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by flubert 10y ago
>It might be unpopular here, and I feel slightly guilty saying it, but I like suburbia. Sounds like it is time for an HN poll. How much property do you own? * I prefer to make payments to my landlord (you insensitive clod!). * Greater th
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by flubert 10y ago
>it ruins a lot of people's lives that they do. Honest question. How does Party A, living in a house that Party B wishes to replace with an apartment, ruin the life for Party C? Or is it B whose life is ruined? Or A's? Or am
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by flubert 10y ago
>And in most places, far more money is spent on cooling than heating. Hmm. I've always heard the opposite. Anyway, here's one piece of research. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326&#x
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by flubert 10y ago
>CRI compares a light source to an ideal black body, not necessarily daylight. Isn't the sun a pretty-close-to-ideal black body emitter? Is there something specific you are thinking of that makes daylight deviate significantly from
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by flubert 10y ago
Yeah, just to be clear, the question marks in the original were my attempt at saying I was unsure of how realistic the proposition was. Certainly hanging around HN, you could easily come to the conclusion that $120k is essentially a starti
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by flubert 10y ago
I wonder who can find heat maps for the price of things like milk, bread, electricity, similar to this map for gasoline: http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4
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by flubert 10y ago
>that's not happening for 20-somethings now. This chart [1] seems to imply that 21% of people under 25 own a house, which is higher than the 14% of under 25's who owned a house in 1994. http://thereformedbroker.com&#
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by flubert 10y ago
Live in SF bay area and save up $50k (One year if you could make $120k(?) and live with your parents?). Buy two $25k houses, one to live in, one to rent out for your living expenses. Semi-retire. ?
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by flubert 10y ago
>where you could comfortably live on one income in the suburbs. Does anyone have statistics on how many "traditional" single-income households there are in the U.S.? I live with my wife and four kids (home schooled) in a fairl
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by flubert 10y ago
>high-rise apartment buildings where many people live now Does anyone have a break down of what percentage of people live in single-family homes, vs. an apartment/other?
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by flubert 10y ago
>Every time I mention the high price of homes... Location. Location. Location. 1,480 sq. ft., $23,000 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/113-Bernal-Ave-Hickman-KY-... 918 sq. ft., $18,000 http://www.zillow
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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hn%20who%20is%20hiring&sort=by... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hn%20remote&sort=byPopularity&... ...You could also look at it as a chance to prove how entrepreneur
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by flubert 10y ago
Like the other article on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737232 ...I sometimes wonder if some people on HN aren't able to visualize the option of lower-cost lifestyles because they aren't given t
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by flubert 10y ago
Illegal Alien gets quite a few hits on google. https://www.google.com/#q=illegal+alien
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by flubert 10y ago
Breakfast is already covered: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/school-breakfast-program-sbp
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by flubert 10y ago
I can't help but think of: "...takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle."
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by flubert 10y ago
You might be interested in moving to a lower cost of living location. 2960 sq. ft., $39,400, $229/mo: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/454-Steam-Engine-Dr-Northf... 2,114 sq. ft., $35,000, $259/mo: http:&#x
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by flubert 10y ago
Does anyone have the statistics on how many of those kids are from single-parent households?
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by flubert 10y ago
Do you have javascript turned off? There is an interactive map that looks like: http://imgur.com/30B90f8 ...and if you hover over a state, it displays the percent of children getting the free meals.
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by flubert 10y ago
>It is actually incredibly, mindbogglingly, difficult for someone who can't even get a job where they live -now- to relocate to someplace completely unknown with zero resources and no job even lined up. Certainly I can't be the
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by flubert 10y ago
In what sense this a mistranslation? If you conflate alien with extra-terrestrial?
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by flubert 10y ago
>conservatives seem to be less prevalent online than liberals. I wonder what metrics you might use to measure that? Number of poster on the largest 100 "message boards" that slant one direction vs the other? Or is there an ind
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by flubert 10y ago
>Today's rich Florentines had rich ancestors Doesn't everybody alive today have rich ancestors? Like pretty much everyone is related to Charlemagne or Genghis Khan? https://www.google.com/#q=related+to+charlema
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by flubert 10y ago
For more details on transcontinental railroads financing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroa...
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by flubert 10y ago
What manner are you short Treasuries? Any recommendations?
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by flubert 10y ago
We'll I can only relate my experience by living in non-major U.S. cities. As for the cost, yes I only take a taxi to the airport when I get reimbursed for it as a business expense. As for reliability, I've never had the taxi sho
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by flubert 10y ago
>I just don't want to have to wake up a loved one at 5am to get a ride to the airport (which I had to do Friday). For next time... https://www.google.com/#q=austin%20tx%20taxi&rflfq=1&rlha=0&... :
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by flubert 10y ago
Oh, they are still working 40 hour weeks, just with a crazy schedule.
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by flubert 10y ago
>they have no idea that the government is supposed to be supporting them. >elect governments that will create sustainable wealth. Some people would say that individuals create wealth, and the governments are systems that exist because
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by flubert 10y ago
>Staff are overworked and tired Yes, I wonder if anyone has studies the medical error rate as a function of how many hours the provider has worked previously that day, and the time of day. One thing I found crazy was that nurses were wo

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