harryh

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by harryh 7y ago
I think you might be confusing the word asceticism with aestheticism.
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by harryh 7y ago
The NYT publishing straight up fiction, even clearly labeled, in their opinion pages isn't a great look in an age where journalistic credibility is a huge issue.
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by harryh 7y ago
My wife and I basically do this with a joint checking account + credit card that we contribute to (somewhat unequally) every month an amount that is designed to cover 1 month's of expenses plus a little buffer. I find it makes it a lot
874.
by harryh 7y ago
How do you handle joint expenses like rent/mortgage and all the kid stuff?
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by harryh 7y ago
Give it time. Millennials are now the largest generation in the country. Soon enough, they will have the most money.
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by harryh 7y ago
Charles Schwab is currently worth ~57 Billion TD Ameritrade: ~29 Billion E-Trade: ~11.5 Billion Fidelity Investments is privately owned, so harder to value, but is probably worth 50-75 Billion
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by harryh 7y ago
Ultimately it's the customers who are responsible, not the owners of companies. It's the customers who create the demand that the companies only form to satisfy. By your standard, a few members of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia
878.
by harryh 7y ago
Gmail didn't come out until 2004. You'd be stuck with Hotmail in 2000. Google Maps didn't come out until 2005. Google Docs (and the subsequent migration of MS Office to web accessible forms) didn't come until even later.
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by harryh 7y ago
I cook nearly every day. I have an open floor plan. My house does not smell like a restaurant. You just have to use a vent when things smoke and, you know, clean.
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by harryh 7y ago
For a 230k loan (which means zero down payment which is unusual) to be $1500/mo you're talking about 6.8% interest. Rates are not that high on a 30 year mortgage.
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by harryh 7y ago
It is when combined with "commuted 4 hours daily."
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by harryh 7y ago
It's a matter of degree. Some sacrifice = great. Extreme sacrifice = bad.
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by harryh 7y ago
There are great high schools, decent high schools, mediocre high schools and bad high schools and we can tell the difference. There are neighborhoods full of rich people, middle class professionals, working class people, and slums and we ca
884.
by harryh 7y ago
"diminishing the effect outsized parental involvement can have on college admissions" != "efforts of parents don't help their kids"
885.
by harryh 7y ago
"I'm all about parents sacrificing for their kids" <--- Did you skip the part where I wrote this?
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by harryh 7y ago
Because we don't want to live in a society that so strongly encourages "sacrificing vacations and eating out for 12 years (literally ate out 5x max)" and "My dad commuted 4 hours daily instead of moving." I'm a
887.
by harryh 7y ago
The college admission process (especially for more elite schools) already involves lots of secrecy.
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by harryh 7y ago
I can't say for sure, but I'd bet a decent amount of money that the variation in scores for zips in the same school district will be quite small compared to the variation in zips for different school districts. I doubt the kind of
889.
by harryh 7y ago
All this new metric does is add opacity and plausible deniability I would say that in addition to this just one organization has to do the research & math instead of the [large number] of colleges admitting students. It also provides
890.
by harryh 7y ago
There are lots of secret scores given by colleges during their admissions process. I think you're probably wrong here.
891.
by harryh 7y ago
The College Board has been quite transparent about what data will be used to calculate the scores if you read the relevant articles. - Neighborhood environment - Crime Rate - Poverty Rate - Housing Values - Vacancy rate
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by harryh 7y ago
Lot's of measures are imperfect. That doesn't mean they aren't useful.
893.
by harryh 7y ago
Research contradicts your anecdote. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/201903...
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by harryh 7y ago
The College Board offers Fee Waivers for disadvantaged test takers.
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by harryh 7y ago
You still get the score for how well you did. You don't get your "adversity score" which is not based on how well you did, but only on where you live and what high school you attend.
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by harryh 7y ago
Indeed it might. No matter how careful the writing.
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by harryh 7y ago
Hiring someone to work part time who has a spouse with a good full time job: totally fine. Hiring someone to work part time who is a single mother: company gets saddled with massive fines. Doesn't seem like the best plan.
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by harryh 7y ago
Note that Spectre definitely affected AMD chips and in general these sorts of side channel attacks based on speculative execution are extremely likely to be effective against any chip (including AMD manufactured ones) that employ speculativ
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by harryh 7y ago
Citizen's United was decided on Jan 21, 2010. At this point the court would have still been dominated by Bush II appointees not Obama ones. Always hard to say for sure, but it probably goes the same way under this proposal.
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by harryh 7y ago
Interestingly, this kinda works out: Medicare spending is ~20% of US HC spending. So if we wanted to expand medicare to cover all HC spending we'd need to 5x the tax. 2.9% * 5 = 14.5 or basically what the tax is in Germany. Obviously l

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