AnnaPali

Christian healthcare sharers do precisely this. By restricting services and the population addressed (your pastor or priest must sign off on your application), everything's extremely affordable. In particular, as we don't drink, do drugs, use contraceptives etc. we don't pay for coverage of them or their side effects. Obesity's also less of an issue.

There's also the trick of telling the hospital you'll pay "in cash" and getting a 10x lower bill from the hospital, then getting that reimbursed/covered by your private or alternative insurance.

I got a used Precision 5540 from my work. I prefer it to my husband's 2024 Dell. The Linux battery life's even quite good, ~10 hours.

Top of the line laptops from e.g. 2019 are very cheap and still competitive with current hardware for realistic use. You can find one with an i9 and 64gb of ram for $5-600, you'll just need to plug it in after a few hours!

I enjoyed working on campus for a bit - because I also lived there, sleeping, eating, showering etc. and saved a lot of money! Of course, you have to hide that and they eventually caught me...

Narraduct | Trust Officers | Remote | Full time & Part time | https://narraduct.com/jobs/trust-officer/

Basically, we're looking for 3 people to document and test access, building and maintenance for many client projects or build out systems automating that. The role name is bad, it's essentially looking for sysadmins or devops people. This division operates like a trust and on a trigger (like client death), we will continue to operate their web systems. We have legal and financial structures to do this "forever", although things are at an early stage.

Send resumes to info @ our website with the subject line of "career"

Note, half of compensation takes form of bonuses. As most employees are remote around the world with different regulatory environments, we can't offer traditional benefits. Base compensation is ~80.000 USD.

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Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in Central Asia and S. America. Knowledge of accounting, chemistry, geology or industrial engineering is a huge bonus. We appreciate knowledge of multiple languages and curiosity about exotic paradigms. More than anything, we look for people who will fit in and help us create value. We can make roles for good fits!

We primarily use Common Lisp, with some Go, Racket and Prolog running on Linux and BSD. Some client facing stuff may feature Tcl or Clojure. We are also looking for a graphic designer or ui/ux expert who like preweb style interfaces with prouser experiences.

Even though we don't have other roles currently listed, if this sounds fun to you, do send us an email!

I find it rare to be able to think of things worth typing faster than 10-15 "wpm" equivalent of code. And typically much less, perhaps a few loc per day.

> Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute

That's close to how many companies, plans etc. work today. We manage big groups of people and systems, as syncretic holes. Sometimes a human, sometimes a computer is better at one task.

Narraduct | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full time & Part time | https://narraduct.com/jobs/

Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in Central Asia and S. America. Knowledge of accounting, chemistry, geology or industrial engineering is a huge bonus. We appreciate knowledge of multiple languages and curiosity about exotic paradigms. More than anything, we look for people who will fit in and help us create value. We can make roles for good fits!

We primarily use Common Lisp, with some Go, Racket and Prolog running on Linux and BSD. Some client facing stuff may feature Tcl or Clojure. We are also looking for a graphic designer or ui/ux expert who like preweb style interfaces with prouser experiences.

Note, half of compensation takes form of bonuses. As most employees are remote around the world with different regulatory environments, we can't offer traditional benefits.

Send resumes to info @ our website with the subject line of "career"

Sounds like time to build up a new postgres serverless company and get acquihired/exited!

I agree 100%! It's amazing how few people grok this.

The plan9 ecosystem is amazing. It's a pity we work with much older abstractions - although they still didn't consider security to be an issue and I can't comprehend how we'd jerry rig it to work without trusting anything.

Here it is for $30: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Assimil-Staff/dp/2700517555

You can also find it online, but be sure to find the audio files also. They are essential. Each of the 100+ lessons are like this: After rereading the lesson text with the notes until you can read it without assistance - you then listen to the audio until you can understand the audio without reading the text, then you say it out loud until you can say it at the same speed as the audio without difficulty. So half of the course length involves the audio.

So many things like this come out but I've rarely found a way to actually implement any of these things, so they don't become actual learnings or takeaways. Skimming over the paper it just doesn't seem applicable.

Perhaps someone has a list of interesting innovations from recent research we can actually apply at work with data, programming or such?

> ’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it.

How did you try to do this? This sounds like a horror story I'm scared of happening when I have kids.

> Romanian "salut" not French "salut"

I always loved the Romanian joke where someone says "mersi" and then you reply "oh, I didn't know you were French" but I suppose that comes up with many words.

Assimil Dutch is an amazing course! It brings you to B2 in about 45 hours of applied study (just doing as the instructions tell you!) I really like Assimil courses in general but the polyglot community widely believes that the Dutch course is their best of all.

Good luck!