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by jurassic 9y ago
I love how my paper and pens never try to force me into paying them $5/month forever.
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by jurassic 9y ago
I am on day 81 of a 90 day porn reset. It’s been hard at times but my real life sexual experiences seem greatly improved and I plan to continue abstinence from porn after the reset period ends. Seeing that I can modify behavior by setting a
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by jurassic 9y ago
I recently did a purge of nearly all my software subscriptions and Dropbox was among the few that survived. Say what you want about storage being a commodity, I think they have built an outstanding service that continues to deliver a huge v
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by jurassic 9y ago
Thanks. I feel like the hard part is over now that I can read and watch Spanish tv and follow enough to enjoy it. Bootstrapping myself by cramming the first 1500-2000 words or so of vocabulary felt like a lot of work. I almost never practic
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by jurassic 9y ago
Improve my Spanish vocabulary by extensively reading at least one million words of Spanish. I’m currently at the level where I can read about 12 pages of Harry Potter per hour without a dictionary, or faster with Readlang. One million words
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by jurassic 9y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bike share bike actually being ridden. I have seen rows of bike share bikes sitting parked taking up useful space that could have been allocated more usefully as public parking for people riding bikes they own
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by jurassic 9y ago
The junky RVs seem extremely out of place lined up together on El Camino. I've always assumed they only get away with this because they're on the Stanford side of the border between Stanford and the City of Palo Alto. Palo Alto NI
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by jurassic 9y ago
My college dorm had an airlock setup that was something like this, with an inner and outer door that both lock separately. A couple times we woke up to find a homeless person had caught the outer door as somebody was coming or going and tak
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by jurassic 9y ago
Maybe I'm more conservative than others here, but anything less than 2 years tenure at a company seems suspicious to me. The people I've known who bounced after ~18 months or less were often the ones I would've wanted to quit
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by jurassic 9y ago
I'm the only person on my team with American citizenship, but my teammates are all so talented. And nice. It makes me sad to think about the stress and insecurity these changes could cause them.
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A new image format for the Web(developers.google.com)
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by jurassic 9y ago
I had the same reaction. I don't want to judge anybody too harshly for their choices, but it definitely makes it harder for me to view them as victims of a systematic hollowing out when they are making choices like this. A $12k vacatio
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by jurassic 10y ago
I don't know about LA Times specifically but the digital product often still includes invasive user-tracking bandwidth-intensive advertising, just toned down to what people consider "acceptable" levels. For example, the NYT d
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by jurassic 10y ago
Garbage like this is one of the many reasons I've gone back to print to a large extent. Printed magazines are amazing things, a superior experience and product in almost every way to reading online outlets. This whole ethical conflict
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by jurassic 10y ago
I believe the trends the author has pointed out are not just the failings of the tech industry but are part of a larger cultural backlash against expertise. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/201
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by jurassic 10y ago
If you enjoy the work consider a subscription. Since the election I've really been thinking a lot about how important it is for those of us who are able to provide financial support for quality writing. I'm trying to shed the idea
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by jurassic 10y ago
If somebody is stealing your car do you shoot out the tires with a rocket launcher to stop him? That's what nuking California would amount to. Launching nukes would be suicidally stupid for a number of reasons. Firstly, we're upwi
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by jurassic 10y ago
I'm not sure there would be much opposition. Without California fucking things up, conservatives would reliably win the electoral AND the popular vote. The people with the most to lose are liberals in red states who would become a perm
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by jurassic 10y ago
Yeah, I don't know about the pricing but as I was reading through the site I couldn't figure out if it was real or satire. It certainly checks many of the tech culture stereotype boxes.
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by jurassic 10y ago
I'm not trying to be dismissive of your concerns, but do you think the truck driver will keep his job when automation comes because he spent every waking moment trying to rise to the top of that industry? The world's best buggy-wh
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by jurassic 10y ago
I recently read a novel called "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry. One character, Ashraf Chacha, is a man who works as a tailor. He is extremely grieved by the death of his wife. He talks about how when she was alive it never bot
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by jurassic 10y ago
Agreed. My girlfriend and I are a 200k household and still do quarterly review of various digital subscriptions, which though small can add up to significant amounts. A debt to the tune of $500/month recurring charge makes me... ugh. W
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by jurassic 10y ago
Agreed. I had heard of Caro's work, but after this interview I have moved him to the top of my to be read list.
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by jurassic 10y ago
Maybe you should reread the article. It plainly says that the USPS is not subsidized.
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by jurassic 10y ago
I like working on index cards because if I screw up a note I can just throw it out and start again without impacting any other notes. Notebooks give me anxiety; my fear of somehow "messing up" the notebook causes me to underuse it
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by jurassic 10y ago
I am a big believer in the effectiveness of SRS for getting a basic foothold in a new language or subject, but I stopped adding cards to my Anki decks after awhile because the effort needed to create high quality cards is too high. Studying
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by jurassic 10y ago
It's not a perfect system, but I find index cards to be superior to notebooks in almost every way. Notebooks are good for linear content, but for most of what you described index cards are better because they are modular, fileable, and
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by jurassic 10y ago
There are many good suggestions in this thread re: interviewing, exercising, talking to a doctor. While you are in this interviewing holding pattern figuring out your next long term landing spot, it may be worth exploring if you can transfe
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by jurassic 10y ago
I get depressed every time I think about the Bay Area housing situation. As half of an early-30s professional couple looking at our baby clock and anxious to start a family, I don't see how I can possibly provide a middle-class lifesty
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by jurassic 10y ago
If they are moving to a paradigm where I can't listen and charge at the same time, the 6 will be my last iPhone. I wish they would stop trying to shave millimeters off my phone thickness and address actual user needs like battery life.

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