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by jib 9y ago
I'm on the other side I guess, but with the same conclusion. I can tell from the design that I will never wear those ear buds. There is no way to create a decent seal in the ear using just hard plastic, so the sound will suffer for mus
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by jib 9y ago
It sure would be in Jib Inc, the company that will launch about 5 minutes after no corporate taxes and will handle all of my personal finances. :) I'd pay myself a very basic salary, and if I needed emergency cash I could always borrow
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by jib 10y ago
Sorry :(. 1977 here, just told them I couldn't sleep from home and had no interest in it at all and that was that.
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by jib 10y ago
Swedish conscription (before it was cancelled) was very close to voluntary anyways. When I did the tests for it, about 20 years ago, only about one in five or so were picked from the tests, and it was trivial to avoid being picked if you di
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by jib 10y ago
I'd suggest that isn't the case. I don't need a parent figure for me to fear or appease in order to act kindly to others, nor do I expect them to need one to act kindly to me.
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by jib 10y ago
Right, but you can control two of the parts of the equation fairly well - weight delta (scales, over time) and calories in (nutritional information).
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by jib 10y ago
Newtonian level of insight into fitness is super easy. (With Newtonian I mean enough true to get the work done, even if there is a higher level of truth underneath, i.e Einsteinian physics, quantum physics) Weight delta = calories in - calo
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by jib 10y ago
Casinos have an edge on blackjack. It's not a symmetrical game. They choose to not use the edge to its fullest extent sometimes, up to a point where it can be locally profitable to play if you count cards. That doesn't change the
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by jib 10y ago
It still is in most countries that aren't the US. My wife went back to complete a graphic design degree as a career change / work break. The opportunity cost of 4 years of not working is obviously huge, but the absolute cost was a
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by jib 10y ago
Work out in the morning every day (strength stuff with dumbbells as the gym in the office doesnt have barbells). I get up and walk around every couple of hours at least. Slouch in the chair the rest of the time. Any time I've tried to
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by jib 10y ago
I think that writing books about why people don't read books quite possibly is a bit of a self-congratulatory exercise. It's a bit like holding seminars on why people don't exercise at a gym, or about how bad it is that peopl
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by jib 10y ago
Swedish is an official language in Finland and the native language of about 5% or so of all Finnish people (think like French in Canada). Especially Åland Islands is heavily Swedish speaking.
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by jib 10y ago
Yeah it is a straw man from what I can see. "Math can be used to model just about everything, and so can make a meaningful contribution to almost every endeavour" is a completely different statement from "Everyone has access
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by jib 10y ago
Some do. I have a colleague who gets really annoyed with bad cover letters when we're interviewing and considers not taking the effort to make it good enough of a reason to reject someone (or at least count is severely against them). P
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by jib 10y ago
I dunno, it seems weird to me to treat reddit as one community. I use reddit a lot, but really 99% of my interactions is on /r/cfb, which is a space far from the descriptions painted here. It is a community (and I do believe it is
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by jib 10y ago
3 years of anything is not worth a reference. Doesn't matter what. You should figure out what is best for you, and do that. Without being you, I think it will be hard for people to give any advice other than don't worry about reco
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by jib 10y ago
People are freaking expensive. I think that is something that you miss easily. 200k sounds expensive for a printer, yet that is the cost of 1 guy for three years (assuming western country). The 200k machine just has to be a small bit better
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by jib 10y ago
I don't want an office. I explicitly say no to one each year. Not to say that many people don't want one, but for me it would be detrimental. Being in an open area lets me overhear things that are useful and removes one barrier to
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by jib 10y ago
Homework can be a good bridge to university studies imo. I would certainly have benefited from learning self-disciplined study earlier on rather than coasting through the Swedish equivalent of high school and then swapping straight into uni
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by jib 10y ago
WatchESPN (at least their college app). Requires a personal email to cancel, can do everything else on their site. So tired of those guys. They got an extra 20 euro from me by using this too, so I guess it works? (If they want no money from
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by jib 10y ago
There is no general test. A home for the elderly in Gothenburg with about 70 employees is trailing shortening working hours. It's done as a test to see how it affects productivity, working environment etc, and meant to serve as basis f
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by jib 10y ago
The moderate party is the most Conservative party in Sweden. Think privatisation, reducing employee rights, lower taxes. It isn't exactly surprising they are opposed to this. Gothenburg is traditionally a social democrat city (the bigg
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by jib 10y ago
I did this when I first moved abroad. First weekend out of Sweden I went to the local IKEA and got stuff.
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by jib 11y ago
I read a lot. My problem is discovery, not price. Do you really think there are enough people out there for whom the price is a barrier? If you could solve the problem of discovering interesting and high quality content for me I am much mor
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by jib 11y ago
Derived is not a simple proposition for multinationals. The IPad I'm writing this on was assembled in China, sold in Ireland, using code developed in the US, where the rights to that code are held in Ireland (I believe). Each of those
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by jib 11y ago
I don't think I would enjoy not working. Sure there is 20% crap or so, but 80% of the time I am doing moderately enjoyable things, or at least neutral things. I think that it is certainly true for some people that they would be happier
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by jib 11y ago
My routine is leaving for work at 7.00, getting home 19.15 or so, have a soup for dinner to avoid food time (pre made) and then about 2.5h of relaxing/hobbies, being in bed 22.00-6.35. I get showering and exercise in at work, apart fro
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by jib 11y ago
Most people don't have a problem with getting out of bed, they have a problem of getting into it. There is certainly some who have genuine medical problems and so who struggle. An order of magnitude just don't sleep enough though.
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by jib 11y ago
Survivorship bias may hint at you not being able to. Whether stock picking is luck based or not, there are (almost) no fund managers currently working who performed 20% under the market over the last 5 years.
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by jib 11y ago
I think the point of calling people VP, executive etc is explicitly to not do that. It's meant to sound impressive. :)

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