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  1. Mist

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-ultragear-27-nano-ips-qhd-1-ms-g-sync-compatible-monitor-with-hdr-black/6451081.p?skuId=6451081 This is about the best deal you're gonna get on a 'good' 27 inch...
  2. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Or if bond rates tank, you could sell some for a massive profit and invest it in some divvy stocks.
  3. Mist

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Yeah, maybe. Between the Eyes is also probably a lot less good when you lose combo points from switching targets.
  4. Mist

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Rogues are insane at level 25 though. Between the Eyes will just make them even more absurd. I'm sure they'll have better runes by 60.
  5. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    YTD on SPY is 20.31%, so pretty bad? What were the two previous years like for you?
  6. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Yes, at my most cynical, this is always what I think. But the real translation is that people really only measure their circumstances as a delta vs the people around them, and where they were within recent memory.
  7. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I'm not saying it's great right now. I'm saying that 600k in 2003 actually feels a lot richer than 1 mil right now. Housing is a bitch. Just tell your kids they ain't going to college. It's not worth it unless they get into a top 20 school anyway.
  8. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    If I had 600k in 2003 I definitely would have felt pretty rich or at least extremely comfortable. I would have invested 11/12ths of that and would be very rich right now. I had 16k in the bank in 2003 and felt like I was doing much better than most of my friends.
  9. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Modern 'Pro' drives have plenty of durability for it to not be a concern. Platters are probably better if you need more than 4TB worth of storage, you can get 8-12TB drives fairly cheap.
  10. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162148 This is a really good price for this motherboard. It's one of the best upper-midrange options for Z790, has a diagnostic readout, and is a new release as of last month, so it has the latest support built in.
  11. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

  12. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    Yeah, honestly, at this point it doesn't matter. If you don't regulate, Big Tech gets to run roughshod over everyone with their infinite piles of money and entrenched advantage. If you do regulate, they have infinite piles of money to comply with while their competitors don't. The war got...
  13. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    This is about regulating the very largest models. This is about keeping large corporations and governments from using AI against YOU, not about regulating open source and/or distributed models which are much smaller and tend towards task-optimized tuning. You're playing into big tech's...
  14. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    This is basic psychometrics. No one refutes this, this is not forbidden knowledge. Your runty Y chromosomes create all sorts of problems, of which this is one symptom. "They're hiding this thing you can find in any second-year psych textbook."
  15. Mist

    For All Mankind

    Season one was consistently strong but S2 did a way better job ramping up the tension toward the end.
  16. Mist

    EVE Online

    Infinitely easier to stop cheating on PS3.
  17. Mist

    For All Mankind

    IDK what happened to the writers with this show. It's terrible. EDIT: I will say that previous seasons 2 and 3 also started off weak. It's not impossible for them to turn this around, but I don't see a path to it.
  18. Mist

    EVE Online

    Yes.
  19. Mist

    Lending money to friends?

    "Don't" is the obvious and expected response. I was just wondering if anyone had encountered an outlier outcome, perhaps using a feature native to one of the major payment apps that I'm not aware of. @Denamian can shaw this if he wants.
  20. Mist

    Lending money to friends?

    I did google it and came up with a bunch of bad answers. And I did get the expected response of "Don't."
  21. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    The dollar had a very strong day, regaining quite a bit of its recent losses.
  22. Mist

    Lending money to friends?

    I meant more significant sums. I wanna be able to blank out their debts and get repaid in a structured manner.
  23. Mist

    Lending money to friends?

    Anyone know of a platform that's good for lending money to friends? Like a microlending type thing almost? I have been very blessed the past 3-4 years and made a lot of money and spent very, very little (aside from my monitor addiction) and I would like to help some friends pay off their...
  24. Mist

    EVE Online

    So, speaking of EVE, is anyone hyped for EVE Vanguard?
  25. Mist

    The Front (survival / base building / battlefield?)

    That's too bad. This looks great aside from not being in space.
  26. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    He completed being CEO for 55:32, in the any% completed category. Which is also a sly dig at the fact that he accomplished nothing during his speedrun aside from holding the company together long enough for the real CEO to come back.
  27. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    This is amazing. Maybe the best tweet ever.
  28. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    That's another movie I love.
  29. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Larry Summers on the new board of OpenAI, lol we're doomed.
  30. Mist

    EVE Online

    No, lol, that's uncanny though.
  31. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  32. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    lol rip (the good kind) imagine how much money this company could make if chip production wasn't completely fucking bottlenecked by it all being in Taiwan aka up China's ballsack.
  33. Mist

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    How can you ruin something that was stupid from the start?
  34. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    I've seen this movie and it was only okay. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
  35. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    We should have a mini-contest to see where people think the market will end up at end of year, if they want to update their opinions.
  36. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  37. Mist

    For All Mankind

    Orbital mechanics are really hard even for the very smartest people to think about.
  38. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    This is interesting and also true, a rare combo these days.
  39. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Marc is serious about this. And the "forced to use Teams" memes just keep coming. Marc picking up even a few dozen team members would be huge for CRM.