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I know of a 10 room mansion in Tuscany, Italy that could house a group of future of coding researchers for a year, starting in September. It would work out to €

I know of a 10 room mansion in Tuscany, Italy that could house a group of future of coding researchers for a year, starting in September. It would work out to €500/month for room and board. But would anyone be up for it?

_1tan 6y ago
here
toomim 6y ago
I'm interested, and building something like that in Hawaii.
- david927 6y ago
  You’re currently building something like this in Hawaii? Let’s talk! My email is in my profile.
- cw 6y ago
  I support this idea in Hawaii. Some of us are already planted on Oahu.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> It would work out to €500/month for room and board €500/mo with food per month? That's suspiciously affordable. What's the catch? (My Red Bull addiction is currently costing me ~$300/mo alone right now, seriously)
- dreamcompiler 6y ago
  Compared with other popular European countries, Italy is cheap. But I don't know if it's that cheap.
  - david927 6y ago
    The room is €200; €300 was back-of-the-napkin for general meals and it could be low, but when you buy in bulk it can be quite inexpensive and Italy is definitely cheap.
    - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
      To me, the cost of buying cooking ingredients isn’t a concern in the slightest - but I don’t enjoy cooking. I’d hire a full-time live-in chef if I could afford it. But I can’t, so I mostly live-off Soylent.
      - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
        I honestly have no idea why my above reply has been downvoted to -4 for simply describing my habits...
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  That says more about Red Bull than renting a room outside of a major metro area in a cheap country.
bulka 6y ago
I don't think the physical colocation is the key here.
- david927 6y ago
  It’s not the key but it’s a key. If you want to talk about the key, that’s a much bigger discussion. Personally I always thought Alan (with all due respect to obviously one of the greatest luminaries of our time) had it wrong. Point of view is not worth 80 IQ points. First, that smacks of a time when we used to conflate IQ with intelligence and honestly think someone with 150 was 5 smarter than someone with 145. No, intelligence and knowledge just get you to the table. Point of view is why you’re there. It’s like saying Picasso’s style gave him points towards his technique. Having a good line allowed him to express his style. So what’s the key? Insight. And while that’s much harder to understand and evaluate, that’s the ticket.
koo6 6y ago
you pay or they pay?
- david927 6y ago
  Well, they pay. There's no IP transfer here; you own your own IP. That said, I'm hoping that, via donations, there will be spots for those that can't pay anything at all. But that's a lot of speculation for something that is still very much up in the air.

_1tan 6y ago

here

toomim 6y ago

I'm interested, and building something like that in Hawaii.

david927 6y ago
You’re currently building something like this in Hawaii? Let’s talk! My email is in my profile.
cw 6y ago
I support this idea in Hawaii. Some of us are already planted on Oahu.

DaiPlusPlus 6y ago

> It would work out to €500/month for room and board €500/mo with food per month? That's suspiciously affordable. What's the catch? (My Red Bull addiction is currently costing me ~$300/mo alone right now, seriously)

dreamcompiler 6y ago
Compared with other popular European countries, Italy is cheap. But I don't know if it's that cheap.
- david927 6y ago
  The room is €200; €300 was back-of-the-napkin for general meals and it could be low, but when you buy in bulk it can be quite inexpensive and Italy is definitely cheap.
  - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
    To me, the cost of buying cooking ingredients isn’t a concern in the slightest - but I don’t enjoy cooking. I’d hire a full-time live-in chef if I could afford it. But I can’t, so I mostly live-off Soylent.
    - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
      I honestly have no idea why my above reply has been downvoted to -4 for simply describing my habits...
quickthrower2 6y ago
That says more about Red Bull than renting a room outside of a major metro area in a cheap country.

bulka 6y ago

I don't think the physical colocation is the key here.

david927 6y ago
It’s not the key but it’s a key. If you want to talk about the key, that’s a much bigger discussion. Personally I always thought Alan (with all due respect to obviously one of the greatest luminaries of our time) had it wrong. Point of view is not worth 80 IQ points. First, that smacks of a time when we used to conflate IQ with intelligence and honestly think someone with 150 was 5 smarter than someone with 145. No, intelligence and knowledge just get you to the table. Point of view is why you’re there. It’s like saying Picasso’s style gave him points towards his technique. Having a good line allowed him to express his style. So what’s the key? Insight. And while that’s much harder to understand and evaluate, that’s the ticket.

koo6 6y ago

you pay or they pay?

david927 6y ago
Well, they pay. There's no IP transfer here; you own your own IP. That said, I'm hoping that, via donations, there will be spots for those that can't pay anything at all. But that's a lot of speculation for something that is still very much up in the air.