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by cko 5y ago
An artisan cheating at marathoning, not a doctor cheating at artisaning.
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by cko 5y ago
This stuff scares me a bit. I'm of Chinese descent (Taiwanese actually). It's conceivable that if China and US enter some Cold(er) War 2 that my US assets could be frozen or worse, because ethnicity. Similar things have happened i
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by cko 5y ago
Perhaps! I never lived in a big city in the US, but I hear NYC has favorable (straight) female to male ratio if you're a college educated male. I'm also Asian in a not very diverse country so there's always a small portion of
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by cko 5y ago
You gotta go where the people are. I grew up in a suburb of New Jersey. Aging population, gotta drive half an hour to just meet someone for a date. I happen to be slim and 6'3" and I'm sure 5% of the female population would f
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by cko 5y ago
When I lived with roommates back in 2010, I had an idea that we should always have a stew going - I called it 'constant stew' - it would be cheap and we would eat it with rice, which was also easy and quick to make. Little did I k
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by cko 5y ago
"You don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin. He's broke and he don't do shit." ~Lawrence, Office Space (1999)
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by cko 5y ago
My favorite and most entertaining essay to read. Reading his other later writings it looks like his views are not rigid and are always evolving. The blog as been quite impressionable on me since the mid to late 2000s as a university student
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by cko 5y ago
As a guy just walking down the street, my imagination runs wild with all these fantasies of me being some sort of superhero. Usually it involves me thwarting a terrorist gunman or something. When I'm exercising, I imagine how I want to
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by cko 5y ago
I assume the reason is more banal - that Iceland is a high cost of living country. I can't imagine groceries to be very cheap. So after those high basic expenses, I'm sure there needs to be enough fun money left over to throw at t
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by cko 5y ago
Also workaway.info. One summer I participated in two consecutive ones - one in Romania, one in Austria.
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by cko 5y ago
Hey Ran, been reading your site since 2005ish. Since then I went from wanting to be a homeless monk hippy to actually being a semi-retired city dweller. Thanks for all the insight. I revisit your essays periodically.
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by cko 5y ago
What's the dating life like? Years ago I was interested in this lifestyle and I still read about it in fascination but I fear judgment of my peers. I imagine it's quite easy to find like minded people though.
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by cko 5y ago
Article was super light on details with broken English. A better article: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/1/20/pakistan-rawalp...
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by cko 5y ago
What about 1.5 pieces per week, including underwear? Seems more likely.
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by cko 5y ago
> Your antiscientific rhetoric is bullshit. I didn't read it that way. > The issue with vaccine mandates is they weren't strict enough. That was how I interpreted GP's statement.
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by cko 5y ago
I recently learned that Napoleon Hill was quite the conman. At least he made outrageous claims of being an advisor to famous leaders he's likely never met.
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by cko 5y ago
> 153. Through many a birth in samsara have I wandered in vain, seeking the builder of this house (of life). Repeated birth is indeed suffering! https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.budd..
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by cko 5y ago
I actually lasted exactly 7 months myself, then went to work for 1 year. Quit again and now it's been almost two more years of coasting. I think it's time for me to get a job.
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by cko 5y ago
I did this, with a passive income cushion from some investments. I live very simply. I found travel pretty boring after a few weeks. I found whatever I was doing outside of work (YouTube and mindless browsing) filled up all my free time aft
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by cko 5y ago
This is addressed in the middle of the article. The Shadowstats guy couldn't give any concrete examples. Meanwhile I could say the reverse is also happening - an improvement in "quality" of cars (features and fuel efficiency)
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by cko 5y ago
I was thinking that, more than a bunch of convenient abstractions, a framework also provides a convention that developers are familiar with (easier to get into the codebase). I feel like I know how NextJS projects will be structured. I&#x27
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by cko 5y ago
Haha. Low-key means not trying to build a rocket. Just having excess money but living way below your means.
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by cko 5y ago
I know that was a rhetorical question, but I think low-key rich escapes most of the getting shit on.
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by cko 5y ago
I don't notice stuff like that either, especially not for cars, so I disqualify myself from any discussion that relates to build quality.
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by cko 5y ago
I remember following his blog ten years ago when he was doing some YouTube music thing in Thailand. There was an post where he got burglarized in Amsterdam at one point. Then he does the Nomadlist and RemoteOK thing. Because I followed him
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by cko 5y ago
I am now of the view that mindfulness in the Theravada Buddhist tradition is accompanied by an overall attitude of renunciation (nekkhamma in Pali). Besides, the Pali word for mindfulness, sati, is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening ( ht
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by cko 5y ago
Athens is quite cheap, and doesn't get too cold in the winter. For the cheapest Mediterranean beach cities, there's Antalya and Izmir in Turkey. It's easy to live under $2k a month in many of the places you mentioned. I lived
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by cko 5y ago
I lived in Bucharest for a bit and settled in Cluj-Napoca at age 33 (single at the time). I chose Romania over some other countries in the region because of English speaking proficiency, and Romanian is easier than some of the Slavic ones.
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by cko 5y ago
But 40 years at 3% inflation has a multiplier of 3.26 on top of that $235k, which brings it over $706k. Most people don't pay the median sales price outright. They pay it in 360 installments.
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by cko 5y ago
In the same vein, they can also increase insurance costs for everyone

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