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National median home price is $410k[1]. Texas is less than $300k[2]. Only thing that's unrealistic is most people who buy a house for $400k will probably get an FHA loan and put 3%…

> Getting screwed in industry means you lose your right to an income and might never get it back. Why is this? It really easy to get hired in industry after you've been fired from …

This is a silly argument but I disagree. Seemed like a perfectly neutral statement to me, including "I insist on living in NYC because I think it's the best place to live"

I think this is really neat and I also like the HN tagline "learn computational science by tinkering with code" better than learning how to code and Data Science for Middle/High Sc…

I am really pleased Epic is conducting this lawsuit. Even if they lose the lawsuit, it seems likely they'll end up with at least a partial victory by shining light on Apple's pract…

I’d be very surprised if an Indie creator would create a 1-2 minute read about bikes that 500k people would find worthwhile to read. Video is offen a compelling medium— especially …

It'll be harder for you than it would be for him but I still wouldn't discount it! Considering the alternative is (1) trying to get into a PhD program (might require a year or two …

I guess the question I have is "Did any *previous* research done by UMN successfully introduce bugs into the Linux Kernel git commit log?" There are weasel words in this statement …

I've been skeptical of the AZ vaccine for awhile. I don't know much about biology but I do know statistics. And many of their published results smelled of p-hacking[^1] by cherry-p…

Yea I agree. It all relies on (2) but they do a very poor job explaining what exactly the simulation is. If there is a paper by McNight, it isn't cited and I can't find it. Can't f…

Question: Would using R inside Docker on one of these Macs work somewhat well? Previous benchmarks[0] show that the overhead on Intel Macbooks for the Docker Linux VM is quite low …

> Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers would rise to the 45th percentile of their profession’s distribution, from the current requirement of the 17th…

That's pretty interesting! In my view, the set your own fare part and penalty removal definitely moves them from the "employee" zone to "self-employed" in the everyday definition. …

Yea this is probably the best year to introduce unpopular, rent-seeking rules. You'll never be forced to see any of these people in person and the government has enough on its plat…

Yeah I agree this looks like one of those times where the researches aren't interested in doing the stats at all so just mail it in. Just ignoring the stats though the results seem…

I think the Buffalo incident yesterday[0] gives us a good indication of just how rare a good cop is. Even though there were dozens of cops that witnessed it, they all lied and clai…

What a strange comment. Taiwan informed the WHO in December that person to person transmission was likely taking place[0]. The only sense in which it hadn’t been confirmed is in a …

Yeah I suspect Youtube's policies is the main reason to switch rather than any limitations with the audio podcast in RSS. They always have an enormous amount of concern in trying t…

It is breathtaking that conferences organized and attended by affluent tech employees are not being canceled when conferences like SXSW and ComicCon are being canceled . It hurts t…

I find his COTI quite misleading/confusing. It seems he is counting 100% of health care expenses (100% of premiums) but not counting the ~70-80% of premiums an employer pays the me…

The article is also very confusing. He alternates between considering the inflation rate and not considering the inflation rate. I still don't know if he is claiming that BLS is cl…

My guess: Facebook makes an enormous percentage[^1] of its revenue in the US compared to Amazon/Apple. This might make it legally more tricky to argue that its Irish profits are no…

He will definitely save a bit of money on taxes. I suspect his marginal tax rate is ~24% (20% Cap Gains + 4% Medicare). So this donation will lower his net worth by ~7.6B. In any c…

A collapse in wages seems unreasonable. Wages are almost always sticky and so wages will go down at most at the rate of inflation. Also this line: > Compensation appears to be prop…