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Ask HN: What is the best way to understand how the entire world works?

I mean, essentially, why things are the way they are. A complete understanding of the earliest days on the Earth and how human civilization continually advanced, governments and economies invented, and technology emerged, etc. And I'm not limiting this to books, but any documentaries as well. Thanks!

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Re:How this Ends on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:09PM (#26174162)
Agreed 100%. It's just dumb. "How this Ends". Uhh... what?
> Supplements have been really fun. For example, 2:1 L-Theanine to Caffeine, especially after a nap, is like productivity medicine for me.

Add some N-acetyl-L-tyrosine for even more focus: https://www.vitacost.com/jarrow-formulas-n-acetyl-tyrosine

Re:East Coast Internet Outage on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:42AM (#25917908)
Spotify is loading weird for me (New England).
Re:Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:47AM (#25790307)
> I see your userland M1 assembly language hello world and raise you a bare-metal M1 kernel assembly language hello world :-)

The most on-brand HN thing I've read so far today.

Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:43AM (#25685766)
I'd refer to it as more of a "set-it-and-forget-it automated financial framework". I'm not, for example, pondering how much I'm spending on groceries, frantically updating YNAB with those transactions. Everything's sorted and just keeps working for me.
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:41AM (#25685741)
> Mint scrapes the sites and stores passwords in plaintext

Incorrect:

> How secure is my login information I store in Mint?

> Your login user name and passwords are stored securely in a separate database using multi-layered hardware and software encryption. We only store the information needed to save you the trouble of updating, syncing or uploading financial information manually.

Ref: https://mint.intuit.com/how-mint-works/security

Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:27PM (#25679650)
> Mint on the other hand is totally useless.

That's hyperbole. Having a bird's eye view of every single account, transaction, investments, net worth, etc. is "totally useless"? No.

I use Mint and it works quite well for keeping an eye on your financial life at a glance. I don't need some micro-managey software like YNAB (that I'd have to pay for monthly!) to continually increase my wealth and keep debt in check - here's my tricks:

* Pay off credit card in full every month (I have one card that I use for gas, etc.)

* Invest 20% into company-matched 401k, my Roth, etc. primarily focused on S&P 500 Index Funds

* Save roughly $275/check into a liquid savings account.

* I have no car payment (paid of my 2010 Subaru that I got for $9k).

* Everything on autopay.

* Don't buy stupid nonsense.

It's worked well thus far. There's no real "need" to budget - KISS principle wins the day again.