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by notadoc 9y ago
Cost of living in the rural west is not cheap. The pacific states are uniquely expensive. It's not at all like western NY or upstate NY, or the midwest, or the south, where everything is dirt cheap, and gets very cheap in rural areas.
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by notadoc 9y ago
You haven't spent much time on the west coast if you think the cost of living anywhere out there is low. If you want low cost of living, you need to move to the midwest or south, or throughout the NE in upstate or western NY.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> I'm 21 years old in a western European country and barely anyone my age is overweight That explains it. Come to the USA, it is the exact opposite.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Does anyone still use Snapchat? Isn't it all teenagers?
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by notadoc 9y ago
No probably not, but the overwhelming majority of developed world populations (USA leading in particular) are getting far less athletic and far more obese, which is certainly a limit on athletic performance.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> "You've read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, SUBSCRIBE NOW" I don't remember clicking a newyorker.com link until now, but apparently at some point I reached some limit. Is it ju
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by notadoc 9y ago
Interesting move given the hostile AZ political climate.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Most of NY state is amazing, beautiful, great outdoors and scenery, lakes, rivers, tons of nice little towns and smaller cities. And aside from NYC, it's also dirt cheap.
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by notadoc 9y ago
The bay area, like most of the USA, needs to build up. It is sprawling enough as is. Build up, not out.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I stopped using Facebook years ago and I could not recommend it more. I found it to be mental pollution at best and and a total waste of time. If you want to 'keep in touch' with people, call or text them. Make an effort to actual
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by notadoc 9y ago
Does fruit cake get better with a century of age or is it still terrible?
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by notadoc 9y ago
That's an enormous email list, how did you get such a big member list together in the first place?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Sounds great, can you show me where the non-existent 15" MacBook Pro without a touch-bar is?
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by notadoc 9y ago
I'd love a good HN summer fiction reading list, particularly with a sci-fi focus
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by notadoc 9y ago
No experience but I heard about Dr Sarno and the book from Howard Stern, who swears by him. Here's a recent segment from the Howard Stern show if you want to hear a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBI7bwrRO8
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by notadoc 9y ago
Do kids still use Snapchat?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Interesting proof of concept, but the Touch Bar is still nothing I want any part of. Apple needs to make the Touch Bar a build-to-order option so that the rest of us can get a hardware Escape key and function keys back again.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Build up, not out. Easy solution.
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by notadoc 9y ago
In other news, Apple still sold the iPod Nano and Shuffle
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by notadoc 9y ago
I would highly recommend every patient asks their doctor(s) about health insurance and their opinions of it. You will get an interesting earful.
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by notadoc 9y ago
It was a mistake. I sometimes think about "upgrading" (downgrading) to a two year old iPhone 6s to get a headphone jack again but it is not available in 256gb.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Do you remember to carry your dongle with you everywhere you go? Do you carry a spare dongle in your pocket?
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by notadoc 9y ago
What are the specific benefits to having an immensely expensive administrative bureaucracy lodged between the actual patient and actual health care provider? This should be easy to answer and explain.
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by notadoc 9y ago
It's hard to argue real inflation is low when housing is up 10% to 20% every year, health care goes up 15% a year, college tuition goes up 10% every year, etc. I suppose the cost of a flat screen TV is down or flat yoy though. It'
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by notadoc 9y ago
In summary: wages have not kept up with dramatic cost of living inflation. A very common story on the west coast.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Why? People use Paint surprisingly often, surely they know this.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Sure but the limit is usually $5, and realistically what is being bought under that amount exclusively at any regularity?
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by notadoc 9y ago
It's really not hard to cut carbs, it's just a habit and exercise in minimal self control like almost anything else in life. Eat more meat and more vegetables, it's really that simple. If you can't manage that because yo
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by notadoc 9y ago
Feeling good about what you do will likely make you happier than "success", I know plenty of successful people who are miserable or still unhappy. And unsurprisingly, not liking what you do will deprive you of happiness

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