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Whoops. Looks like this is behind a paywall now. Here's a link to the PDF: https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/papers/limits-econ-final.pd...

I think this doesn't account for investment returns. If you assume this money is invested for the duration of your 20s and 30s, you "only" need to invest $50k/yr for the first 10 y…

I'm excited for technologies like this to become available for regular individuals. I'm not sure what the current figure is, but in 2008 the average American was responsible for 20…

I think the argument is that the semantics really only matter to who's making the definitions. If you're a civilian and you live in fear that you or a family member may be the casu…

On that note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States

Taking the analogy a bit further, a vanilla proponent might put Make in the second category as well. Funny that modern web development requires a build process to change a line of …

If you're using Linux, just install avahi-daemon and you should be able to connect to coder.local without having to find the device's IP address. mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour is an easy w…

This exactly. For someone just getting started, it's neat to be able to demystify how the web works. Here's your own little web server, and you can set it up right in your living r…

By the way, I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community. iPad dev in HTML5/jQuery was really a pleasure. As long as you don't need photo upload support (Apple, this is ridiculo…