UK PhD graduation is contingent upon completing a thesis and viva (defense) but often times the research within the thesis has not yet been published. There is typically a period after PhD graduation where UK students then focus on publishing.

No. You want people who are able to pass the STEP exams, complete an ACGME residency, and become Board Certified to end up becoming doctors. That is the only metric we should be using and, as it stands, there are significantly more people capable of overcoming those hurdles than the US currently allows the opportunity.

I agree. Why do we let the Boomers vote as they continue to drive us ever closer towards the deleterious effects of severe climate change?

Exactly. Gates is being too cute by half here.

He starts by claiming that only 25% of greenhouse gases come from making electricity; a fact that is technically true but very misleading. He then goes on to name the contributors of the other 75% and almost all of them (with the exception of methane from farming) produce carbon through using energy in the form of fossil fuels.

Solving the energy production problem solves the vast majority of these other problems.

Reminds me of this tweet:

SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot

https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lan...

That's what OpenAI claims, but there have been too many insta-hex/euls moments for me to believe that. Players are shift-queing blink+AoE spells and getting hexed in between the two abilities. That's way faster than a 200 ms reaction time.

I think OpenAI might have a bug with how they're adding reaction time.

I don't think the rear is black because light can't catch up. The craft is moving slower than the speed of light at that point.

Is it possible that the rear light has been red shifted so much that it is no longer within the visible spectrum?

The "competitive advantage" that many countries offer has always had more to do with their willingness to grind their workers into bone meal than any sort of technological or agricultural capability.