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by hugh4 11y ago
In Houston, houses are cheap enough that your spouse shouldn't have to work.
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by hugh4 11y ago
An hour per day of cycling is a lot. I know it seems like good fun exercise to us decadent westerners but as Tom Sawyer would point out it quits being fun when you have to do it.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Personally I'd find it incredibly lonely to work from home. Of course I have a five minute commute. If your commute is terrible, arrange your life better.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Isn't that just the plot of Minority Report? Think of the possibilities of machine learning for detecting precrime!
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by hugh4 11y ago
Using real money accounting or funny money accounting?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Uhh, and land.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And if you're in that situation then MMM isn't for you. People in that situation need a blog on how to earn more money, not one on how to spend less.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't see why it's an issue that he owns two rental properties. Of course he has investments of one kind or another, that's his shtick. Save money, but income-yielding investments, retire. Whether you buy properties or live
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by hugh4 11y ago
That advice isn't aimed at people who are genuinely poor, it's aimed at middle class whiners who earn middle-class money and still complain that they "can't get ahead" and "will never be able to retire". M
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by hugh4 11y ago
Because tipping has a tendency to grow from "bonus for exceptional service" to "obligation".
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not really, if you look at the statistics of people who have had difficult births they're not much more likely to grow up to be disabled. Especially if you exclude certain categories.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>If you look across the average of the market, real estate is crazy when compared to wages. Is it? I've been looking at places that aren't the coast recently and was shocked to find how much house you can still get for $300K
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by hugh4 11y ago
I probably would, because I'm not sure I see the distinction. I'd also answer "none of your business" if asked.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I think if I ever have a kid I'll let him open a "bank of Dad" account which pays a decent interest rate just to get him into the habit of investing.
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Nobody was up in arms earlier about the chemistry award going to people who weren't "household names" That's because chemistry papers can only be appreciated by a trained chemist, whereas literature is a popular art
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by hugh4 11y ago
The worst part is that now the news is out that placebos are getting more powerful, people are expecting it. The effect will grow exponentially. Wait, I guess that's not really bad.
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by hugh4 11y ago
It is if you can get away with paying 'em twenty five grand a year for the duration. Kaching!
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by hugh4 11y ago
Solving things analytically is overrated and only possible in rare circumstances. Everything I need to solve orbital mechanics is F = Gm1m2/r^2
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by hugh4 11y ago
Play where? Even if you're happy letting your kid play unsupervised in the park across the street in a high-density area, in the Paris style cities we're talking about the nearest park is still usually blocks away. You gonna send
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by hugh4 11y ago
But if you're going to live somewhere lawless you'd prefer low density.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Paris, as they say, is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Come to think of it, I'm not even that fond of visiting. I am very grateful that my parents brought me up in a decent-size house with a nice biggish
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by hugh4 11y ago
In fairness, all systems are broken, academia isn't much more broken than anything else involving large numbers of mortals. The basic problem is that we need to rank one researcher's merit against everyone else's, and there&#
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by hugh4 11y ago
The downside of testing all your autonomous vehicles in one little town is overfitting. It's easy to recognise the same darn freeway offramp that you've driven thousands of times, but your software needs to recognise every darn fr
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by hugh4 11y ago
Couldn't you just buy a slice of Detroit?
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by hugh4 11y ago
The better yet native is to focus on quality of research outputs rather than just number. "Grant committees can't read, but they can count". Trouble with that is it doesn't scale. It's easy to do when you're fu
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by hugh4 11y ago
Unless YC is promising to fund these researchers for life they'll pretty much have to, or else they'll never get back on the treadmill once the YC money runs out.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Trouble is that the amounts of money we're talking about don't go far in nuclear research.
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by hugh4 11y ago
If you want to say something, say it. Don't say the opposite in a sarcastic tone.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why have I never heard of a Direct Public Offering before? Is it less legally onerous than a full-on IPO? Personally I wouldn't trust my money to a company with unproven technology promising a six percent dividend but hey, good luck to
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by hugh4 11y ago
So was this a flight to China, or a flight from China?

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