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Despite so many having so much, it doesn't make them any happier. We still see suicide, overdose, greed, selfishness and many other problems. Yes, money does make things easier for those who possess it, but it shouldn't be the goal. Look at the positives in your life, be grateful, pursue meaningful experiences with the ones you love and live within your means. Strive to be better each day in all of the areas that are important to you.

Isn't the first 100k tax free?

It's funny how the wheel goes round and round. I loved it when Netflix had a lot more content, but now that each studio/production/company offers its own, it's ending up like nothing more than streaming a la carte and people are returning to piracy rather than spend hundreds across various streaming services (like cable/dish...).

I don't get where not being tough on crime comes from. Having grown up in a third world country with rampant crime, and also in the US (and having seen California decriminalize petty theft, traspassing and various other things), what is there left to do? Is the US system in need of fundamental changes? Yes, absolutely. But being soft on crime isn't going to make it disappear either.

My thoughts exactly! A lot of the "social" things are OAuth based, not SAML. I know Google has both, but when doing consumerish things via Google, that's also OAuth based (iirc).

Does FB use SAML for their login flows? I know Google has several different options and SAML is available, but was unaware about FB. Maybe in one of their more enterprisey apps/services?

I had to triple check the legend with the map and the price to make sure I had it right. It didn't need to be so bad.

Yes, to some degree. We need better email infrastructure to handle this type of thing. I can see there being situations where it can cause problem or friction.

What I do know is that what we have today is an absolute mess and it's horribly inefficient.

I don't care that it takes 10 days. What I want is to not get new spam that I have to constantly unsubscribe to. Systems should be forced to send you an initial approval/subscribe email to begin with. This alone would help reduce all of the email I get for other people who mistakingly use my email as theirs.

The best is when these transactional emails don't have a way to unsubscribe (thanks Comcast).

This is the way for companies to do right by the first few employees (and have a longer than 90 exercise window when leaving). I know a super early employee who left and had to take a loan to exercise and pay taxes. It's kind of sad to think about it.

> Overwork sucks but if you have evidence that it’s bad for productivity please cite it.

Seriously? Of all things, something so obvious like this needs needs citation?

How are you getting job data?

Is there a place where founders & investors can more easily connect? Seems like r/startups and r/venturecapital on reddit and AngelList, but I'm wondering if there's a more suitable forum for this type of thing.

Not really a fan of a spreadsheet. We need a place for people at all stages to be able to quantity their asks and be connected.

I need to do more research and experimentation with moisture control for things I seal air tight.

I know this is looked down upon around these parts, but I own real estate. I started by buying my own place over 15 years ago and every time I move, I turn the previous place into a rental investment. Say what you will about "rent seeking", but we've poured lots of money into maintaining our properties and providing people, who want to rent, with a clean, well maintained, affordable place to live.

I wouldn't be surprised that by the time I buy a projector, they're all "smart".

I've been on C# for over a decade and I'm still very happy with it. I think it's highly underrated in the startup space.

When helping start my current startup, one of the founders asked why I chose C# as he was asked by others why we'd pick that language/stack as it's not common for SF startups. I told him that it's less about the language and I could do just about anything with it. It's turned out great and of all the things to worry about, the language hasn't ever come up again.

Same here. I have a plasma LG that I absolutely love. It has an amazing picture, but it's heavier than wet sand.

My friend recently got a new TV and I was appalled at the controls, picture (soap opera effect), "smart features" (how it instantly goes into this app like experience that you can't ever get out of). So many things bother me about modern TVs. If my TV ever dies, I don't know what I'll do.

For me, it's the lack of consistent practice in order to retain the knowledge. I rarely tie knots frequently enough to remember how to tie a few, let alone dozens of different kinds of knots. Maybe I need to do more mountain climbing, camping, boating!

> Probably the second most popular source of user suffering.

It was #1 for me! Finally indeed.

> To delete a column, SQLite have to completely overwrite the table - so the operation is not fast. But it’s still nice.

Can someone with more knowledge/experience ELI5, please? Is this essentially how it's done in other db engines? TIA

This is my main beef with crypto and why I've decided to not "invest"/"gamble" on it. I get that you could have made a lot of money, but I just fundamentally disagree with it. It's refreshing to hear others reinforce my opinions.

What's a good way to connect?

There are lots of great ideas and thoughts from the others here, so I won't focus on the same things that have already been mentioned.

You mention a few different issues, feeling burned out, health, and not finding the work interesting. I think you should focus on those three individually rather than trying to find a single silver bullet.

First, take care of your health. You can start by doing some simple things: eat better, have a better sleep schedule, go on more walks and slowly build up to what you expect from yourself and feel that you're missing in this regard. It doesn't have to be spend 2 hours/day at the gym starting tomorrow.

Second, with regards to feeling burned out, think about what your ideal situation looks like. If you had unlimited money, what would you fill your time with? Next, think about if you had a lot of money but still couldn't have the security of financial independence/freedom. What would you do for income? The point here is to determine two things: 1) what's enough for you and 2) what your passions are. It's ok to do things type not passionate of to sustain yourself/family, but you'll eventually feel burned out trying to get more than enough. Determine what enough is and to what end you'll do things that aren't your passion.

Lastly, about not finding your work interesting. This is totally normal. It's hard to find your passions interesting over decades. Passions change over time and that's ok. Are there things you do like about your job? My previous point about thinking about your passions applies here. It may be you hate the environment or dislike being told what to do. I love writing software, but dislike a lot of things about modern "industry best practice".

Hope you find what you're after and enjoy the journey as much as the destination. Life is too short and you never know how short it really is.

I share ideas too. The amount of effort to actually build anything these days is so much that most will fail if they try, let alone doing all things right.

Sorry, in unfamiliar. Could you elaborate, please?

Hey Mike, great article and congrats on grain. Crazy how time has passed ;)

I just looked it up briefly and I like the idea of topics, but I think there could be too many and it could become messy quickly. Certainly on the right track though.

I haven't looked too deeply into emailio or front, but the solution to me looks a lot more like a mix of reddit and discourse (community/forum) than anything else. I'd love to see something that looks and feels like a forum than IM/chat. Systems like Slack are great for quick collaboration, but not ideal for persisting and disseminating information across diverse/large teams and organizations. I want to go to my messaging platform and see the topics that have been started and the discussions within them. This reduces all of the banter and chatter that endlessly goes one each day that just adds to the noise. I can go on and on, but maybe someday I'll get to see what I'm envisioning come to life.