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by saryant 10y ago
If you aren't on the hill or a in a tiny handful of bars on Pearl, you never run into the college kids. They mostly stay south of the creek, with the exception of the dive bars on Pearl (and Absinthe House, but that place is a dump an
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by saryant 10y ago
I was in Tokyo during Fukushima in a recently-built building. Felt like nothing more than a freight truck passing by.
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by saryant 10y ago
That's why I called it arbitrary. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-17/housings-... I was using it as a starting point.
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by saryant 10y ago
A rule of thumb (admittedly arbitrary) for housing is to keep costs below 30% of gross income. That is why I compared median housing prices against median gross income. If someone making the median income in a city can afford a median hous
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by saryant 10y ago
I'm baffled as to why this was downvoted. It's a perfectly reasonable opinion.
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by saryant 10y ago
The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Antonio is $1200 (the seventh largest city in the nation). The median home price is $228k, so with a median income of $51k that means the average person would be paying 21% of their gross
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by saryant 10y ago
Err, AMD is down 55% over the last ten years. The total market up 65% over the same time period.
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by saryant 10y ago
Senator Ben Sasse has spoken about automation frequently. https://twitter.com/SenSasse/status/806889568276336641
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by saryant 10y ago
Look at the efforts San Antonio has been making over the last decade to help the homeless mentally ill. They've gone from having virtually no system in place to being on the vanguard: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotl
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by saryant 10y ago
And if you're going 70 down a busy interstate?
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San Antonio became a leader in mental health care by working as a community(apps.bostonglobe.com)
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by saryant 10y ago
That is not true.
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by saryant 10y ago
How can you even book flights years in advance when airlines only publish schedules 330 days in advance?
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by saryant 10y ago
I love my job and what I do for a living. I also have other things I love to do.
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by saryant 10y ago
I went to Mae Khlong a few years ago, the long way round: a train to Mahachai, ferry to Ban Laem and finally the train that actually rolls through the market. Other than the train that barrels through every now and then, it's much like
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by saryant 10y ago
People are pointing to 08 as a reason to believe she won't be charged, but the better analogy here in Enron. Lay, Skilling and Fastow were all sentenced to prison.
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by saryant 10y ago
IIRC, Chevron at one point operated one of the largest Hadoop clusters in the world.
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by saryant 10y ago
Or their internal divisions spiral out of control as Gulf petrostates receive the double-punch of declining oil revenues and weakening security alliances, causing them lose the ability to buy off their own citizens while at the same time,
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by saryant 10y ago
This was official US policy for much of the post-war era and a large part of the reason the US encouraged the development of oil fields in the Gulf. In WWII the Allies deeply learned the benefits of having vast, safe oil resources in lands
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by saryant 10y ago
DecisionDeskHQ.com, the group that powered BuzzFeed's results last night, uses crowdsourcing to gather election results.
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by saryant 10y ago
Prices are low primarily due to unrestricted output from OPEC, the addition of Iranian oil with the lifting of sanctions and the massive increase in supply by American frackers.
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by saryant 10y ago
Plus, in a hostel, you're never going to see those people again. I've stayed in tons of hostels and for me, that relieves a lot of social pressures that I otherwise find overwhelming at home.
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by saryant 10y ago
I used to help run 3 Day Startup San Antonio. Part of the format is that the first night includes pitches by a select number of people hoping to get voted into the top X ideas that are worked on for the rest of the weekend. We once had a g
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by saryant 10y ago
Depends on where you are in CA. San Diego will have a different attitude than San Francisco.
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by saryant 10y ago
They get the same returns as the market, minus fees. Since equities have seen great returns post-08, broad-market equity index funds have also seen great returns.
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by saryant 10y ago
You're arguing against a strawman. Index funds do not protect you from market crashes, that's not the point and never was. Index funds save you from forking over tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to active manager
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by saryant 10y ago
Your second point has nothing to do with indexing and everything to do with asset allocation. If you're nearing retirement, you shouldn't be holding risky assets like equities.
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by saryant 10y ago
Yeah, that's the point. You rise with the market, you fall with the market.
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by saryant 10y ago
At this scale, you basically have to have centralized logging. When you have thousands of parallel instances of a single application, searching logs box-by-box just isn't practical. Consider also that if you're elastically scalin
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by saryant 10y ago
Well, yeah. That's what I'm going to end up doing because Amazon is such a disaster at this point.

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