Recent content by daedalus

Waymo toxic, you say?

Is the 2nd statement not the result of the 1st statement? How do you truly teach self-sufficiency and foment ambition if you're "sharing resources"?

The question touches on the paradox of family wealth. Poor parents raise hungry kids who do well and then have kids of their own who are never hungry, and then they or their kids go broke. Often there's a middle class generation too between poor and rich. Can you truly teach someone the value...

My point was more about the rising difficulty with making it in the world overall vs an individual's particular situation. If anything your parents probably support my point. Even ignoring political immigration barriers, could your parents have gotten as far if they immigrated here today, not...

I am just shocked you got to speak to an actual live human being. It's too long ago for me to remember the specifics, but when my daughter was born I had a similar clusterfuge of a time getting paid out for parental leave.

I'm expecting 5+ year old trusts to help protect the assets, but you're right, that's a big consideration. At some point state laws regarding such matters might play a factor in where we retire.

I don't for a second believe that a young person today can work just as hard as I did and likely achieve what I achieved financially, any more than I could have worked just as hard as my father and have a house and a family on a single salary like he had, with a golden lifetime pension to boot...

You're not into the beaver bucktooth styling? At least prior refreshes allowed you to trace the visual lineage. This is a bit too much.

Absolutely just f'ing nailed that swing. Congrats again Momo! I bit a few days too early, but right there with you. Helps a bit to take the sting off BRK from the past month.

You got your wish!

Revenue? No. People like to say that costco gets its profit from membership fees, but that's just how the numbers happen to size up. They're still subject to the same laws of economic physics as anyone else. If COGS goes up, profit goes down, all else being equal. They'll have to push...

Stocks getting hammered due to the tariffs. Every stock I own--and I own quite a few--are down today, except for 2. 1 is a foreign stock, and the other is COSTCO, which on the surface would seem to be impacted by the tariffs more than most. Go figure. Got in on NVDA and added to META and...

You don't have to "turn off" your EVs?

Nice hacks! Legoland was our go-to theme park when my daughter was little. Back then, they still had the Star Wars garden. Her first couple times there, she could spend all day on the helicopters if we let her. It was way better than Disneyland, which cost much more, and felt like much...

NVDA and META threatening their support points.