weepinbell

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by weepinbell 11mo ago
GiveWell actually benchmarks their charity recommendations against direct cash transfers and will generally only recommend charities whose benefits are Nx cash for some N that I don't remember off the top of my head. I buy that lots of
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by weepinbell 11mo ago
Certainly charities exist that are ineffective, but there is very strong evidence that there exist charities that do enormous amounts of direct, targeted good. givewell.org is probably the most prominent org recommended by many EAs that doe
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by weepinbell 11mo ago
https://www.pangram.com/history/f119a8ee-7e60-442a-8d0c-3fa0... I show this more of as a discussion point than as a definitive answer. There is more research on this tool than others: https://www.nature.com&
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by weepinbell 1y ago
I recently set up a system for myself using some cheap NFC tags and Tasker that: 1. Has a "lock" tag next to my bad that scans when I place my phone down on my night stand This disables all the apps on my phone that I consider dis
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by weepinbell 1y ago
I really like your point about rent growth. I quickly grabbed numbers from FRED on rent growth in the same period as analyzed in this blog: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Kion And then computed the annualized pe
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by weepinbell 1y ago
The NYTimes/NerdWallet calculators implicitly account for that in their logic - they track money you gain/lose from down payment/mortgage/interest/taxes, then selling the house at the end. On the renting side, they
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Buying a Home Is Probably Even Worse Than NYTimes/NerdWallet Calculators Imply(tinkerdeck.com)
28 points by weepinbell 1y ago|73 comments
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by weepinbell 1y ago
I can definitely make this more clear, but this is specifically only changing the home appreciation and asset appreciation rates that produce that $1.5M change. I used the topline numbers at the beginning of the blog post, which is the nati
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by weepinbell 1y ago
> I can't see how you're accounting for the cost/value of the use of the property That's what the rent/buy calculators are doing! It's summing up all the cash flows for owning a property (down payment, mortg
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by weepinbell 1y ago
I pulled up the first text I found from the site: > according to its archive... Let's say I mistype and don't double the first "c", but otherwise type entirely correctly. > acording to its archive... This would be
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by weepinbell 1y ago
This is very neat. One piece of feedback and a gripe I have with a lot of these is that missed or extra characters throw off the entire next sequence and essentially require backing up to deal with them, as opposed to wrong characters which
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by weepinbell 1y ago
This is really cool - it'd be great to test for other chemicals like heavy metals. Specifically, rice seems to contain a good deal of arsenic ( https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how
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by weepinbell 1y ago
https://tinkerdeck.com/projects/rent-buy-growth I've been basing one of the biggest financial decisions in my life - whether to buy a house - in large part on NYT/NerdWallet Rent-Buy calculators. But when I d
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by weepinbell 2y ago
I believe the origin is here and explains it in a lot of detail: https://probability.ca/jeff/writing/montyfall.pdf I should add the credit line, looks like I left it off for that one, though I think the general co
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Show HN: Monty's Gauntlet – Do You *Really* Understand the Monty Hall Problem?(tinkerdeck.com)
9 points by weepinbell 2y ago|3 comments