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by lolsal 5y ago
Read the article, there are paragraphs that explain why it's called a virtue.
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I think you're misunderstanding what I was saying. I do all the normal things for investing/retirement. If nothing in the world changes I will retire comfortably and early. My concern is that none of those things will matter in 30
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by lolsal 5y ago
I think you're over-simplifying - land with water access today doesn't mean anything in ten years with continued climate change. Unless you have water rights (and even if you do), that water won't necessarily be present (or p
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by lolsal 5y ago
I have been to a few financial advisors and still use one. The problem is I lack faith in all of our current financial systems and the "solid" advice of investing in mutual funds, indexes and property seem to be long-term speculat
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by lolsal 5y ago
I imagine progress in AI is hockey-stick shaped, not linear. We could have 18 years of stagnant progress and then be overwhelmed in year 19. It seems impossible to predict.
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by lolsal 5y ago
I'm interested in this also. As a 30-something I have no idea what to invest in for "retirement" or how to plan for the next 30 years. edit: I should say I lack faith in traditional retirement advice/planning, not that I
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by lolsal 5y ago
disclaimer: I don't work for or have any interest in this company other than I like their product: These are fantastic: Non-alcoholic, hoppy, carbonated tea: https://hoplark.com - green, white, black teas - varying levels o
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by lolsal 5y ago
If my information gets leaked and my identity compromised, you think $10-100 is reasonable compensation? I like the idea but I don't think we can put any sort of numbers on damages like this before it happens.
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by lolsal 5y ago
It can be both.
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by lolsal 5y ago
Have you never seen folks with walkers or wheelchairs out and about? Sometimes loading a wheelchair into a van and driving to the grocery store is easier than using a wheelchair to go 10 miles to pickup groceries.
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by lolsal 5y ago
What about people with disabilities? Busses or some courier/taxi/delivery services? Eliminating cars for American cities is not as straightforward as "just stop using cars".
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by lolsal 5y ago
If we defer arbitration of the truth to social media platforms, we'll get exactly what we asked for. I don't think that this is a beneficial goal.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Our reinforced concrete structures will never last as long as, say, the Pyramids. > Wood will last longer, again, with proper care. I'm curious to understand why as this seems completely counter-intuitive to me (someone with no
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by lolsal 5y ago
This is your source: > SOURCE: US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1995. Notably from 1995. Doesn't your source say that only 47% of police deaths are homicide? That's les
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by lolsal 5y ago
They do get royalties, but it's called equity. For the same reason the mic boom holder doesn't get royalties, most software devs don't get equity - the contributions are just not valuable enough.
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by lolsal 5y ago
What's the difference working 10hrs/week vs being retired with a side project? People pursue coasting so they can do other things.
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by lolsal 5y ago
Why?
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by lolsal 5y ago
A counter-argument to these ideas is that because it's open source, I'd just fork whatever I wanted to use and re-host somewhere else. Maybe if it was an optional and project-oriented patreon-style?
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by lolsal 5y ago
No.
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by lolsal 5y ago
The point is that HN and Reddit are not extremely similar. This is more like a work place (more rules, more interesting), reddit is more like 8th grade recess (less rules, more fun)
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by lolsal 5y ago
We don't have a good idea of how this new method will scale, or how demand will scale once this cheaper method gets going. It's hard to speculate accurately I think.
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by lolsal 5y ago
The same places people shopped before large internet retails became the norm - locally owned and operated places. I am very fortunate that I have the opportunity and means to vote this way with my wallet; many people don't.
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by lolsal 5y ago
What makes you think I live in a bubble regarding large retail companies?
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by lolsal 5y ago
Instead of trying to do the things they are used to in a new environment, they could try doing new things in their new environment - like gardening, playing with bugs, building playscape for their toys, etc. Lots of things to do besides try
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by lolsal 5y ago
The biggest thing keeping me from shopping at Walmart is their anti-competitive and predatory behavior and the way they treat their employees and vendors. Nothing else really matters to me regarding Walmart. There's no subscription ser
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by lolsal 5y ago
I would pay more than my yearly salary to find out if I have a 'curable' cancer, so that I could treat it. To not, or ignore that, would likely mean my death. I imagine it is similarly motivating for OSS projects.
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by lolsal 5y ago
The longer I have worked from home (15+ yrs) the shabbier my chairs have gotten. Spending $2000 on a chair 10 years ago felt like an 'investment', but ultimately I found I still got fatigued even after focusing on posture and all
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by lolsal 5y ago
I would argue that a species going extinct is neither good nor bad, so neither better nor worse. This applies to the human species, as well as others.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Even if they continue to force the anti-feature that is the Touch Bar onto users For what it's worth, once I got the physical escape key back, I've come to really like the Touch Bar.
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by lolsal 5y ago
When I have worked at a big corp and have integrated with a third-party API, there has always been an 'engagement' with the enterprise company's Professional Services/Sales Engineers/??? about a contract and SLA for

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