junkypuppet

The goal was never to destroy the gas-enriching centrifuges at Fordo(which does the enriching to 60%), but to bury the final step at Isfahan which enriches it to a weapons-grade 90%. The article even says “… the senior Israeli official did not express concern about the assessment that some of the stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium, stored in casks, had survived the attack”. In the words of Seymour Hersh: “No enrichment, no Iranian bomb.”

10mph is fast from my pedestrian point of view on the sidewalk

One of the few places you can get by car-less in a society that makes it almost essential to own a car. No car payment, no car insurance, no fear of being one of the many people killed in traffic accidents in any given day in the US. Heck it was even a deciding factor when I decided to move to NYC.

I’ve always had a hard time taking the accuracy of personality tests seriously. I think the mood you’re in at the time of the test greatly influences not only how you read the test but how you respond as well. I also tend to lean on the side of personality not being permanent. I see you touched on that in the article but I’m curious as to your thoughts on whether personality changes or stays the same during the course of a persons life.

I think you might’ve misread this table. If you count up the number of bear markets in the table and then look at which of those periods also had a recession, the number of bear markets that coincided with a recession is actually ~50%. Further, the table says they count a S&P500 decline of 19% as a bear market, which by our arbitrary standards, isn’t. So if you take those 19% drops out a recession actually coincides with a “true” bear market about ~65% of the time according to this table. I fail to see how you got 20%. Maybe you were looking at the length of recovery which it says on average is 20 months?

The client probably doesn’t care how clean the code is…all they want is to see it working and they’ll pay a lot of money for it. I’ve found it better to move fast and create code that gets the job done rather than spend more time on making “prettier” code that does the same thing from the client’s perspective.