Social Security has been taxing wages, and paying out benefits, since 1937. I entered the workforce in 1977 and have been paying into SS my entire work life.

Pretty much anyone born after 1919 has been paying SS taxes their whole work life.

First: you're making an assumption on the conversion methods. Two: those assumptions are wrong.

I cbf to elaborate with you but wanted to clear the air that your methodology is wrong.

louisiana has a liscense for damn near everything. Some of them I agree with though. Bartenders are one and our state's culture with alcohol is so lax that it does get hazy on who is legal to serve to and who isn't.

It bothers me that the two biggest gray areas "swell" in the middle rather than being constant height to match the vertical bars. Maybe using constant height creates other visual problems, so your thickness is perpendicular to the path of each swoosh?

GL rich person, the maintenance is pricey and often.

Nice metroidvania map. I’ll use it

I'm in Louisiana and was a bartender in college. We had to take a one day class and take a test to legally bartend. Basically so we knew laws about who can and can't be served alcohol. The one that threw me off is that a 16 year old can drink alcohol if he is at a table with his parents. That's for restaurants though not bars I believe.

It’s a piece of an infinite fractal

Not nearly as many war-torn countries in there as there are communist / former-communist countries.

It's the former, the difference between 1,530,609,129 and 1,499,470,729 which is equal to 31,138,400. That's way larger than any other numbers until that point. You can see this anomaly more clearly in the graph I linked near the end of my initial comment.

Sure. It's ~11kw system, cost ~$35,000 out of pocket, received ~$8,800 back in tax credits.

My estimated 'break-even' point is towards the end of 2031, assuming nothing crazy happens to electricity prices.

Stronger dollar would mean that keeping the price relatively the same in their local currency would reflect a lower price in dollars. So dollar being strong is not the reason why other countries are more expensive in terms of dollars, maybe in terms of their local currency the price can inflate.

Looks like that old Windows screensaver

So the intent, I assume, was to quickly visualize if there were a finite number of corners or a repeated pattern?

I'm quite curious about the large yellow vertical line. I can't decide whether it's more reasonable that the line is a large swath of integers with no perfect squares containing 2 or 5; or a large swath where all such perfect squares are of the form n=4m+2.

I enjoiyed the personal experience you shared in showing you can relate, but damn u/secretslob you totally killed my momentum for, admittedly from a place of righteousness, telling that redditor about how such generalizations are hurtful and harmfull and..... anyway, thanks. I needed to chill.

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Can you comment on the cost of your solar install? Would be nice to know for people like me who want to do this.

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One of the factors people is moving from CA to TX

Simple Excel chart of the electricity I used compared to electricity my solar panels generated this past year. Value of solar used is calculated based on how much more my electric bill would have been had I not installed solar. All data charted in excel from my electricity bills as well as reports from my solar inverter.

Yeah it's kind of like if you look at the average salary of an SEC college athletics department. Now look at the median. Big difference when you figure how much the coaches are paid versus the part time athletic trainer.

War-torn and alcoholic? Join us in the top 20.

Maybe you should have read. According to this FL and NY are the same.

I hear the weather in Belarus is gorgeous in January.

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