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My steps:

1. Buy a house in a place where it's normal for people for rent rooms or have roommates.

2. Rent out all of the rooms other than the one you live in.

3. Renovate the house, depreciating all expenses.

4. Make all necessary repairs, deducting all expenses.

5. Buy things like solar panels, which also can be depreciated (5 years) and improve the cost basis of your home.

6. When the house is paid off from rental income + what you had to pay in mortgage anyway (this will take between 5 to 10 years. This means if you're mortgage is $3000 and your rental income is $3500, don't pocket the cash. Put most of the rental income towards the principal and save some for repairs/improvements.) Buy another house and do a 1031 exchange.

7. Repeat step (1) with a nicer house, ideally with a duplex/triplex/four-plex. Stop repeating when you're seeing diminishing returns on the cash flow of your home (this will likely be at the multi-family level).

Eventually all of your housing related expenses will be 0. Take the money you would've had to spend and put it into an index fund.

Unlike most advice, the above steps are guaranteed to work as long as you buy a house you're capable and willing to pay the mortgage of without renting it out. Finally, because you're an owner occupant you have the ultimate leverage and it's effectively zero risk, since costs are spread across your tenants and benefits go to the property you own.

What's the catch you're thinking? Why doesn't everyone do this if it's guaranteed?

Turns out people don't like being a landlord or living with others. Swallow that pill and financial success is inevitable as long as you don't try to become an investor (that's an entirely different set of problems). You also have to be willing to do this even if you have a family -- however if you started this early enough (up to late 30s) you should be able to transition over to a multi-family in most markets and still have some privacy for you and your family.

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Unlike a lot of other advice, you don't even have to make a lot of money to do the above.
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Very interesting and useful. Have bookmarked!
>One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are probably going to continue to work well into your 50s.

A single, healthy, 20 something SWE can easily save 60-70% and retire before age 40 if you really try. I’m right around 50% now. The key is getting over that mental hurdle to where you start enjoying saving more than spending. I feel infinitely more fulfilled seeing $1,000 in my bank account than anything an iPhone X could ever do for me.
I agree that connectivity is a great investment. I pay extra for more bandwidth in my home office and I would buy more if it was available.
I'm really sorry about that. I'm not a native speaker. Every correction is really appreciated though!
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It could be that. Or it could be that, you know, their career page simply states: We don't have any open positions right now. That would make recruiting a bit difficult.

(Source: https://18f.gsa.gov/join/)
As a native speaker, I believe I see "synced" more, but "synched" is still understandable.
So they're buying the entire block? $2 billion seems cheap all of a sudden.

That hodgepodge mess of buildings really appeals to my inner Lego-building child.
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Yea totally !

But I had a very interesting situation once.
I asked one of my clients if it's ok for him, if I move to Croatia for some time, he tried to convince me that it's his right to pay less since I don't need as much as in Austria.

So I assume that he basically thought: "you don't need that money since everything else is cheaper and you earn more than the average person in Croatia"

I mean if you think about it, the average salary in Romania is like 450 Euro's ? Now imagine a dev living in Romania with 4k Euro's each month, working for a company in Germany.

I'm not saying that they are right, all I'm saying is that I understand their thinking process ( even if it's totally BS )

They next issues: probably taxes, there is a reason why we got hourly rates like 90/hour, our taxes are killer, if you have good rates, you can be sure that you will lose 50% on taxes, while in other countries it's not like that.

Compared to Romania ( low flat rate 16% tax ), this is insane[0].

Long story short, they try to figure out the cost of living and based on that, that's what you get.

[0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/income-taxe...
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Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy.

When in human history have public spheres like Twitter existed? The public sphere up until about 50 years ago for most people was strictly local. You could not broadcast dumb narcissistic ignorance for free to millions of people. It wasn't possible.

Twitter is not good at what it does. It does not elevate public discourse. It's the equivalent of all the newsteams beating the hell out of each other at the end of Anchorman 2.

If you're bullish about Twitter, maybe we should be bearish about our chances as societies and as a species, because Twitter is full of examples of some or our worst behaviors. It's no surprise Trump loves it.

Just as an example, check out this tweet and its thread:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/96125316896862208...

It's 32,000 tweets of people shouting at each other.
déjà vu? last summer someone (not me!) posted my very simple demo of this concept (i called it "offline only"). based on the feedback i got here and other places, i decided to build a full magazine, with the help of a lot of other people.

this isn't another rant about internet addiction. it's an experiment with the current state of the internet and our society. over a dozen writers, poets, and artists contributed to this issue. we hope you like it, or at least find it mildly entertaining.

(on the tech side, it also uses a lot of newer web features, so it will not be kind to older browsers. sorry! there's only so much time in a life)
have to disagree on the following grounds:

1. most people aren't even exposed to the opportunity to gain any appreciable wealth. step one is getting out of salaryman slavery existence and getting into companymaking, rent extraction, financial swindling/legal tax evasion, etc. the author mentions the last point, but it's too far down the line. step one is to start playing the game to win, and start trying to make real money rather than subsistence...

2. luck is probably more influential than what people suspect. see: zuck, bitcoin millionaires

3. compound interest is real, but most people in the US are living hand to mouth so reaping the benefits takes far longer than they are willing to wait-- this isn't a failure of patience but a pragmatic choice to survive until tomorrow. you ask them to stash thousands of bucks today for twenty years down the line, and they'll tell you they're already running on empty. you ask them to stash $20 today for 50 years down the line, and they'll say they'd rather have it in their pocket to pay for medicine. and they are not wrong; they can't risk even temporarily losing some of their wealth because they have so very little to gamble on investments.

4. being frugal is real, but the opportunities don't exist in places where being frugal is very effective. the more expensive the place, the more opportunities flow through it. cities have more expensive food, very expensive rent, and 100% of the opportunities that someone will need to get rich.

5. oh yeah, and it's impossible to be frugal when you have student loans bleeding you right out of the gate. 6.5% interest loans does a great job of snuffing out potential millionaires everywhere through no fault of their own.

6. learning and writing stuff down is great. but becoming rich isn't a matter of knowing the path. it's necessary to know stuff, but you need to actually walk the path to wealth without stumbling-- different skills entirely.

disclaimer: i'm not a millionaire yet so YMMV
Assuming the US...

For large rounds, sure. Probably helps.

If you struggle to raise $20-50k from your own network, then do you have the necessary social and networking skills required to be successful at running a business?
Mostly in agreement, but the sin IMO is absolutely not in depending on left-pad. Code reuse is good, and it could have been any package, including something like your Postgres adaptor. The sin is not running an npm mirror under company control, that can do things like audit open source licenses and protect against npm outages.
8% annual average return is not unrealistic for the US stock market.

I did it using this method. I worked hard and lived within my means for 5 years. You'll quickly realize that after taxes a million isn't close to retirement money in the Bay area.
>1. Buy a house in a place where it's normal for people for rent rooms or have roommates

sorry can you explain how you start with this step if your net worth is zero?
Seconded. This is an insane story. You don't need a second opinion, you need a better doctor.
Thinking about costs as they apply to my finical situation in 2055 doesn't mean that I don't spend money in 2018 for enjoyment. I just look at the cost from a different point of view.
I didn't even try it actually since I don't own an iPad. But seeing all the comments here, I'm now thinking about it :)
There are a couple issues with this. First, people who lived in these cities often moved there because it wasn't nearly as dense or urban feeling as bigger cities like NYC. Those cities are being basically forced to change their fundamental character just so large corporations benefit. I think it's understandable that locals would be mad.

Second, economic growth has been incredibly uneven and concentrated to just a handful of urban centers of the nation. This creates real problems. Economic inequality is amplified, and those sections of the population are separated from each other, insulating each other from the economic differences. Families, the poor, and the unexperienced simply don't have the leverage required to safely move away from their support structures into completely new cities without facing major issues. Why should economic growth be so constrained to such small areas just so big corporations benefit from cheaper labor?
> you're effectively talking about a secondary, novel type system, right?

Yes, exactly.

The main reason I prefer language-level effects rather than monads is for composability with normal imperative control flow. Monads are written in terms of higher order functions passing closures around, and that gets really messy in a language where you not only have early return and loops with break and continue, but you also have destructors that need to run as you enter and leave scopes.

You can add that kind of stuff as monads but it gets really messy, and is basically completely untenable in a language like Rust that also cares about memory management. Even if Rust did have HKT, it would still be impossible to write a Monad trait that supports them all, for example.

This article makes some great points on the subject: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/08/07/scoped-continuati...
what, a laughably small proportion relative to the country's population? median income is in the 50k range...
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It'd be interesting if Qt had something like Vala for GTK
You ignore the value of all benefits you get from full time employment. The 30-50% salary is not that rosy in reality. You're assuming that you don't contribute to a pension, pay out of pocket for every expense if any, additional cost of transportation, gym membership etc. Many full time employees get these by default. So you're over-simplifying and distorting the size of the difference. In addition, self-employment has an added cost to do all admin (accounting, tax returns, communication and negotiation, etc.). The devs I know hate that, so you're just getting more money by doing extra shitty work (from one perspective at least). Apples and oranges.
How viable is this if you're not a handyman? I've always thought something similar to what you're referring, but avoid it because I don't deal with anything construction related.
Wow, they really got a good deal on the 111 Eighth Avenue, they bought it in 2010 by $610/sqft, and now it is probably worth the same as the Chelsea Market, $1600/sqft, a 160% return on the investment.
ACTION: For every star that we get on GitHub today, we remove 100 pounds of carbon dioxide via offsets. 2,800 pounds and counting! Certification incoming...

Github: https://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change
If you buy a multifamily you can do so with as little as 3% down. Rent out the rooms in your unit and you're generally good for most markets.
Yes, there are tons of things "stronger than steel" but lack the other advantages of steel.
Yep. Register is basically a specific version of a language used on certain cases. Like English has a formal register you'd use with your boss and in an academic paper. But you ain't gonna be using it often with friends, y'know?
But the Trump administration is working on a military parade, so...
It's not a binary thing. But the main limit of the Zumwalts in missile defense is lacking the right radars and the combat management software. There's a kinda long history to all this, and it's a little muddled. My understanding of roughly what happened is originally a larger stealth cruiser design was going to handle missile defense, while the Zumwalts would handle strike. Then the cruiser project got canceled, so they started talking about adding the capabilities to the Zumwalts. That fell through when the development contract for the needed radar went to Raytheon (I don't fully understand why this killed it, seems to be something political?).

What no one in the navy wants to say clearly and openly is: the Zumwalts, as well as the 2 LCS designs, are pretty much useless as built. They won't be used for more than training, development testing, and perhaps mine sweeping duties.

Out of all 3 of those classes, the only fully capable ship anyone is talking about is a new, stretched version of the Freedom class LCS that tries to be a mini-frigate. And that's only getting talked about because foreign customers are interested.

It's an incredible waste of taxpayers money.
So what's total comp as a GS-15? At megacorp I was making a bit more than $164k, but total comp worked out to over $210k.

I've commented on the who's hiring thread about the US Digital Service's post. GS-15 base pay doesn't seem so bad, but drug testing, no relocation stipend (work from DC only), and no bonuses were all pretty big black marks.
Inside the US, "loose" as a typo of "lose" is common too, but inside or outside it's still wrong.
Anyone you follow who's prominently against cryptocurrencies structured like Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al - that aren't stable?
> 1. Buy a house in a place where it's normal for people for rent rooms or have roommates.

Not sure where you live, but you already have to be a Millionaire in order to do this. Especially a house with multiple rooms that you can rent out.
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Thank you for correcting me. I'm indeed not a native english speaker.
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Any one have opinions on the Kubernetes admin cert linked? Wonder if it would significantly help in getting work and skipping the interview BS?

https://www.cncf.io/certification/expert/
> The Microsoft Store, powered by the Bing crawler, will automatically index selected quality Progressive Web Apps

I think this is the most interesting part. This is a great solution for App Stores because they are no longer gate keepers. Instead they become more like search engines by indexing content and providing a layer of metadata.

Google, for example, shows site that work well on mobile if you are searching on mobile.

Windows can now show sites that are "apps" if you are searching from the App Store.

Everyone gets the benefits of metadata such as comments, upvotes/stars, analytics, etc.
Exactly. If you don't need the new car, new house, etc. you can save a ton of money. You really only need a room and healthy food and enough clothes for the week. Everything else is "cashing in early"
I dislike changing the time twice a year too, but would prefer to stay on summer timer throughout the year instead of winter time.

In autumn when the day becomes smaller, there remains almost no light(day) time after a typical 9-5. Shifting to winter time at this very moment of smaller days makes this 0. (For reference I live in Greece).

I understand though, that people with different schedules have different preferences.
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No. That'd be like saying the US should stop making carriers because of the new India/Russia BrahMos cruise missile. Or the so called DF21 carrier killer from China.

These systems are primarily for fighting nations not named Russia and China. If China decides to sink a carrier or a Zumwalt, it's WW3, millions will die.
Eh.. sort of. I lot of people argue you shouldn't spend more than a 3rd of your income on home. You argue that it's %50 in the Bay Area.. but I don't think that invalidates the 3rd rule - that's simply a bad area/job.

If I make $300k in a place where it costs $280k to live, I'm basically poor. It doesn't invalidate the 3rd rule, or this 50/30/20 thing - if anything, I'd argue it validates it.
I only use Twitter for NWS and local news/government information. I don't see my local news/government on Mastodon, yet, unfortunately.
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Please tell which things I need to learn to make a file browser in ubuntu or any linux
A few years ago I moved one sun-hour westwards within CET, while staying at roughly the same latitude. So I have the same experience: My new winter time is the same as it would have been to keep summer time at my previous home. The sun rises almost exactly an hour later and sets an hour later too.

Overall I prefer it. Yes, it's stubbornly dark on winter mornings, and yes, it means it's hard to get out of bed. But I find it hard to get out of bed in summer too, so that doesn't make much of a difference to me. And yes, in the deepest winter it gets dark before I leave my place of work. Still, overall, I think this agrees better with me. But all this comes down to personal preference as well as where you live. I'm fairly sure winter mornings in Scotland are pretty dark regardless of the time zone, because the days are simply short.
I really hope they won't do that, but just switch to permanent winter time (UTC+1), which is the closest to solar time.

In fact, while we're at it, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and certainly Spain should switch to UTC+0. The eastern border of those countries aligns pretty well with 7.5 degrees east.

Then I can finally be fully awake when work starts at 9 o'clock.
At the same time, these tech companies moving in tend to drive rents up unsustainably, causing huge problems for the many citizens of those cities that aren't wealthy land owners.
A prior work on this was Spafford’s “Proprietary vs Open Source” in 2006 [1]. The SCOMP and GEMSOS systems he references are described here [2]. SCOMP was first system certified under TCSEC A1 class [3] in 1985 after five years of analysis and pentesting by NSA evaluators. I think they spent two years on GEMSOS at cost of $50 million they said. Obviously, most security-focused FOSS has had nowhere near that amount of review. There’s also never been (that I'm aware) a high-assurance, secure system done under FOSS development model: FOSS examples were cathedral-style developments by experts FOSS’d either as they went or after the fact.

This difference between the high potential of FOSS for security vs fact that all strongest systems came from private sector led me to investigate whether the models could be combined. Also, what impact if any did sharing source with everyone have on security? Almost none I found given a strong development and review process will leave almost no defects in system to begin with. The people building or reviewing, esp their skill or time allotted, were the crucial aspect in determining system security. This is also why some of us almost reflexively trust security of code produced by certain people or teams: their mindset, skill, and efforts regularly result in systems or code that does what they claim. Next one probably will, too. Probably. ;)

[1] http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/openvsclosed.html

[2] http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse443-s12/docs/ch6.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...
I lost my daughter 6 years ago this month to a very, very similar scenario. Multiple visits to doctor over the week, small improvements, then on Sunday a decline. Went to ER, where she fought the nurse enough such the nurse wasn’t too concerned. She went into shock while getting chest X-rays.
Heh. I see your point. I didn't stress enough on the fact that the patterns highlight a sparsity in the exits towards the north and such; I found the fact cool. I have added a tl; dr to make things better (hopefully). Anyways, appreciate you taking out the time to read it!
The title should state that it's all in Clojure...
From this article, it remains unclear to me what 18f is doing and how it's doing it differently from any other IT shop of any other governmental body. I mean, I get that they do it in agile, modular and user-friendly fashion (did you ever see anybody declare otherwise - that they're going to develop in monolithic, lazy and user-hostile fashion? everybody knows the buzzwords) - but what specifically they do and why it is so important to keep doing whatever they do?

Also, it looks like the leadership issues come from the fact that the leader(s), despite declaring themselves to be apolitical, were very much political (they just expected their policy to win so they can pose as apolitical while doing exactly what they wanted), got triggered by Trump being elected and rage-quit the job. Which is entirely within their rights, nobody is obligated to work for Trump or the govt, especially if they hate the guy, but it's not exactly a sign of problems within 18F as such.
This is only true in coastal bubble cities. It's perfectly viable in the 90% of the country that isn't those places. My setup is similar and I didn't start off rich at all.
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Your net worth has to be more than 0, but you don't need a lot of money just decent credit.
Funny, in 15 years as a SwE with a clearance (not in DC) I never broke $100k total comp.

Also, "hundreds of thousands" is a gross exaggeration. Most software engineers nationwide don't make that to begin with.
Well yes and Minix had preemptive multitasking a decade before.

We're talking about consumer facing computers, and at the time, the market was pretty much only Windows, Mac, OS/2, Amiga and Atari.
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I totally agree.

Fun historical note, IBM generated cash in its early days as Google and Apple do today, it bought a lot of real estate all around the world. In the 90's when it seemed liked it was doomed, it "saved itself" by selling off big chunks of that real estate. That gave the company operating capital without having to go to the equity markets or debt markets.

Given the ups and downs of tech, it seems like a much better place to hold your spare cash than t-bills or other cash equivalent securities.
Typically it means UTS (Ultimate Tensile Strength), except in articles where "X is stronger than Y" when it means the weakest property of Y.
Personal bests as reference points