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by J-dawg 9y ago
And yet the pledge to link the student loan repayment threshold to average earnings was reversed almost immediately. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/22/student-loans-...
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This can't be emphasised enough. It's utterly unfair to describe a victim of depression as "selfish". I'm curious, was there a reason you specifically mentioned western society? Is there another region of the world
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I'm genuinely surprised anyone would take a place completely unseen. Even if you remove the possibility of being scammed like this and assume the place does indeed exist, there's so much potential for creative photography to hide
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I understand what you mean. For me "retirement" would be about having enough FU money to provide a basic income, so that I could choose to work on things I find fulfilling. Then again if you already find your work fulfilling and e
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I've been slowly moving towards a "Mr. Money Mustache" style of frugal living, but I still wonder whether I'm doing the "right" thing. Maybe I'm missing out on all sorts of op
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This is what leads to the "avocado toast" situation [0]. I'm conflicted on what to think about this. He comes across as arrogant, and made a very poor choice of item to illustrate his point, given how many avocado toasts you&
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I used to climb, but didn't really have a handle on the difficulty of this due to the American grades used, so I looked into it a little more. It's utterly mind-blowing. This article [0] was helpful for anyone more used to UK clim
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I don't really understand this, but it sounds very interesting. Could you expand upon it, or recommend any books or articles that explain the idea?
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Yeah, I don't see what's wrong with a souvenir to remember the season by. That's not coddling kids, it's just giving them a trinket that will hopefully bring back nice memories. Amateur adult teams do the same thing in t
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Now that you mention it, I do weekly timed runs ( http://www.parkrun.org.uk/ ), and I definitely treasure my "ribbon" (the email I receive confirming my time and position). I time the runs myself on my phone so the
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Thanks, that's encouraging. I don't think it's the whole story because I work out fairly hard and still have low self-esteem, but it's good to know that change is possible.
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Related question: does anyone have personal experience of significantly improving their self-esteem as an adult? Or is your level of self-esteem pretty much fixed as a child and something that needs to be "managed" in adulthood ra
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This is a very good point. The author is promoting his book about self-obsession, but conflating self-obsession with self-esteem seems wrong. They are surely linked, but are different things. In fact, people with low self-esteem are more li
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by J-dawg 9y ago
On the subject of "everyone gets a trophy", I can't believe this still happens, because I've only ever heard it described in derisory terms. I've never heard anyone say "the school gave my kid a 14th place ribb
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by J-dawg 9y ago
You keep saying that, but I've done nothing other than engage with you respectfully. You're the one who has sworn at me, accused me of having "baggage" and made sexist generalisations about my gender. The feeling is mutu
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> Everything I have ever heard indicates they typically sit on their ass, play video games and can't be bothered to cook. She works all day and then goes home and also cooks dinner. You make bizarre, unfounded generalisations like
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Isn't this a theory that's sometimes used to support the simulation hypothesis? The idea that weird effects in nature such as wave/particle duality are the simulation's way of cutting down on processing time, something l
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I haven't been able to find it, but I remember a comment here on HN by a guy who basically said that gaming saved his life by helping him to zone out during a period of severe depression. I guess it's a form of mindfulness, in a w
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by J-dawg 9y ago
You made an interesting point about how a stay-at-home partner might have different needs and different experiences of the same living area. I can see how that would be the case. What I disagree with is the (incredibly old-fashioned) implic
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by J-dawg 9y ago
So a marriage should be like a contract where each party is expected to fulfil certain obligations? You might want to rethink that analogy.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> if she is not happy with the house, it is not a good idea to be all "meh -- not like she will divorce me over this." Implying that you think living in a too-small house actually is grounds for divorce?
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by J-dawg 9y ago
It get it. It just saddens me that basically all media outlets are in the business of clickbait now. Even supposedly 'good' ones like The Guardian. Everything is twisted into the most sensationalist phrasing possible.
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Point taken. I was just hoping that someone could shed some light on exactly why it's newsworthy. It feels like there's a kind of schadenfreude at play, like people are delighted to see that an innovative 'new' company
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Praveenbeatle has been downvoted, but they made a good point. It seems like this stuff has become so politically charged that it's almost impossible to have a non-toxic conversation about it. Of course it's true (sadly) that sexua
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Does anyone else wonder why this is getting so much media attention? Presumably any company above a certain size is likely to have one or two HR-related lawsuits happening at any particular time. I can't imagine this being big news if
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> Largely because of post-World War II intensive chicken farming and accompanying price reductions, chicken, once internationally synonymous with luxury, became a staple food in the U.S. These intensive farming methods basically involve
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This is the worst kind of security requirement, in that it's not only a disgusting abuse of power, it would also be completely useless in stopping someone who really had something to hide. Just like the recent reports of people being r
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This is both scary and interesting. Did you get the chance to discuss it with him further? I wonder how prevalent this sort of thinking is. What's he actually trying to achieve? Presumably in most cases when he searches all he'll
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by J-dawg 9y ago
So, lonely guys in male-dominated jobs get desperate and make bad dating choices in an attempt to avoid loneliness, which often ultimately backfire. Yup, that's about what I thought.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Everyone in this thread is talking in rather vague terms. I have a feeling I understand what you mean but I'm not sure. Can you (or anyone else) give an example of what you're referring to?

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