war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
Single income household with three relatively recent babies here as well (4, 2, 2). To me, the thing that strangles young families financially is child care. We've been able to sidestep that by having my wife stay home. The current res
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by war1025 6y ago
The only Mormon that I know reasonably well has five kids, so they're at least doing their part. The main thing I've noticed among my peer group is that the more "career-oriented" you are, the fewer kids you're goin
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by war1025 6y ago
> (16 total slices, 400in², 25in² per slice) I think you did the math wrong? Area is pi x r^2, which for a 16" pizza would be pi x 8^2 = pi x 64, which is right about 200in^2 A few of the pizza places around here offer 20" pizz
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by war1025 6y ago
Absolutely. I just wish it was a more evenly distributed fee. I don't particularly mind that it's expensive to get care (I wish it was a bit less expensive), but the fact that I know so many people who go there seemingly on a whim
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by war1025 6y ago
In the cool seasons of the year I'll often go a full week or more between showers. My hair does eventually start looking a bit greasy, but I never really start to smell. I've been showering every night before bed for about a month
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by war1025 6y ago
If your employer offers a health plan, you are ineligible for subsidies. As it stands now, I think the last I checked a family plan costs ~$3k / month for me. If I qualified for subsidies, I could get the same plan free. And I think th
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by war1025 6y ago
> You're not tied up to your work, otherwise you're SOL as far as healthcare etc. goes. I have a dream that someday the "workplace <-> health insurance" link will be broken in the US. For a few years I thought w
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by war1025 6y ago
The thing that was controversial about George Floyd's death wasn't how he died. It was whether people should be out protesting during a pandemic. When the government had forbidden every other form of public gathering for months,
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by war1025 6y ago
I pay $800/month on top of what my employer covers for our health insurance. And it's still worse insurance than what most of my friends and family have. If you work for a small company or are trying to buy off the marketplace, he
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by war1025 6y ago
I like how the entire map on that page is dark red. Somehow 0-1% seems like too low a range for the scale there. Maybe just needs to be rebalanced by someone.
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by war1025 6y ago
I feel like on the one hand my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me think the change was not needed. But also my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me not real
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by war1025 6y ago
> Now if only we could get the media to report on useful statistics The website for my state [1] has a map with infection counts by county. The irritating thing about this map is it's total numbers since February. That tells me noth
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by war1025 6y ago
I used ledger [1] to track all of my expenses for roughly four years. It's a command line based double entry accounting tool. It was super interesting in terms of figuring out where money went and general double entry accounting techni
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by war1025 6y ago
> And I wouldn't trade the extra 2-3 hours a day I get with my family or to spend on hobbies instead of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for anything. This is the actual difference between our situations. I have a ten minute comm
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by war1025 6y ago
> small children don't understand why daddy is home but can't play with them This is exactly correct. My office did work from home Tuesdays / Thursdays even before the pandemic. My wife stays home with our three kids. I tr
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by war1025 6y ago
Care to elaborate on the "manic pixey" part? I've never heard that phrase before.
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by war1025 6y ago
I really like a lot of Tim Ferris' ideas, but a common theme through that general "lifestyle optimization" genre is single people without a family to support. But I guess maybe there is still value to the idea that often the
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by war1025 6y ago
This is similar to the idea of praising the people who are always putting out fires because their actions are visible, vs the people more in the background who design systems that don't catch fire and just hum along without complaint.
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by war1025 6y ago
I suppose it's maybe a matter of understanding what will get you a decent return on your investment. To the car example, I've done a moderate amount of work on my car in the past year. When I started, I had a junk set of sockets a
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by war1025 6y ago
For context, the person you replied to is the author of the D language.
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by war1025 6y ago
Because even though the 'y' was originally a substitute for the thorn rune, it then passed into common language with the 'yee' pronunciation. Given that this poem was written in the 1800s, I would guess it's meant t
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by war1025 6y ago
My grandma used to go dancing at the VFW every weekend up until I think shortly after her 95th birthday. She fell at a dance and broke her arm. She had lived on her own until then, but moved to a nursing home while her arm healed and then d
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by war1025 6y ago
From the website [1]: > Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank! So I'd guess it's not for that. [1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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> the single-panel comic that débuted in 1980 and helped make the Reagan era more bearable Gotta get a good shot in at those dastardly Republicans I guess.
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I can buy that I guess. Probably the main philosophical disagreement I have with the article is summed up by (and probably the rest of the article was tainted by) the opening line: > I was searching around for a quote along the lines of
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by war1025 6y ago
Honest question, what does this guy do that makes any of that even remotely necessary? I mean, good for him and all, but it just seems like a post about a guy who likes fancy toys getting fancy toys. Is there anything more to it than that?
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by war1025 6y ago
Off topic, but related enough that I feel its relevant to mention: I learned this week that many blood donation and plasma centers [1][2] are doing Coronavirus antibody tests for anyone* that donates right now. I've heard a lot of peop
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by war1025 6y ago
I found the article [1]. Looks like they crossed Coronavirus off the bingo card too. Like I said, it's perfectly on-brand for them. My wife and I have a running joke (which I think I've seen pop up elsewhere too) about how Terry G
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by war1025 6y ago
> Being an enforcer or a rule breaker is very much dependent upon what the rules are. This gets left out of so many conversations, and is a very important point. The essay touches on it a little with the slavery bit, but I feel like the
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by war1025 6y ago
> Even the vaunted NPR does this. I recently upped my monthly donation to my local NPR station, and I feel like if anything it's made me more critical of them. Probably most of it is that I lean politically Right, and they lean Left

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