spacewxyz t1_j2cv978 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 8:17 AM

Reply to The only way to clean something is to make another thing dirty by [deleted]

This can be solved by just changing the definition of what dirty is

spacewxyz t1_j27ml33 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:41 AM

Reply to Budget Struggles: Can't Afford my car, but can't live without one by dannyj611

Why did you get such an expensive car payment? Why not sell the car and downscale. You could get something like a used nissan leaf with like 50 miles of range for a few thousand dollars. Very low maintenance, low insurance payments--35 dollars.

spacewxyz t1_iyzbw0e wrote on December 5, 2022 at 8:25 AM

Reply to [D] Score 4.5 GNN paper from Muhan Zhang at Peking University was amazingly accepted by NeurIPS 2022 by Even_Stay3387

I'm always instantly skeptical of anything coming out of China, including any science or papers. There are of course plenty of excellent, smart Chinese scientists with full integrity but you never know what sort of CCP agenda exists. There are of course ethical problems with accepting anything from China as you're basically accepting papers from modern day Nazi Germany.

spacewxyz t1_iydoinp wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:06 PM

Reply to comment by RyanM1597 in I don't see the point of my employer's HDHP /w HSA compared to the PPO plan by zk2997

Ah excellent point

spacewxyz t1_iybyigz wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:43 AM

Reply to I don't see the point of my employer's HDHP /w HSA compared to the PPO plan by zk2997

The HSA is the main advantage here. The HSA is absolutely an insane account. There is literally no better account. Its a triple tax advantaged account with no age limits. So you can put money into it to receive deductions, you use that money to invest, and when you spend that money you don't pay taxes. Its a ridiculously OP account and should be used 100%.

You're basically building a long term + retirement healthcare fund for yourself. It will save you a ton of money later because you won't have to spend after tax dollars on healthcare. Remember you can also use the HSA to buy a lot of things you wouldn't expect too like feminine products, tylenol, various services, genetic tests, massagers, dentures, etc.

To be honest a person is being really stupid if they don't use an HSA.

spacewxyz t1_iyby6on wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:39 AM

Reply to Help! Drowning in debt. by nah_just_ocd

You could consider a bankruptcy of some kind. This is an enormous amount of high interest debt. Generally a bankruptcy is a bad idea for a lot of reasons but it might be worth it with this much debt. Its going to be extremely difficult to pay this off.

Lets say you keep 3500 dollars a month after all basic expenses. It'll take you two years to pay that off assuming no interest and no spending of any other kind. That's kind of absurd. A bankruptcy after 2 years will start to wane in significance so i think it might be worth it.

You could also let it go to collections and try to negotiate it down. Lots of times people are able to pay less than half of the original credit card amount.