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by dottjt 3y ago
Definitely the main thing preventing me from moving on from Mac is how bad Windows and Linux is. Around 6 months ago I actually bought a beefy desktop PC to play around with, dual booting both Windows and Linux and they were just terrible.
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That's what happens when there's no competition. Come up with an equivalent product with more RAM at the same price and I'll buy it. Sadly (or perhaps gladly, depending on your perspective), there just is no equivalent to a m
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Thank you, that was very insightful. I imagine your feeling of not imagining your life without kids, irrespective of 1 or 5, is how everyone adjusts in the end. Another question I have (if you have the time) is did things become more diffic
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A question I have is why did you have more kids in-spite of this? How did you justify the struggle, or rather did you have no choice but to justify the struggle? Would you have preferred in retrospect to have less children, if had to be rea
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If I may ask, what motivated you to have more children and at what point did you realise you wanted more than one child?
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I don't think your mental health would survive thinking that the baby itself is the hobby. The thing with babies is that they're draining. They scream for hours on end and there's literally nothing you can do about it, which
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I think what I would say in response is that having a child for the first time is a genuine existential crisis for the first few weeks. I don't think words could possibly extrapolate how much of a shock it is to your existence until it
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At what age were your children that you were able to regain a lot of that personal time? The only thing that's really helped (at least in the early stages) is sleeping in shifts + biphasic sleeping. That provides me with ample time to
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This is actually something I've been concerned about as an introverted dad. I just had a child about a month and a half ago, and the one thing I've absolutely mourned is the loss of my personal time. So much so that I think I migh
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It depends where you go, especially dependent upon the town (for example, Springvale in Victoria has a large ethnic Vietnamese community, and a lot of business is done using cash) In addition using cash often saves you money. A lot of resta
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It doesn't bother me, no. I think what I've realised (at least personally), is that we only have a short time to live on this planet, and if life can be made more convenient by offering up my data, allowing me to spend my time doi
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I was actually going to make a post about software that you actually enjoy paying for and I was going to use Keyboard Maestro as one of those examples. Truly remarkable piece of software.
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Instead of pointing out the problems, which provides nothing constructive to the discussion, can you please provide alternate countries which you believe might be better. In addition, can you please also outline the problems of these countr
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Yeah, fair enough. Thanks for your time, I'll look into it!
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But what you describe is so limiting, because you're forced in the one area. What if I want to leave the area and go for a road trip? Would I be safe travelling to the rest of South Africa, if there is crime, blackouts and a lack of wa
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Well all I can say is that I've worked at 1 startup, 1 agency and 2 very large tech corporates here in Australia, and I've been able to maintain only working 2 - 3 hours a day at each of those companies, as well as maintain a few
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Interestingly, reading this thread has made me realise that roads more-often-than-not are a path for exploitation (equally as you might describe them as a path for opportunity). Without roads, you cannot build mines or forestries within the
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I would have to disagree about the full time skilled job comment. I work remotely for a tech company and to say that you can barely work in Australia whilst earning a very decent salary, is an understatement. 2 - 3 hours a day, at most (at
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It could just be the media, but I've heard nothing but terrible things about South Africa. Failing government. Constant crime. Water shortages. Power blackouts. Is it perhaps different if you're living in a gated community?
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Interestingly, as a young Australian, I've thought about this a lot and I genuinely struggle to find a better country to live in. We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but fee
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I think the key is to have everything delivered to you. Once you figure that out, suburbs are great. Of course, it's not equivalent to being able to walk to places, but I feel the pros outweigh the cons in terms of what you do get from
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I feel unless if there's an absolute need to speak two languages, I think trying to teach a child two languages is pointless. I say this from the point of view of the other experiences that a child can have, in place of language. My ba
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That's one very specific example, to a few very specific countries at best. On the contrary, oil is what's primarily funding the invasion of Ukraine. Think of all the people being killed as a result of that conflict. Or for the ci
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I get your point, but I think it's relative to the society which it takes place. Corruption in China? If anything, it's to be expected. It's a literal part of how their political system operates. Corruption in a liberal democ
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The petrol voucher isn't the primary issue. It's using children to sell the petrol voucher.
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Quite literally last week I was randomly watching The Today Show (mainstream Australian breakfast television) and I couldn't believe what I just saw within the space of 5 minutes. It was the build up to the AFL grand final and there wa
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Exactly. I watched a good video recently which describes this phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOie4GCI40I
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Isn't domain knowledge lost when we don't regularly build and release things? Isn't this why we're struggling to build nuclear in some countries because they weren't building it regularly, and now it's difficul
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Would it be viable though if you need to include distribution and sourcing? I wonder at what scale this might work.
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I don't think there is a viable alternate system. If you have a look at past history, societies and ideas and values come and go. They rise and then they collapse. This is just the way it is. With that said if I had to propose an idea,

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