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by VRay 5y ago
So you're saying that you're single-handedly pulling in between 2x and 5x the median household US income, yet can't set aside $20k a year for your 401k? That means you're either not living on a budget at all, or you&#x27
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by VRay 5y ago
If you're writing so much software you hang out on HackerNews for fun, and you're not saving enough to max out your 401k AND have savings left over for 6 months off, you're doing your finances wrong (and/or you can get a
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by VRay 5y ago
I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 m
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by VRay 5y ago
Basically every service I've used that requires SMS will use it as the sole authentication factor for resetting your password.. It's brutal
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by VRay 5y ago
Are you sure about that? There must be some stories out there.. There are some great books about the Xbox written by Dean Takahashi a few years back, in the same general tech era. Also, if you like folklore.org, you should check out Alex S
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by VRay 5y ago
I left like $80 worth of crypto on a computer that my nephew was using for gaming online, and only remembered when I realized that it had grown to be worth over $1000 Fortunately I recovered it before any of the virus-riddled crapware he do
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by VRay 5y ago
That's a good point Personally, I'd be happy to share my connection with another human being This isn't really the same thing though, it's Amazon treating all its customers like a harvestable resource, and reselling that
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by VRay 5y ago
I think most of these NFT contracts will give 5% of every resale back to the original creator of the contract, too. Pretty ludicrous IMO
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by VRay 5y ago
nobody's figured out a UX for VR yet so far as I know
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by VRay 5y ago
yeah, I pay for it for my nephews, since there's no stopping them from using YouTube..
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by VRay 5y ago
I'd pay half a cent per video or whatever it works out to be, but I'm not going to pay by letting Google or any other corporations track my every move and action
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by VRay 5y ago
haha, it's the same deal for me and my wife I'll gladly do 2-3 things at once all day, but she has to pause the TV to answer a question or read a text message I don't think I'm as good at multitasking as lot of people in
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by VRay 5y ago
The friggin device probably costs over $100,000 and comes with a full-time support contract. They could add an extra $500 worth of CPU and RAM to the device, assuming they can find a competent evil kernel dev to do the work
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by VRay 5y ago
Why is higher education so expensive, anyway? It's already more expensive to go to college than it would be to just hire a set of PhD holders as private tutors for most fields What a scam
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by VRay 5y ago
haha, this reminds me of World of Warcraft Third-party sites post rankings showing the best player performance on various metrics worldwide across thousands of boss fights There's often some choice you can make for your character where
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by VRay 5y ago
yeah, I think his adoptive dad was reasonably well-off though I think "demographic distance" makes sense if you think of it in terms of "Coming from a family of at least moderate wealth". My family was pretty poor, and
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by VRay 5y ago
Regarding the "escape velocity", it really isn't that tough IMO to save enough to retire when you're making 5-10x the median household US income, even if you're wasting $3500/month on rent. Yeah, milk and gas
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by VRay 5y ago
You're looking mixing up cause and effect You're mad about "cause": Evil startup stiffs tons of small players across the world You're lashing out at "effect": Lots of money gets concentrated around the evi
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by VRay 6y ago
It's sort of useful for sending money to Asia without losing 1.5 to 5% on transaction fees, but that doesn't involve actually investing in it
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by VRay 6y ago
It's pretty great. I hope this serves as a lesson to some people "If these jokers will talk this much about this even though they clearly know nothing at all about the tech involved, what does that say about their comments on all
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by VRay 6y ago
you just have to blow it up REALLY HARD Like that old Mythbusters episode where they blow up a car twice I think the Earth could use just ONE MORE nuclear crater..
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by VRay 6y ago
You mean this? This is what you wanted? https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
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by VRay 6y ago
Yeah, you give up a lot of those bonuses (but not all of them, considering the state of web video..) On the plus side, though, if your videos start pulling in ad money, you keep all of it. And you don't have to worry about getting loc
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by VRay 6y ago
I think that housing works differently in Japan. Houses aren't a meteorically-appreciating asset, and the zoning laws are permissive enough to allow for tons of high-density, relatively low-cost housing within easy reach of tons of de
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by VRay 6y ago
It wouldn't be impossible. You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos A lot of coders tend to think of videos as being these big, unwieldy things since we used to download them when computers and
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by VRay 6y ago
Man, I wish app reviews worked that way.. relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/
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by VRay 6y ago
I was watching my 11 year old nephew play some game on Roblox, and he kept alt tabbing between the game and a black window full of text I got closer, and sure enough, he had a window full of python code! It turns out that Roblox had (has?)
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by VRay 6y ago
I think a lot of the people here just don't understand how overwhelmed/exhausted people in serious poverty are. In the USA, with enough gumption and know-how it's theoretically possible to get government-provided internet&#x
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by VRay 6y ago
As someone with an Asian background, you should go read some of Seuss' newspaper comics where he argues for Japanese internment, and then look at that picture again in that context
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by VRay 6y ago
A lot of apps train people's lizard brains to repeatedly hop on and do simple things for tiny bits of stimulation "ding" -> pull out phone -> paw at it in a repetitive motion -> satisfying bit of stimulation I think

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