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by ck425 6y ago
I'll bite. As others have said you can't charge and listen to music on phones without a jack. On the point about affordable wireless headphones, many of us have spent a lot of time and money finding a great wired headphone setup.
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Tbh even when I search on Google I normally avoid non YouTube links. Other than Vimeo I find they either don't work or have 30s ads
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If the economy relies on population growth then the economy needs to change. Doing some back of an envelope calculations: Current Human Population: 7.80E+09 Current worldwide growth rate: 1.05% Current Land Surface of Earth: 1.49E+14 If we
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In my case I had a strong community outside of work: local theatre. Unfortunately that's now dead and likely to be amongst the very last things to return. I've seen a lot of friends since lockdown lifted but it's not the same
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How did you make the transition in the first place? My issue is that despite enjoying and having good leadership skills (based on external feedback so I'm reasonable sure that's not just my ego ) I'm not the strongest technic
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Are we fundamentally set on that spectrum though? Is it possible to make yourself someone who views their career as a means to an end and is thus more satisfied. My worry is that the more towards the 'job is the main source of fulfilme
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by ck425 6y ago
Not sure about the context of the sibling posts (FU money might mean something different in SV) but within the FIRE community (UK atleast) FU money tends to refer to less money than full FIRE. FIRE means you never have to work again (normal
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by ck425 6y ago
I've felt similarly, on and off, my whole career (7 years since my first SWE internship). Unfortunately I've not got the answers but I do have a thought I want feedback on. Maybe it's ok not to love it but to be satisfied reg
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Hmm I've had new managers a couple of times. It's only now that it occurs to me that sticking a new manager with an intern/grad/early career is a bad idea. I've suffered because my managers weren't yet particul
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Well duh. Obviously if you buy cheap headphones and constantly replace them that's bad for the environment. The grandparents point was that if you buy good wired headphones and use them for the same amount of time you'd use wirele
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So very few people have separate dedicated working spaces. Lots of folk have childcare duties. Many of those who don't live alone live alone and that's extremely difficult in its own way (I'm in that boat and it's been r
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I don't know where you work but no one where I work considers the current situation fine. It's workable but it's definitely no where near 100%.
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> two of the best universities in the world There's more than just two! Admittedly only Oxbridge are consistently top 10 but there are a disproportionate number of other UK unis in the top 200.
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> mortgage When did you buy? I get the distinct impression from friends that even well off techies are struggling to get a big deposit together for a London property nowadays.
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Yeah, I'm also in Edinburgh. I honestly don't see the London appeal these days. There are a few cheap northern cities with solid tech scenes, little competition and cheap cost of living. Edinburgh's the best one, but I'v
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Even without driving there's so much green space up here. And the weather isn't that bad. The east coast from Edinburgh to Dundee is in this weird spot in Scotland that gets significantly less rain than most other areas. It's
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Is Google success because it's a well run company in the first place? It's obviously not terrible (I'd personally love to work there) but life is a lot easier when you have the biggest cash cow ever plus a few smaller ones. I
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by ck425 6y ago
One thing I found useful was installing Sudoku on my phone. If I feel the urge for a dopamine hit from the internet I play a have of Sudoku instead. It gives me a hit but without the anxiety and I find the focused thinking it causes very he
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I agree but I'd place more of it on the fact that people like people who help them. I've worked with a few engineers who have been incredibly helpful and gone out there way to share knowledge with me. I consider every single one o
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That or we can get to a point where we reduce cars in cities to a minimum. We'll probably still need car noise for the few that exist but the better solution in most ways is just to have way less cars.
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> Casually weighing human life against economic cost is not acceptable in what we might call a civilized society. Human life and economic cost are not separate things. The economy is a comprehensive (if incomplete) description human life
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Yes. With the exception of the time Prince Charles went to Cambridge The difference is that private schools normally get better exam results. That's slowly changing now due to quotas and schemes to help disadvantaged kids. A lot of par
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I was shocked when I first learned what legacy students were. Everyone talks about the uk bring super classist but legacy students would never fly over here. The US seems to have some seriously blatant classism. The other obvious one is the
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It's a tough question and I don't know the answer. I think the current trend of aggressively calling out micro-agressions is counter productive. In cases where there was no negative intent, it's easy to alienate the person wh
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I think he's saying that discrimination in many forms is often - but not always - a side effect of evolutionary tribal tendencies and that if we don't take that into account when trying to reduce discrimination our efforts won&#x2
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Out of curiosity did you switch to decaf or just no coffee at all? I could never tell if it was coffee specifically or just caffeine in general which heightened my anxiety.
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I disagree with this. Passion is the outcome of ability and achievement not the cause. If you wait to be passionate about what you need to do you'll be waiting a long time. You need to do the hard work and then the passion follows, not
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by ck425 6y ago
So the interesting question here would be (and I'm not a biologist so may have misunderstood parts of the study), does increasing the amount of anti-oxidants you consume reduce the need for sleep and/or improve wakefulness?
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If anything that makes the actions of employees even more powerful. As CEO he doesn't need to keep investors happy as he has full control. But he still needs (and always will need) employees to run the company. Employee protests are on
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I don't think artificial limits are the answer. A far better way to do it is to regulate the rental market in ways that increase the quality of rental accommodation across the board (minimum sizes, improved safety standards, increased

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