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by padobson 5y ago
This is like the dream. If eight hours a day of free time is the only thing separating you from your dream, then there must be SOME way to adjust the math of your life to get that for at least a period long enough to learn the instrument
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by padobson 5y ago
At $100+, you're looking at a hand wash and detail, potentially going up to hundreds of dollars for different aftercare options. It's also worth mentioning that you've jumped from menial to skilled labor at this point. Ther
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by padobson 5y ago
and time is not something that is afforded journalists and writers today. This seems intuitive, and also provably false. Joe Rogan is currently running the most famous and successful podcast in the world, and those conversations routinely
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by padobson 5y ago
I'm with you here. The money line of the whole article was almost a throw-away at the end: He should think more strategically about what he wants to learn and why. The article seems to jump around between self learning, a la podcasts
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by padobson 5y ago
As the non-affiliated grow, this poll is starting to create more questions than answers. I think the vast mix of responses in this comments section shows that. In the 2021 NPORS, 4% of respondents describe themselves as atheists (up from 2
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by padobson 5y ago
That was also a decade of explosive automation and globalization. There was much more cash floating around, but far more goods and services were produced than ever before too, thus the balancing of prices. If they hadn't printed all th
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by padobson 5y ago
They're buying those securities with printed money. It won't bankrupt the government, it will tank the dollar and everyone who has dollars, gets paid in dollars or loans dollars. Those borrowing dollars to buy assets and offload l
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by padobson 5y ago
Science is the only and ultimate final authority. Indeed, praise be to science. It really is not a bad assumption. More like a leap of faith. There literally can not be a higher authority than it by definition. How [onto]logical. It
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by padobson 5y ago
I'd ask you to check your basic assumption about science as an authority. Science is really good at transmitting information about deterministic processes, but is really bad at transmitting information about non-deterministic processes
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by padobson 5y ago
Everyone needs to agree that starting a nuclear war is bad. You would likely want to stop China from shooting nuclear missiles at San Francisco. Yet I doubt that when you insist on this narrative, you would think of yourself as being tyran
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by padobson 5y ago
Yeah, this is what I don't understand from the naysayers. Anyone who says blockchain-driven assets don't have intrinsic value seems to ignore the value of trust - the ability to trust that the ledger is accurate seems extremely va
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by padobson 5y ago
"Yes, but big cities have more opportunities and more connections". True. Probably they are more bearable at a young age, when grappling with the existential urge to mate. Hey! Wait! "The existential urge to mate" is k
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by padobson 5y ago
I've been confused about the "gas giants" since I first learned about them in gradeschool, but never really took it upon myself to dig into it deeply. Whenever I think about planets, I think about a big rock you can land on,
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by padobson 5y ago
From the interviews and histories that I've read/watched, the EAD[0] dev team was doing some of the highest level UI design in the world in the 80s and 90s. They started each game from the interactive experience and then fleshed o
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by padobson 5y ago
Uh oh, these questions smell like climate heresy Edit: for those struggling with the irony, my comment is pro-questions and pro-heresy. Let's not attack people for asking questions
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by padobson 5y ago
Diet science is chaos. What we all need is not another fad diet or fasting strategy or super food, but rather a process that looks like a flowchart so an individual can achieve certain goals. I'd be shocked if we ever found a one-size-
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by padobson 5y ago
Not taxing the rich, capital gains as income, seems to contribute to inflation I'd say you're half right, here. The Fed prints money spends $80 billion a month on treasuries and $40 billion a month on mortgage backed securities,
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by padobson 5y ago
Sounds like you stopped after the hook. I don't blame you, if the hook is off-putting, the ultimate values of the piece may not align with yours anyhow. But there is something to be learned from continuing to read after off-putting hoo
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by padobson 5y ago
Let's move past the fact that he came to the party late and celebrate the fact that he showed up at all. Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by padobson 5y ago
-schooling This is a pretty big stretch, considering what it costs the public to provide and the results it achieves for that price. Thomas Sowell's[0] latest book has a fair amount of evidence to the contrary. [0] https://
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by padobson 5y ago
Netherlands practically invented financial capitalism in the 16th through 18th century And even here, you find that the Dutch also instituted the first real central bank[0], which laissez faire folks would tell you lead to panics and rece
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by padobson 5y ago
Your cart is in front of your horse. Housing is only the kind of attractive investment vehicle you describe in an environment where the price is artificially inflated by constrained supply from zoning and other regulations. I promise you, i
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by padobson 5y ago
otherwise I would get a headache In my experience, headaches from cutting out carbs are almost always because your body is retaining less water and you're running low on water/electrolytes. Add some salt, zinc, magnesium and pot
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by padobson 5y ago
And they are the rule not the exception. Meth is dirt cheap, widely available in Los Angeles, and it induces psychosis. Isn't it obvious that's the issue? As a long time volunteer and giver to drug rehab programs, I'm very
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by padobson 5y ago
I have a church and spend some chunk of my active off-hours doing various activities there - maybe 10 hours a month. If I were to retire, I imagine that time would double or triple. That's how I'd recommend viewing non-profit work
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by padobson 5y ago
"why not take it from the truly "useless" industries like entertainment, cosmetics, toys, or luxury cars" I couldn't be more pro-Billionaire Astronauts, but at the same time there is danger in them spending their mo
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by padobson 5y ago
I've found a much simpler metric. You should ask for your market salary plus equity. The market salary removes the risk of opportunity cost, and the equity protects against the risk that the company could shut down in a year. Any compa
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by padobson 5y ago
Lots of red flags here - brand new HN account, fastmail email address, big money. I'd need much more before I sent a resume.
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by padobson 5y ago
Relying on your employer for these items seems unwise. This is a brilliant sentiment and can be tide to multitudes of other items. The more that can be voluntarily decoupled from the employer-employee relationship, the more should be.
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by padobson 5y ago
Rookie move. You turn the sauce down/off before your meeting starts.

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