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So 6.0002 is pronounced "six triple oh two"?
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...
In some kind of economic AI apocalypse, though, who knows if the assumptions behind FIRE will hold.
If you’re sincerely asking…
Mathematically speaking, 18 / 3.6 isn’t “reducing” by 3.6X, it’s “dividing” by 3.6X. Reducing would be 18 - (18 * 3.6), which is obviously wrong. By your formula, “reducing by 50%” would be 18 / 0.5, also obviously wrong.
Yes, people do say things like “reduce by 3.6X” and are understood to mean what you said, but they also say “literally” when they mean “figuratively”. It doesn’t bother me but I can understand why math oriented people would be annoyed, and I personally would never say “reduced by 3.6X”, but instead “reduced by 72.2%”.
https://quarto.org/docs/computations/python.html
https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html
https://quarto.org/docs/books/book-output.html#typst-output
https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst-custom.html#boo...
If I were the author of the post, I'd value the feedback.
And you really have to believe in open source and have the discipline to keep investing in it, otherwise the temptation is ever present to throw more and more effort and resources into the proprietary parts.
It sounds like you're describing a hypothetical tax on unrealized gains? Do you have a link to the Buffet letter?
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=revenu...
Even more so if you compare EBITDA:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=ebitda...