ryanmercer

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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Not just tired but "worn out" or "fatigued" from 3 years of the stress of a global pandemic, the worry of an uncertain economy, the worry of a potential world war brewing, and then some have post-covid brain fog and&#x2F
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
But why? If civilization collapses I'm not going to think "oh, let me consult Wikipedia" I'm going to think "man, this sucks".
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Right? I didn't even know I needed this thing, now I do.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :) That's when you cheat and just input the pulses with the switch hook by pressing them quickly. 8 times in ra
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
About 90 seconds after I closed this tab I discovered this "Magic the Gathering 1997 (Shandalar)" tutorial video that introduces Rhea Seahorn from Better Call Saul. Wow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jp4tMSIr_U
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I've been buying from him for a decade plus for both my 8-bit Atari use and Win/DOS use, my last order was a couple of months ago - bought two of the used Dell drives and some more 3.5s from him.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
My wife and I are quite religious (LDS). We have 50~ nieces and nephews, 2 rooms full of books, a little over a half acre yard, grow a sizable percentage of our produce, and nature willing would like to have kids. I still would like money t
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
As someone that spent 15 and a half years working for FedEx and then jumped ship to join TrueNorth shortly after their Series B I've definitely found it interesting. FedEx: - an ancient dinosaur, using a LOT of ancient tech (I did my j
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
It's crazy how far consumer, affordable consumer, tech has come.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
By letting it go. I used to horde, multiple formats and offsite... then I just let it all go. I've got a local copy of files on my machines plus a backblaze copy, that's it, I don't need tens of terabytes of data I'm alm
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I went through 6 months of his tweets and, yeah, he either doesn't have a grip on reality, has some sort of mental health issue, or is just constantly trying to run some angle. - Yup, the free energy fonts and conspiratorial claims abo
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
He made this site... he's offering people $100 per month per person they get sent to jail as long as they remain in jail http://bensforbars.com/ ...
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
This individual claims to have swooped into town and bought SEVENTY-SIX properties with no documented experience doing this sort of thing. I see nothing wrong with the fact that he's having trouble doing what he wants, he probably isn&
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>It took me about 4 minutes to find out that he was robbed for the ~15th time, You do realize between his comments here, and a cursory look at his Twitter, he's told about 57 tall tales too many, right? If it was such a bad experien
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>Curious why the city is so reluctant to support new businesses. I'm guessing the town wants him to do very basic stuff to get the property up to code, and he doesn't want to. Anther person pointed out in a comment that comment
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Exactly. Economies of scale + the simple fact of things like a roof for 2+ story block of apartments is going to be far cheaper to replace than a roof for the same number of houses as units.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
No, throughout history people have waged war over consumables (food, ore, oil).
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I don't see owning a residential property as any more of a right than I do owning a luxury sportscar or private aircraft. Having access to an affordable roof over your head yes, owning that roof no. Even if someone gave land to an indi
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>How's the housing market in Indiana? Well... ya know. Things have been weird lately. My wife and I bought 20 months ago with me making 39k and her making upper 40k. We bought this house with zero down at 170k and it's now esti
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>Programming jobs are the only type of technical job left that actually pays shit (well enough to buy a house and start a family), Meh, in the Midwest plenty of jobs pay enough for that, 6-figure tech jobs put you at 3-4x the median inco
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
As has been said lots of books are already out there as epub, there are many that are already in Amazon's file format too. I'd guess that most people torrenting books are using calibre anyway.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Agreed, "SHTF"/"EOTWAWKI" types too. Any good recent sci-fi recommendations? After spending 23 days without running water in July due to multiple well failures, I've lost interested in SHTF/EOTWAWKI and ne
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>I would never have bought it myself since it costs €249 (!) I bought my Oasis 2 around for closet to 299 EUR (309.97 USD) when I was making 30k USD a year, was 100% worth it to me while I still had a fully functional kindle keyboard and
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I assume any app can see everything I do if I use their in-app browser just like I assume every brick and mortar store can see everything I do inside their store.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Absolutely. I've found probably 20-30 great channels thanks to YouTube's recommendations successfully recommending me stuff I actually enjoy.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Not dead wrong, if you're marrying for tax/insurance benefits and think you need a prenup you probably shouldn't be getting married. Marriage is first, and foremost, a religious thing and if you're going into it thinking
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Gen Z question saving money for a future that looks so bleak(denverpost.com)
22 points by ryanmercer 4y ago|49 comments
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
It is in my neck of the woods, this is my wife's 3rd week of teaching here in Indiana.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
My wife will point out in the evenings if I didn't text her much during the day, or even send me a message some point during the day asking if I'm alright. These days are few and far between, usually just meeting heavy days or whe
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>I believe a well-orchestrated prenup, If you think you need a prenup, you probably shouldn't get married.

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