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by clavalle 13y ago
It doesn't. But the discussion of the common sense idea does, because otherwise the conversation becomes unwieldy getting mired in aspects that aren't all that significant, in general. For example...interest payments will not eat
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by clavalle 13y ago
Ok. But in my area rent is often more than mortgage + taxes. I know it is different in other places but that's why it is a simplifying assumption.
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by clavalle 13y ago
So, compared to what you would pay for rent, were you able to recoup any of the stored value you paid over the years? Compared to losing 100% of what you would pay for shelter every month, how did what you end up with compare? Not as an in
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by clavalle 13y ago
You are correct. There are a lot of factors that can change the calculus. Buying is not always for everyone. People who move a lot where fees can eat up any benefits. Or people who do not have down payments or other cash flow problems (w
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by clavalle 13y ago
The pedantry in this thread is really disheartening. I thought it would be obvious that I was using made up numbers for the sake of simplicity but that the underlying idea is the same. Storing any amount of money for the amount spent is be
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by clavalle 13y ago
I was pulling numbers out of the air for simplicity. But essentially, even if you only bank $10 in equity, $10 is better than $0 you'd bank if you paid rent.
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by clavalle 13y ago
If all but $10 goes to interest, $10 is still greater than $0.
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by clavalle 13y ago
Even if 99% goes to interest, $10 is still better than $0.
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by clavalle 13y ago
Well, the 'myth' has merit. Let's apply common sense. You buy a smallish house in a suburb and pay $1000/month for you mortgage. $900 of that goes directly to equity. At the end of the year, if you home retains its val
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by clavalle 13y ago
We've been dumping far worse radioactive waste in the Pacific for years.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I don't have to worry about my next door neighbor starting a pig farm. I rode an elevator today without worrying about falling to my death. No one is spraying dioxin as a sealant on the streets in my area because it was the cheap optio
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by clavalle 13y ago
*for very specific types of applications.
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by clavalle 13y ago
Bitcoin in traceable. Much more traceable than something like cash or gold. It can be taxed. In fact, it lends itself very well to taxation since each transaction is indelibly recorded. Just because no one's implemented taxation doe
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by clavalle 13y ago
Well, my parents and my uncles did. My uncle conscripted me to enter in Basic games printed in magazines when I was about 8. I've been hooked ever since (on coding...I don't really game much anymore).
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by clavalle 13y ago
Perhaps a patent Duergar. Lawful evil dwarves. They are doing things with their patent and following the law like a industrious dwarf, but they are still evil in that they abuse the process.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I don't think Bitcoins are a fad. I think bitcoins are the first of 'designed currencies'. Bitcoins have certain advantages (and disadvantages) that emerge based on the design characteristics of the Bitcoin system. They are
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by clavalle 13y ago
It doesn't (thankfully). SIF is a bloated mess.
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by clavalle 13y ago
Not really. Clever basically says "Here is the data that we need" which is basically a handful of simple flat files each covering some aspect of school data. The school is responsible for extracting that data and getting it to Cle
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by clavalle 13y ago
I'm glad someone got the reference. ;)
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by clavalle 13y ago
We'd probably attempt communication. We'd also probably try to send probes. Hopefully intelligent, self replicating probes that will avoid contaminating any alien biological systems while gathering information and transmitting it
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by clavalle 13y ago
There are a ton of candidates in our cosmic neighborhood (less than 70 light years away).
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by clavalle 13y ago
Badly worded on my part. What I meant was that Android Studio updates are now included in Ultimate since it was based on version 13, which is nice.
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by clavalle 13y ago
So, Android is supported in IDEA now? Nice. It is kind of annoying having two IDEs, one for Android development and one for everything else. Edit: Badly worded. What I meant to say are the Android Studio improvements and updates are now
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by clavalle 13y ago
I doubt it. They are not stupid. They know what they are doing. They are attracting more patent cases. They are acting rationally in their own best interest. Crunching the numbers, though, there are around 171,000 people in the counties
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by clavalle 13y ago
Crazy idea: How about, instead of getting this report ourselves, we have it sent to our primary care physician. That way we don't have to stress that there is some likelihood that we might get some dreaded disease but our doctor could
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by clavalle 13y ago
They are as good as you could hope for a guided tour. They get your feet wet and let you get your bearings. But there is still a large gap between having knowledge of a language and performing synthesis with one. It would be interesting to
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by clavalle 13y ago
This is great. It reminds me that I need to clean up my github account. Unfortunately I use github for two separate functions -- putting up projects some other people may be interested in and for throwing up scratchpad projects. So I end u
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by clavalle 13y ago
You are doing science. The first part: forming a hypothesis.
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by clavalle 13y ago
It is interesting that you are going from Java --> Rails rather than the other way around.
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by clavalle 13y ago
If your patents are obvious enough that 'everybody is infringing', your patent should not have been issued.

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