Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

2014-09-30 Thread skn
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, at 07:57 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: I wonder how many of the books will be in Chinese. They say they aren't limiting nominations to english, but selection bias and subsequent voting bias will be huge. -- Charles Very true indeed! BTW if you are interested in Chinese

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Lahar Appaiah
Our own Deepak Shenoy has Indianized this: http://capitalmind.in/2013/02/9-point-financial-plan-indian-edition-and-comic-strips/ On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote: I think, pound-for-pound, Scott Adams's is the best 'averaged-out' advice:

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

2014-09-30 Thread Mohit
On 29-Sep-2014, at 23:21, Sandhya aka Sandy sandhya.varn...@gmail.com wrote: The discipline to get dressed and walk to one's desk when required helps to sustain one's spine. I work from home, freelancing. Have done so for 3+ years. Usually work in shorts/pyjamas. But I do work only from my

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Mahesh Murthy
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:46 AM, skn s...@skn.fastmail.fm wrote: 4. If you do have a little left over, buy some US stocks - I prefer ones like Google, Tesla, Twitter, which will do nothing but rise in the next 10 years. Always been conflicted by buying of individual shares. My

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Mahesh Murthy
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Shyam Sunder shyam.sun...@peakalpha.com wrote: Index funds are a great idea ... in the US. A lousy idea in India. ICICI Prudential fund recently shared that a 100% of their funds beat the benchmark index. Fund managers in India compete with each other, not

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Shyam Sunder
And the weighted average IRR (minus fees) over the period is? :-) Just kidding, don't answer that. It's off the charts :-)

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If only most index funds (even the big ones) weren't regularly outperformed by heavyweight active funds - compare icici pru index fund nifty plan g with say icici pru focused bluechip Try one of pattabhiraman murari's calculators, the one available at

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-30 Thread Shyam Sunder
That's cool, Mahesh. Whatever works for you... -Original Message- From: silklist [mailto:silklist-bounces+shyam.sunder=peakalpha@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Mahesh Murthy Sent: 30 September 2014 15:19 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Financial planning On Tue,

Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

2014-09-30 Thread Heather Madrone
Selection bias cuts a number of ways. While there are a lot of thoughtful selection in the lists I skimmed, there was a notable bias towards traditionally male skills. I saw one book on sewing and none on spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, or felting. I saw nothing on education, childcare,

Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

2014-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Hm I thought heinlein had it figured out  human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve