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by hsitz 9y ago
That sounds like someone who never fully committed to Vim. Yes, Evil is excellent. I've mostly switched to using Emacs because of it, and Org-mode. But I still can't quite get past the feeling that Emacs is a clunky sedan and Vi
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by hsitz 9y ago
Interest from saving accounts and CDs is "ordinary income". "Ordinary income" generally is anything that is not classifiable as a "capital gain". "Capital gain" is gain from the sale or exchange of a
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by hsitz 9y ago
In one sense your question is similar to many others: Why should the sky be blue? Why should gravity at the surface of the earth accelerate objects downward at 9.8 m/s2? Of course, the answer to question of economic growth is more c
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by hsitz 9y ago
William Bernstein has argued pretty well that the growth of economies over the long term has held pretty stable over (surprisingly) the last several hundred years. See his book, "The Birth of Plenty": https://www.amazo
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by hsitz 9y ago
Another way of thinking about it is: on average, stock value over the long term (20+ years) is very likely to be in range of, say, 5%/year, plus or minus (actual number is not that important for our purpose here), after adjusting for
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by hsitz 9y ago
This reminds me of an entry from The Book of Life, on "Countries for Losers, and Countries for Winners": http://www.thebookoflife.org/countries-for-losers-countries-... I live in the U.S., but I think I'd pre
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by hsitz 9y ago
Did you mean to say: ". . . agree that cutting the corporate tax cut would have a NET good economic effect"? First, the new tax law does far more than cut corporate taxes. Second, whether cutting corporate taxes is good or bad thi
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by hsitz 9y ago
My generation is probably the same as your parents, and even then there certainly weren't many one-income homes doing those things in NYC, SF, or LA. Also, I would say that this generation has gotten used to larger homes and more luxu
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by hsitz 9y ago
Maybe you've been through all your options, so excuse me if I'm being unhelpful or ignorant. But have you tried looking for a roommate(s)? Potentially you wouldn't even need to be on a lease that way, and you might make som
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by hsitz 9y ago
> it doesn't really matter because you just run a daemon and connect to it. I'm writing this because I think many people are unaware of this feature of Emacs and might gloss over it in your post. As far as I'm concerned st
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by hsitz 9y ago
Probably not this. 640k was actually the maximum amount of memory available for a user's DOS applications on an IBM PC or clone. There were many PC's sold that had only 64k of use-accessible RAM. It was only in later years, as
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by hsitz 9y ago
In particular the Lenovo Yoga Book is excellent design and build quality. You can get new ones with Android (rather than Windows) on ebay for about $230. The device is a 2-in-1 with keyboard permanently attached, which some will find a pl
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by hsitz 9y ago
Ha, still not bad, kudos. 1:19 is further out on bell curve tail, enough to raise some doubt, at least on a geeky website . . . .
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by hsitz 9y ago
You're in your fifties and you're running a sub 1:19 HM? Color me dubious on that one. Possible, but not likely. Although you're right that it would be a piss-poor treadmill if it were built to max out at 8 minutes/mil
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by hsitz 9y ago
>It's a little insulting to marathon runners to claim this is a 'marathon' IMO. Well, the guys participating were three of the best marathoners in the world, probably one (Kipchoge) who is the best ever, so I doubt whether
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by hsitz 9y ago
What do you mean "non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents"? I would be surprised if FT has more than, say, 10% of the features of org-mode. If you want to restrict yourself to the basics (e.g., the 10% that FT
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by hsitz 9y ago
I don't think that's true at all. I think the main thing for young people to learn is that being frugal, avoding luxuries, is probably more important to financial well being than earning a lot of money. Also that as your income r
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by hsitz 9y ago
The Pascal language is not case sensitive, nor, as far as I know, are any of its variants. From my experience with Delphi/Object Pascal back in the day, nobody capitalized keywords. You can see an example of typical code with lowerca
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by hsitz 9y ago
What is your source for your assertion that they're not asking you to upload any pictures? That conflicts both with the article linked in this thread's title and with their source: http://www.abc.net.au/news&#x2F
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by hsitz 9y ago
I agree that's an excellent book, and that his sentence completion exercises are helpful. I would caution against thinking they're some kind of magical thing; they help, that's all, there's still lots of work a person n
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by hsitz 9y ago
Thanks a lot for your great work! I'm surprised the linked article didn't mention OneBusAway, which greatly changes the experience of using a bus for me. Like many in Seattle, I live a couple blocks from a stop, use OneBusAway t
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by hsitz 9y ago
Yes. Also, I would add that MMM and his wife certainly did retire -- in the sense of quitting their conventional jobs and intending to live off the income, having no need to work. It just happened that in retirement they found themselves
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by hsitz 9y ago
I think any of the Edward Tufte books qualify, starting with _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informati...
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by hsitz 9y ago
I would add that its not just that you can interact with different objects in the markup, but that there's a huge collection of operations built into Org-mode on emacs that does interact with them this way. You don't need to
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by hsitz 9y ago
Here's one photographer using cheap point-and-shoot that comes quickly to mind: is Magnum photographer Alex Majoli good enough for you? He preferred to work with an Olympus C5050 point-and-shoot, which was cheap back then and you can
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by hsitz 9y ago
Yes, you're right, I felt the 20 years was a little bit of a stretch, but it sounded better. I do think at least 17 years is legit, though, back to release of Canon EOS D30 in 2000. D30 was only 3.3MP, but was used by a lot of profess
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by hsitz 9y ago
I think your post actually proves the point of the person you were disagreeing with. If you, someone experienced with "real" camera gear, were "astonished" by the iphone 7+ pictures and thought they were taken by "f
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by hsitz 9y ago
The U.S. has a "unified" gift and inheritance tax. If you give away $5M while you're alive and die with an estate of $5M you (1) pay no tax on gifts while alive, and (2) your estate pays tax based on an estate size of $10M a
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by hsitz 9y ago
Yes, to academic idea that efficient litigation can be a substitute for regulation. That gets to the main issue in the linked article, which is that consumer financial contracts often require consumer to use arbitration and prohibit them f
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by hsitz 9y ago
Well, yes, and a loan can be secured by a house too, using a mortgage. In fact, millions of people do that to buy their houses. Do you consider the loans people get to buy houses "income"? Of course not, because it's not.

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