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 Finally discovered you can bring up the transcript for any video, disable time stamps, select all the text & copy it to a text editor.  Then you can search it or skim it without scrubbing through the video. Normally the transcript window only shows a few lines at a time.  It allows drag selecting the entire video though. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   It came to pass that for all dividends where at least 50% came from interest on treasuries, the fraction of the dividends comprised of interest on treasuries was exempt from state tax.  This didn't matter for a generation because interest was 0, but all that changed in 2023. Taxpayers are expected to research the percentage of all their dividends which is from treasuries.  It was negligible in times of negative interest.  The percentage is listed in the back of the brokerage statement, in a section called INCOM...
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100% stonk portfolios again

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Another day, another gootuber promoting the 100% stonk portfolio.  Lions have found equal numbers for & against it.  The mane problem continues to be their reliance on historic data. There's no historic record of current 3x government debt to GDP ratios, 20x housing cost to income ratios, & current population decline.  The fact is the last significant population decline, the black plague, was also the last time interest rates went way above inflation.  The trend lasted 700 years, until the great depression.   No-one promoting 100% stonk is really 100% in stonk.  Every single one of them has a large cash position to avoid selling in a down market.  What they consider 100% is always just 1 account.  Cable guy is 100% stonk in his 401k but has 27% of his total in a separate all cash account. Lions have no accounts 100% in stonk but in total have more money in stonks than some of the poorer gootubers who claim to be 100% in stonk & none of...
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 Bangkok is still standing, but lions pondered why the high rises swayed as much as they did.  Normally, they don't sway enough to see it on camera.  There was a collapse of a high rise under construction by a chinese company.  That might have been a real tofu building, but it collapsed from the top down.  It might have been uncured concrete on the top floors combined with risky placement of workers below it.  Many smaller buildings in Myanmar collapsed.  The pixelated building King Power Mahanakhon was designed by a German company. The internet has nothing on who designed the 3 towers: Park Origin Thonglor.  Those were swaying the most. Noted they were swaying at the base, which makes lions ponder if the foundations went to bedrock.  They're obviously built on silt from the river.  Anything not built on bedrock is going to bob around like a boat. Surprised no elevated roads in Bangkok collapsed.   A bridge in Myanmar collapsed...
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 The lion kingdom has started facing the problem of forward compatibility where legacy libraries are getting phased out, starting with libpng. For now, there is a makefile rule which copies that 1 library from the build system to the bin directory.  If it doesn't find the exact version in the build system, it ignores it.  That way, another user on another system can build it without encountering an error.  Past lion actually encountered this problem & manually kept a copy of libpng in the bin directory, but the reason was forgotten. In the long term, there could be a script which automatically copies over everything in the ldd output except for entries like ld-linux in an exclude list.  The biggest problem lions have been struggling with is the case of just wanting to build a program for local use instead of distribution.  It really needs a way to select between a distribution build & a local build.  The libpng rule might have to be inside...
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The generation Z gootube continues to put out a lot more child prodigies & over achievers than the millennial gootube.  LaurieWired is another one joining the ranks of child prodigies with AlbertaTech.  The child prodigy category is the ones who are obviously gifted.  The over achiever category is Katherout, Taylor Bell, According to Nicole .  They're not gifted but obviously worked as hard as gen X.  After 2 generations who were complaining about how poor they were, gen Z is the 1st to brag about how much they have. They lived with their parents until their mid 20's.  They're not living above their means.  They really have a lot of money. Was intrigued that LaurieWired went from FL state undergrad straight to Goog & Microsoft instead of more traditional paths like MIT or a master's.  Getting into a top tier company just once was an impossible dream for lions, yet gootube prodigies did it multiple times, bouncing from 1 top tier compa...
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  Stuck at 4:25+ for the last few 26.5 mile attempts, with a lot of cramping.  The weather is progressively getting warmer but the problem seems to be more cumulative fatigue.  The wall hit at 23.5 miles today. Recalibrated the motors at mile 14.  Burned 190/mile & 196/mile, about as efficient as this route ever was. Still subjectively getting slightly better results from Gu than Nuun electrolyte. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dentist convention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some sounds from long ago that lions completely forgot in the last 35 years.  It's the kind of sudden reappearance of past memories that happens when you're about to die, but sound has a bigger role in lion memories than other animals.
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The industry seems to have begun a new push for the general purpose robot.  Lions are about as skeptical as natural languages for programming & full self driving ever being idiot proof.  The general purpose robot is pretty much what animals have striven for from the beginning, a single tool that does everything.  There have been more general purpose tools than others.  They win engagement until the next single purpose tool is invented & they start pondering how to replace the new single purpose tool with a general purpose tool.  Lion studies of legged robots showed wheels are far ahead in most applications.  Energy storage is the mane problem.  Legs are only advantageous in off road travel.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Got 6 pullups in a row.  Next black toenail got started.  Every election. -------------------------------------------...
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