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by hudibras 14y ago
That's true, it's the flexibility to work exactly as much as you want--even if it's zero hours a year. In my own financial calculations, I also assume that I start collecting social security benefits when I turn 67. A lot of people consider
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by hudibras 14y ago
It's always embarrassing to admit that you're a part of a cult, but I'm a huge fan of MMM and his spiritual godfather Jacob (earlyretirementextreme.com) and I'm currently on track to retire in 4 years in my early forties. Few points to reme
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by hudibras 14y ago
>it's impossible for a significant percentage of people to retire early unless the remaining workforce becomes correspondingly more productive. This is an important point that's often hand-waved away in discussions of retirement, future
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by hudibras 14y ago
Well put. At this point, Swartz will be Willie Horton for any of Ortiz's opponents in the hypothetical Democratic primary.
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by hudibras 14y ago
I lived for several years in Japan, too. The games start at 3 a.m. there and go until the early afternoon--but on Monday. So there was a lot of furtive checking scores online around the office and extended lunch breaks when word got out tha
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by hudibras 14y ago
And don't forget to multiply each of the "investment income" numbers by 25 for a rough calculation of their wealth, assuming a 4% return on investment. For example, that family of six with $180,000 of passive investment income has net worth
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by hudibras 14y ago
I actually agree with you, but this is exactly the opposite of what the author is saying. Charles Pierce (a long-time Boston politics reporter, not a "tech guy") isn't blaming Ortiz for killing Swartz, he's blaming her and her husband for b
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Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz(esquire.com)
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by hudibras 14y ago
Meanwhile, NFL Sundays will never be the same as 10am kickoffs is something I don’t think I’ll ever get used to. Born and raised in Seattle. Some of my fondest memories growing up were rolling out of bed at 9:45 and sitting down t
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by hudibras 14y ago
"dated Jan 14, 2013. Weirdly uncritical, simple praise for a book on Scientology" Jeffrey Goldberg posted that in response to or in protest of the advertorial.
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by hudibras 14y ago
"rules make it a snap, and potentially quite lucrative, for people to file civil lawsuits" "One suit against us, a proposed class action, came from an elderly woman in New York City" Seems like I'm in the minority on this, but I'm always am
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by hudibras 14y ago
If by "Detroit area" you mean the Detroit metropolitan area, it's only lost 3% of its population between the last two censuses, not exactly a huge exodus. Around 15,000 net loss each year out of 4M+. If you mean just the city of Detroit, th
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by hudibras 14y ago
The per-capita productivity growth rate in Japan the last twenty years has been around 1%/year (down from the 4-5% of the 1970-1990 era). At that rate, the average worker in Japan will be 2.4 times as productive in 2100 than today. In the l
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by hudibras 14y ago
At the current birthrate/deathrate, Japan's population will be 60 million by 2100. That's the same population as in the 1920s. So the same population but with almost 180 years of technologic and productivity advances? I think most people wo
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by hudibras 14y ago
The developer and the homeowner almost always come to a voluntary agreement. Almost by definition, if the developer wants to build something in a specific location then the land is worth more to him then the homeowner can get for the proper
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by hudibras 14y ago
The farms in the middle of Narita Airport are pretty amazing. One second you're peering out the window of your 747 at a typical airport taxiway scene, then suddenly a farmhouse passes into your field of view for a few seconds apparently jus
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by hudibras 14y ago
I used to feel exactly the same way, but eventually the novelty wore off after I started a family. The prospect of spending 2 hours every day commuting for the next 20-30 years got me looking at real estate and job listings real quick. Two
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by hudibras 14y ago
I'm slightly embarassed to admit that I remapped them after reading this: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
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by hudibras 14y ago
Gelman and Hill is a wonderful and under-rated book. My guess is that its clumsy title (Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models) hides the fact that it's an introductory textbook that takes the reader from knowing
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by hudibras 14y ago
Any public company worth its salt would do the same thing. The positive PR generated would be completely justifiable if any shareholder was crazy enough to sue. It's the same reason that public companies give to charities or sponsor events.
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by hudibras 14y ago
The chart showing the number of Asian students at Caltech vs. the Ivy League is shocking. Caltech's numbers have risen in proportion to the number of Asian-Americans aged 18-21, but the Ivy League numbers have been flat for many years. Ther
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by hudibras 14y ago
Ten minutes a day on the toilet is 60 hours each year. Over 80 years, that's 200 days of your life.
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by hudibras 14y ago
The 4% figure you hear about (usually in the "early retirement" circles) includes drawing down your principal gradually over time. Don't remember the numbers exactly, but drawing 4% of your initial nest-egg each year is supposed to give a 9
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by hudibras 14y ago
I doubt they were paid anything by EA. The article doesn't mention that they were and it would be a much more serious charge if they divulged classified material for money. It's more likely that they just wanted to show off their gear and g
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by hudibras 14y ago
The title of this submission is misleading because when you say "Car of the Year" you think either Motor Trend or Car & Driver. Automobile Magazine is a distant, distant third place in prestige and respect; I didn't even know that they
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by hudibras 14y ago
And as for the military, cashing out at twenty years of service with a $47,000 annual pension (starting immediately and inflation-adjusted over time) plus the G.I. Bill is not a bad deal at all. The downside is that you have to be in the mi
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by hudibras 14y ago
The one-in-four statistic is for miscarriages after the sixth week of pregnancy. In the general population, the percentage of miscarriages is 15%, or about one-in-six. One thing to keep in mind is that a miscarriage is not the end of the wo
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by hudibras 14y ago
Most Americans' wealth is in the value of their homes, which took a beating during that same time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans... "The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 pe
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by hudibras 14y ago
There's definitely a vocal faction of HN who will defend to the death against any threat to the beleaguered highly-educated upper-class white American male.
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by hudibras 14y ago
I think your Wolfram Alpha figures are wrong. This report from the Census Bureau shows public school spending for the U.S. http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/finance_ins... U.S average is $10,600 per student in 2010. Califor

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