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by pitt1980 11y ago
even if I'm missing half the rental market, that seems pretty illiquid to me, and again, Westerville is considerably larger than most American suburbs, if I want to keep my kids in the same school district, I don't want to be limi
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by pitt1980 11y ago
if the tone came off as railing, I should have dialed it back a bit its strikes me that a big issue with renting is the liquidity of the market you're renting in especially if you have kids, and changing school districts becomes a big
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by pitt1980 11y ago
The option to even rent seems mostly like a large coastal metro phenomenon to me Outside, LA, SF, DC, NYC, maybe Chicago or Philly where are all these stand alone houses for rent? serious question outside of major markets I don't perci
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by pitt1980 11y ago
thanks for writing this this approach is really aspirational, and really something to strive for addendum - I think approaching parenting in this manner is one of those 'hard, but worth it' things in life
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by pitt1980 11y ago
this is a good point, which also raises the question of how desirable a job with a large multinational really is, especially is your role in that multinational almost explictly requires "put(ting) up with a certain (large) amount of in
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by pitt1980 11y ago
that's interesting, I wasn't familiar with the history of the Pension Plan's ownership of the team seems if the teams current woes are mostly due to poor managment, hiring the best (or at least best paid) coach is a pretty go
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by pitt1980 11y ago
you and the original author seemed to be indicating that they didn't have incentive to win because they already made alot of money I was just saying, if they make this much money when they're not winning, there is probably even mo
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by pitt1980 11y ago
is there a structural reason why they can't get the talent to win? or is it simply a poor management issue?
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by pitt1980 11y ago
that's doesn't make much sense its not like ticket prices are fixed, even if you already sell out every game, you can always raise prices if the demand will support it not to mention all the other revenue streams that have nothing
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by pitt1980 11y ago
the degree you're 'slogging' through is almost certainly a safer route to your destination I'm pretty sure its a mistake to think the free online CS education won't require alot of 'slogging' to have any v
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by pitt1980 11y ago
I'm actually older than 30, but we didn't have a TV in the house when MacGyver aired, I've never seen an actual episode of the show MacGyver is referenced all the time, to the point where I imagine most people pick it up from
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by pitt1980 11y ago
this is actually a striking good analogy
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by pitt1980 11y ago
You might find this episode of This American Life interesting http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/504/h... similar story of a refugee attributing his good fortune to chance I'll avoid
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by pitt1980 11y ago
The problem with Raj Chetty’s 2013 work on social mobility was that it generates absurd results — West Virginia is a great place for social mobility, while Atlanta and Charlotte are terrible — because he refuses to intelligently consider ra
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I'm probably not the right person to answer this but it seems that Christianity distinctly less tribal than Judism its seems that the Old Testament, is essentially the story of 'God's people' in contrast, especially the
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I don't know why, (probably mostly because I'm accustomed to modern new reports) but that strikes me as a sort of absurd way to learn that the President was dead
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I don't get how that's still not open to alot of negotiation by a different name best I can tell, you're pay appears to be based on the "Be Even More Awesome Chart" (page 5 http://blog.stackoverflow.com&#
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by pitt1980 12y ago
well, I mean some actors are more future oriented than others, but everyone prefers a dollar today to a dollar a year from now, politicians probably have a weaker future orientation than most, but they're not unique in discounting the
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by pitt1980 12y ago
how long can a government distort prices? even a distorted price gives information, no?
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by pitt1980 12y ago
that's an interesting take "hyperbolic discounting" is an interesting phrase, I'm curious about to what degree that has been studied as an economic/political phenomenon seems like its something that govenments clear
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by pitt1980 12y ago
are you talking about pollution externalities? or production sustainability in terms of "we might run out"? because I'm pretty sure information regarding the latter is priced in
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by pitt1980 12y ago
isn't your sustainability status with regards to that conveyed by price information as well though? if eating beef or flying in planes are using up too many petrochemicals, shouldn't the price go up, and price you out of using the
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I don't really get the idea of "sustainable living" as in, I'm not supposed to eat beef or fly on a plane, because there are not enough of those things to support everyone on the planet doing at US rates Like, I get that
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by pitt1980 12y ago
knowledge crystalizes when you use it people don't like homework because its required, but its actually really useful if you're trying crystallize what you're learning so you can use it 10 years later http://www.pb
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by pitt1980 12y ago
"Two long-run trends have led to this fractured market. One is the revival of the city as the central cog in the global economic machine (see article). In the 20th century, tumbling transport costs weakened the gravitational pull of th
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I think I had a pretty similar experience in school to the author I regret having that attitude now kids hold adults to unrealistic expectations, they expect them to be omniscient (tbf adult don't really discourage this), and then beco
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I'm conflicted, on one hand this is good in that they are recognizing that debt burdens are a real hinderence to their graduates on the other hand, this is used to pitch the line that 65K tuition is no big deal which you're in lin

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