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by muffinman26 3y ago
Change to a job that lets me work 30 hours/week for lower pay. Spend the extra 2 hours a day on gym and healthy meal prep, with a personal trainer for some percentage of the time. That's what I would do, but I don't have any
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I think attempting to replace the easily digestible content with work is part of the problem. You say you're opening a tab to HN when you're stuck or tired, but should be focusing on work. Your brain is stuck and tired because it
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Once you take in to account traffic, transit can definitely be faster than cars. A subway that bypasses traffic entirely, or even a bus using HOV lanes, can easily outpace a car, especially if it's an express bus (fewer stops) and serv
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I'm also thinking of looking into plumbing and carpentry specifically. AI looks to be entirely hype, but the enormous amount of electricity and person-power that tech industries pour into making the world worse is soul-destroying. Carp
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Comics being published digitally first has been the norm for a while, especially in the indie comic space. There are many websites where comics are published first as webcomics, and then only later maybe combined into physical books, often
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Most actual meaningful jobs can't be remote. There are no remote firefighters or plumbers and very few remote doctors or nurses. My experience with remote jobs is they leave you less present both at work and at home. I float through li
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I always make sure my checks arrive before their due date, but yes, I think mail is more secure than whatever random payment processor portal a company decides to set up. There's no way I trust the e-pay system of my Home Owner's
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I can (usually) manage self-checkout at a grocery store, but I find self-service kiosks for ordering fast food to be paralyzing. There's no way to ask questions. It's not always clear what's on the ingredients list, or how bi
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Taste in food, the supplements you take, and things like whether you like Elvis Presely, can absolutely be used to out you in ways that you may not want. The famous example I remember from growing up was a teen girl whose parents found out
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I know it's a bit fraught to share on a public forum, but would you be willing to share how it changed your opinions on the matter? I also really enjoyed "A History of God', but found the author's conclusions a bit odd.
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Less pay and harder work sounds great, and I don't understand why people are so quick to knock it. There's nothing quite as soul-draining as staring at a computer screen for 8 hours a day doing pointless, easy, busy work that acti
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Have you tried paying cash at a food truck recently? I've yet to find one that doesn't accept cash, even in a major US city close to tech campuses. With the exception of a few small restaurants, the local self-operated car wash th
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Ask HN: What non-technical certifications do you have?
2 points by muffinman26 3y ago|4 comments
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by muffinman26 3y ago
That trans men exist. Best case it could have saved me twenty thousands dollars in medical expenses and given me a body that doesn't look like it was stitched together by Frankenstein due to transitioning as an adult. I might also have
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by muffinman26 3y ago
More of an inspiration, but when I needed to choose a language in high school I chose German partly because it was the original language for The Neverending Story. More than a decade later, I finally read the book all the way through in the
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by muffinman26 3y ago
If you have good enough performers, unfamiliarity with the language won't get in the way. It might seem a bold assertion, but there's a reason that classically-trained Shakespearian actors are often cast in sci-fi shows (Patrick S
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by muffinman26 3y ago
This is still incorrect. Seattle did not get rid of Advanced Placement math classes (like calculus), which any student has the option to take and end with a nationally-recognized test. They did get rid of various gifted/talented progra
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by muffinman26 3y ago
There are a few companies doing audio dramas. The largest company I know of is Big Finish, which does completely new stories in existing settings in co-ordination with rights holders. They have a large number of Doctor Who stories, and at l
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by muffinman26 3y ago
As someone on similar medication for health reasons (severe testosterone deficiency), I can provide some more specific information that might be helpful. The issue with testosterone is that it's linked to an increase in hematocrit (lev
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by muffinman26 3y ago
A little bit late to the conversation, but my way of looking at the lists is: A2 - Can survive in the country (get where you need to go, order food, etc.) but will have a lot of trouble in casual conversation. B2 - Conversationally fluent.
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by muffinman26 3y ago
I know that at least Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Golden Girls accepted freelance scripts. You can sometimes find the submission guidelines for Star Trek: The Next Generation on fan sites. You can also tell if this is the case for
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by muffinman26 3y ago
Bringing up episodic television shows in the 90s brings up an interesting point. For 90s episodic television, script submissions were open to the public. Each show still had a team of staff writers like they do today, but the staff writers
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by muffinman26 4y ago
Not sure if this aligns with what the GP was trying to say, but this is also one of the groups I would expect to be the most depressed, although I would expect white, middle-aged, middle-classed women to be an even larger demographic. Chemi
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by muffinman26 4y ago
It's definitely something that can be trained and improved with practice. The brain needs to switch from thinking "Is this a situation where I can actually help? Do they need help? What if I mess up? What if it's a scam?, etc
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by muffinman26 4y ago
My own personal list: 1. Look up the 10 Essentials and learn what they are/how to use them. 2. Search for Wilderness First Aid (2 day) or Wilderness First Responder (10 day) courses in your area. The focus is on how to assess and treat
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by muffinman26 4y ago
I think the disconnect here is that first few books/season of A Song of Ice and Fire set up the reader/viewer to expect a downer ending. They are engaging specifically because they break conventions by killing off so many of the p
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by muffinman26 4y ago
For me it's a mix of: 1. News sites with book reviews. I read Vox's book critic reviews for a while, as well as my local paper's book review section. Definitely better for fiction or current events than other non-fiction. 2.
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by muffinman26 4y ago
The Three-Body Problem is an iconic example of the opposite, with humans simply struggling to survive in a universe where every other space-faring species is vastly more intelligent.
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by muffinman26 4y ago
My understanding was that the GP wasn't saying that people should commit violence in the face of such a severe personal and institutional tragedy, but that we have this idea that people in tough enough situations reach a point where
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by muffinman26 4y ago
There are a lot of movies in the 30s and 40s that a cursory analysis wouldn't notice are remakes, but totally are. For example, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies are all nominally unique characters, but most of them have identical

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