bartedinburgh

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by bartedinburgh 5y ago
What do you mean by real chicken? What are McNuggets made of in the US? I saw Americans amazed at Europe’s “real cheese”, and Coca-Cola with “real sugar”. I have never heard the explanation for “real chicken” yet. This is funny and scary at
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
Small fish in a big pond? I've heard a completely opposite advice stating that "in a big pond" there's much competition, and dominating a small niche yields better results. What is the rationale behind being a small fish
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
I use https://kanbanflow.com to manage my week. Instead of classic Todo - Doing - Done, my board is divided into Todo - Monday - Tuesday - ... - Sunday - Done. The board contains both work-related and private tasks. If a new tas
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
Being an expat myself, I cannot help but notice that it's often more expensive than being a local, especially in the beginning. Less choice in housing, no family support, being unable to claim certain benefits either because not qualif
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
Yeah, most of Europe is barely on par with Canada if not worse.
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
Check out static website generators like Jekyll ( https://jekyllrb.com ). If that doesn't meet your needs, you can still use the same tools as for a bigger webapp e.g. Node + React + Bootstrap/Materialize. A CSS framewor
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
I used to work for one and was not proud of it because I felt our products did not provide any value. My boss had this theory how betting small amounts of money is just another form of entertainment people enjoy, just like going to the cine
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
If you have $5 million reasonably invested, you could pay yourself approximately $200k per year until you die (the average long-term expected return from the stock market is > 4% above inflation) and likely leave some cash to your kids.
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
Except those who die in poverty after a miserable retirement because they haven't prioritized financial wellbeing in their lives.
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
That's what happens when you entirely rely on one platform as your source of income, be it Freelancer, YouTube, Amazon, or anything else. You become de facto employed by the platform and can be let go in a similar way you can be fired
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
You are right. In my original post I implicitly meant office jobs (software in particular). I kept that assumption implicit because I understood that the article was concerned with jobs that had the potential to be done remotely and thus sa
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
I think it's connected with the rise of bullshit jobs. If your job is well defined, e.g. make an app or a website design, you can do it anywhere in the world. The app/design is your deliverable that anyone can see and judge. If yo
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
I suppose the idea is to work in SV for a couple years while you're still young and healthy, rack up as much cash as you can while living quite frugally, then move to a cheaper place, buy a house for cash (or at least have a solid down
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by bartedinburgh 9y ago
I've left the center of my live in pursuit of a better job, and even though I earn above average wage, taxes & rent consume a huge chunk of it, because many people here live in subsidized housing. Is that more fair? Now I can eithe