Recent content by photoguy

If you look at MC papers that try to model the impact of current conditions (i.e. US market PE and bond yields), I think to maintain the same 5% failure rate, you need to drop the withdrawal rate by maybe 0.5 - 1%. I don't remember the exact number and of course it depends on the specific study.

You just described the difference between conditional and marginal probability. You might think that a conditional probability is always better because it's accounting for more factors, but this isn't always the case. Especially when you don't have much data. Bottom line is that you'll never...

The hard drive in my wife's 2012 iMac is dying so I just ordered an 500gb 850 evo. Boy have SSDs come down in price -- it was only $150. I could buy 4 of them and make a blazing fast raid working disk. The iMac is the one with the thin bezel so for now, I'm not going to take it apart and just...

For my data, I use rsync from the command line to backup to 3.5" drives which are stored unconnected. Maybe about 4tb base size. 2 copies unconnected + 1 copy offsite. When I want to make a backup, I just pop it into a USB drive dock. I use CCC to make bootable clones of just the boot drive on...

I've been thinking about doing this for my wife's iMac. Did you use a USB3 case or TB? and how fast was the SSD. Re the original post. I'm very happy with my 5k iMac. Main reason I've been on mac's is that it gives me unix plus all my photography programs. Trackpad with gestures is far superior...

I'd start by looking at this list: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-issuers-participating-in-the-individual-health-insurance-marketplace/ and examine states with the most issuers. Then narrow it down to where you might live in each state and go on the exchange. For longer...

+1 There's a huge difference in social mobility in Can vs US. I suspect many of the factors that lead to increased mobility also cause can to score higher in the OP study.

Seems like a reasonable guideline but in practice this is not really that concrete for a 40 year old. The issue is that many retirement expenses are backloaded into old age. Especially medical and long term care. At 40, you might spend nothing more than premiums.

That depends on the particular study and you would need to dig into the implementation details to check. I'm pretty sure there a bunch that don't assume independence.

I don't even know what are the major cable brands. If I go to amazon and type in USB-C, I've never heard of the companies that show up. They all sound like fly-by-night companies to me. That's interesting. I didn't think it was possible due to the design of the plug.

I can't say that I'm a fan of usb-c. The whole issue with bad cables is just a nightmare. I'm never getting back the time I spent figuring out what was safe and wouldn't fry my phone. On laptops, I'd rather have MagSafe. Sent from my iPad using Early Retirement Forum

There are a bunch of prepaid plans you can get in Canada. The one that seemed to be the best was 7-11s speakeasy plan. Bu good luck getting a sim. Tried multiple store and they were sold out with no clue when they would get more in. How the heck can you run out of sim chips? Also couldn't order...

It's in the paper, somewhere near the end. Paraphrasing the argument against being able to pick the skillful manager who outperforms goes something like this: 1. there are say 100 managers that have outperformed the market 2. but under random guessing, we'd expect 95 managers to outperform the...

I read this paper (the actual paper, not the summary) a long time ago. It's a good paper and interesting read. It also explains why simple comparisons such as benchmarking ones portfolio against the S&P 500 is not the right thing to do. As I recall, they did have evidence for a small amount of...

Do you know what was the mechanism for reduced premiums? I'm struggling with this because if there's a fixed amount of health care that is needed, separating people into different buckets shouldn't change the overall and average cost. Did they deliver less healthcare on net? or were they...