jscott2

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   by jscott2 11y ago

   Lotta hate in here, but try not to focus on that. Remember that HN is an unrepresentative group of the entire audience that article addresses. I'd guess most HN readers are probably doing a-ok salary-wise in the frugality world (but
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   by jscott2 12y ago

   I agree on this: debt in deflation is rough. Maybe the lesson is that people/governments should stay out of debt, not that deflation is the boogeyman. That'd certainly be more anti-fragile.
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   by jscott2 12y ago

   ^^ Learning to cook (admittedly it took >15 mins) is probably the best investment I ever made.
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   by jscott2 12y ago

   The metric 'percent-of-race-to-be-flagged' is more a measure how how homogenous the names of people of that race are and inadequate for this analysis. If they actually wanted to show prejudice they should've normalized for th
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   by jscott2 12y ago

   I've learned a lot in the last few years about living efficiently. Being financially independent is less about how much you earn, and more about what percent of your income you save along with getting some rate of return on your savin