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by smeej 3y ago
I think this only looks true on a local level. It's easy to see why Jimmy pulls ahead of Johnny when Jimmy's working more diligently, but they're starting from a fairly even playing field. A lot of the big cards are just deal
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by smeej 3y ago
> The program has allowed Mr. Chaillou and his wife to raise their two boys in the city. But he knows that the future of social housing will always face at least one big challenge: “The problem is that once you get in, you never want to
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by smeej 3y ago
I didn't know anyone on my campus with a car, but I did learn a life hack by accident as a sophomore that I played to my advantage for the rest of college: If I booked my flight to campus at the beginning of the school year with a ve
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by smeej 3y ago
I went to school in Boston/Cambridge, without a car, and was absolutely flabbergasted how much more convenient the city was with one when I graduated. It was like I hadn't known what I was missing. Places I thought of as "far
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by smeej 3y ago
The "gradual" part is hard because so many changes need to happen at once for a lot of these things to be feasible. Being able to get halfway to where I'm going affects me the same way as not being able to get there at all. I
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by smeej 3y ago
I'm really uninformed about this topic, but I'll second the request for info about this! I have Alzheimer's on three sides of my family (really banking on the fact that I take after the 4th grandmother who was sharp as a tack
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by smeej 3y ago
I have a scar on one hand that I call my "Get down and move the damn ladder" reminder scar. Five of the inches have faded, but there's still one, bright, keloid spot at the base of my right thumb that stares right down at me
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by smeej 3y ago
Might also depend where you live. My doctor did as yours, but I live in northern New England where we don't typically expose our skin to the sun for months at a time. Perhaps doctors closer to the tropics assume at least a low level of
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by smeej 3y ago
My most recent reference was $35 in Indianapolis in 2017. It doesn't surprise me that it'd be up, but it surprises me that it doesn't exist in New England. $60 wouldn't seem out of line to me, given that a quick lube sta
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by smeej 3y ago
"Quick lube" stations are everywhere too though. $20 and out in 10 minutes. This was more like "quick lube plus car wash," not "oil change, free 97 point inspection, and upsell on six things that aren't even wr
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by smeej 3y ago
Just my own experience to speak from: My use of HN is escapism, not curiosity or FOMO. I turn to it when I'm too mentally worn out to do any of the things that belong on my own plate, or when I'm avoiding them for some other reaso
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by smeej 3y ago
Second "yesterday." How is OP so casual about this? $300k at 10% interest is crippling for a new grad, especially a slightly older one. Just the interest is $30k a year. Every year! Just to tread water! This is a debt emergency
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by smeej 3y ago
Automated ones are fine, but what I've really missed since I moved to New England have been the ones where a team vacuums the inside, hoses off your mats, wipes your windows and dashboard inside, etc. Growing up in the West and Midwest
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by smeej 3y ago
There might be a level of changers like you mean, but they're not the people I'm looking for either. That's just making the world slightly different. The people I'm looking for are the ones who have actually had to gra
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by smeej 3y ago
The problem seems to be how many universities are trying to do both, but therefore failing to do either well. If you need to support yourself based on what you learn in a university, you don't want a liberal arts degree from a mid-rate
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by smeej 3y ago
I think the main thing that holds people back is an inability to imagine the world's being fundamentally different than it is, or maybe a willingness to accept the world's staying pretty much like it is. I don't actually know
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by smeej 3y ago
Does that mean the transformation is permanent? Because if they created a dress that could be shaped, unshaped, and reshaped in different ways using, say, a hair dryer, they'd really be on to something!
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by smeej 3y ago
Came here for this subpoint. We know a lot more than we know we know. I had a system, back when multiple choice tests were a significant part of my life. Next to each question, I would write a 1, 2, or 3, so I knew which ones to come back t
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by smeej 3y ago
The government basically invented the notion of "retirement" in the first place, too, though. There was no historical precedent for just stopping working before you physically couldn't anymore, in which case you generally die
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by smeej 3y ago
I'm so confused about how, on the one hand, I keep seeing articles about the enormous wealth transfer that's expected to happen, but at the same time, articles saying retirees don't have any money. Which is it? Pretty much th
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by smeej 3y ago
For really specific health reasons I'd rather not get into, I had to eat the same meal, every meal, for nearly two years. I didn't cheat a single time. (It was miserable.) It consisted of slow cooked chicken, and carrots, butternu
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by smeej 3y ago
I love this app, except that it takes FOREVER to reach "100%." If I've completed a habit every day for even 10 days, I want my 100%, but this required more than 200 when I used it.
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by smeej 3y ago
He's only 17 years old, too, so it's not as though being registered at his parents' house would be unusual.
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by smeej 3y ago
It might "count," but it's not half as good. It's small wonder to me that high schoolers "hate Shakespeare" and find the works hard to understand. They weren't written to be read, but to be performed!
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by smeej 3y ago
I live where wells, septic systems, and propane delivery by truck are the norm. Even the highways in the state were originally privately built and are maintained largely by tolls. It seems like there would be a tipping range where it would
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by smeej 3y ago
I think the biggest problem I've run into with company documentation is that the relevant docs either don't exist at all or are woefully out of date. Sure, there might be a procedure doc that spelled out how to handle a particular
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by smeej 3y ago
Does it remind anyone else of the time back in 2017 when Google made a couple "AIs," but then they made up their own language to talk to each other? And everybody freaked out and shut them down? Just because it's gibberish to
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by smeej 3y ago
Are there people who would bother looking for or taking a test like this if they weren't at risk of burnout?
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by smeej 3y ago
Perseverance can be trained. In fact, I think that's probably the only way to get it. As for curiosity, I don't think I've ever met a child who wasn't born with it. The goal there might have to be to avoid anything tha
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by smeej 3y ago
Your insight into what's going on in a head like mine is spot on, and I have wished for a long time that my parents would (ever) have made an effort to put me in rooms where I wasn't the "smartest" person there. When I w

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