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by ativzzz 5y ago
It would be having community that helps ease the burden of child rearing. Grandparents, neighbor friends with kids, etc
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The level is different for everyone, but a really simple model is to spend no more than 4% of your investments every year, so it depends on how much you spend. https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ is a
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Generally because 99% of people are not researchers and when they say "doing their own research" they mean reading a few blogs and facebook posts. Reading actual papers done by researchers is a step above that, of which a few peop
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I think given current trends giving your kid a linux computer without internet access at an early age and teaching them programming will secure a much more successful life than any trade, and they will have the finances and flexibility to p
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> What they should do is force Apple to allow competing stores. What's to stop Apple from charging the owners of any competing store 30% of their store's revenue?
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I think the author's example of time_calc compared to ActiveSupport's 1.days.ago syntax speaks to why ActiveSupport is used so much and that sometimes it's OK to do the wrong thing to make everything else easier. The time_cal
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Tech companies' clients are advertisers and businesses, whose interests align with those of the tech companies. We get the end product for free, and we are not the clients.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Have there been any interesting breakthroughs or findings from the science done aboard the ISS?
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I feel like giving everyone involved a half day off would be a pretty big celebration.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
So sounds like the futuristic studies on human longevity could be directed to research on keeping people married longer.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I am casually doing some leetcode in prep for a job search a few months down the line. I've never had to do these problems before, nor do I have a formal CS education (am a senior dev). While many of the hard problems are quite esoteri
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Is a website considered a private space (maybe not, but you agree to a TOS when you fly AA)? If so, you should have the right to say how your space is used by others, regardless of if we believe marketing is ethical or not. If AA doesn&#x27
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Oh true you right
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> These things probably could actually be resolved by governmental regulation. They could, but I wonder if it would actually improve the state of things. We would then need to increase the size of the bureaucracy (in the government and i
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by ativzzz 5y ago
In my undergrad, when I was living in dorms, it also came with a meal plan (I think ~2 meals a day covered). So for in state, 10-15k was tuition. The rest was rent + meals. So 15k / 12 = $1250 a month, which is not cheap, but consideri
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Sure, but they go through an undergrad in English or something similar before they are a PhD, for which they take the loan, then they don't earn any money (just enough to subsist) while the interest on their undergrad loan accrues. Or
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> Much of the growth in administration is driven by a significant rise in the costs to comply with federal regulation. Those regulations are not bad Similar things happen in healthcare. My SO works in pharma and the amount of red tape th
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I am doing the Georgia Tech online masters https://omscs.gatech.edu/ right now, and your points do resonate. The financial ROI would be higher if I just invested that time into career, but I have no formal CS education and
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by ativzzz 5y ago
This is awesome. Works great on my RM2, it's actually exactly what I was looking for. Great work! The only downside I see so far is not being able to make changes to the PDF while also keeping existing writing. Not sure that's eve
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I have one of these laptops running an arch based distro. Some of the hardware was buggy especially wifi/bluetooth and the intel GPU had some issues with KDE but all of the issues are fixed. Still requires a reboot here and there but p
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I have one of these laptops running an arch based distro. Some of the hardware was buggy especially wifi/bluetooth and the intel GPU had some issues with KDE but all of the issues are fixed. Still requires a reboot here and there but p
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Thanks for the response! Might be something I need to explore at some point since I'm struggling with overall purpose for life.
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>This is something I wonder too. Could I have trained myself into this state? Is this a learned behavior? Has years of laziness and gratification seeking created a state where effort is no longer an option? That's what I think about
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Did you turn to organized religion? I find that I don't really believe in anything enough (not just religion) to be a spiritual person. How did you develop a spiritual component?
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> Part of me wonders if I have what your sibling commenter describes as “congruent depression” — depression which is expected given the circumstances of one’s life. I have a similar issue. It's a chicken/egg question. Is depres
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by ativzzz 5y ago
It 100% is politics. For example in the US, our government is incapable of doing anything on a time scale of longer than 4-8 years because the party in power shifts and undoes everything the other party did during that time. Nuclear power i
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> Why not get UBI done, replace the humans with robots, and then actually enjoy our lives? You still need an army. If everyone stops working then our neighbors can just organize their guns together and steal our robots. Unless of course
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Australia has a "junior pay rate" where people under 21 can be paid less than minimum wage despite doing the same work. Sure you could argue they're less productive, but if you're doing minimum wage work I doubt it. htt
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Your experience is not what the linked article is about. You sound like you essentially put in 80 hours of work a week to work two full time jobs. The entire website is about how to not actually do any work for either job while talking maki
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Yup, that's why I'm trying to make the positive mindset a habit and hopefully keep it as I get older. We'll see how it ends up.

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