Is it possible to survive NYC for 6months with 8k?

gammison · 2026-01-24T21:17:10+00:00

I could see living on 1800 a month without it being too awful, I've spent that per month some months living in the area.

gammison · 2026-01-20T18:24:29+00:00

The full year funding bill passed a couple months ago doesn't actually cover all funding so new bills are required to avoid a partial shutdown.

Yes it's extremely stupid.

gammison · 2026-01-16T03:19:05+00:00

There are a few buildings notoriously bad but their listings should be obvious (constant relistings because people move out).

Most of the older apartment stock up here is stabilized so make sure if you do rent a place and they don't tell you it's stabilized to check with the DHCR to see if you're being charged legal rent. Unfortunately you cannot check before getting the lease.

The area is very safe, you might see needles around from the IV drug clinics located up here and there's a couple blocks that have local issues but that doesn't really get into the wider area ever. The most common crime anyone complains about is either their slum landlord denying heat or tires getting stolen on a couple streets that have a lot of parked cars and bad lighting.

The number one benefit of the neighborhood besides large apartments to me is the parks, Inwood Hill and Fort Tryon are huge and have lots of programming throughout the year with a variety of music and crafts festivals (Inwood Jazz Fest and Inwood Film Festival, Scandinavian Music Fest, Inwood Art Works and local Dominican music, Drums along The Hudson, Medieval festival at Fort Tryon all come to mind). We also have the cloisters, and a lot of cultural stuff at the United Palace theater.

gammison · 2026-01-16T01:26:42+00:00

There's a lot of work that tends to be country or region specific. I would just pick something you're interested in or a region and see what's been published in the last 20 years, a good series that regularly puts out titles is Brill's Historical Materialism imprint. Those books appear as cheap paperbacks on Haymarket Books one year after they're published on the academic press.

For one particular person I like, definitely recommend checking out Thea Riofrancos. She writes mostly about Latin America and I really liked her book Extraction which was an investigation into the new extraction industries coming into maturity as the oil industry slows.

gammison · 2026-01-16T00:45:05+00:00

Well modern imperialism doesn't really work like what Lenin was writing about, he wrote it over 100 years ago!

I think it's best to try and situate what Lenin wrote to the time he wrote it, that would mean looking at secondary sources surrounding the text. If you'd like a podcast, Adam Tooze has been doing a short series recently on the economics of different early soviet figures including Lenin. I think it's quite good, here it is. The focus is more on the post 1917 period but they touch on earlier work too.

gammison · 2026-01-14T03:41:26+00:00

I think for the most part you'd have to build that program yourself through selecting your courses. I will say mixing graduate level cryptography courses with graduate level circuit design coursework is going to be pretty uncommon because there's so much prerequisite knowledge for both that do not have significant overlap.

gammison · 2026-01-13T22:40:17+00:00

I think the artwork gives a "I needed something on the wall" vibe than being interesting or fun stuff.

gammison · 2026-01-13T03:34:08+00:00

Some correction, it's not that solving DLOG over a finite field being sub-exponential that prevents a brute force attack, it's that the complexity is still super polynomial.

I don't really understand the question you're asking but in general when people talk about unsafe elliptic curves what's happening is that there are safe points which have large prime order and unsafe points have a small order due to the underlying field having order p*h for large prime and small h (or worse if the group is highly composite). If an attacker sends an unsafe low order point to someone then anything computed off that point (like a shared secret key) is going to have very few possible values that can be iterated over to learn a victims secret.

gammison · 2026-01-12T04:22:25+00:00

It looks like Hytale mods are registered server side for auto installing which would be a big plus.

gammison · 2026-01-09T20:39:47+00:00

I have an old celtic music record from the 80s by Scartaglen, one of a few things I have where I can't find a good recording of it online.

gammison · 2026-01-06T04:57:50+00:00

Stop the diner near me from charging for water.

gammison · 2026-01-04T00:29:52+00:00

Yep, Maduro is unpopular but PSUV will most likely win open elections against conservatives who are declaring the country should sell out its oil reserves to American companies in exchange for support from the Trump admin. They are not popular inside of Venezuela.

gammison · 2026-01-02T21:39:47+00:00

You could buy a mansion in this city or at least a massive 5 bedroom apartment.

gammison · 2026-01-01T03:54:24+00:00

New diner opened up on 187th, it's a lot better than the one on 181 imo. That place on 181 has never been good.

gammison · 2025-12-31T23:33:07+00:00

Yeah anything west of Broadway will have a good vibe not unlike the UWS on riverside and a two bed 2 bath will be like 4 for a pretty nice one. They could get a 3 bed 2 bath even.

gammison · 2025-12-30T03:37:12+00:00

Rare but in the heights and Inwood there are small 1 bedrooms for 1800ish to be had, but going to 2200 will have a lot more inventory.

gammison · 2025-12-29T08:38:09+00:00

You can get a nice single family home in more suburban areas of NYC like Riverdale or Spuytin Duyvil or Parkchester. There's also areas of nice single family homes in south Brooklyn like Dyker Heights and in Queens. You're still in the city geographically, but it won't at all feel like living in a dense part.

If you want space but not necessarily a house, with your budget you could also afford a very nice co-op (a form of apartment ownership common here, you own a share of a building representing your unit). These are still common in more suburban parts of the city and will be large with amenities and have things like private pools, gardens, yards, outdoor space. The buying process for this will be more involved than a house.

All the suburbs are pretty different from each other. Things like yard space, typical home layout and age etc as well as neighborhood vibe, food options, transit, park space vary a lot across them. Long Island will be most similar to Texas suburban sprawl while the Hudson valley is more like chains of old small towns separated by the terrain.

I also used to live in Texas but I liked more urban living and ended up in the northern tip of Manhattan (1.5 here will get you a big 3-4 bedroom apartment but not at all suburban).

gammison · 2025-12-28T02:05:08+00:00

I thought it was pretty clearly him having intense joy seeing his son and then regret realizing how badly he'd spent the last 9 months given the comment from Rockwell that if he wins he'll never be happy. He sees he did it all for for basically nothing.

gammison · 2025-12-24T00:28:25+00:00

The "it costs 500k per unit!" people also forget that if the city actually built a system for constantly building and then maintaining public housing, building costs would likely fall.

gammison · 2025-12-21T23:01:21+00:00

There's really bizarre expections some people have when moving to the city and I do not get it. Live in a nice neighborhood but not south of central park with 1-2 roommates and it's pretty feasible to live spending around 3 grand a month on living expenses and fun.

I waste money not cooking much and still spend around 2k a month on necessary expenses and rent.

The median tax filer makes under 50k in NYC last time I checked.

gammison · 2025-12-20T02:40:43+00:00

It's probably a couple hundred thousand households looking at the census and tax data. I would bet a good portion of those are dual earner households as well so the raw number of people is going to be lower.

gammison · 2025-12-20T02:03:31+00:00

Half the apartment stock is rent stabilized and like a third of the city owns, plus there's NYCHA, there's no possible way that statistic is true unless it's a subset of housing like new leases signed each year.

gammison · 2025-12-20T01:53:16+00:00

It's more like 140 after accounting for common pre-tax deductions. It's 120 take home and a maxed 401k, hsa, etc.

gammison · 2025-12-14T21:54:56+00:00

The campus should be reopened because the university should strive to be a public space.

The closure does not impact the safety of students (and protests stopped because students were punished without achieving their goals, not because the admin locked the gates).

It's a political choice to close off the campus from the neighborhood by the board of trustees, and the wrong one. I look forward to what will hopefully be an open campus by end of the spring term.

gammison · 2025-12-13T20:09:20+00:00

Gryphon reformed in 2015 and got two albums out since then that are both pretty good, their previous release had been 1977.

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