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by qwerpy 4y ago
Born and raised in Ohio, not even in one of the 3 big cities. Child of a non-white immigrant. Grew up being friends with many other children of immigrants who have willingly stayed there. I left because the good tech jobs were on the west c
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I would have thought so, but I’ve noticed here and Reddit that every time YouTube ads are brought up, people come out of the woodwork to announce that they proudly pay for YouTube premium. “I hate the ads so much, thank god for premium”
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by qwerpy 4y ago
This seems to be a widely disliked comment here, but I'll back you up. I drove a sedan most of my adult life, then had kids, and am now looking into buying a large truck or SUV to carry the kids around in. I can't control the cars
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Barring a sudden, total collapse, money is the best prep once you have the basics covered.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Counterpoint about breaking up the parental leave into multiple chunks: I did this once before (3 chunks) and would not recommend it. Each time when I came back, by the time I ramped back up and could finally start contributing again, it wa
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I learned on a very old non-luxury car and it also took me weeks to get comfortable with it. Either we're just incompetent here or BMWs are easier to drive.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I can say the same right now, while it's still a distant abstract thought. I've said to my wife repeatedly that I'd rather leave my family some inheritance and go on my own terms than have the nursing home take it all so that
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I concur. I'd much rather deal with rich people problems (overzealous HOAs, ostentatious sports cars, being judged when I don't have an immaculate lawn) than the ones you describe. Online discourse is heavily biased against openly
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by qwerpy 4y ago
As a parent I also prioritize cleanliness and low crime over pretty much anything else. The difference between Marc and I is that I don't pretend to not be a NIMBY. If this causes me to be labeled online as a sad frightened person, so
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I also ran into that. Bot: If you could travel back in time, what time would you go back to? Me: I'd go back to a time when people didn't have the internet. Would you like to go back to that time as well? Bot: I don't know.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
As a current Seattleite who grew up in middle America biking around as a kid anywhere I wanted, I have the opposite feeling. I thought it was great! Maybe it’s more about the person than it is the location.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Yeah but that doesn’t matter. It’s not supposed to be this curated feed of high quality stuff. Just an ephemeral snapshot of what the baby did today, usually. It could just as easily be a group iMessage but then we’d have to each periodical
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I use it with my extended family for sending random pictures. Never see any ads because I never use anything outside of that one group chat. I’d have long since switched to using signal for this but the sister in law isn’t good at learning
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I never consider my own costs when choosing how to price a rental. I will always charge market rates. If market rates are higher than my costs, great. I won't lower my rates, I'll just pocket the extra money. Similarly if market r
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Agree with everything you said, but I'd like to describe what I did to get Home Assistant working remotely: Set up wireguard on my home network and on my phone, and have the home assistant app (or mobile browser) access home assistant
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by qwerpy 4y ago
At least in my case, sample size: 6, we socialize with other parents of babies of a similar age. 2 other couples did sleep training and reported similarly good results, 3 other couples did not and report terrible sleeping habits. It costs n
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Father of a one year old. Research and implement sleep training when the baby is 3 months old or so. We’re now the parents that put the baby down at 7:30 PM, walk away, and enjoy our evenings. The baby doesn’t get taken out of bed until 8 A
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Is an immune system more like a tire or a muscle when it comes to wear and tear? I’m an engineer so I have zero medical expertise, but I thought that antibodies make you more resilient to a particular disease and getting sick is the usual w
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Guy here who also got pushed into the arms of the right based on what the left has been doing. Interesting that you think going in this direction apparently merits some kind of emergency introspection while going in the other direction does
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Or, for people like me that really enjoy their current Tesla and would love to have the same thing but as a truck. I’m not an attention seeker, so I figure by the time they get down to my place in the reservation line it won’t be a remarkab
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Counterpoint: highly partisan voters who upvote anything from their team and downvote anything from the other, regardless of quality.
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by qwerpy 5y ago
It depends on how you define equality. My definition is "people are judged on their abilities and character, not by the color of their skin, gender, orientation, etc.". Not "every pairwise combination of race and gender is pr
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by qwerpy 5y ago
I have a similar opinion as the person you replied to. There are many issues that I care about, but this is probably the most important to me because it will affect the educational and career prospects of my children. Unfortunately in this
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by qwerpy 5y ago
It's sad that this comment got downvoted. There's hundreds of millions of years of evolution that codifies "you should have children" into our genes, and it's not hard to see that this has something to do with how m
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by qwerpy 5y ago
The wrong move for people who want a worthwhile life, maybe. I’m not convinced that I, and perhaps a significant fraction of humanity, would choose a worthwhile life if we could only pick one to optimize for.
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by qwerpy 5y ago
That’s a good thing. Buyers are able to know the exact price without having to waste hours driving to a dealership and haggling.
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by qwerpy 5y ago
I’ll confirm part of this. I have some means, and am seeing signs of my school district reducing investment in accelerated/gifted programs in favor of more “inclusion”. When it comes time to choose a school for my kids, I may opt to se
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by qwerpy 5y ago
I had a very similar experience there. A mysterious 4 letter acronym that made no sense even if you knew what it stood for. "Multi-billion dollar market!". Wouldn't tell me what it was until I joined. Above average team from
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by qwerpy 5y ago
I didn't read it as bitter. I'm a happily married guy with kids, never struggled to date, has high income, etc. Even then, I agree with what he says. That's simply the way the world is. My wife comes from a non-Western cultur
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by qwerpy 5y ago
Last time I took a peek at it, they were changing up the order of the letters in “Sponsored” in the HTML and using some front end shenanigans to reposition the letters to spell out the word. Pretty devious, but I do wish we were spending ma

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