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by ksdale 8y ago
I was just writing a blog post about this, that people basically just find new ways to consume all the money they earn so that they're always on the edge. And a lot of people who make $40k scoff at the idea that they would still be scr
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by ksdale 8y ago
Exactly! You're welcome, and good luck with everything! :)
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by ksdale 8y ago
Mostly I just think that there are certain places where it's socially acceptable to give up all your time, like to a career. But if you're a smart young person, you're considered to be giving up your future (at least by your
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by ksdale 8y ago
This was a major concern for us, but the more I think about it, the less concerned I get. What I remember from school is a lot of social status competitions that weren't great for self esteem or regular adult life. I was generally popu
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by ksdale 8y ago
Yeah definitely, I didn't mean to be flippant about the amount of time it takes to raise a child, I have 3 myself, just that people don't hesitate to give up a similar amount of time to a job they don't care about, so I don&#
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by ksdale 8y ago
Sort of tangential, but I have a similar thought whenever someone says they don't want to have kids because they don't want to "give up their freedom." No one bats an eye at the idea of spending 60 hours a week between w
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by ksdale 8y ago
On the topic of gentrification, I recently read this interesting piece - https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/yimbyism-explain... And I completely agree that it's not fair to categorize it completely a
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by ksdale 8y ago
I'm definitely more of an open borders guy myself, but I don't agree with this characterization. There are plenty of places in the US that used to be completely white, English speaking neighborhoods where you can now spend a few h
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by ksdale 8y ago
While I was reading your comment I was reminded of a professor I had in law school (for some reason...), he was almost 70, but he still had a ridiculous amount of energy. He had grown a law firm that I believe he sold when he was in his 40s
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by ksdale 8y ago
This, the people you think wouldn't have the relevant skills can surprise you! My wife went through a couple professional VAs who were... set in their ways and expensive for what they were delivering and then hired a recent college gra
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by ksdale 8y ago
Similar to #5, so many of my friends have ended what seemed like solid relationships because the other person wasn't close enough to some magical ideal they have in their head. Obviously I'm not the one in the relationship, but I
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by ksdale 8y ago
My wife and I actually used a similar thought process to decide to have kids at 25, haha! We decided that since we were going to spend the ages of 25 to 45 working our asses off regardless, we figured that we'd rather be done childrear
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by ksdale 8y ago
Exactly! If it’s happened randomly to you once, it’s probably happened to hundreds or thousands of other people. And besides that, when even completely innocent mistakes cost me two hours of time on the phone, I expect a VERY low rate of mi
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by ksdale 8y ago
A year or so ago, I decided I wanted to read all of the "best" books so I found a few lists of the best literature in English from the past few hundred years and read a few dozen of the books that showed up on most lists, and I re
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by ksdale 8y ago
"Leave" in this instance means "permission" rather than "exit"
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by ksdale 8y ago
It's truly ridiculous how hard it is for hospitals to answer this question sometimes. We've occasionally received the answer that they won't know the price until after the appointment because they won't know which code t
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by ksdale 8y ago
My wife and I talked about this, we've used trackers to increase our chances of conceiving and prior to that I had never really thought about how effective timing could be. That said, if you absolutely need to not get pregnant, it&#x27
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by ksdale 8y ago
Speaking of coffee shops, I can't for the life of me remember where I heard/read this story, but there was a guy who owned a coffee shop who said that they got a big boost in business when Starbucks opened across the street from t
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by ksdale 8y ago
Other industries are also free to make terrible products, they're just not allowed to hurt people. In that regard, software isn't that different. Crappy software just doesn't physically injure people very often (compared to l
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by ksdale 8y ago
I agree with you completely about the economics, but I think this is part of the problem, that everyone thinks it's either/or, that we have to decide when we're 18 whether we're going to be "technologists" or &
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by ksdale 8y ago
My wife and I took about 6 months last year to explore the US. We stayed in Airbnbs generally in poorer parts of town because that was what we could afford. We passed through 40-something states and one of the things I was most disappointed
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by ksdale 8y ago
Anecdote: I lived in Western Washington my whole life up until a year ago and I used to only be comfortable at temps under 70. We moved to Phoenix and over the year we've been here, we've gotten used to having our AC higher and hi
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by ksdale 8y ago
I agree it's hard to pick which games will be which, but it's not hard to predict that the more addicting a game is, the more people will be harmfully obsessed with it.
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by ksdale 8y ago
I'm not sure it's so much a matter of picking negative consequences out of the blue sky of possible consequences, but rather wondering, "What happens if our software works exactly how we intend and we gain the ability to real
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by ksdale 8y ago
I agree that it's unlikely that anyone can predict broad, long-term consequences of any particular technology. On the other hand, the people who design Facebook or mobile games to be maximally addicting definitely understand something
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by ksdale 8y ago
Anecdote: This is exactly what my wife and I did, we bought a house 30 minutes away from where I worked in a smaller town because we could afford the quality of house that we wanted, and it was quite a nice house, but the town had basically
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by ksdale 8y ago
This is exactly my experience! I breezed through math all the way until I got to calculus because I was excellent at rote memorization. Calculus made me realize that I didn't really understand most of what I had learned for the past se
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by ksdale 8y ago
Many of the Fallout games are indeed set in the western half of the US :)
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by ksdale 8y ago
I grew up very near the Puget Sound in Washington state, and I feel the same way! I just did a bit of research and discovered that in 2010, 39% of Americans lived in a coastal county. Given that many counties are rather small, especially on
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by ksdale 8y ago
I'm way into golf and on the golf subreddit, there are regularly people who show up who ask about their chances of going pro as a 20-something or 30-something, and a chorus of people will respond that all pro golfers have tremendous na

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