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I don't think that being frugal has ever been about going cheap.

Frugality is not about consuming but investing in your life: that often contradicts with cheap.

Frugality is about not buying things you don't need but buying things you can't live without. A frugal person will typically invest in quality because he knows he'll be using the item for years and doesn't want to replace it every few.

I wouldn't consider myself extremely frugal but my favorite shoes I'm wearing today I bought in the year 2000. They feel great, they have never had to been repaired, they resist water enough, the leather is in good condition and actually they didn't cost much (guesstimate in today's currency: 100-150€). But I have this mindset that I don't need new shoes just for the sake of new shoes. That's frugality. I will wear mine for another ten years if only they'll hold together and still look tidy enough to walk into the public. (They look used of course, but still tidy.) If they don't, I'll have to buy a replacement pair.

Frugality is also sometimes buying the cheapest thing. Buying a cheap electric drill is frugal if you only drill a few times a year, which makes the drill last for decades. Buying the best that money can buy would be frugal if you're a carpenter or do renovations every week and need a professional grade durability; however, if you're not doing that you're not frugal but rather just going on the hifi tangent and in reality you want to buy the expensive model because of your ego only.

Frugality also brings focus to—I was going to say consumption but I'll say personal investment instead. It makes sense to buy quality items for what you love: if you love riding a bike then investing in a quality bike is frugal because it saves you and the environment from unneeded consumption and hair-pulling. But you can't love everything either. You can't have the top of the line computer, screen, home theater, coffee grinder, washing machine, mattress, toilet seat, motorcycle, car, bike, camera, video camera, clothes, shoes, accessories and consider yourself frugal. You can have one or two because you simply can't be spending all of your time only grinding coffee, coding, washing laundry, riding a motorbike, and shooting photos.

And yes, being frugal inevitably does make me look like a loser in the eyes of some people. But then what?

Other people's opinions about me are none of my business anyway.
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I tend to buy in two strategies. Either so cheap but functional I don't mind throwing it out later (as eco bad as that might be), or buying good quality wares. I believe that if you can afford good quality wares, that that will both make you happier and leave you with something of substantial resale value. So it may be a better financial strategy. Compare cheap Target cabinet with "Handmade Amish Furniture."

That said, the tone of the article is well, smug and obnoxious, and makes no effort to understand that many people cannot afford the quality goods the author can, or just have different values.

For example, I use to drive sports cars and convertibles, but now I drive cheap econo-boxes. Why? They tend to be more reliable, less expensive per mile to maintain, and I drive too damn much and drive them into the ground. (And I have a poor resales strategy -- I don't get rid of the cars fast enough.) I sure do miss my convertibles. Really miss them too at this time of year. But they just had accelerated decrepitude in my hands.
The author makes this point, but in my opinion not strong enough.

While it’s tempting to say that the way to achieve this is to run everything on VMs, I’m not convinced that adding another layer of abstraction (as well as more processes running on the host OS) is going to lead to more consistent results. Because of this, dedicated hardware is best. Failing that, just run all of the tests you can in one session, and make it clear that comparisons between different sessions don’t work.

As someone with pretty in-depth knowledge of how a VMM (virtual machine monitor) works on a very low level, using a VM is a truly awful idea. VM exit incidence is pretty much completely unpredictable and can have a huge impact on performance. Not only that, but the behavior of some cases in hardware VMM layers can cause pretty much complete TLB wipes, thus destroying cache coherency and any memory optimizations the web server takes advantage of.

Now, if your goal is measuring performance of web servers on VMMs, go ahead, but be aware that performance consistency is not a plus.
Not to be a smartass, but isn't that what public defenders do? Remember, politicians pass budgets, make policy, and are ultimately the authors of laws.

Prosecutors can advocate for the sort of policies you describe up to a point (our AG in California inclines this way, and her Republican opponent at the last election had a variety of reformist ideas too). But it's specialized work. If the DoJ assigns an attorney to prosecute cybercrime, there's not much s/he can do about the the drug war or reforming the copyright system.

At the higher levels, prosecution is more of a political position - a district attorney, attorney general, or a US attorney does have a fair amount of flexibility and influence over policy. But there are relatively few of those jobs, and if you don't have one you don't have a great deal of freedom as a junior prosecutor to go off in a different direction. Even high level prosecutors are subject to a great deal of political pressure from legislators.

The other thing to bear in mind is the cost. The private-sector legal industry can pay very well indeed. Wages in the public sector are pretty dismal by comparison. Federal judges are paid less (~$145k) than first-year associates at a big law firm (~$160k). The Chief Justice of the United States is paid about $220k. It's a terrible deal, and all the underlying budgets are badly underfunded as well. Not just pay; last time I looked the DoJ's 2012 budget for electronic discovery (document management systems) was only $20 million. Corporations often spend more on a single case. Most of the DoJ budget goes to law enforcement and prisons; attorneys get 6-7% and the court system gets about 3%. DoJ gets about $30 billion in total; to put that in context, DHS gets closer to $60 billion. In many ways, we get what we pay for.
It's like someone broke into someone's home and had a good look at a TV then went home and built another exactly like it and gave it to you.
Who says breastfeeding time is unproductive time?

I used to sleep while breastfeeding at night -- plunk the baby on the bed, stick a nipple in their mouth and doze. When baby grabs at the other one, switch sides.

During the day, I coded while breastfeeding, or read, or whatever. Hmm... I wonder if that's why my little guy is such a geek? :P
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Agreed; The spreadsheet is pretty nice already, but Docs is still an extremely limited word processor. I mean, lack of custom named styles, who can do without those? And there's more of those pretty straightforward features which even a simple wordpad application can do but not Docs.
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I live in Bulgaria, and we have many people in the construction business - starting from architects all the way to hard-hat workers - out of job - but I attribute it to the construction boom that pulled way too many people towards that area; we don't actually need all that concrete crap built. But doctors? This is surprising. The "common wisdom" around here is that the EU needs all the doctors it can get, as virtually all the medical graduates emigrate quickly.
And people down voted you for this! Sigh!
> "I don't see the correlation between expensive footwear and comfort."

They often are more comfortable, it all depends on what you're doing. You wouldn't go on a long walk in those flip-flops, but if you did, you'd hope you'd have better shoes than $15 runners (seriously, huge difference).

But it's not just about comfort - it's about perception: how others perceive you, and how you perceive yourself. It's about hacking how others see you, and more importantly knowing yourself well enough to hack around your own behavior with your environment and possessions.

For example: cute girl over there, you want to go talk to her. What do you think will give you more confidence, you in a ratty but comfy t-shirt and shorts, or you dressed to the nines and knowing you look good enough to eat?

Another example: that work laptop you use every single day. They both compile code just as well as one another, but one is plasticky and flimsy, and the keyboard creaks annoyingly when you press a key a little too hard. The other is rock solid and feels like Zeus himself cast it out of Mt. Olympus. Which increases your productivity and general satisfaction while working?

> "Beds. Yes, you spend 1/3 your life in bed. And you spend it unconscious. You spend about 0.03% of your conscious life in bed while falling asleep (30 mins a day)."

Yes, but how rested you feel when you regain consciousness is very much related to the quality of your mattress. If we take your logic to its natural conclusion, we'd all just sleep on cardboard.
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Absolutely agree with this post.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, and was raised on the 'If it's available Wal-Mart, buy it at Wal-Mart' mentality.

Looking back on this, I wasted so much money on crap that just got replaced.

Now, I spare no expense (within reason....) to buy the nicest of what I want. End result? I'm more picky about what I buy, so I have fewer, but nicer things. and I am rarely left thinking "Well I wish my X could do Y".
Agreed, and I'd add that I found the title to be misleading. It's one researcher's take on what's important, but of necessity it's constrained by that person's interests.

Yahoo cares about big data, but not everyone is in that domain.
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The US is probably out - due to VISA requirements you can't stay there for any length of time. But if you do go there, I would advise setting yourself up with HSBC Premier in the UK first, then getting USD bank accounts setup via them (they are real, local US accounts with cheque books and debit cards - not just a "currency account"). In fact that advice probably applies irrespective of where you move - get a local account setup from here first if you can. Setting up local bank accounts as a foreigner can be a real pain in the arse, and yet they are so essential if you want to get any kind of income (or even just to avoid wild exchange rate fluctuations).

Start going minimalist now, if you are not already. The worst thing you can do is lug all this useless shit with you around the globe, or move somewhere and start accumulating crap. Yes I am speaking from experience.

Finally, if you are not that well travelled, start by actually travelling :). By that I mean use the net to target some places, then take yourself on a holiday and hit all those places. Don't plan any of the usual touristy crap, just try to take in the environment you are in. See if the place gels with you or not, as much as something can in a week.

Good luck with it.
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My old boss used to say "Sometimes, you can't afford the cheapest thing."

Buying the right thing can be less expensive in the long run than buying the cheapest.
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The privilege of spending extra on "nice things" is almost purely in the realm of the well-to-do. This is the rationale Rich White People™ use when buying L.L. Bean backpacks (LIFETIME WARRANTY GUYS) that end up piled in attics and covered in dust from neglect. Also, a downside of 'nice stuff' is you have to lug it everywhere. If you lead even a moderately itinerant lifestyle, this totally blows. Don't listen to some guy on the internet telling you your stuff sucks, just buy what you damn well please and what you think will do the job. Your tools don't make you great, your skills do.
Replace the word frugal with cheap in this article and it becomes much better.
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Here's ~50 minutes of video from Moin A. Yahya, Associate Professor of Law at U. Alberta explaining why you don't ever "just talk" to police.

http://lawiscool.com/2009/04/16/why-you-should-never-talk-to...

Tell them what you have too by law (and make sure you know enough of your local law to be reasonably sure where you are required to answer and where you are not), and never ever ever "just chat".

It's not that "the cops are out to get _you_", it's mostly that the metrics and motivations they're operating under while doing their job will _very_ rarely end up even aligning with your civil rights, never mind aligning with your best interests...

They're not joking when they say "anything you say can _and will_ be used against you." That very much includes anything you say before they miranda you...
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This is totally a mindfuck designed to get you to buy more expensive stuff and not care. Yes, if you have the money and you've made a vaguely reasoned decision then buy the expensive thing by all means. But don't fork over extra money just because "expensive is cheap."
Folks, for those of you that haven't seen this sort of stuff a million times before, here's how it works:

It's a classic sell-the-dream pitch to inspire you to believe that if this guy could do "it", given his difficult situation, even you could do it too.

You read it through, get inspired, and get drawn into his sales funnel. Over time, as you consume more of his content, you start to trust him more, and have more faith in his ability to help people do what he's doing. He must have the secret, after all, otherwise how could he have done what he's done? You just need to keep going until he shares that secret with you.

Eventually, when you notice that he's selling something that promises to help you make money blogging whilst sitting on a beach sipping pinas, you'll consider it much more seriously than you would if he'd hit you over the head with it from the start. You trust him now.

You might notice that his story links to a course. Just a subtle mention so you don't think the whole thing is nothing more than a big sales pitch. But you can watch the videos and subscribe right there and then to accelerate your journey to the point where you're ready to stump up some cash for the secret to success. Some people convert faster than others.

Or maybe you'll convert a year down the line. Perhaps you won't convert at all, but you'll promote/upvote his stuff and introduce more people into his sales funnel. Some of them might convert at some point.

Maybe you'll never buy anything directly from him, but you might end up buying something from one of the other respectable internet marketers that he might point you towards (with affiliate links most likely, so he gets a cut).

Eventually you'll be able to spot this sort of sell-a-dream pitch in a glance. You'll always wonder if there might be good stuff in there, but you won't worry about missing out because the chances are you've seen most of it before. And whatever time you spend wading through fluffy feel good stories to get to the meat is time you could have spent building or promoting something of your own.

Not a problem for him though; there's an endless stream of newbies looking for the secret to making money online. Admittedly I hadn't realized hacker news had so many of them...
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> Our bad @bengrubb was arrested ...

its absolutely infuriating that cops can be so drunk with power that they can be so publicly blasé with the fact that they are fucking with someone's life and liberty.
I agree this happens - a lot. But if it's a matter of supply/demand and engineers being worth "$0.5m - $1m" then why are we not seeing salaries for developers a lot higher?

It would be a lot cheaper for Facebook to offer good developers $500k/year + options straight up rather than spending several million to buy a startup of a few devs, where a large %age of the purchase price is going to invetors and not the developers.

I wonder if Facebook, Google, etc paid that kind of money whether we'd see more young, talented developers joining Facebook rather than creating a startup?

Or maybe companies like Facebook already do pay that kind of money to the best engineers - we just don't hear about it?
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He confuses frugal with cheap.
Imagine for a second that Google did buy Sprint and then brought it up to speed as far as wireless coverage that matches ATT/VZ while offering the best in class service for the price. Masses move over to Sprint in a few years. Sprint becomes bigger than ATT & VZ combined and now others around the world have a model they can follow.

Too far fetched? Maybe. Costly? That too. I guess I'm just a dreamer.
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I don't see the correlation between expensive footwear and comfort.

Neither did I, until I got plantar fasciitis from wearing cheap shoes, and couldn't stand or walk for more than 10 minutes without pain. Cheap shoes tend to skimp on the parts that provide support and impact resistance.

If nothing else, good shoes are worth the money they save you on podiatry.
I wonder if it's legal to remote wipe your iPad with MobileMe after they've taken possession of it. Or what about "Oh, you're going to arrest me? Can I have one second before you read my rights?" and then wipe it?
Only if they are decent programmers, absolutely.

The price must match their skill, responsiveness and responsibility.

Do you know of anyone?
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Besides the incredibly aggravating link-bait title—frugal is not equivalent to cheap. I consider myself to be quite frugal, but for the stuff that I do own, I have no objection to spending extra for the quality, luxury version—I couldn't agree more with the post's message.

I try to live my life in the most minimalistic fashion (see my apartment[1]), and am constantly looking to throw away things that add no value to my experiences. I strive to keep my desktop and mailbox empty. But by no means does that make me cheap: I pay for music, video streaming services. I buy premium items and food, because I know that improving my quality of life is the purpose of having money in the first place.

The cliche but somewhat true statement is: what good is all the money in my bank account going to do me when or if I'm not around to spend them. I'd rather live a good life now than the possibility of a better one in the future.

[1]: http://kswizz.com/post/5032419362/new-apartment
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I understand you pointing it out. Unfortunately, the article and arrest was made in Australia. Different laws and cultures apply differently. Refusal to comply may indicate guilt.
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Hahaha, today morning I was thinking about why startups manage to leech millions of $$s selling services that Google actually offers for free.

And I reached the same conclusion - Google doesn't focus on users and thus completely misses the mark. They focus on engineers but not designers or market researchers.

This is why, I think, App Engine will be a huge success and why Wave failed. It was an excellent product, IMO, but it wasn't built with a particular user in mind.
I dun think it will go. It will be an essential part of our lives (just like google now), but it definitely won't receive so much hype.

When Facebook IPOs in the near future, lots of talent will leave to pursue other lucrative opportunities.
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"Let me give you an analogy. Someone breaks into a house and they steal a TV and they give that TV to you, and you know that TV is stolen, and you apply it to your own use ... that's receiving stolen property," he said. [0]

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/18/3220071.htm
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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted because it hits the nail on the head.
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The way I understand the story, it's not the researcher who got arrested but an unrelated journalist who covered the story.

The police abused their power and then right out lied about it, only when they get caught in their lie they say oops our bad. This stinks.

Austrialian police just lost a lot of trust and they will have to work hard on getting that back. A first step would be to give the iPad back they stole.
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FWIW, when I applied to Google, a recruiter gave me a personal phone call within about 2 hours after my resume was submitted, and then guided me through the whole process. I suspect that "talent" gets similar treatment.
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