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by tjr225 7y ago
I thought a lot about this comment and I don't mean to insult you but- I think you could constantly optimize towards the convenient and it wouldn't solve any problems. For instance, perhaps you would prefer to sit in a chair all d
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by tjr225 7y ago
Really had to laugh out loud at this one. To point out the obvious and make my comment more substantive- this article is concerned about the type of murder that isn't happening, when corporations kill us off every day for money. Hello,
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by tjr225 7y ago
Nobody is questioning the convenience of cars. However, if you have ever had a no commute life- whether it be full remote, or a walkable commute- I think you may just happen to flip your tune. It is a simple delight. If we could build a wor
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by tjr225 7y ago
My TC is significantly lower(half) but we aren't public and not a FAANG so. Living in Seattle on two high incomes(maybe not relative to you, but still) and having no kids was amazing. Paid off about 80k of student loans in a short amou
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by tjr225 7y ago
> "homes that can be afforded at $100k salary" There are many places throughout the south, midwest and northeast with decent job markets and dirt cheap housing. The mortgage on my 1800 sq foot house is nearly a third of the cos
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by tjr225 7y ago
What possible benefit would AR provide in this situation?
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by tjr225 7y ago
> Second, and with respect, I would suggest that your rhetoric, which is quite common (and, by the way, represents vested interests in status quo intelligensia), is doing a lot of silencing. It's quite pervasive. > I'd argue
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by tjr225 7y ago
> But now so few intelligent people believe it is morally acceptable to be optimistic. After all, climate, race, capitalism... We have to consider the moral implications of our social and economic structures as well as our impacts on the
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by tjr225 7y ago
Interesting. If transitioning from amount of social interactions is difficult it might also explain someone having personal difficulty when going from say, an infrastructure gig to a software support gig.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Hm, maybe I just got lucky, but there were multiple fenced in parks near my apartment in Seattle that allowed dogs to be off leash. In addition my dogs love to run with me in cooler months. In any case they were pretty satisfied with walks
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by tjr225 7y ago
> I honestly don't see how dogs even make any sense in a city for people who don't have cars. Why would you think that dogs that live in the city get any less exercise than a dog who lives in the suburbs or somewhere rural? Oft
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by tjr225 7y ago
Well, of course someone who doesn't like dogs isn't going to enjoy walking dogs :)
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by tjr225 7y ago
> Meanwhile, the walks are enjoyable. Non-dog owners often complain about how much work a dog would be, but I find the time spent walking and playing with my dogs far more enjoyable and rewarding than most things.
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by tjr225 7y ago
As opposed to what other kind of lives? Suburban and rural folks will be just as screwed when they don't have a wal-mart or a costco to get supplies from.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Went remote. Bought a house back near my family. Mortgage is nearly a quarter the cost of my one bedroom in Seattle. I'll miss Seattle, for sure, but at least now I don't have to hustle so hard. Especially with a kid on the way.
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by tjr225 7y ago
For about six months before I moved closer to work I had a super commute between Olympia, WA to Kent, WA just south of Seattle. I do not recommend this. Anyways- for the first month or so I used Waze religiously as this is a notoriously bad
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by tjr225 7y ago
> platform of cutting costs Costs should be cut, regardless of urban/rural, if we're being overcharged. Not sure what this has to do with killing off rural hospitals though. > generally pretty hostile to the idea of subsidis
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by tjr225 7y ago
Used to work in Kent. Loved my job, hated that awful town.
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by tjr225 7y ago
No such thing was done. You can find instances of awful stuff happening in any city- anywhere in the world. This is exactly what makes statistics useful.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Yeah I mean, without statistics his anecdotes are meaningless. It's a common thing to complain here in Seattle, but having lived in the Midwest for most of my life I know what true violence looks like and feels like. I don't hear
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by tjr225 7y ago
This article seems really bad. Whatever point they are trying to make the pop culture references and grammatical errors make outsourcing seem like a bad thing.
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by tjr225 7y ago
I wonder how many of us got our start editing html on geocities/angelfire/tripod to create yet another Final Fantasy fan site...
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by tjr225 7y ago
Doesn't seem that weird to me. Since landing in tech I haven't had to buy a single t-shirt- I just wear whatever they hand out.
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by tjr225 7y ago
I ended up buying, but in a low cost of living area. In spite of the high wages possible equity it still seems risky/unfeasible to enter Seattle's housing market right now. First I would have to get lucky that a 400k house/co
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by tjr225 7y ago
Working from home doesn't make you slack off. You make you slack off. Own up to your own decisions. While I don't want to flame you or attack you personally, I probably wouldn't want to work with someone with your attitude on
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by tjr225 7y ago
I feel like Slack is a little out of place there. It provides a pretty great platform for work collaboration. I haven't used teams, but it's pretty great compared to say, Skype for Business, for instance.
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by tjr225 7y ago
This is why we need to advocate for this stuff from our government. If enough of us agree that we should make this possible, it can happen.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Amazing article. As a teenager, I'd always looked back at emulations of this game with a wonder of how the graphics and visuals came to be. Surely it set the stage for a decade of fixed-set-pre-rendered games such as final fantasy and
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by tjr225 7y ago
I'm in agreement with you.
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by tjr225 7y ago
Imagine you have 80k in student debt between your partner and yourself. This isn't even a crazy number. Imagine how much of an impact 4K has on that.

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