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541.
by hugh 18y ago
31 now, or 31 when he wrote this back in 2005?
542.
by hugh 18y ago
That's true. My comments don't apply if you're in an area which uses underground water.
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by hugh 18y ago
I feel worst for number 1. The quadratic equation? If you're going to have a mathematical tattoo, at least make it some kind of advanced mathematics, not eighth-grade stuff.
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by hugh 18y ago
Water is entirely unlike oil, in that it's renewable. (You might have noticed that it falls out of the sky every now and then.) Whatever water you use in 2008 will still be available for use in 2020. Dams are already built and are collectin
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by hugh 18y ago
Not even _that_ funny. There's lots of better (in my opinion) quotes on bash.org. I really don't want to see them each submitted individually.
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by hugh 18y ago
I often open my posts with a quote pulled from the comment that I'm responding to, just so that the post will make more sense when pulled out of context; e.g. on searchyc.com or when someone is scanning down the page. Me too. But I think
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, a lot of his advice is easier to follow when you're Warren Buffett. It's easy to enjoy every day at work when you're the boss, your employees all love you for making them rich, and you've already achieved every goal you could reasonab
548.
by hugh 18y ago
I'm not suffering mean/median confusion (note I said "roughly"), I'm just not convinced the distribution is quite as asymmetric as you think(despite, as you say, being capped at zero). But we don't have any numbers either way, so shrug .
549.
by hugh 18y ago
On average, shouldn't roughly half of investors do better than the market and roughly half do worse?
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by hugh 18y ago
Can we stop calling things "The Ultimate X" or "Coolest Y Ever"? Also, can we stop being subconciously tricked by said headlines into thinking that they're more interesting than they actually are? Oh, a game for iPhone. How exciting.
551.
by hugh 18y ago
Makes sense to me. Internet companies are getting by on ever-decreasing amounts of funding, while huge firms like KP have an ever-increasing amount of money they need to invest. Internet companies and KP aren't interested in talking about t
552.
by hugh 18y ago
Could be, and there are plenty of non-Marxist articles on this subject which we could be reading instead of this load of garbage. Though personally I don't want to see economics articles unless they're narrowly focused on, say, startups or
553.
by hugh 18y ago
I read as far as "International Journal of Socialist Renewal".
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by hugh 18y ago
I dunno, advanced physics still baffles the hell out of me. And I'm an advanced physicist.
555.
by hugh 18y ago
I don't know what kind of cars your parents got, but they could have spent less. In 1970 a VW Beetle was selling for (I just looked this up) $1,874. The median household income in those days was $8,734, so that's 21%. Nowadays the median in
556.
by hugh 18y ago
Is there really a considerable portion of American (or we could say Western) society that is practically illiterate? This seems counter-intuitive to me, I thought it was hardly possible to function at all without a basic understanding of t
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by hugh 18y ago
Sorry, yes, what I meant to say was: cars depreciate faster in the US than they do in Australia.
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by hugh 18y ago
That's what these colleges should be doing, if they're taking student's money. Oh, and also... if you're going to be claiming to be an English lecturer and complaining about illiteracy, you should probably master the rules of apostrophe p
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by hugh 18y ago
Only in the US, as far as I know. I was actually shocked when I came here at the extent to which borrowing money to pay for a car is seen as normal. Personally I still tend to think that real estate is the only thing worth borrowing money t
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by hugh 18y ago
But what if that premise isn't true? What if some people just suck at everything? I can't see any reason why everybody must be good at something. There's nothing about genetics which says that random genes will combine in such a way as to g
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by hugh 18y ago
Just, basic stuff.Otherwise, it's just ridiculous. That's what these colleges should be doing, if they're taking student's money. No, that's what high schools should be doing. No wait, actually, that's what primary schools should be doing
562.
by hugh 18y ago
Interestingly, most coal miners make a whole lot more money than, say, an adjunct lecturer in English. There's nothing wrong with being a coal miner. Arts degrees are a luxury for children of rich families, not a good way to get ahead in li
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by hugh 18y ago
I would have thought they're just about cheaper than they've ever been in relation to wages. I can't find numbers right now, but I'm pretty sure I've read such figures in the past.
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by hugh 18y ago
That was confusing and badly written ("This was not the first time I get entrepreneurial ideas.") so I've read it several times and I still can't figure out what he's on about. Is his idea that somebody might want to pay to use his three-CP
565.
by hugh 18y ago
Do you think that the fact that you can have entire games without a single capture, and win by a point or two makes it a more interesting game, or are those two unrelated thoughts?
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by hugh 18y ago
It makes for boring comment threads when people post comments saying something shouldn't be on the site That's true, it does. But if downvoting is impossible, commenting that it shouldn't be here is frowned upon, and flagging is reserved
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by hugh 18y ago
They've always struck me as being pretty similar. Although I guess pg plays down the "easy" bit more than 37signals does. Another difference: YC's business model is actually based on persuading lots of eager young folks to attempt "it", whe
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by hugh 18y ago
No.
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by hugh 18y ago
It could really use some more details on how they're coming up with these numbers. I can imagine how they might infer the wealth in current dollars of, say, Carnegie or Ford. But Crassus?
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by hugh 18y ago
One step beyond gold standard debates, I think, is when the 9/11 Truthers start showing up. At that point the site becomes useless to pretty much everybody. This is the big problem: it only takes six people with some ahem fringe interest

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