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Yes, electrolytic caps tend to dry out over time. There are special ones that are mil-spec that don't have that problem, or you could try your luck with Tantalum.

The Sprague brand used to have fairly affordable long life electrolytic caps, maybe you can find those where you live or order them online. That way it's a one time affair.

On another note, if you open up the power supply you'll find a bunch of coils in there, some of them are fairly loosely wound, eventually the windings will rub their way through the insulation and short out. It's not a bad idea to put some hotmelt on those windings to dampen the vibration. Just a little line on either side will do wonders.
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It might be that west coast goes to south/central America more often and ease coast goes to Europe, becuase I know a lot of people who have gone to Europe from here but few that have gone south. It makes sense, if I have a week off getting to Europe is only 5 or 6 hours each way, which is roughly the same as california. Flight time is not the big time suck though, it is waiting in airports for connections. A direct flight to central Europe is a lot shorter than a hop from NYC to LA or TX and then a connection to a flight going to south America.
Just going out on a limb here...maybe pg doesn't want a Twitter account and "no good names available" is just an excuse for folks like Scoble who can't believe he's still a holdout.
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I think that's why any investment advise or plan should always start with an analysis of the risk profile of the person doing the investing. And some of the risks are not always evident.
Thanks, I'm glad it is worthy of being used :D
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Is this really retirement though? Or just using your retirement assets to fund a career change to apartment management?
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It could be that most laptop manufacturers are copying Apple's glossy-only-unless-you're-rich Macbook design.

Which is - I'll agree with you on this - rather ridiculous.
Some interesting points there about education in the UK

1) using Visual Basic by default (which is obsolete in industry and was never even intended to be a pedagogical language anyway)

2) The reference to "ICT" which is a term that doesn't exist outside of schools.
I think the real reason he isn't on twitter is that he prefers writing in essay format (I think the thing about not getting a good username was slightly tongue-in-cheek). When asked about twitter he didn't seem to enthused about it.
oh yeah that's a sure thing. no one has ever gotten fucked owning B grade multifamily housing. slam dunk.
An alternate choice could be be to have both people work and then stay on in place that you want to?
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Can we please blog that host - there has to be otter places to get the same info that isn't decked out in commercials, popups, and which actually have some content?
Eh, not if involves using the equivalent of PAE. 40bit addressing in that requires applications to utilize a window to use memory. And pointers get invalidated when the window is moved. Hurrah for CPU designers shoving immense workloads onto the software devs, especially application programmers.
You're definitely not managing the property in this scenario; part of the operating expense is hiring professional managers. REITs and other institutional investors own and operate properties like this from a distance all the time.

EDIT: I should mention that I own several smaller properties in another state that are managed and I spend maybe an hour a month on them. I'd spend more on larger properties like this, but it's hardly a full-time job.
yeah really. i get the idea that mr mcallister isn't a regular user of flex/ flash builder.
>Why should twitter give anyone's account to anyone else?

(Because) it's happened before:
http://foreign.peacefmonline.com/entertainment/201007/63667.....

"pg", "paulg", etc. are probably too generic to warrant giving it away, but I think it's okay to deal with nick squatters in most cases.
write essay -> twit out a bit.ly link -> get retweeted -> more exposure
There are no sure things in investing. If you have some specific quibble with my scenario that you can back up with data or experience, please post it.
In my very limited interaction with Robert Scoble I have found the opposite to be true. I found him to be open and a good listener.
Looks like there's a Ycombinator startup idea in here somewhere!
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, R Pirsig

Recently each of Alain de Botton's books (Status Anxiety, Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Essays on Love) had a valuable lesson to teach.

Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' (poem, not a book) was one the first poems that I gleaned something from, and that opened up a whole new library of potential reads.
In a way I'm glad they dropped OpenSolaris. If they didn't, then OpenSolaris would still be a project with Oracle's deep claw in it. That claw carries infectious diseases. I look forward to the new effort; Illumos.org

I won't lie, I am in fact very much excited about it!
Because everybody lives in Manhattan? The world is a lot larger than just the US, and even in the US if you've moved out of Manhattan (say to one of those suburbs) and you have a family of four to feed you'll be surprised how much month there is left at the end of your money as a single earner.

Overfeeding is more related to what you eat than the money you spend on it, in fact it is easier to overfeed on cheap food than it is on better grade food.
I looked outside just to check, hell didn't freeze over. Still, I'll be watching the evening news, just in case.
Great game, great lessons to take from it. Being willing to admit you could be wrong, and admitting it when it's proven to you, are two things that should be easy but often aren't. Your ego will trip you up like that.
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I currently have 2 different Google Accounts and I would like to associate my 2nd account to my user profile and remove the first one. I associated my HN account to the wrong one by accident :(<p>How would I do this?
If there is an anti-free-software Axis of Evil I would expect Adobe to be on either end of that axis or smack in the middle. I presume this is working up to them open sourcing all their code, including photoshop.
Surprisingly, the flex SDK is open source: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/

And there is at least one open source IDE that uses it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashDevelop

Also, the main part of the Flash Player is open source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_%28JavaScript_engine%29

And if I understand it correctly, the only reason it's not is due to licensing and patent stuff that is out of the control of Adobe.
Remarkably asinine coming from Adobe.

In any case, it would behoove those in the FOSS communities to not adopt incendiary language like this (except, perhaps, if you happen to be the target of litigation ;-). It instantly tarnishes any real argument/position, and accomplishes nothing.

Not that people won't jump up and down about Oracle childishly -- after years of people spelling 'Microsoft' with a dollar sign, one's expectations take a hit.
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That's true until your children hit school age, at which point child care becomes radically less expensive.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see what's wrong about that interface. It's perfectly in keeping with the rest of the Java language. Usin duck typing would be a horrible idea, since Java uses interfaces for type information on similar syntactic sugar constructs (the for-each comes to mind).

Sure, one may or may not like Java, but if you're going to add this construct, using an interface like that is the proper way.
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I don't think pg is too worried about more exposure. I find out that he has a new essay out on HN, and I'd imagine it's the same for a lot of people.

There's a lot of cross-pollination between sites like Twitter, HN, Reddit etc. (the demographic being early-adopter techie crowd) so if a person didn't get the new essay from one of these sources, they'd get it from another. People who aren't likely to frequent any of these sites probably aren't likely to read his essays anyway.
When I see source and unknown reliability in the same post, my instinct is to check and make sure the person who said it knows where to find the tools to make that judgment on their own.

Sometimes they end up in disagreement with me, but I always prefer informed and still wrong to uninformed and wrong[1]. :)

[1]Which is not to say these numbers are wrong or right. I'm speaking generally.
Sorry but you are comparing prostitute to teaching? Even if you get paid higher with the former, will you declare your work publicly? No! Why? You have the answer.
Yup. Food has never in history been cheaper as a proportion of total income. Especially if one person stays home to cook all meals, you can feed a family of four with amazing food for $200 a month.

Yes, you need to move out of Manhattan, and give up non-essentials, but a single person on full-time minimum wage can easily feed and house a family of four. Now if that person actually makes an _average_ wage, they can also afford a car, vacations, and college for the kids (they will get good financial aid at that income level).

It's not the finances, it's the societal expectation.
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Can't he be content to let his fans tweet it for him, if they want to?
Which tools?
I am lucky to live in a country where prostituion is legal. This is beneficial for all sides. Customers can contact the police if they are tricked, and - more importantly - sex workers can call the police without fear if they are in a dangerous situation.

And most important: Official brothels are a VERY safe place to work.

>Statistics show that at least 2/3 of prostitutes began working in prostitution before the age of 16

Total nonsense. No legal brothel risks their (valuable!) license and reputation by allowing under age sex workers to work for them.

In short: Help women and legalize it.
Great book. I took from it that life is all FUBAR'd, you'll have to make it work for yourself :)
I think for most of the coverage, TechCrunch is more interested in the fact that the company is backed by Y-Combainator than the product or idea. There's tons of great products, companies and ideas that just aren't sexy enough for a page view driven news site.
Facebook lets you restrict visibility on any post to a list. So this is umm a bit pointless really.
Great article and well-thought out argument!

But when I see this I think: why the hell would I want to retire at 30 when I can just start another company?
the "sdk" is open source, but flex builder isn't (and they managed to break stuff that worked fine in eclipse). and have fun trying to get the flex builder plugin to work on linux, or even get the sdk working completely on linux.
Ryan, would you need to "love" real estate for this to work? Going back to the initial article, don't do it if you don't love it because you may end up spending a lot of time on it and doing something you hate is a pretty crappy retirement.

It sounds like you have a passion for real estate now, but maybe not when you started. The same is true for me and retail (I have a couple of franchises).
Sure, it just seems like horrible clutter. Yes, it is the spirit of Java - a good reason to dislike the language.

This article actually made me realize Java is good if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now you can go through your code base and replace all try/catch blocks with this pattern and neatly label your classes with another interface/category. Then everything is in order again - you haven't gained in productivity, but you have introduced more "system" into your world.
The point is that it's disingenuous to say you're only using ~25% of your money to buy the property, when in reality all of your money is at risk, because you're leveraging. If you invest 25% in the stock market, you won't lose more than 25%. The returns on the real estate is higher, because you are leveraging. Just because 20% down payment real estate loans are common doesn't change that fact.

I agree with the idea that real estate can be a good investment, but this article has very little to do specifically with investing after a startup exit. The article should be called "Why to invest in real estate."
>Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition, and stuff once posted to any website tends to get reposted elsewhere.

Actually no - there are things I don't mind the entire world knowing, but I would mind if my family found out.
1984 has a lot to teach, and you could argue we've not learned them as history is rewritten, thoughts outlawed and truth redefined by our politicians and media.

But I'd agree that BNW has more to teach us about today - lots of us are losing/have lost the ability to think much beyond our next pleasurable experience.

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I still can't get anything out of the Tao, finding it totally inscrutable :|
I think whatever you saw is probably due to the fact that this was a very quick interview done outside in an impromptu way. PG's body language could have meant a million other things.

Scoble's one of the greatest advocates of startups and not just in Silicon Valley, so I'll strongly disagree with the "asshole" description.
It's a bit unreasonable for him to get his speculative project (Oak) funded on the one hand, yet on the other he has a problem with the corporation actually earning the money to be able to do that.

A corporation is a technology, it's the metaphysical form of the factory, it's a tool for transforming low-value inputs into high-value outputs. There simply is no point in talking about the morality of inanimate, non-sentient objects.
That's been tackled exhaustively long ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmRgQX82O4&feature=relat...
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What you listed adds up to about 1400 on average. If you can't pay the principal, mortgage seems like unnecessary debt. Also, I'm not familiar with supermarket prices in Europe, but if the person staying home does cook, 350 euro ($450) seems too expensive for the basic ingredients.
sell one business, which you know really well (if you got offer - i think you are successful and know business well), and replace it with another business (real estate), which you do not know yet and probably loose money during initial period... doesn't make sense for me.
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I'll second that, as a New Yorker who works in midtown I see tourists all the time. Mostly people ignore them, often we give directions or advice (like don't stop in the middle of the sidewalk, don't leave your purse on the subway seat, this train doesn't go west 4th).

Most visitors aren't used to having so many people around them. Just be mindful of your surroundings. Probably good advice for any city.
Oops. Unfortunately, Mathematics degrees don't teach arithmetic. Too late to fix it now. :-(
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If the entire world knows it is pretty much guaranteed that your family will find out. I would re-think that strategy!
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Currently located in the US, but looking to live and work in Italy.
"Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License"

...

Does that even make sense? First off, I didn't find anything for 'Creative Commons Public Domain'... The closest I found was the CC0. It waives all your rights, which is basically the same as Public Domain, but not quite.

Second, Public Domain isn't a 'license'. It's a status that indicates there are no copyright claims possible.
High taxes have a tendency to mean cheaper child care. In general countries with high taxes have subsidised child care.

I believe that high taxes would rather put a stop to the one-earner household since marginal effects on two incomes at X is usually a lot less than the tax on one income of 2X.
Of course it's performant, HotSpot FTW.

That is, if you're not leaking memory or file handles. But assuming you're competent and not using JBoss, long-running process with hotspot native compilation means that it'll soak into a performance profile that's perfect for what it's doing. Entirely different category of performance than scripting languages.
That's a fair point, but unless you're going to roll it all back into the same type of business that you just sold, you're going to have to learn something new, either the stock market or real estate or something.
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What is the difference between an essay and a blog post?
My dad spent 30 years in private banking for a big swiss bank, investing money long term for rich people. His advice to me when he retired: The only way to invest money long term and relatively risk free is through property - everything else is just bullshit.
The basic problem I see with this scenario is the tail risk.

You're probably going to be just fine. However there is a non-zero (and impossible to calculate) risk that you're going to lose the entire income stream.

Equities / ETFs allow much greater diversification.

The bit which bugs me though is why are you spending 200k a year. Countless studies show that greater income is not linked to happiness above a fairly low level. I refuse to believe the USA is so expensive that this level is $200k per annum. Reductions in living expenses are far easier to guarantee than increased returns.
Not so fast on those tax benefits. Yes, you can depreciate your real estate and not pay taxes on them that year. However, if you later go on to sell that property for a gain, there is something called recaptured depreciation [1]. In essence, you will pay taxes on those gains at the orginary income tax rate until all the depreciation you reported is covered. Only the remaining gains can be taxed at the much lower capital gains rate.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depreciation_recapture
I'll have to reflect on this. It's true that I do love real estate, but I'm not sure you'd have to. My sense is that you'd have to enjoy it to some degree, perhaps more than the stock market, but less than a job. Acquiring properties is time-consuming, but holding them long-term just really isn't, both from my experience and from what I've seen from larger investors.
Don't get distracted. I suspect that you would find an even stronger correlation with "home culture", but that's too hard to define and to measure.

Any ethnicity can have a scholarly culture, but for people starting out at the bottom, in a new society, it's less common.

There's also a selection bias against those who have not moved up in society. E.g. take a depressed area -- if the people with the gumption to improve their situation do so and leave, what's left? Right, concentrated fail.
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Yeah, I decided to avoid getting into that because the article was already long, but it's a good point. However, to be fair, you should also point out 1031 exchanges, which allow you to defer those capital gains taxes even further down the line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1031_exchange
I wonder if we'll start seeing book contracts that say "if sales drop below X for Y months, the ebook price goes from Z to Q."

Is this how iTunes handles its cheaper songs?
I think that additional education, legal and voting rights, and all of the other benefits of modern society are a net good for women. That said, I think that society's support systems for women are still playing catch-up.

In general, young people need some form of emotional support and mentoring as they grow up. Young men and women need to be protected from the emotional and sexual depredations of other men and women. I'm not saying to lock them away in single-sex institutions, but there is an actual function performed by the over-protective father and mother in traditional society. Truth and decency should be the order of the day. There is room for that and freedom. In fact, I would say that without truth and decency, one only has a false freedom.
> The basic problem I see with this scenario is the tail risk.

you don't think that there's a similar risk in the market? sure, you pick how much risk you take when you invest, but i'd say that you're doing the same when investing in this type of real estate -- making a choice to exchange some safety for higher returns.

> The bit which bugs me though is why are you spending 200k a year.

i don't believe this was point of the article.
Here's a great analysis of why Meetro (Doing similar thing) failed:

http://meetro.lefora.com/2008/05/21/meetro-post-mortem/
Or hold back on having children, or lowering the number of children that they have.
he experienced homelessness. but through a crystal glass, behind a pompous facade, with the armor of reserves of cash and helpful, resourceful friends. based on the conclusions of his blog, i don't think he learned anything.

mainly i don't think you can compare one homeless situation to another and so this kind of "see what its like" scenario is not useful.
Women trafficked to the United States have been forced to have sex with 400-500 men to pay off $40,000 in debt for their passage.

I knew a couple of individuals in college who, through their time as a student, had sex with about that many people recreationally. (In one case, it was in the biblical sense, and yes I have been tested and cleared many times since then.)
It's not like real estate and stocks are your only options.
I tried to do some flex development on linux two years ago from the command-line & I finally gave up & switched to the IDE. I hate languages where serious development is only possible from within a specific IDE. The kind of stuff I was trying to do is now fairly easy with Canvas, so good riddance to Flex!
From some hard learnt life lessons, this is what I realized

Its best to differentiate between:

1) inherent intelligence
2) knowledge
3) apparent intelligence (which I define as a product of inherent intelligence and one's accumulated knowledge)

It benefited me the most when I focused more or less solely on knowledge accumulation and its usage than the other two.

While evlauating others too, like prospective employees, I found it best to evaluate one's hunger to accumulate knowledge and readiness to apply it.

Those, who focus mostly on their 'intelligence' I found it a pain to deal with them.
These are the billable hours. I would guess that the time spent finding good clients is about the same again. So make that $150/hour. Still good, but in the same range as a technical consultant with 5-10 years experience.
Indeed. Adobe had showed the way with the Macromedia's acquisition: swallow your only other competitor and keep everything close.

In fact one can see _all_ the open source Adobe projects:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Projects

How many of these were projects that they had and were subsequently open sourced? I count Tamarin, and possibly a few more which I hadn't heard of.

Why not open source Acrobat? Or Photoshop? Or Flash?

Edit: forgot to add that Oracle may have killed the OpenSolaris's corporate backing, but it seems intentioned to support quite a lot of Sun's open source projects. Plus isn't BTRFS coming from Oracle too?
Two did, yes. One was ArsDigita, which basically came out of Philip Greenspun's Ph.D. work on database-backed web sites for online communities. The second was a compiler company that spun out of a research project in program analysis and compiler design. In the second case, the product evolved throughout development, so it was inspired by but ended up looking very different than the original research.