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by jurassic 5y ago
I’m a nightmare customer for streaming services. I rotate my subscriptions to watch just what I want, then churn. I’m a Netflix customer for max 2-3 months each year to catch up on the latest installments of my favorite shows.
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You're paying many of these things in a rental as well. But at the end of 30 years the landlord keeps the asset.
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Interest is amortized in most mortgages so that this type of analysis on year 0 of homeownership is always going to look very unfavorable owing to the large interest payments in the early years of the mortgage. You have to consider what hap
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Money aside, there's a big difference in lifestyle (some might say quality of life) of homeowners vs renters. There's a lot you can do in a property you own yourself that you simply cannot do in a rental. It's hard to put a p
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Two years younger reporting in, things were still terrible for the Class of 2010 graduates. New grad unemployment didn't recover until 2012.
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What kills me about wireless is when I need to switch sources. E.g. from my work laptop to my phone and vice versa. Or from my work laptop to my personal laptop. Perhaps Airpods do a better job here, but my experience with Bose and Sony wir
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How high is high? Can you give some specifics for foreigners who aren't familiar with the tax situation in Portugal?
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I give a lot of FAANG interviews these days, and I'm stunned how many people skip this important step of understanding the problem, asking clarifying questions to surface important constraints, and making a plan before launching off in
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VMware seems like a place where people work either less than 2 years or 10+ years. If you can identify a niche for yourself it can be quite comfortable.
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It's ridiculous to suggest young people don't know anything about downturns. People who are now in their early-mid-30's were some of the biggest victims of the 2008 GFC because they bore the brunt of unemployment and delayed
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You'd actually need to make more like 125k to maintain a 100k standard of living through a 20% inflation event since you're taxed on the "extra" income.
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I didn't mean to suggest that millionares are a majority in the US. But they may well be a majority of those with the time, energy, money, and influence to meaningfully invest into political activities. A majority of those elected to C
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There are millions of millionaires in the US. A lot of fairly normal doctors, lawyers, and engineers will reach this bar by late middle age if they're saving and investing part of their income.
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I think the incredible stock market gains and home price growth over the past few years have helped a lot of people feel confident leaving their jobs for a sabbatical that otherwise might not. I know in my own case, even if a lot of the nom
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I read the linked article by Michael Hobbes which is responding to Anne Applebaum's piece. Michael's response gives a pretty clear picture of the basic contours of Anne's thesis. Certainly enough for me to have an opinion abo
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> The Economist cites the case of Colin Wright, a post-doctoral student who had difficulty finding a job after publishing a series of essays “arguing that sex is a biological reality” (TERFese for “trans people don’t exist”). TERFese? Th
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I'm not surprised. I'm guessing the aerospace industry is relatively stable in size (we don't suddenly need a lot more planes, spacecraft, or weapon systems than in the past), so employers in that industry don't need to
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This author needs relax and take a breath. Even if he’s right that financialization is displacing some would-be homeowners, he’s ignoring all the second order effects and reactions that would counteract this trend long before we reached a s
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In the pre-smartphone age, calculators represented the only widely available mobile gaming platform for bored high school kids. That motivated a lot of people I know, including me, to dabble in programming.
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TI-83+ played a huge role in my formative years as a programmer/nerd. This was early 2000s. If you like calculators, I also recommend checking out the visual history of vintage TI calculators at http://www.datamath.org/
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by jurassic 5y ago
> But Ryan simply wasn’t interested. Student graduations count as a negative on his spreadsheet, since graduating students typically unsubscribe. Major yikes on this. I never thought about how online learning platforms have this kind of
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I know people with no degree at FAANG. Best time to break in is after a few years in industry when you have some work accomplishments you can point to that indicate you are a high performer. New grads are pretty undifferentiated except for
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> there should be penalties for buying houses to rent or for investment purposes outside of ones primary residence. There are lots of people who don't want to own a home (e.g. who value the mobility/flexibility of renting), and
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There are cheaper setups if you just want to test the waters. YouTube is a good resource to see how to get started for less cost than a top end direct-drive smart trainer like the wahoo kickr. Riding bikes the traditional way is great too,
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Whatever activity you decide to focus on, I highly recommend hiring a coach/trainer. Getting somebody else to make your plans significantly lowers the mental energy required to do the activity, and the feeling of expectation from them
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Anecdotally, in the startup where I worked there was one summer in 2017 when 3 white women (a significant percent of the women in the office at the time) all suddenly came out as non-binary and asked to be called they/them. If that&#x2
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Who will Affinity Client Services be suing over the naming of the "Delta variant"?
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I'm approaching a $1M net worth, but I still enjoy listening to Dave Ramsey. His advice is a mixed bag but I find the batshit scenarios people call in with pretty entertaining. His own personal rags to riches story helps him remain a r
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I thought I had it bad with the $17 yogurt parfait I picked up on my last trip through SFO. $28 beer is next level.
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After 6 months working in my dining chairs last year I was starting to have back pain, so I paid full price for a Herman Miller Mirra 2. A year later I feel it's already been worth every penny. After my mattress, this is a piece of fur

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