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by ganley 14y ago
Exactly. Furthermore, thinking that way prevents people from investing themselves in their current situation, so of course that situation is never fulfilling. As Buckaroo Banzai says: No matter where you go, there you are. See also: Optimiz
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by ganley 14y ago
Bose QuietComfort. They're really expensive ($300), but one of the few products I find to be worth the seemingly ridiculous cost.
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by ganley 14y ago
... with noise-canceling headphones. I just discovered these a couple of years ago, and I was - am still! - positively shocked at how well they work.
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by ganley 14y ago
You said it yourself: It made your life easier, not simpler. I don't have a smartphone. I simply don't do most of the things on your list. I use a paper calendar and to-do list. I read paper books from the library. I had an iPhone and found
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by ganley 14y ago
No, but you do NEED a smartphone. So I'm out. Anyway, I have a regular dumb keypad deadbolt on my front door, and that works just fine. I don't have any needs that Lockitron would fill that the current lock doesn't.
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by ganley 14y ago
I've never understood why so many simple-living advocates (caveat: I consider myself one) feel such a need to convert others, but I've also never understood why people get so defensive in the face of such proselytizing. If this makes sense
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by ganley 14y ago
Mine too. I pointed out the Friends stuff last time we were in the Lego store, and they were unimpressed.
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by ganley 14y ago
In secured spaces you still see a lot of pagers, because two-way communicators (e.g. cellphones) are forbidden.
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by ganley 14y ago
Definitely. Like the grandparent commenter, I don't use any technology that frustrates or annoys me, which means that I don't use a whole lot of technology. The Kindle, however, has been great and fairly frustration-free - definitely a net
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by ganley 14y ago
If I don't play games, much less belong to any social gaming networks, does this affect me at all?
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by ganley 14y ago
> The only real threat from lasting attitude change, is that perhaps millenials will vote for more transit projects and subsidies over more car/road projects and subsidies and thus make it more feasible in more areas to not own cars.
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by ganley 14y ago
Aside from those whose livelihood depends on car sales, who have an obvious incentive not to believe it, why is it so hard to believe that people might simply not want to own a car? The whole tone of this article seems like: It appears that
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by ganley 14y ago
Gotta shout out to my own Lisp-in-JavaScript interpreter from long, long ago: http://joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html ... far less complete than this, but perhaps interesting to someone for archeological reasons or something.
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by ganley 14y ago
Yeah... in the Travel genre, there are exactly two books. Nice idea, but not enough content to be ready for release.
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by ganley 14y ago
Not necessarily true. There could be multiple, equal-valued optima.
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by ganley 15y ago
Better, deeper article on the subject: http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281
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by ganley 15y ago
Indeed, at many companies this kind of moonlighting is expressly forbidden.
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by ganley 15y ago
... and don't forget the other things we don't include in our taxes here, but that are covered by your taxes in many other (especially European) countries: health care, retirement, disability insurance.
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by ganley 15y ago
This just made me sad. You only go outside when the weather is sunny? As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
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by ganley 15y ago
I worked from home (as a full-time employee of various companies) for 12 years, and I 100% disagree with the point made here and by the various commenters. A huge part of the benefit of working at home is being able to use my time in a way
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by ganley 15y ago
4. You barely make enough to live on and have no choice but to live paycheck to paycheck. Presumably not true of most people here, and questionably true of the likely customer demographic of BankSimple, but this is the fact of life for many
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by ganley 15y ago
Not sure if this is the (whole) reason, but obviously no one is going to have a scheduled induction or C-section on a holiday.
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by ganley 15y ago
I hate headlines like this. What it should have said was "Facebook OVERuse..." Which is just as true of any number of things. For example, students who check Facebook during a 15-minute period when they're supposed to be studying get lower
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by ganley 15y ago
What about the people who don't have a computer (much less Netflix or a Kindle) at home? 40% of American households have no broadband, and 18% have no internet access at all. They can take a book home with them, and they don't need a comput
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by ganley 16y ago
More generally, if a company wants me to do something and requires me to log in to do it, I'm probably not going to. I'm talking to you, Meetup.
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by ganley 16y ago
I don't even need eBay. As long as my friends and relatives keep switching to smartphones, I have an endless supply of dumb ones.
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by ganley 16y ago
The usual caveats: This is just one man's experience. I have a PhD in Comp Sci. It took me 4.5 years after my BS to get it. (2 for MS, 2.5 more for PhD.) I rather suspect that I don't make any more than I would have if I'd just started work
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by ganley 16y ago
What I just discovered recently that has made all the difference is: Keep your feet flat on the floor. It makes it much easier to sit up straight; or, perhaps, sticking your feet out in front of you or tucking them under your chair makes it
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by ganley 16y ago
Not compared to much of anywhere else. If you live outside the beltway (and BTW, Dulles Airport is WAY outside the beltway) then our public transit system is useless. Even inside the beltway, it's slow, expensive, and unreliable. (Note: I a
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by ganley 16y ago
Interesting. I always heard it was because they didn't want the really big (loud) international planes flying in urban airspace. Regardless, a variety of people (particularly congresscritters) have been trying for years to get that restrict

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