I can't help noticing how many people on this forum are parking a portion of their cash in i-bonds. These are 20-year bonds, right? I'm trying to think through what would happen to an i-bond purchased today at a relatively high rate of interest if rates suddenly plummeted and the Fed went back into...

Nice Chinese spy balloon, Dualstow!

The journey continues: I went into my local branch because the rental fee is going up big-time. My teller happened to be the branch manager and he informed me that the bank as a whole are "pulling away from safe deposit boxes." Well shit. Not FDIC insured, not waterproof... He recommended a home sa...

Speaking of electricity, there's a really interesting video about how it doesn't work the way we usually think it does. Start with the end of this video, which sets up the thought experiment: https://youtu.be/bHIhgxav9LY?t=700 And then move on to the followup video which really does a great job of e...

Tortoise wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:02 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:47 pm

Elon’s tweet reminded me of Tortoise twice over.

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Ohm gonna pretend Elon didn’t make such a corny joke about electricity.

It was shocking, really.

Yes, in Plano. Outside the Plano DPS when my wife went to get her license there was an employee standing outside shouting that this is a Federal Building and mask mandates are in effect. They are still by appointment only at that location. There shouldn't be anything federal about the Plano DPS. Th...

I went into a big chain hospital today. No masking requirements for entry or otherwise. I gather that this is still not the case in some US states? In my part of Western Massachusetts it is always masks for anything medically related. I think that might be the only places where that is the case. No...

...Sound Blaster I remember when I first got into PC building (this was like 2005 or so), it was a serious faux pas amongst enthusiasts to use onboard audio. To be fair, those sound blaster cards were REALLY good at creating spatial audio. The usual snide remark about onboard audio was "do you real...

Write a description of downtown Antigua, Guatemala using the style of prose of Ernest Hemingway. The morning sun cast its golden hue on the cobblestone streets of Antigua, Guatemala. The centuries-old architecture, with its ornate facades of brightly painted stucco, seemed almost to glimmer in the ...

Maddy wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:39 pm

C'mon, everybody's heard of Queen Nephrotiti.

Is she the one that died of kidney failure?

I would just like to point out again that debt as a currency user (an individual, a household, a state, a country with a currency that's backed or pegged) is qualitatively a completely different thing from debt as a currency issuer (a nation-state with its own fiat currency).

vnatale wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:16 pm

From the above which I prior posted (if the information is accurate):

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You asked how one could stage 12 documents: And, I believe the number 12 has gone up since your earlier post.

During an interview on "60 Minutes" from September, Biden was asked about the viral photograph of top secret documents spread across the floor by the FBI following the raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. "When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at...

carrgordon wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:38 pm

Unfortunately, you're right, George Washington never got to see the development of the West Coast offense or any of the other advancements in football strategy.

Welcome, carrgordon! Do you prefer the barbell or the bullet strategy for bonds?

Well, it turns out that Fidelity does not have a fee to sell either of the mutual funds I transferred over (VTSAX and VWIAX [Wellesley-- forgot about that one]. They said that the fee pertains only to Vanguard mutual funds purchased through Fidelity. So this is very good news. Now I simply need to ...

During an interview on "60 Minutes" from September, Biden was asked about the viral photograph of top secret documents spread across the floor by the FBI following the raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. "When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at...

Couldn't you move those mutual fund holdings back to Vanguard to sell them?

I used to have a crush on Cate Planchet. True story, I had an ex lover that looked just like her, if you drank just two martinis. She also came complete with her own venezuelan female bisexual lover. Made for an exciting summer. Back to silver.....outstanding deal here:https://bullionexchanges.com/...

Do you have leash laws for cats where in live in Texas??!! I have never heard of such a thing. I have lived in my house for over 40 years now and the obedience of all the dog owners in my neighborhood to the dog leash laws is so strong that I cannot remember the last time someone's dog came on my p...

vnatale wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:52 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:19 pm

her name’s Lily!

Thanks! I have forgot that fact!

This one looks exactly like one of mine and I'm sure that if she was in the same situation she'd act the same .....

That one looks to be in violation of the leash law, to the detriment of local wildlife.

Pay a guy to run ethernet cables. Even theoretically perfect wifi has all kinds of interference and latency. https://www.gnswireless.com/info/full-duplex-vs-half-duplex Or use the google Nest extenders Hear, hear. A wire is always the best answer if it's possible. I'm a big wired believer myself. W...

Pay a guy to run ethernet cables. Even theoretically perfect wifi has all kinds of interference and latency. https://www.gnswireless.com/info/full-duplex-vs-half-duplex Or use the google Nest extenders I did run an ethernet cable connected to the back of this main router in this room, put it throug...

Are you sure the electrical monitor doesn't have a wired connector, since you're running a wire anyway?

I think I have just favorite lines and scenes, like “ nojo on the rojo. ” Sometimes it’s nice to review the show, like slipping into a warm bath. Familiarity + 90s nostalgia. "90s TV nostalgia" (particularly for a show on Fox) reminded me of this phenomenal article about how Rupert Murdoch got the ...

Glennds and vantale, I hereby invoke Godwin's law. If you're really being serious, Godwin's law is mostly aimed at the use of Hitler comparisons in the context of the Holocaust which you know is not the case here. Godwin's law itself can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, diversion o...