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by orofino 13y ago
I should have been clearer. They didn't. We saved for several years and let them know last spring that we'd be quitting. We had expected to travel longer than 8 months, so we had sold all of our stuff, including our house, and the
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by orofino 13y ago
My wife and I took off 8 months last year. I like the approach of a month or maybe a bit more. If you're good at your job and have a good employer, they'll figure out what to do to keep you happy. Eight months was a bit much for u
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I challenge you to take a month off this year(medium.com)
1 points by orofino 13y ago|3 comments
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by orofino 13y ago
It is certainly an interesting product, I'm hoping for integration into video apps on the desktop (VLC please god). The news earlier this week about apps being disabled is a bit disheartening, though their TOS clearly states you can&#x
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by orofino 13y ago
I'll ignore the inflammatory parts and focus on the 1% thing. Why is it that someone who is privileged isn't allowed to want something more? True, they have a lot, but that's the way of life at this point, people move up, peo
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by orofino 13y ago
Last year we sold our things and left to travel around the world. We'd lived in a house for three years, I'd lived in an apartment for two prior to that. It required two garage sales and countless trips to goodwill. It was sickeni
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by orofino 13y ago
Reading too much into it. Users would adapt, moving to other services and traffic volumes would return to approximately "normal" levels.
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by orofino 13y ago
So the big differentiator here is delivery in under 90 minutes? Perhaps I'm jaded by my experience in the industry (parents = florists and I worked for FTD in the past), but that seems like enough to get just a handful of orders. Broad
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by orofino 13y ago
You're just playing with words though. People choose to use debt, I've got debt, on the car we just bought, that's it. I HAD debt, but the student loans are now paid and the house was sold. Am I lucky to make a good salary th
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by orofino 13y ago
Here's the problem though - you don't need to buy the BMW or the suburban McMansion. Save that money instead and when you're in your 40 you can tell the boss that he should give you job to a whipper-snapper, you're heade
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by orofino 13y ago
This goes off the tracks for me about midway through. While for many people the reality described is actually their life, there are many of us (and I'd imagine a huge percentage of those reading this) that aren't slaves. If you&#x
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by orofino 13y ago
I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the "societal overlords" you're referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allo
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by orofino 13y ago
I'm not saying that it doesn't have the possibility of being unpleasant at times, I'm saying that it doesn't strike me as a serious objection to a brand new transit method that is superior to existing options in so many
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by orofino 13y ago
Similar, though less invasive, solutions exist for 'emergencies' on private planes and such. They come with support for both male and female genitalia.
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by orofino 13y ago
Financial incentive? You're traveling at 700mph through a partially evacuated, elevated tube in order to get to work. That isn't incentive enough?
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by orofino 13y ago
You're thinking city buses. I'm thinking long-haul busses (like greyhound in the US). Greyhound buses likely have facilities, what I'm actually talking about are the buses used a core parts of the transportation infrastructur
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by orofino 13y ago
They're talking about pods that can hold cars, so it doesn't seem that way. The cost does increase, but doesn't look to be a deal breaker.
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by orofino 13y ago
The focus from people on bathrooms is puzzling to me. I've been on buses, without facilities, that go for hours without stopping. This is a 35 minute ride with restricted movement, if you greatly fear being able to hold it for that lon
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Email service used by Edward Snowden abruptly shuts down(theverge.com)
3 points by orofino 13y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk has 'no plans' to actually build his Hyperloop design(theverge.com)
3 points by orofino 13y ago|0 comments
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by orofino 13y ago
To me this article 1)says very little 2) conflates 'lifehacking' and 'lifestyle design' Lifehacking to me has always been about little things you do to reduce friction and mundanity in your day to day. Tim Ferris promote
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by orofino 13y ago
I like these in general, but the 'line' skin is a usability problem. They look like buttons, but function like checkboxes/radio buttons which make it very confusing.
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by orofino 13y ago
To expand on this a bit, absolute security for encryption just doesn't exist. If you wanted your data 100% secure, put it in a database, disconnect the DB from your network, put it in a locked room, guarded by biometric locks and secur
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by orofino 13y ago
I feel like for most beginners, 40L is the least they'll want to take, calling it too big is disingenuous I think. My wife and I both had 40L packs, the size was good, at then end perhaps we could have gone smaller, but not much below
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by orofino 13y ago
This is something that most don't talk about. Travelling is work. I'm not saying it is anything like 40 hours a week at bigcorp USA, but it is certainly work. The constant movement, decisions about where to sleep, what to do, and
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by orofino 13y ago
I agree about the kindle version being useless, not just because of the device, but because the formatting of their books on these devices is awful. We used mostly wikitravel on an ipad, made notes, and used our notes while moving about cit
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by orofino 13y ago
Another traveller chiming in, I've just started working after taking off for 8 months to travel South America (top to bottom), Antarctica, and Europe. I've been working now for almost 2 months. Regarding packing: My wife and I eac
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by orofino 13y ago
I've since changed the password, but I believe this may be fixed in iOS 7. I seem to recall some thoroughly random password after install.
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by orofino 13y ago
So were the systems for managing the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. The system can be compromised, given the proper will and facilities.
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by orofino 13y ago
I feel like this is perhaps fake. The first post read well to me, seemed reasonable, at least the first time through. The second post, about the job, is what gave me suspicion. The way he quits, the feeling of "liberation", it borders on so

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