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by Kuiper 9y ago
For many years, my fantasy of retirement was that I would have a house with a large back yard so that I could spend my days reading outside surrounded by trees. At some point I realized that there was no reason I had to wait until retiremen
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by Kuiper 9y ago
This seems really trivial, but I noticed an immediate quality of life increase when I switched from video games to physical pub games like darts and billiards. When I come away from an hour long video game session, my body has been physical
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by Kuiper 9y ago
For related reading, I recommend this Tim Urban piece, "The Tail End": https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html I read about five books a year, so even though it feels like I’ll read an endless
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by Kuiper 9y ago
I have a friend who was in his late 30's when he had his first kid. Now, he is 50 years old, his youngest kid is 8 years old, and I have heard him remark on several occasions that when he is attending his second child's high scho
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by Kuiper 9y ago
The fact that peasants did not work more hours is tied to the fact that they were agrarian laborers. Once you've brought in the harvest, what is there to do but lie around and wait until the end of winter? Indeed, "lie around&qu
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by Kuiper 9y ago
You don't need to "figure out" how much you paid for chicken; it's printed on the receipt. The only thing to "figure out" is "what's the cost per pound if I paid $7 for a 2.3 pound chicken" and
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by Kuiper 9y ago
Especially when you consider that most supermarket labels will also include the "price per unit weight" or "price per unit volume" on the shelf with a smaller font, it becomes trivially easy to compare which bottle of so
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by Kuiper 9y ago
It's not a complete portfolio, but I keep a list of projects I'm currently working on at http://kineticliterature.com/now/
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by Kuiper 9y ago
That book remains unsold, mainly for lack of trying on my part -- around the time that I was ready to start sending out query letters, I landed some contract work working on visual novels. Getting my first contract involved spending a week
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by Kuiper 9y ago
The example Derek uses in this post about looking for a booking agent reminds me of an anecdote he told several years ago (as I recall, it was part of a speech or a Q&A he did at Berklee College of Music) about how he went about reverse
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by Kuiper 9y ago
Alison Wolf's book, "The XX Factor," examines time use diaries to gather data about which domestic tasks women spent the most time on, and the conclusion that she ultimately comes to is that while washing machines did make th
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by Kuiper 9y ago
I actually had a similar experience as a kid reading fan fiction for the Legend of Zelda games. I wanted to share the fan fiction I was reading with friends at school, but my family's "internet computer" had no printer, and o
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by Kuiper 9y ago
I am a big fan of the Kindle 4. (2012) It's wonderful. I use mine practically every day. It has these huge things on the side called "buttons" that you can use to turn the pages. They have a tactile feel when pressed, and
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by Kuiper 9y ago
> none of the friends I made in my 20s were friends borne of a shared struggle. [...] The city I moved to had a lot of transient worker types moving through them so there were lots of events organised by and for expats (perhaps I should
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by Kuiper 9y ago
>What other struggles are there that we can take on to facilitate bonding? I've found that competitive gaming has been pretty good for this, with the stipulation that it mainly applies to 1v1 games which are usually played at live e
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by Kuiper 9y ago
> he is not allowed to call himself an engineer in such a was as to imply that he is a traffic or transportation engineer. He never claimed to be a traffic or transportation engineer, in fact the fine cited him for use of the phrase &qu
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by Kuiper 9y ago
The point of the calculator is to time your sleep so that you wake up between REM sleep cycle (rather than being awoken by your alarm in the middle of a REM cycle, which usually puts you in groggy zombie mode). The calculator works off the
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by Kuiper 9y ago
I think you're painting a caricature of 'fast' debate, which is an extremely rigorous activity filled with incredibly smart people. You'll not hear me argue against the point that 'fast' debate is extremely r
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by Kuiper 9y ago
One of the problems with treating debate as an exercise in truth seeking is that it is a competition between two "sides." In that context, there is little room for phrases like "I will concede that..." or other things t
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by Kuiper 9y ago
As Policy Debate grew in popularity, the more Machiavellian debaters attempted to gain an edge by overwhelming their opponents with as many arguments and as much supporting evidence as possible. This was because if a team “dropped” an argu
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by Kuiper 9y ago
On the subject of wealthy people having restaurants for "social reasons," this article is an interesting read: "The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant": https://www.newyorker.com&#x2
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by Kuiper 9y ago
Or a low end franchise with a captive audience (highway service, travel intersections). Low-end franchise with captive audience seems to be a winning combination, and sometimes you can even get a captive audience with low rent: One exampl
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by Kuiper 9y ago
Also in the category of "generally regarded as objectively bad yet also immensely popular," see junk food. Junk food is not engineered to leave you feeling satisfied--in fact, it's quite the opposite. Junk food is designed t
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by Kuiper 9y ago
For a similar story, see this MLB pitcher who lived in a van on a Walmart parking lot (even after signing a $2 million contract): http://www.businessinsider.com/daniel-norris-lived-in-a-van-...
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by Kuiper 9y ago
From this guy's perspective, the biggest risk of publicizing his living situation is that maybe someone on Google's legal team learns about it, decides it's a liability concern, and kicks him out of the lot. The article is fr
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by Kuiper 9y ago
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, Wheel of Time, Stormlight Archive) teaches a writing class where one of his lectures focuses on the notion that writing is more about skill/craftsmanship rather than ideas/inspiration:
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by Kuiper 9y ago
> Janet Jackson showing some tit was considered a major cultural "thing" the media and people wrote about for weeks I've heard people who work in radio describe the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident as a watershed moment.
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by Kuiper 10y ago
I remember when Orson Card drew my attention to the "a napron -> an apron" example, because the new rebracketing obscures the fact that "napron" and "napkin" come from the same root.
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by Kuiper 10y ago
On the contrary, I consider the Amazon affiliate model to be one of the least bias-inducing forms of "sponsorship." People whose monetization comes from Amazon affiliate revenue don't care which brand of TV you buy since t
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by Kuiper 10y ago
As referenced in the submission article, George R.R. describes two approaches two writing: > "I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect

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