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We already did that far more effectively with Stuxnet. You blow up a facility they just rebuild it as fast as they can. You build a virus that causes centrifuges to subtly and unpredictably change speed and it takes months or years to diagnose the issue and as a bonus you end up with them...

Got it. In all seriousness I'm guessing a junior meteorologist makes sub $50K a year in most parts of the country and the job market is limited for them. You could probably bring one on for a couple hours a day as a moonlighting job for relatively peanuts and get some real expertise.

Is this really the level that ag commodities are still at, sounds very 1970s? I though you all were buying satellite time with infrared views of crops and at a minimum had meteorologists on staff. Sounds like I'm in the wrong corner of the market!

Going all the way back to Sun Tzu people have shown a remarkable inability to see the world through the eyes of their enemies. If you are able to put yourselves in the shoes of an Iranian for just a minute, hard as that might be, think about what this looks like from their perspective. Imagine...

Is there anything I said that was incorrect, or just something you didn't want to hear?

The problem with all these niche products is that they throw them out there with this "build it and they will come" mentality....and they don't. So there's no volume, so no one uses it, so it dies. It's remarkably short-sighted, given the positive returns to adoption that you get when you can...

The law as it stands benefits large corporations and the very wealthy. What possible example from his past behavior would lead you to believe that silly old crone Trump would change a law that currently works to their advantage to curry favor to a constituency of what, a dozen traders in the US...

Yeah, the federal system for sure has that built in...actually to the point of being borderline unfair for the GS employees who spent their whole career in a high COLA area since COLA isn't included in the calc (but is for WG employees for some reason). But every time you see a headline about...

I'd encourage you to actually seriously do the exercise, I think you'll enjoy it and find it eye opening. A defined benefit pension isn't a bad thing per se. I think several other posters in this thread have it right, if you actually fund the pension it's just a cost the same as 401k matching...

There are very few bright lines in state residency for tax purposes and it's generally a "have to pay the worst possible amount unless proven otherwise" situation. Also confused by the fact that the people asking these types of questions always seem to leave out some crucial facts to make it...

90% of statistics are made up:D

I think we're specifically talking about gaming the retirement system which for them is often times poorly set up in that it is X% of what you were actually paid in your last year or your last 2 or 3 years on the job, not X% of your base pay. I've got no problem with overtime, although I'd argue...

I've lived in Seattle as well and consider it also to be a high cost of living city along with Portland. Phoenix I don't see many software types "fleeing to" from the Bay Area just because it's a pretty inferior place to live in almost every respect for that type of person. Austin is a bit of a...

So first off you do a great job of looking up data and using it, so man after my own heart, and you are so very much like an earlier version of me I can't help liking you. With that in mind, I'll try one last time to emphasize the mind blowing nature of cost of living. My first company was...

Alaska doesn't have retiree pay by individual in a public database but they do have current city and state employee pay at http://payroll.alaskapolicyforum.org/ Select "Municipality of Anchorage" and sort by total benefits. You'll see the top guy (Graham, Jeffrey) is a firefighter making...

CA produces 15% of the country's GDP with 10% of the country's population, has since the 1950s. So an average Californian is contributing 50% more to GDP than your average American. It might cost a little more to produce that GDP? Also very high cost of living, same as NY.

Very true, although it's still actually mostly a cost of living delta versus an actual delta in expenditures. FL has a budget of $91B and a pop of 21M, so about $4,333 in state budget per person. NY State has a budget of $175B and a pop of 19.5M, so about $8,974 per person, or 107% greater than...

I've lived around the country including ultra high cost areas like the SF Bay area and very low cost areas like FL. One prevailing truth I've found is that most folks who have never lived in a truly high cost area like SF or NYC not only don't grasp the cost of living difference but seem utterly...

I'll also ask you to think about the implications of what you just said. Inherent in your statement is the concept that a person is entitled only entitled to full democracy if they give up their freedom of movement and association and stay in one place here in the United States. I'm retired...

You're right about the end effect, but I'd urge you to think about exactly why taxes are higher in the "high tax states" versus the "low tax states". NY and IL, to give two examples, produced a significant percentage of the nation's GDP over the last 100 years. That gave them a massive tail of...