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by xrange 12y ago
>I live in a very comfortable 52m^2 (560 ft^2) studio I guess I've got you beat for efficient living then? I live with my wife and our 4 kids in a 3030 sq. ft. home, which then works out to 505 sq. ft. per person. Also it depends
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by xrange 12y ago
Lexical binding is a "new" feature for elisp. See: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LexicalBinding ...for some of the issues.
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by xrange 12y ago
>Spending a year in prison awaiting trial, sorry your right to a speedy trial ends well before your actual trial. ...Can you point me in the direction of these abuses? I was under the impression that most defendants usually declined the
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by xrange 12y ago
Does anyone know of a general & special relativity simulator? That is, a program where I can setup various "thought experiments", by placing clocks and masses at various point in space, where they can have various acceleration
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by xrange 12y ago
I suppose it'll be interesting to see the "failure" rate for these cameras, how often someone "forgets" to put it on, and how easy it is for the camera to get "damaged/stepped on" in a scuffle.
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by xrange 12y ago
>No matter what the management the people seem to get a bad deal. ...maybe having management at all is the problem then?
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by xrange 12y ago
Does anyone know of a general & special relativity simulator? That is, a program where I can setup various "thought experiments", by placing clocks and masses at various point in space, where they can have various acceleratio
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by xrange 12y ago
>The utilities will be on both sides of that example In a "perfectly efficient" economic world it would seem almost all of those categories like taxes, insurance, mortgage interest, and maintenance are really on both side of th
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by xrange 12y ago
>You're missing the point that you are also paying the principal. Just so everyone is on the same page. The original 30 year, $500k loan that Domenic_S is proposing, at 4.5% interest has a monthly payment of $2533.43. After 360 of
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by xrange 12y ago
One things I don't see mentioned is the use of a mortgage as kind of a forced savings plan. For a bunch of reasons, it is really hard for people to plan/save for the future. That's why there is thousands of years of parable
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by xrange 12y ago
>all about minute incremental improvements ...how much of that is due to the fact that CS is now much more of a mature field compared to 44 years ago. It seems like the fields of synthetic biology and biological and chemical computers a
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by xrange 12y ago
My understanding is that after the war, the rest of the world needed to buy stuff, but the U.S. was the only major country with an intact manufacturing base. So that's why the U.S. made 30.5% the world's manufactured goods export
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by xrange 12y ago
Compare and contrast: >Slide 18 Energy -- US: Dwindling Domestic Production vs. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-04/u-s-seen-as-biggest...
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by xrange 12y ago
>unanticipated by our stupid politicians ...how sure are you about the whole "unanticipated" thing? http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/dead-souls-the-den...
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by xrange 12y ago
The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds by Jeffrey R. Weeks ...this one has been a good read so far, but it is quite mind bending, I only read like a half chapter at a time slowly, and then I have to sp
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by xrange 12y ago
>My guess: it's the unfamiliarity of the mathematical modulus operator that trips most people up. This is an interesting hypothesis, can anyone confirm that this is a particular sore spot? I wonder if that would show up as a genera
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by xrange 12y ago
>Pretty much everyone I asked to do Fizzbuzz failed …I can't help but wonder what that really means? They gave up without producing any work? The program didn’t compile because they were typing random characters into the IDE? They
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by xrange 12y ago
It is quite surprising that a book written 60 years ago could still seem so timely in describing how well meaning central planning could eventually lead to tyrrany. https://www.google.com/#q=the+road+to+serfdom ...although
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by xrange 12y ago
Did the trains actually run on time, or did anyone who pointed out that they were late end up with a bullet in the brain? And of course the best way to prevent late arrivals is to minimize the number of trains running.
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by xrange 12y ago
>As a non-American, it does seem a bit odd that you can't have a 401(k) or some equivalent outside of your job - or can you? That's call an IRA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_IRA
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by xrange 12y ago
I guess "coming full-circle" isn't quite the term I want to use, but I'm old enough to remember when 401(k)'s were branded as the corporation's way of throwing their employees to the wind to fend for themselves
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by xrange 12y ago
Do you have a recommendation on what to sell? How hard is hard? Can I work medium hard and earn $150k? Do I have to live anywhere in particular? Do you have to travel 100+ days a year?
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by xrange 12y ago
To be fair, I don't think it is limited to the younger generation. Last Valentine's day, my wife and I noticed at least 6 people from 5 different couples who were actively using a smart phone for a significant amount of time. Th
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by xrange 12y ago
Since their problem cropped up in 2008, I'd like to see the value of the car in 2008, compared to the value 6 years later in 2014.
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by xrange 12y ago
I wonder how much different the story reception would have been if the last paragraph was something like: "I hope other's can learn from our mistakes and learn to live below their means, because circumstances can change on a dime.
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by xrange 12y ago
>It's almost like a bunch of you read the article and missed the point. What is the point of the article? I mean besides the we-can-sell-ads-ginning-up-outrage-(which-may-or-maynot-be-misplaced). I'd like to see a "The L
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by xrange 12y ago
They mention her job was $25k, but shouldn't he have qualified for unemployment insurance payments? For at least the first year or so?
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by xrange 12y ago
I guess I don't want to belabor this too much, and maybe this tags me as an old geezer, but I have personally known families with children, who only owned one automobile. One person can drive the other person to work, and then drive t
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by xrange 12y ago
From the byline: >Darlena Cunha is a former television producer turned stay-at-home mom to twin girls. ...maybe someone from the Boston area can chime in on the state of public transportation.
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by xrange 12y ago
>Were we supposed to trade it in for a crappier car we’d have to make payments on? No, you should have sold the Mercedes because you already had one other car, and two cars and their insurance and upkeep seems like an unnecessary luxury

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