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by diskzero 8d ago
Interesting and useful. I would welcome societal action and have no faith the government can do anything at all given the government has no idea what to act on. I have seen the “government” wage a war on drugs, allow encampments to sprawl o
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by diskzero 8d ago
When I lived in downtown Los Angeles, I volunteered at the Midnight Mission and various veterans organizations dealing with addiction and homelessness. Only you can really define what is productive to you, but people are always needed for r
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by diskzero 8d ago
"Cars are plentiful and cheap in America and can be had next to free in many cases." What is the buzzword bingo and what is my bent? I think it should be permissible to allow some dude to live out of a 2002 Town and Country that p
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by diskzero 8d ago
I agree and understand part of what you are saying. I am not exactly sure what the privilege was, but I do understand your observation about the tone-deafness. It is for certain that current job outlook seems bleak and this is extremely dif
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by diskzero 8d ago
When you put it this way, it is very anxiety inducing and I understand that. What this is helping me realize is that my childhood, and our lives of our children were different than many of the commenters, not necessarily better or worse. As
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by diskzero 8d ago
Yes, I can see this now. Thanks for the insight.
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by diskzero 8d ago
Very good points. Thanks for the insight and critique. There is a reason I don't wade into social topics and usually only comment on technical things I have worked on and this is helping me understand why!
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by diskzero 9d ago
Got it. I mainly work with people who have severely fallen off the cliff with almost no way to climb back out. I totally see how this new gear could keep someone from reaching a critical breaking point.
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by diskzero 9d ago
A very interesting and valid observation. You and your children are super fortunate and your approach seems like a very good hedge against some serious uncertainty coming up. We weren’t quite in the same position until much later, and I am
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by diskzero 9d ago
There is no implication here. It is clearly stated as "Our primary goal", not your primary goal. You are reading way too much into this. I agree it is a modern post-WW2 phenomenon, but not sure what is funny about it. Societies an
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by diskzero 9d ago
Interesting comparison and one I didn't consider. Thanks for the insight!
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by diskzero 9d ago
Are you infinitely wealthy? Storage units are a slow leak on finances, just like uncanceled subscriptions and mobile phone plan features.
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by diskzero 9d ago
I somewhat expected my post would generate this type of attack and then lead to my parenting style is better than years, my kids are more successful than yours, my kids are happier to visit us than you, ad nauseam. Parenting is hard and the
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by diskzero 9d ago
This is a difference in parenting approaches. For our kids, going to college, or in one case the military and another no college, was moving out. You have your approach, we had ours. They were perfectly capable and successful in figuring ou
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by diskzero 9d ago
This must be a generational issue. My kids took “their” things with them when they became autonomous adults. As parents, we raised our children that they would move out and establish their own identities and futures. We never created any ex
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by diskzero 9d ago
A thousand dollars may as well be a million dollars. In my personal experience, gifting a thousand dollars to someone in housing distress will not lead to the purchase of a solar panel.
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by diskzero 9d ago
You are correct, but regular supermarkets can even be scarce or non-existent in many areas.
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by diskzero 9d ago
The issue in America is that you can own a car, not pay for upkeep, not pay registration, not pay for insurance, not pay to park and still drive it many times without consequence.
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by diskzero 9d ago
My parents gave me my “crap” back and it went straight into the trash. When my kids moved out, their “crap” went to Goodwill or the trash.
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by diskzero 9d ago
One problem with what? Also, a problem is not “too much food”. This is an absurd statement. The problem is non nutritive, unhealthy food loaded with calories. Work in any troubled urban center and you will encounter a complete lack of actua
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by diskzero 9d ago
Cars are plentiful and cheap in America and can be had next to free in many cases. They will be in terrible shape, operated without insurance, registration and driven by someone without a license. They will also be gross polluters but won’t
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by diskzero 9d ago
As someone who has worked directly with these people in Los Angeles and Seattle, I tend to focus locally, otherwise the enormity of the situation is overwhelming and fills me with despair. When you say “we need to fix this” no one can agree
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by diskzero 11d ago
It is sad, and as one of the several former BeOS employees who went to Apple to add our experience to OSX, I can say that most of us have moved on. This isn't to say that others can't do what we did; they certainly should be able
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by diskzero 15d ago
This would be so exciting. The implementation language would be less of a concern, but it worth wondering about... Would you use Rust, Racket, Lisp, Clojure, etc? I had a lot of fun teaching adults to program using DrRacket and didn't
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by diskzero 1mo ago
K.W.Jeter was writing Blade Runner 2 in the office next to our small video game company. We were working on the entirely forgettable Dark Fiber title which was only published in Japan for the NEC PC-98. https://archive.org/d
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by diskzero 1mo ago
"It takes five years to become an overnight success" I heard a variation of this from a VC who invested in my startup in the 8Os. I had to use it on him when we went back to the well a few times for more funding.
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by diskzero 2mo ago
I don’t understand what you mean by “we don’t know”? Are you saying tech entrepreneurs don’t know education? I agree with that. Or are you saying we don’t know what problem to solve?
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by diskzero 2mo ago
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and hope for the best. My wife has been a high school math teacher for 25 years and has seen waves of tech luminaries give their visions of how tech will radically improve education and learning. She c
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by diskzero 2mo ago
That is rough. I assume this is a web application? I went through a previous thought experiment about what would happen when we moved a paid up front feature behind a subscription. This was the outcome I came to. Unless the user bought and
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by diskzero 2mo ago
That is terrible and I am glad someone broke ranks to inform you of the risk. My wife had a very agressive triple-hit lymphoma and CAR-T was eventually suggested. Fortunately, the medical team was very honest about how hard it impacts your

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