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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Worse: the costs are front-loaded and (all but) must come early-ish in your life. The opportunity cost—the shadow, if you will, that the cost of children casts on your future retirement savings—is enormous . It’s way larger than the nomina
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I think there’s maybe a case for VR meeting rooms that you kinda teleport into, but anything beyond that is gonna be niche as hell and just a hindrance in every other case. A whole VR office space? Just gets in the way. And I expect even
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I am somewhat familiar with this market and would probably be turned off by this site mostly because it looks too slick and the ones I’ve seen that were this slick mostly weren’t for me (marketed to, and making perfume entirely or almost
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Within the (wide!) price tier in which most people buy furniture, almost everything is worse than IKEA but a lot of it’s 2-3x the price. You have to go even higher to get consistently-better-than-ikea, but most people won’t even see that ki
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> Why don't we have virtual offices to wander around yet? I worked at a place that used one. Because the actually functionality they provide is the same as Slack, but worse in basically every way, is maybe why.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Hotels seem cheaper in some cities and if you’re solo or with only people who are ok sleeping in one small room with max 2 beds. As soon as you go to two rooms, airbnb gets more appealing fast. It’s also great where there are either no hote
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but IKEA's got a really cheap steel pourover cup with integrated fine-mesh metal filter (you can still use paper filters in it if you want to get the oils out and avoid a little grit getting thr
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I can still drink normal coffee. I can even tolerate most Keurig trash, still. I find the good stuff to basically be a totally different category of drink, I think is what helps. Most coffee is pretty much just "coffee flavored" w
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
All I can figure is that with a place like, say, Starbucks, it's a consistency thing. Even their "light" roasts are pretty dark, and their medium is "burnt to a crisp", but if you want to put 25,000,000 12oz bags of
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Cold brew is how I save bad (or even stale) beans. Good beans make better cold brew, but bad beans make much better cold brew than they do hot coffee.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
IKEA sells a very cheap steel (i.e. your kids won't break it when they knock it off the counter—ask me what happened to my first three of these, which were all ceramic) pourover cup with integrated fine-mesh metal filter (so you can
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
166MHz pentium with 128MB (not a typo, kids!) of memory felt luxuriously snappy and spacious, including with tabbed web browsing in Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox… running BeOS or QNX-Photon. Not so much under Linux or Windows. Not so
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> They said, “Ugh, we use this tool—it’s garbage.” I'm still waiting to experience a version of this conversation where I'm not informed that the tool they want doesn't exist or all the ones they have are bad because they
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The root post of this thread was concerned with the effects of, "The Trump admins cuts", as is TFA. I think I see what you mean, however: that your original post in this thread could be read as setting that aside and treating of j
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> Generative AI is a novelty that makes us crazy productive at certain tasks. But it doesn't yet seem to fundamentally change what we build or why. We just do it faster and sloppier with AI. It's a tactical tool to help you win
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> Note the original comment you replied to claims that "those kind of positions are a notable and visible part of progressive/Democratic culture". It says nothing about whether such positions are the official policies of t
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
[EDIT: The way I wrote this was mean, and why be mean? Rephrasing to be less mean: I reviewed the thread and found your claim to be inaccurate] Yeah, that's enough of this for one day.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I follow now! Sorry, I can read good, I promise. Yes, the economic consequences (long-term to research and researcher-training and the industries that rely on them on the one end, and shorter term to e.g. farm and construction labor on the
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Haha, nice, the Dover edition of that book's my current in-an-outdoor-setting-while-the-kids-play read, though that season's only just started so I'm not far in yet. Love me some Chesterton.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
2024/06/28 DOGE got ahold of Obama's time machine? What people expect is a connection between the claims of fraud and the massive cuts, funding pauses (which effectively destroy some research, wasting any money already spent)
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
You wrote "doesn't fit" and then described something that fits entirely. I'm not following.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
How many workers would succeed at so-restricting the people at the top of the company, in that contract? Pretty much none, right? Probably you're thinking it'd be absurd for them to even ask such a thing. Why? Because this is a ma
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Trump's rhetoric around illegal immigration has mostly been about how tons of them are violent criminals, about reducing fentanyl smuggling (that's overwhelmingly done by US citizens for obvious reasons, but whatever), "invas
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yes, in that context. It was extremely common to shorthand that to "illegals", as in, "Bob says he's gotta hire illegals or he can't find anyone who'll shingle houses for him", or, "I don't know
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
This is absurd. Look at the things you're comparing: a misreading of a somewhat-common yard sign plus what Fox News and Mark Levin say the democrats support, versus a concerted effort by a highly influential prominent think-tank that
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The boss: you must work for me, and only for me. Also the boss: claims to hold five jobs at five different organizations. (I don't even mean Elon, I mean the median "founder" type, but him too I guess, except that I think he&
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> respectfully disagree on several points.. if "public opinion" is only legitimate in 240 characters or less, then you have doomed yourself. I have very bad news for you re: the last ~70 years of research on voter behavior in d
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Weird. Maybe it just hates my last two ISPs (Google Fiber, Frontier). The usual way I notice I'm not logged in is by getting blocked after interacting with ~3 different parts of the site within a minute. If I search, click a single rep
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
See my explanation a couple posts away. It means the thing that many on the left often express on this topic, not the thing that almost none ever do. [EDIT] To ground this, the claim is that it's reasonable to interpret "no human

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