Professional_Bike647
Professional_Bike647 t1_j299pbf wrote
Reply to comment by Invest0rnoob1 in When did gambling on the stock market become people's financial planning? by f00dl3
>People in the US are investing because they have no other choice.
I'm aware. It's one of the major arguments of our boomers why "we" don't have to invest like Americans have to, because we have that great pension system that will take care of everyone [who was born before 1970 /silent part loud].
Hence my initial statement. Young EU-folks are now forced to begin building just the same mindset that has been in the US for decades.
Professional_Bike647 t1_j297iqs wrote
Reply to comment by Invest0rnoob1 in When did gambling on the stock market become people's financial planning? by f00dl3
You US folks at least have some personal investing mentality. In EU (especially Germany) pensions will fail big time too, yet basically nobody is investing. Boomers are alright because their pensions are fat. Young folks will (probably) be fine because they realized that a train is speeding towards the pension system and investing is mandatory. Everybody in between (too young to get a boomer pension, too old to start building private retirement wealth) is beyond fucked.
Professional_Bike647 t1_itkbfvn wrote
Reply to comment by Tambury in [OC] Pizza eating challenge by a non-professional eater in a local competition by Tambury
Thanks, it's clearer now. I hope your friend is well.
Professional_Bike647 t1_itk9na6 wrote
Reply to comment by Tambury in [OC] Pizza eating challenge by a non-professional eater in a local competition by Tambury
I cannot follow your math here. From your explanation it seems the whole pizza is only 200mm wide. Each "slice" is 250mm long - so to eat "one meter" one would have to eat either 5 slices (to measure by width) or 4 slices (to measure by length).
Professional_Bike647 t1_it952zq wrote
Reply to comment by BSOFH-LO9C in [OC] Inflation rate and nominal interest rate by giteam
Yup, so let's rephrase that: What kind of beautiful data omits labels, and among them some of the most important ones?
Professional_Bike647 t1_j6kc6l6 wrote
Reply to eli5: How does internet work? Like how does the connection go through walls and things like that? by weirdfinnishperson
From your laptop to your home router it's WiFi, so radio signals/electromagnetic waves. Those obviously travel through walls. From your home router to the access points of your provider, it's probably copper wires which carry signals as electric current, and from your providers network into the rest of the larger world it's optic fiber lines, transporting data as light pulses.
Your mileage may vary, as your laptop may be connected via (copper) cable to a router, or you may be lucky enough to have to have optic fibre lines directly into your house.
Your mobile internet connection (3/4/5G) also uses electromagnetic waves to reach the next cell tower, which is again connected via optic fibre lines to your providers network.