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   by antome 11y ago

   Turing-Completeness is a wonderful thing. In fact, it's pretty cool just how many things in various systems are Turing complete: http://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
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   by antome 11y ago

   Quite right. As with the "Draw the rest of the owl" idiom, it often looks like people just "realise" what they want to do, then suddenly become that thing. Whereas anyone with remotely complex thoughts and dreams, will g
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   by antome 11y ago

   Assuming you average 7% each year on the S&P 500, inflation averages 3%, and 50K per year is your target, you would want at least 1.25 million USD in the bank. Taking into account volatility, you'd probably want at least 1.8M.
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   by antome 11y ago

   That's because SSDs are still 10x the price of HDDs, have little more than halved in price the past year, and they're talking out the ass.
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   by antome 11y ago

   SSD-HDD prices are a moving goalposts problem. $/GB for HDDs halve every few years. While prices for SSDs are coming down at a dramatic pace, they will probably slow as they get close to HDD $/GB.
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   by antome 12y ago

   If you count inkscape as a "photoshop replacement", it does many of the things photoshop/illustrator does, as well as more, and better. Kinda wish someone just merged the concepts of Paint.NET and Inkscape.