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by bootsz 8y ago
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is another good one. Doesn't take much reading/investigation to figure out how bad of a deal most investment "management" services are, at least for the average person. It&#x2
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by bootsz 8y ago
The more I understand software the less I trust it (given the current state of engineering practices). Meanwhile all my friends/family are scrambling to install all the latest new "smart home" gadgets and I just look like a
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by bootsz 8y ago
That's basically what I've concluded. I think it pretty much boils down to status signaling (creating the appearance of "putting in longs hours"). There was another article posted here last week that touched on that ph
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by bootsz 8y ago
Same. I’ve never worked anywhere where I had to work more than 8 hours. Startups, mid-size, and FANG alike. I have occassionally done stretches of 60-ish hour weeks for 1-2 weeks at a time, but mostly by choice, and this is the exception
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by bootsz 8y ago
> But in actual Manhattan, single-bedroom apartments cost $3800 a month – even more than in San Francisco! I'm not sure this accurately captures the comparison between Manhattan and SF housing. I'm guessing this figure is an
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yeah. I feel like many personal economic problems (esp. in the US) boil down to trying to emulate the lifestyle of the upper-class while actually being middle-class. We tend to ignore the existence of an upper class in the US but the dist
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by bootsz 8y ago
This isn't a guy who built the railroads here, this is a guy.... This entire sub-comment thread is just quoting a scene from the Big Lebowski, in case you haven't caught on :)
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by bootsz 8y ago
Asian American, please!
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by bootsz 8y ago
We have a 2-bedroom (no kids) and do a combo guest bedroom / office which works well for us. Large futon instead of a full bed to save space. We don't work exclusively from home though nor have guests more than once every couple
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by bootsz 8y ago
Happy People (2010). Focuses on isolated communities living in remote areas of Siberia and their way of life. Also: Chef's Table Wild Wild Country Tickled Jiro Dreams of Sushi
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by bootsz 8y ago
Same. Watched it 3 times over the years
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by bootsz 8y ago
It seems less and less prevalent. Most of the modest 1-story homes in my hometown have been steadily replaced over the past 10-15 years with obnoxious McMansions with very little space in between them. Square footage is the cheapest thing
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by bootsz 8y ago
Everything old is new again (sort of). There was a similar paradigm being promoted several years back that was dubbed "Object-Oriented CSS (OOCSS)": https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/an-introductio
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by bootsz 8y ago
> Imagine a Facebook that keeps your list of friends, hosted on your own website, up-to-date, rather than vice-versa. Basically, the Semantic Web was going to be a web where everyone gets to have their own personal REST API, whether the
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by bootsz 8y ago
+1. This is the approach I'm currently taking. I tried starting with books and tutorials but felt I wasn't learning much just being spoon-fed code and copy+pasting. I think it's much more illuminating to attack the problem
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by bootsz 8y ago
So much nostalgia... Was just thinking it would be neat to try to make a "Web Classic" version of the web without javascript and which only supports HTML 2.0 or 3.0. Maybe even bring back the 'blink' and 'marquee&#
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by bootsz 8y ago
I don't think it's a hard rule; it seems to apply to certain companies who pursue a strategy of deliberately not making any money at first and just acquiring as many users as possible to reach critical mass and ward off competitio
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by bootsz 8y ago
It might not be, I'm just going off of intuition. I think it might "lag" in the sense that the annoyances / inconveniences that get gradually introduced don't result in a linear reduction of users. I think you can
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by bootsz 8y ago
In some sense it feels like Amazon is progressing along a similar trajectory as Facebook: 1. Start company with a minimally viable product 2. Hire smart people to iteratively optimize the usefulness of the product to attract as many users a
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by bootsz 8y ago
CCN is a really cool concept. I read this paper in my computer networks class in grad school. It was definitely the most interesting/memorable thing we covered. While CCN itself hasn’t gained much traction in the real world, the IPFS
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by bootsz 8y ago
That sounds much more plausible. Had a feeling this source was probably an exaggeration of the truth
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by bootsz 8y ago
> "the link tax" (users are banned from linking to news stories unless the site they're linking to has sold a "linking license" to the platform the users are on What the actual f...? Is this real life or an On
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by bootsz 8y ago
Investment companies make money off of your investments, so naturally they have every incentive to convince you to invest as much as possible. That doesn’t discount the reality that most people don’t invest nearly enough, but still the “rec
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by bootsz 8y ago
> but end-users don't seem to think the same True, but I think a lot of people feel the problem is that Apple has neglected the "Pro" aspect of the "MacBook Pro". The new pro's don't feel like a machin
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by bootsz 8y ago
Hah, yeah seriously I was at the airport last week and literally could not find one single item in the convenience store that I could have other than plain water. Even their seltzer water had added sugar...
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by bootsz 8y ago
> the food that's most pushed in modern western countries is full of sugars and carbohydrates. Starting a ketogenic diet really made this frighteningly apparent to me. I had never really looked at carb or sugar counts in foods befo
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by bootsz 8y ago
Went there last year during a trip to Olympic National Park. Definitely a uniquely beautiful area. Strange to see such massive mountains so close to the ocean
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by bootsz 8y ago
I like this approach a lot and used it myself for years. But I found it kind of falls apart as soon as you want to start using credit though. It's great if you only use cash and debit cards.
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by bootsz 8y ago
CapitalOne 360 allows you to instantly open savings accounts and you can have many of them (not sure what the maximum is--it's high, I've had about 8 at once). That said I liked the bank a lot better when it was ING Direct before
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by bootsz 8y ago
> More of that American ideal (aka delusion) that a 1950s style lifestyle is The Natural Order Of Things. It's not. It's very much an anomaly. Yeah in the US it seems just about everything gets compared to the post-war years li

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