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by fossuser 5y ago
Videogames provide fake achievement and an easy thing to do to occupy you - I think some people are more vulnerable to this kind of thing than others. For me, the fake achievement feels fake and I don't get much satisfaction out of it
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think it's highly dependent on what your parents are like. I've known people who lived at home for a year or two to save money, but I wouldn't have been able to have any independence.
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by fossuser 5y ago
They can probably just get a roommate to cover the tax and ramen expense or door dash one day a week or something. Having no rent cost is pretty big.
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "If someone says "I don't know if vaccines are safe", I don't think that's an anti-vaxx stance." Eh - after hundreds of millions of doses I think it's functionally equivalent most of the time. It
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it's more possible than others are suggesting, but I think there are exceptions. There is no good competitor to YouTube - there are a lot of bad ones yes, but no good one. I'd argue this is objective fact. I use fastmail a
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m not an expert, but my guess at an example would be bees. Complex communication via dances about food sources. Learned attacks against murder hornets to defend the hive. Probably what I would look at first.
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by fossuser 5y ago
All Panic stuff is like that - they have great style.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I feel like there’s a middle ground? Encourage the child to do well and be honest about the importance of credentials/marketability of jobs without crushing their spirit? I think the main issue is parents are largely ignorant of what’s
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by fossuser 5y ago
You may want to rethink the safe deposit box: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... - they’re not very safe and the banks aren’t interested in the service.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - you should still use a credit card, but you don't need your bank's account for that. In fact, bank credit cards are among the worst in terms of rewards. You'd be better off with a different one most likely.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The culture that would do that without recognizing why it's not as simple as 'just allowing' something is what leads to every tablet except the iPad sucking. They want the quality bar to be high - they make different products
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by fossuser 5y ago
I suspect most people are not using bank accounts as one account among many for financial diversification - the bank account is their sole account. My question could have been more specific - I see little reason to prefer a bank to fidelity
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by fossuser 5y ago
Fair point - I rarely deal with cash (and when I do I can just give it to a friend and have them apple pay or Venmo me).
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by fossuser 5y ago
I haven’t personally used both seriously, consensus when I searched around to consider switching was that Fidelity’s software/service was better so I stayed.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yep - works fine and was easy to set up.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I'm not sure why anyone uses banks instead of just using Fidelity for everything. You get a brokerage, you can have your retirement accounts there, you get free checks, debit card with free ATM access, software that's best in clas
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "I need a mobile device I can attach to a keyboard and do "Pro" work 5 hours a month, is that much to ask?" I think it's a bit of a niche use case when that pro work is software development. They can't ple
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP acco
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah and I liked it - good tongue-in-cheek satire that exaggerated a lot of things that have some basis in truth. It was ultimately a fictional show though and life in silicon valley is a lot more boring than that the vast majority of the t
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by fossuser 5y ago
I don't know if I'd go that far - I think dev environment set up is a massive pain, especially for newbies and it scares a lot of people away from development because of constant issues. Solving this would be helpful for teaching
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by fossuser 5y ago
I don't know the truth around that either way, but I think Roam is based in Utah at some ranch (even if they're funded by a16z). I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture. I think his brother wa
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I don't really like piling on, but Replit and Roam both give off massive alarms for me regarding the founders. Both seem to think they're Xerox PARC - or the most ambitious software companies on earth, both products seem pr
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by fossuser 5y ago
Starlink is a life saver for this situation. Family in Placerville CA went from unusable <1mbps viasat to 50-190mbps overnight. I hope it puts all the geostationary satellite companies into bankruptcy.
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by fossuser 5y ago
On that we agree - if there's one thing in short supply on the internet, it's nuance.
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "Do you think people will be able to acknowledge that predisposition to suicide is what killed him and not the gravity of the DA obsession to convict him?" This is itself presumptive and I think largely wrong. Like most thing
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "This provision covers those who obtain information from particular areas in the computer—such as files, folders, or databases—to which their computer access does not extend. It does not cover those who, like Van Buren, have impro
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it’s hard to exclude power efficiency since that’s a constraint that matters for a lot of people and is particularly relevant on laptops. The other noticeable thing for me I think is driver related: instant wake, instant resolution
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is the best single source of information on the topic: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ I’d just read through that.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Hulu does have an ad free tier now just in case you weren’t aware.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The only thing I want to pay for is ad removal. I’d pay $10/month for Twitter without ads in a second. I already pay for YouTube premium, and while I wish they removed tracking in addition to the ads - it’s still great.

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