ProCynic

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by ProCynic 14y ago
You'll probably find this interesting then. It's about how violence rates have changed over time, and some guesses about causation. http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Nature-ebook/dp/B005...
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by ProCynic 14y ago
Flat structure. Everyone just works on whatever they think is important. http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...
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by ProCynic 14y ago
1 line longer, but extensible. #!/usr/bin/env python rules = {3:'fizz, 5:'buzz'} for n in xrange(1, 101): print ''.join(n%x is 0 and rules[x] or '' for x in rules) or n
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by ProCynic 14y ago
That's what space launch insurance is for I guess.
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by ProCynic 14y ago
I always feel a little glow of pride when I check in a commit and see a net negative lines of code in the diff.
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by ProCynic 14y ago
Retired as meaning not working at all is not a universal definition. Most people in the financial independence circles define it as not having to work for a living. As long as you can choose whether or not to work, you can say you're reti
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by ProCynic 14y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. The core idea is that you can live a decent life in America for much less than most people do. By doing so you free up enough money that even simple, fairly conservative investments can gener
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by ProCynic 14y ago
This is perfectly compatible with the MMM plan. Nothing says that you can't spend as much of your retirement as you like on high growth ventures. The definition if retirement here is no longer being financially dependent on the rat race.
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by ProCynic 14y ago
Where do you get living in a third world country? The numbers are reasonable ballpark figures taken from real people living in America. With spouses and kids and health insurance that covers medical disasters.
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by ProCynic 14y ago
Paragraph breaks was a wordpress bug. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/14/first-retire-then-...
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by ProCynic 14y ago
1) Living frugally doesn't have to suck. Being "I think I'll buy a new car today" rich doesn't actually make you any happier. 2) Retired means that you don't have to work if you don't want to. It doesn't mean that you have to sit around a
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by ProCynic 14y ago
How do you define retired? His passive income from investments exceeds his total expenses + inflation so he doesn't need the part time income. Maybe you want to call it financially independent, but I'd say I was retired if I didn't have t
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by ProCynic 14y ago
That's Jacob Fisker. MMM lives in Colorado.
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by ProCynic 14y ago
you can spend an infinite amount of time talking about investing, but yeah it's stocks, counting on diversity for risk management. And it's more about dividends than stock price http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/02/guest-posting-the-
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by ProCynic 14y ago
It comes from a 50%-90% savings rate. The focus of the site is on how to live a nice middle class life on very little money. Here's how he did it: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/09/15/a-brief-history-of... . Or if you want to get
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by ProCynic 14y ago
5% after inflation is a rule of thumb he has for a long term investment portfolio. He talks about it more here: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/10/post-4-what-am-i-s... . I'm not sure what the US saving rate has to do with anythi
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by ProCynic 14y ago
Pretty much. One of the biggest problems with a lot of renewable energy is it's not reliable. Sun doesn't shine, wind isn't blowing, etc. So you need a way to store energy in a buffer to smooth out fluctuations. Hydrogen is looking like
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by ProCynic 15y ago
El Chevy no va.