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by acapybara 7y ago
This is doable, even with kids. Especially in the software industry. I like that this article mentions setting a wealth target based on expenses, not current income. It's all about having a life that isn't financially expensive. I
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by acapybara 7y ago
+1. Started on this journey of financial independence 10+ years ago. Have essentially achieved it (7 figure net worth, could sustain ongoing expenses for decades at least), but continue to work remote for a Santa Clara based company. I live
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by acapybara 7y ago
Correct. And the whitepaper was published in 2008.
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by acapybara 7y ago
> I always think of DSLs as automating my own job as a software engineer. It makes it possible to have someone with a different skillset than me not need to go through me to build features. It's interesting that this sort of drives
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by acapybara 7y ago
> Which is exactly where their power comes from. Because each time you shrink the required knowledge to do work, you broaden the pool of people who can perform that work. That's an excellent point. It seems the same concept could al
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by acapybara 7y ago
My parents are essentially zero/negative. Totally unprepared. Similarly, the wife's parents are totally unprepared, but one of them earns a pension. Meanwhile, I'm nowhere near standard retirement age and am in the 7 figures.
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by acapybara 7y ago
Neural networks have been around for a much longer time than they have been popular/practical/commercially-viable. It just so happens that they can be accelerated using dedicated floating point computing hardware --something GPUs