On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:46:59PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > A lot of lists like this may not be relevant to countries and cultures
> other
> > than the one in which the author lives.
>
> True enough. They may not even be releva
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:50:39AM -0500, Venkat Inumella wrote:
> I'd say that many characterizations of individual decisions as irrational
> are precisely a result of narrowly defined utility functions. Saying that
> the rational decision in buying shoes should be based just on ROI as you
> calcu
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
wrote:
>
> >
> > People make consumption decisions to maximize utility, not a
> > hypothetical ROI,
>
> People make consumption decisions irrationally, not to maximize a
hypothetical
> utility. Any number of experiments in behavioral economic
the rain drives people into closer contact. and you have rainwater with
pollutants (which'd cause allergies) and which serves as an extra carrying
medium for a sneeze or cough.
Even old wives tales have some basis in fact, most of the time
Kragen Javier Sitaker [09/09/11 01:27 -0400]:
On Thu, S
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:59:13PM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Kragen Javier Sitaker [09/09/11 00:51 -0400]:
> >A beans-and-rice diet is pretty healthy, and whatever its deficiencies might
> >be, raising your cholesterol isn't among them!
>
> Brown rice certainly not. I was thinking of
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:46:59PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> A lot of lists like this may not be relevant to countries and cultures other
> than the one in which the author lives.
True enough. They may not even be relevant to other people in the same
country; the guy I passed this afternoon on
Kragen Javier Sitaker [09/09/11 00:51 -0400]:
A beans-and-rice diet is pretty healthy, and whatever its deficiencies might
be, raising your cholesterol isn't among them!
Brown rice certainly not. I was thinking of white "polished" rice
* The role of body cooling in causing the common cold is
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:50:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 6. Yes you can cook cheap (beans and rice with hot sauce) or you can cook
> cordon bleu gourmet with imported cuts of meat and spend a fortune on sous
> vide vacuum sealers and temperature controlled cookers if you think you'
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:52:13AM +0200, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > Stripped out one additional layer of forwards.
> >
> > - Forwarded message from Kragen Javier Sitaker
> > -
>
> Thread drift time: what's the role of consumeri
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:04:41PM -0500, Venkat Inumella wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
> wrote:
> > To compete with a 3% ROI from other possible investments of your capital, a
> > US$239 investment needs to earn or save you US$7 per year, even assuming
> > that
On 09-Sep-11 5:22 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> http://cheeni.posterous.com/whats-the-role-of-consumerism-in-the-modern-w
>
> No doubt your eagle eyes will find any logical flaws, but also ask me
> a bunch of questions, and tell me where I'm wrong.
I, too, have a bunch of mostly uncoooked thou
The perfect words here. ROI being higher by a few dollars, tops, with the
utility to you being far lower leaves you at a dead loss.
Venkat Inumella [08/09/11 13:04 -0500]:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
wrote:
To compete with a 3% ROI from other possible investments
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Stripped out one additional layer of forwards.
>
> - Forwarded message from Kragen Javier Sitaker
> -
Thread drift time: what's the role of consumerism in the modern world?
Among other motivations, in minor part instigated by this
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
wrote:
>
>
> To compete with a 3% ROI from other possible investments of your capital, a
> US$239 investment needs to earn or save you US$7 per year, even assuming that
People make consumption decisions to maximize utility, not a
hypothetical
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:50:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Bah
Heh!
> 1. Opportunity cost = the cost of fixing whatever shit it was yourself
> instead of paying someone to fix it for you, and getting on with whatever you
> do that puts food on your table. [leave alone whatever tin
To put it mildly – man evolved centuries, even millennia ago from the state
kragen praises to the state he is in now.
That evolution took place the moment man stopped killing animals for their
skin to wear and their meat to eat, and professions like “tailor” and “butcher”
evolved.
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> wrote:
>
> Bah
>>
>
> Short response: wow, you're grumpy today.
>
> Slightly longer response: how much of your "bah, humbug" reaction would
> change if Kragen's note was repositioned
I’d still call bullshit. Community development of that sort requires
macroeconomics rather than microeconomics and micromanagement.
You’d consume less just because there’s less to go around and if a resource is
shared it will either get hoarded or shared out depending on how good the
commun
> Please, spare us the ridiculosity of these
> conspicuous-consumers-turning-to-conspicuous-simplicity lists. I totally
> agree with SRS' "bah". I would add, like Enid Blyton's P.C. Goon."Gah".
>
> Deepa.
>
+1 for the lovely word 'ridiculosity' - I am going to borrow it and use
copiously.
As fo
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Bah
>
Short response: wow, you're grumpy today.
Slightly longer response: how much of your "bah, humbug" reaction would
change if Kragen's note was repositioned as a means to achieve a resilient
community [1]?
Udhay
[1]
http://globa
>
>
> From: Kragen Javier Sitaker
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:33:35 -0400
> To: kragen-...@canonical.org
> Subject: some notes on frugality
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
A lot of lists like this may not be relevant to countries and cultures other
than the one in which the author lives.
Bah
1. Opportunity cost = the cost of fixing whatever shit it was yourself instead
of paying someone to fix it for you, and getting on with whatever you do that
puts food on your table. [leave alone whatever tinkering and fixing you do in
your spare time - a lot of which goes to reading mailin
Stripped out one additional layer of forwards.
- Forwarded message from Kragen Javier Sitaker
-
From: Kragen Javier Sitaker
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:33:35 -0400
To: kragen-...@canonical.org
Subject: some notes on frugality
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
* Repairing things yoursel
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