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by jogjayr 9y ago
You don't have to stay under $2 for every meal as long they average out to that value. It's possible to eat high quality meat while hitting that number - you just can't eat it for every meal.
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> is like hearing they need to understand the details of how a transmission works before they go and drive an automatic Which would be a reasonable attitude for your average driver but not for a professional mechanical or automotive engi
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> syncing your own music to a device actually worked without issues I've used iTunes for many years and how exactly this works is still a mystery to me.
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> You can consistently eat healthy and get all your nutritions for under $5 a meal. +1 Except I'd change that figure to around $2/meal. This article written in 2012[0] has a $3/day target and I'm scaling that up a bit
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That's an ad-hominem argument. And Shashi Tharoor is pretty far in my mind from Hindu nationalism. He's a member of the party that Hindu nationalists oppose. Additionally, the linked article itself is guilty of lots of omissions.
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Since you appear to be posting from a throwaway, care to share which company this was at? Having worked with plenty of Indians (and being Indian myself) I don't recall caste ever being a factor in anything at any company I've ever
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I'm no expert on the financial crisis, most of my knowledge comes from The Big Short . But wasn't there actual fraud also being perpetrated? E.g. the ratings agencies that knowingly assigned A grades to bundles of decidedly low-g
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Extreme frugality allowed me to retire at 32 – and regain control of my life(theguardian.com)
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> I think we should all speak one language (preferably, the one we're speaking now). Gods no. You'll have to pry my other two languages from my cold, dead tongue. Just the ability to have private conversations in public feels l
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> rising disposable income is supposed to be a good thing That's the lifestyle inflation I'm alluding to. If one can be happy spending X/year 5 years ago, why can't one be happy spending inflation-adjusted X/year
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It doesn't make much sense to do logically because you can front-load a lot less at the beginning of your career. It's far better to design a sustainable lifestyle you like when starting out and aggressively fight scaling it up wi
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> the marginal difference in efficiency is offset by the young turks' propensity to work long hours while being paid in snacks. I don't know if this is true. Even just with my meager 6-7 years of professional experience I can d
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Which is fine at your current job. At your next job they're more likely than not going to be using the latest thing though so you'll need to learn it.
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Related question: do product management skills transfer across domains? A Java engineer is equally employable at a healthcare tech company as a fintech or security company, but they're very different product domains.
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Younger developers are more likely to have learned their trade using the latest thing whereas older developers have to do their job and invest time in learning the latest thing.
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> Even if we don't consider the fact that the cost of vehicle depreciation, maintenance and insurance is an "almost-fixed" or marginal cost because you are going to own the vehicle and pay for the insurance any way, But al
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> The fact of the matter is that a war on driving is a war on the working class. It's not a war on driving - it's favoring public transit over driving. There's a contradiction in your statement because public transit is of
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*Gandhi
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I think it's impressive that _any_ college expense has come down at all. Also you're not taking into account the fact that inflation alone should have increased costs by roughly $100 since 2008. But instead there's a net decr
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by jogjayr 9y ago
The other reply has clarified that state schools don't cost that much. But just to add on, a lot of international students are merely upper-middle class in their own countries (i.e. family has 1 non-luxury car, lives in a 2 bedroom apa
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> transliteration involves a good understanding of english alphabets and query. Many people in india don't have that. That's true. I hadn't thought of it. OTOH transliteration tools are more for desktop/laptop users w
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It's not terrible on Android - I use the Hindi keyboard to write Marathi just fine. It's slower than English for sure because Swype doesn't work (or at least I haven't tried and can't imagine it working the same way
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by jogjayr 9y ago
"Like anything in life: Do the right thing, even when you're surrounded by villains." That's a tiring way to live life too. If you're surrounded by villains, you should try to leave and go to a place where doing the
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It was a lovely turn of phrase. One of the highlights of my day!
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> I'd be viewed as the cook tinfoil hat Dad everyone hates. Maybe it's just a matter of rebranding yourself as the nature-loving, environmentally-conscious Dad who wants to keep the world plastic-free for your children :-)
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> who have worked in jobs participating in Social Security. Ah yes. I (sort of) touched upon that when I said "the amount you get out has some relation to how much you put in". But yes, if you never contribute to Social Securit
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Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, Social Security and medicare are benefits available to everyone, rich or poor, after reaching retirement age. The amount you get out has some relation with how much you put in when you worked (it may
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> You can contribute more if you have access to a 401k. The current limit there is $18,500. What's the argument for having two different tiers of retirement accounts? Just let everyone contribute $18k to an IRA and end 401Ks entirel
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Presumably once you're a millionaire, you're past the point of needing to rent a 1-bed apartment in high CoL like the other working stiffs. You can retire to a lower CoL area and live off your investments, or switch careers.
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For a longer version: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... tl;dr You can generally withdraw 4% of your investments on average every year taking into account gains and inflation Assu

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