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We literally bought a special wall rack for such items.
Austen Allred@Austen
My wife was asking me why I have a pile of clothes next to the dirty clothes hamper. I had to explain to her.. those aren’t dirty. They’re *not quite* dirty. I wore them, yes, so you can’t put them back on a hanger. But I didn’t wear them enough for them to be dirty.
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@florianederer Something by George Thoroughgood, maybe Bad to the Bone
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It's time for one of my favorite nights of the year: Karaoke with my MBA students
Hit me with your song suggestions.
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"Americans who are working from home have reclaimed 60 million hours that they used to spend commuting to an office each day. They’re now using that time to get more sleep instead."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@ritholtz If you're into sci fi, amazon.com/Inherit-Stars-… is a good thought experiment on the origin of the moon, among other things.
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Amazing 3D simulation of a giant impact onto the early Earth that could explain the origin of the Moon immediately after the collision.
This opens up new options for the early Moon's orbit, composition, and internal structure
youtu.be/AQmeomxvokM
YouTube
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@ZachWeiner @AnnieDuke wrote about it, I'm looking forward to seeing what she said.
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So, a lot of songs my kid listens to have some variation on the phrase "I'll never give up!" This is clearly a bad cost-benefit analysis. What would be a better framework for pop music?
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@jaminwestby @elonmusk Microwave is a kw, but it's only on for a minute or two. I mean, if it's cloudy for days in the winter maybe don't do that, but otherwise you should be fine.
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@GoBigAndHome @elonmusk It’s the: can we run our microwave at night while watching tv 😂. Our power draw at night is incredibly minimal, about 200w at most. All our appliances are either propane or we run it at day with the sun.
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Ok, so everything I read about Powerwalls, no one recommends 1 Powerwall. We have no furnace, no A/C. Mostly propane appliances. We live off-grid on 4kw lead acid batteries at night. Propane generator backup. 1 Powerwall doubles our overnight storage. Any issues using just 1 PW?
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@jaminwestby @elonmusk If you're confident in your load calculations, then any battery that provides that amount of power (assuming you can generate enough to refill it) ought to work. No reason why you can't use a single power wall!
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@elonmusk have you seen deployments of single Powerwalls be successful? Our off-grid usage is so small compared to what a powerwall can deliver.
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Another year, another Halloween where @ZachWeiner is a "responsible adult", and explains to me that it would be disrespectful to use plastic skeletons to make it look like the dead are rising from the old graveyard on our farm...
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Two thoughts from Bill Watterson
“I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.”
“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”
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Either our current leaders are truly inept (that is our fault for voting them in)..or their seeming ineptitude is on purpose
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This is where people live the longest in the United States trib.al/yVjmSNV
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@dollarsanddata Fwiw, I'm genx/millennial border and have always managed my own portfolio. 97% stock/bond indexes, 3% individual stocks and other outrageous investments - angel, crypto, Jack-assery.
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Younger investors (far more than older investors) think they can manage their money better than professionals.
I wonder how much of this is ignorance (i.e. no bear market experience) vs. a belief in passive investing (i.e. they know most professionals can’t beat indices).
Michael Finke@FinkeonFinance
This is the second survey where I've seen this and the magnitude is pretty shocking - younger investors believe they're better at managing investments than professionals. More than twice as many under 45 think they can beat the pros vs. investors 55 and older. N=2,500
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The moment that happens, the top 80 entries on google will be citation-free descriptions of the supposed fact. If you want the truth, you'll have to hunt down some obscure book from 1974 that is actually saying something different, using a reference from 1823.
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One of the weird things to explain to an early Internet person would've been the way it becomes almost impossible to research something online once it becomes a factoid. Somewhere out there is a fact about sex in ancient Carthage waiting to be detached from context and listicled.
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@jposhaughnessy @brainpicker Personality trumping character was a mistake of our recent culture, IMHO.
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"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion on Self-Respect themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/joa… via @brainpicker
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@EnergyVanguard @emporia_energy Are the spikes an electric resistance stovetop? That's such a high frequency of draw! The dhw guess for the large jump sounds reasonable.
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Hmmm. What’s going on here? This a screenshot of my @emporia_energy Vue electricity monitor this evening.
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Twitter algorithm really enjoys filling your feed with threads from people you don’t follow, huh?
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