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by cesarbs 10y ago
Anecdotal: my 8-year old daughter loves Scratch, and I noticed that what she found the most intuitive was the message passing aspect of it. Assuming my kid is average in this respect, Smalltalk might have an edge in teaching kids how to cod
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Have my upvote :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I'm originally from Brazil, so I've seen my fair share of traffic awfulness :) What I see in Bellevue is mild in comparison, but just as an example, today someone cut an entire lane in front of me to enter their garage. An almost
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by cesarbs 10y ago
And yet every now and then I'll be stopped waiting for a blocked intersection to clear before advancing, and the asshole behind me will start honking. I live in the Seattle area though, not NYC.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I live in the Seattle area and I see people doing "dumb ass" things on the road every single day.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Being a leader does not justify being an asshole.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
One of my best friends lives across the world in the southern hemisphere. Another lives across the Atlantic in Europe. Some weeks we chat online almost every day. But sometimes we'll go 2-3 months without communicating at all. When we
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by cesarbs 10y ago
New land can't be manufactured.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> Everything is organized. My wife and I are immigrants from Brazil and this is one of the few culture shocks we've suffered here in America. We moved here when our daughter was 4 (she's 8 now) and comparing her ongoing upbring
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by cesarbs 10y ago
A lot of what's in there seems pretty reasonable, but: 1) The whole border wall thing is just ridiculous. I thought he had given up on that. Why would Mexico have to pay for that? If the US wants to build a wall, fine, build it and pay
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I suspect that pizza would be delivered by a police car :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> Programmers have no standard certifications, and in fact are often actively hostile to standardization and formal training. I hold the unpopular opinion that we need those things. The current state of things is that we're not much
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by cesarbs 10y ago
objectify Jude -> objectively judge? :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> paying monthly a landlord so he doesn't have to work. Try telling that to a landlord. Being one is a job in itself - or you have to pay someone else a good chunk of money to do the work for you.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
If anyone is curious about their asset allocation, here's a recent document detailing it: https://www.nvpers.org/public/investments/pers/PERS-Investme... Pretty vanilla 3-fund portfolio plus 10% split be
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> former teacher Sorry but I'm going to be that person :) How much do you think parents should be involved with kids' homework? My wife and I got tired of the daily battles with our 3rd grader over homework. Until a few days ag
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Exactly, it depends a lot on the kind of person you are. I know my daughter is not a perfectionist. If I offered to reward her if she did badly at school, I'm pretty sure I'd be buying her gifts every week. She does well in school
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Could this happen to the backdoor Roth? I know they've clarified the "mega" backdoor Roth, making it perfectly valid, but AFAIK there hasn't been word on the backdoor Roth.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
P/E ratio, or, more likely, CAPE. P/E stands for "price to earnings" - it essentially tells you how much you're paying in a share of stock for each dollar in future earnings. P/E is calculated at a point in tim
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by cesarbs 10y ago
That's a reasonable claim, but do you have the numbers to back it up?
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I'm sorry, but what is the connection between those two?
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Wife and I dine out as autarkies and have had no trouble with it so far. The author seems to imply that the only reasonable thing there is is sharing everything. I strongly disagree with that.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I'm 28 and have severe hypochondria, so this article was a terrifying read. Having a stroke is my #1 fear. But reading it makes me feel good about having shifted my attitude to work after I got married. I don't think I'll eve
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by cesarbs 10y ago
It used to be like that in Brazil, but in recent years Anvisa (the Brazilian equivalent of the FDA) tightened policy on this and now people can only buy antibiotics with a prescription. BTW, in my experience Brazilian doctors prescribe anti
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Mad Fientist: http://www.madfientist.com/podcast/
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Actually, I've tried doing that. It worked for a while until one at I thought, "does Vanguard keep the course?" Turns out that when you look at it, they've made numerous "tweaks" throughout the years, and often
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by cesarbs 10y ago
What I meant was that he recommends that the average investor should invest in the S&P 500 or total US market only. He doesn't seem to think people should invest their money abroad.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Bernstein :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> You (almost certainly) can! In theory, yes, but I'm married and have a kid. No way I'd be able to make the lifestyle change. Hence, you're my hero, living the life that I can't :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Can you recommend any of those near-deserted places in WA? Also, you live in an RV - you're my hero! How I wish I could do that...

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