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This is an issue that matters for the younger among us, especially those with children. It saddens me that so many here has such a dismissive, if not downright cruel, attitude about the future of humanity. I really think whoever came up with the slogan "save the earth/planet" really screwed it...

Someone joked about this, but evidently coronavirus parties are a thing now: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/25/coronavirus-party-young-kentucky-partygoer-has-covid-19-says-beshear/5076632002/ It's a great way to increase herd immunity (revenge of the kids for "chickenpox...

<sarcasm/joke> I think the young are just trying to re-balance the books. Financial resources are skewed towards the old, so this thing is just the ticket to save social security, medicare, pensions etc. since it kills the old and largely spares the young. It's a wonder governments worldwide...

Both NSA and CIA had fingers in the pie - refer to article. Also, VeraCrypt kinda took over for TrueCrypt. The source code is open and freely available - anyone care to audit it? :D

Anyone heard about Crypto AG? Evidently they sold cryptographic devices to governments worldwide with backdoors for the NSA and BND (Germany). I suspect this is a reason why the US is deathly afraid of Huawei. It only takes one party using compromised equipment to compromise everybody on the...

Except that everyone is confined to quarters and "basic" food is brought to them. "All we have been informed [sic] is 14 days quarantine on the ship. That means we've got no interaction with other passengers, food is brought to the room. It's really basic food, nothing like we've enjoyed on the...

The global response, shutting down borders, quarantines, etc., is not really about how bad the new virus is or how many it has infected (though as stated before the mortality rate is much higher than the flu, at least 10x). The response is meant to contain and hopefully eliminate the virus...

You can get one of those "action cameras" that come with a waterproof case or are already waterproof. Walmart has them for about $25. They come with mounts, so you could also attach them somewhere on the boat and get some navigational videos too. Of course I'd test them out in a bucket of...

It is likely spreading easier than first reported. WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak A Global Health Emergency: That third part is most worrying. WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak A Global Health Emergency...

Recycled jokes are trash. Because you recycle what would otherwise be trash, get it? Nevermind, I'll show myself out...

If you're flying, wash your hands after the security checkpoint. The trays used for the xrays are the most bacteria and virus laden part of the airport. https://qz.com/1395922/the-dirtiest-parts-of-the-airport-are-the-security-line-trays/ Also, probably a good idea to wipe down the luggage...

I hear the pythons there are pretty tasty as well. :laugh:

Came to this thread expecting a nice list of cities with "no fee" "fare-free" "zero-fare" public transportation I might utilize when traveling. Instead found another contentious thread, this time debating the word "free." Maybe it's just the threads I'm clicking on, but it seems this board has...

I think people do a real disservice when they say "save the earth" "fight global warming" or somesuch nonsense. The earth doesn't need "saving" - it has been much hotter before. Who cares if the earth heats up by a few degrees. The earth doesn't mind, the solar system doesn't care, and heck...

That reminds me of the humorous article: "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" Full article here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column-column.html "Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of...

Price discovery doesn't matter much when the vast majority of funds is pushing everything up and making them all overvalued. This article touches on the voting issue but also covers the bubbliness of everything now...

How did this devolve into another generational warfare thread? Anyways, relevance: relation to the matter at hand The question is, what is the "matter at hand?" Without knowing that, "irrelevant" just seems like a general complaint that no one values your opinion anymore.

Yup: world debt at record high. See the current thread here: www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/world-debt-increase-101672-2.html The other reaction with such low yields is to put more into stocks/real estate vs bonds, pushing asset prices up.

This is a very dense read. My take is that 800 years of records show declining real interest rates. Which means the current low rate environment is not an aberration, but rather a return to historical trends. I guess that means don't expect rates to rise anytime soon. Though one can always...

Some objective evidence that j*bs are getting worse: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/12/05/understanding-the-us-economy-lots-of-rotten-jobs Basically, the quality of jobs have been in decline since the 90s: "The US Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) measures the ratio of...

The "negative interest rate" appear to be another form of Freigold, "money with an expiration date," something theorized in 1891 as a way to keep money moving instead of being hoarded and causing "poverty amid plenty."...

And inevitably it leads to a negative interest rate mortgage: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-launches-worlds-first-negative-interest-rate-mortgage On the surface it seems implausibly good - I'd sign up for a $1 billion mortgage and live off the -0.6% interest...

It has been a while since I last watched it, but I don't recall a scene with any space travel in it at all. I know they _talk_ a lot about space travel, but no actual space.

World population is around 7 billion now and projected to level off around 10b as birth rates are dropping. This of course implies the world has to be aging as well: "The world's older population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Today, 8.5 percent of people worldwide (617 million)...

I created a "Late Retirement Extreme" forum catering to those who plan to die at their desks and remain undiscovered for the longest times possible (got to keep those paychecks coming ya' know). It will include plans on how to mask the smell and some really cool Raspberry PI and Arduino...