Ian_Ryan comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

126 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2011 03:17AM

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Comment author: Ian_Ryan 07 May 2011 02:18:02AM *  2 points [-]

But could you really have saved $100 by having decided to buy that same exact house except without that extra square foot?

Comment author: fiddlemath 07 May 2011 03:15:11AM 5 points [-]

Probably not. But, if you had rather less stuff, you could have probably bought a pretty similar house with one fewer closet for a few thousand less.

Comment author: juliawise 08 August 2011 05:27:21PM 3 points [-]

This. My housemates and I needed a three-bedroom apartment instead of a cheaper two-bedroom because some of them have so much stuff. Especially large furniture.

Comment author: soreff 07 May 2011 04:47:19AM 2 points [-]

Yup, also, the incremental cost of space in a self-store unit is of the order of $1/month-ft^2, say $240/ft^2 capital cost at a 5% annual rate - and that is a true incremental cost. The more severe approximation is ignoring which items stack well and which don't, and ignoring the additional costs of maintaining the items, keeping track of them and so on.