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by thrav 7y ago
I feel like this notion of tossing things that are unpleasant is pervasive in California, in a way that it wasn’t where I grew up, in Texas. As you say, there is a lot of value in sticking with shit that can be really irritating, and hard.
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by thrav 7y ago
If you watch the video, there's only something like 4 hiding holes in the room though.
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by thrav 7y ago
It bothers me more than it should that the human just watches where they go and immediately finds them, instead of actually playing the game with them. Without getting too far off the reservation, there has to be a non-negligible difference
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by thrav 7y ago
The textbook example of the Alex type who didn't slow down after starting a family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afDYEtQmC6I
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by thrav 7y ago
Read the article. His girlfriend is literally quoted saying people think he is an asshole. --- Traffic is heavy, giving us time to discuss the parts of his Free Solo persona with which he disagrees. "Oh, the daredevil," he says. &
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by thrav 7y ago
Anytime I discussed Free Solo with anyone, including my wife, my feelings about Alex couldn’t have been more opposite from theirs. His bit about empathy and the fact that he’s, “just learning [his] lines” is probably relatable to many here.
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by thrav 7y ago
I mean, most drivers work for both Uber and Lyft...
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by thrav 7y ago
I definitely felt like Berlin was way behind Paris on bike lane quality, but I did appreciate the number of intersections that have been half blocked by pillars, to make streets less conducive to any other kind of through traffic. I rented
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by thrav 7y ago
The quality of Subway compared to the quality of something you’ll find on display at almost any bakery in Europe, is night and day. My wife and I just wrapped a few weeks traveling, and the sandwiches we occasionally grabbed on our way to t
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by thrav 7y ago
Someone in government’s daughter got one too many pictures sent their way. It happened to my wife at least once that I’m aware of. I was texting the guy on her phone when it happened. It’s extremely jarring, and was completely unprompted an
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by thrav 7y ago
In Japan, I’ve heard you have to pay out of your cost center to reserve conference rooms and it helps with this, and with not having people needlessly occupy conference rooms. It’s a win win.
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by thrav 7y ago
“You can do everything an iPod can do with a _____ for a fraction of the price.” I can’t even remember what the competitors were, because none of that matters if it’s not effortless to use.
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by thrav 7y ago
Yep. I felt the same way in Japan. There appeared to be dignity in certain kinds of work in a way that there is not in the United States, and in most cases this yielded superior results of that work. They do so many foods better than the pe
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by thrav 7y ago
Interesting to see reference to Phaedrus when so much of what’s being discussed in this thread takes me right back to thinking about Robert Pirsig.
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by thrav 7y ago
Maintenance is either the one thing everyone forgets in these conversations, or it’s the one thing everyone says no one will want to do. If there were a return to pride in and appreciation of a job well done, there would be no shortage of p
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by thrav 7y ago
How are you now? My cousin has been all over the country for years working to tame hers and she’s found a combination of diet and cannabis to be extremely helpful.
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by thrav 7y ago
Maybe 4K bitcoin, or ~$40,000,000?
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by thrav 7y ago
Don’t want to overgeneralize, but women seem to be more likely consumers (of things) & regular users of social media. [I’m sure niche exceptions abound] I don’t know if anyone has run the numbers, but I’d expect ladies to more valuable
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by thrav 7y ago
It’s worth remembering that they have massive tenants in the form of big corporations taking entire floors to set up satellite locations.
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by thrav 7y ago
The Effortless Experience says the opposite, and all kinds of industries are working very hard to make issue resolution as effortless as possible. That said, those are definitely not long term contract type situations, where resolving the i
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by thrav 7y ago
I had 2 experiences recently where an acquaintance would’ve died, if not for called in favors to doctors who were personal friends. The doctors they went to wrote things off and sent them on their way multiple times, but they reached out to
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by thrav 7y ago
My closet is filled with Iron Rangers, 1000 miles, AEs, and handmade Mocs. All purchased at steep discounts or second hand stores. All look better than the day I bought them years later. My oldest pair of shoes are going on 11 years, and lo
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by thrav 7y ago
You shouldn’t send the watch back for refinishing. Worn ones are more valuable.
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by thrav 7y ago
I have so many pairs of shoes now that I only wear some of them a few times a year. I only ever buy ones that I’ll have forever on deep discount (picked up a couple pair of Allen Edmonds for $100 each recently). For the price of 2 Allen Edm
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by thrav 7y ago
I think the problem is imagined. The “problem” of safety has made its way out to the burbs now too. The public world is mostly safe, and kids are mostly capable of navigating it on their own and in small groups — the adults in America have
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by thrav 7y ago
She demonstrated a bit of a misunderstanding of ADHD and the impact it has on people. Interestingly, if her working memory device is as good as she says, it may have serious potential as a non-chemical treatment for ADHD.
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by thrav 7y ago
This kid is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKbUPMkbqM
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by thrav 7y ago
In my opinion, that is doing fashion right. Fashion has the power to create separation and distance between 2 people, or to bring them close together. Some people want to create distance, but most people should want to be closer together. H
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by thrav 7y ago
Although, to hear my friend tell it, Patagonia is still a massive military supplier. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it does seem to run a bit counter to their uber eco friendly branding. This seems to back that claim: http:
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by thrav 7y ago
You know who is constantly stressed and doesn’t get good sleep? People who become homeless. ...Homelessness creates perfect conditions for mental health issues to arise, and yet many tend to think people are only homeless because they were

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