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by shoover 10y ago
Perhaps. That is a good question that Bill should address in the analysis. If the price goes down then the farmers eat more eggs (and chickens, if they want), which is still a good outcome.
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by shoover 10y ago
This cannot be overstated. I think many of us see the mortgage, taxes, and insurance are less than rent and call it a win. We are vaguely aware of the money pit and getting out issues but they are hard to predict and easier to sweep under t
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by shoover 10y ago
+1. Kenny Tilton's blog is also great for that kind of thing. "You know Lisp is the perfect language precisely because it lost its momentum (died) and lives on. Other languages need their Next Big Thing momentum." http:&#x2F
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by shoover 11y ago
Try pandoc -f html -t org-mode.
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by shoover 11y ago
This is a problem. I see Chase's QuickPay can talk to a few other big US banks, but I haven't tried it because then I always have to ask the other person who their bank is. This is no different than asking if they have a PayPal a
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by shoover 11y ago
True. PayPal is currently free for interpersonal payments, but who knows in the future. Now that banks are not processing so many checks they have to compete using their own "easy pay." Chase has QuickPay, which I haven't use
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by shoover 11y ago
This is helpful and uses a good matrix to compare the tools in question. I've been wanting to see a version of this for cross-language tools: Bazel et al, msbuild, scons, and do not forget the quiet but powerful waf.
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by shoover 11y ago
Rake is a pleasure for small projects, like generating HTML from a handful of org-mode files or zipping up a Chrome extension. I've not tried to take it much farther than that, though there is a series of blog posts I can't find a
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by shoover 11y ago
Sorry the examples are confusing. I mention periods of relative underperformance as a nod to your cherrypick comment: yes, the time frames matter in both directions. The question is how much the strategy goes up or down relative to the benc
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by shoover 11y ago
I agree with the OP's point, but you mentioned 2008 and what happens after that and I'm saying you can diversify in a way that handles those kinds of economic events. (The strategy I mentioned also got really lucky in the 70s an
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by shoover 11y ago
You can't really out-diversify the entire economy tanking. Sometimes you can. Chart [1] shows the ratio of a particular diversified portfolio's value (4x25 Permanent Portfolio) to the three fund portfolio's value starting i
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by shoover 11y ago
As a long time mint.com user, I hadn't checked out YNAB before. Reading some of their info, I see I do most of the same disciplines, but they are really hardcore about the budget. One thing that stuck out is in their Simplify [1] artic
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by shoover 11y ago
I wouldn't mind at all if the municipal recycling program took my recycling, sorted it, and routed the less valuable materials straight to the landfill based on current market conditions and analysis of all the criteria mentioned in th
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by shoover 11y ago
Good point about Android and .NET. Regarding the Closure Compiler, ClojureScript touts whole program optimization as an advantage; the ClojureScript compiler just has to play by the Google Closure rules when emitting JS to take advantage. I
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by shoover 11y ago
Yeah, but it seems like you listed most of the platforms most people actually use, all in the X column. How do we get from 100MB Electron deployment and fat, partially used jars and dlls to this magical tree-shaking world?
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by shoover 11y ago
ZeroMQ's Collective Code Construction Contract [1] goes into a lot of my question areas in concrete detail. It puts fair burden on both contributors and maintainers and clearly delineates the roles. Relevant to my post is the focus on
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by shoover 11y ago
This piece is excellent. The backstory on the zeromq and nanomsg projects is fascinating and generously detailed. The trick of reaching out to gather rejected contributors is good humanity and practically clever. The rule about monitoring c
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by shoover 11y ago
Heh, ok, I missed the 20002. I dunno, if any institution hangs around that long (including some form of www hosting for the OP), maybe Stanford has a chance, if not a copy of wikipedia or Knuth's books.
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by shoover 11y ago
I don't get why it said he has never held a position of any present-day institution.
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by shoover 11y ago
I found Choosing The Right Dividend ETF [1], which discusses several dividend funds and mechanisms they use to predict which companies will continue paying high dividends. A poster on another forum [2] warned that you should watch out for c
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by shoover 11y ago
I don't get C# regions, either. At least Visual Studio makes it easy to auto-expand them and effectively ignore them while jumping around with incremental search and goto definition. Admittedly, this would be a problem if the rest of t
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by shoover 11y ago
My parenthetical was admitting I don't know what other complexities were involved with the tax credit, but to the grandparent's point it was closed to landlords and perhaps lowered rents as some like me bought houses instead.
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by shoover 11y ago
I hadn't thought about first time home ownership in terms of access to the market like that. Possibly related (among other factors) in 2008 the US tax code gave $8000 tax credits to first time homebuyers. It was enough for me to jump f
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by shoover 11y ago
I'm party to this thread branching of which you speak, but yes, it's predicated on not answering the question and using a principle similar to what you're saying: save, invest passively, and get back to work doing what you do
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by shoover 11y ago
The Permanent Portfolio [1]. The plan is based on very simple economic theory, and historically it generates market-competitive returns in the long run with much lower volatility than stock indexes or 60/40 portfolios. As in the peer t
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by shoover 11y ago
Great, I will keep an eye on your repo and look forward to seeing how you solve those problems, if it comes to it. There's not much to say on the F# front yet except that the goal is to get a taste of functional rendering from an app s
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by shoover 11y ago
Interesting times for experimental Swift UI libraries coming out, with tcp-json-swift [1] mentioned last week and now this. This is an excellent synthesis and transfer of related technology. Nice work! Some of the Swift- and NS-isms are tri
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by shoover 11y ago
That's the one. The database is like kind of like a giant arbitrarily deep hash table of strings and numbers. At some point they added objects to the programming language and made a way load and save them to the database. Voila, object
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by shoover 11y ago
Ha good old Cache. I did that for four years out of college. My friends and I couldn't stand the language and couldn't wait to leave it. I realized later that it was ahead of the curve on nosql, but I never heard if InterSystems m

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