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> I think it’s pretty uncontroversial that most people don’t want to live on $30k/year

One thing that I missed the first time this article got posted is that he and his (ex)wife had separate finances.

He had an income of 30k/year, she presumably had a similar income.

Living on 60k/year seems like a whole different ballgame than 30k/year.

I'm one of four engineers at my company. I don't have the luxury of offloading my job to someone else. Also I really feel like you're projecting attitudes that I (at least didn't mean to) portray. I design the dog food, and then I make the dog food.

Do you mean they use the NFC tag or manually enter the username / password, or just that no one uses any of it?

I get messages from recruiters based on technologies I haven't used in a decade (Android primarily). It's all generic enough that I assume the people have no specific interest in me, they are just casting a super wide net and may not even want to interview me if I responded.

I'm not even that old, but a pattern I noticed when I've interviewed in the past couple years is that maybe I'm applying for the wrong jobs because my would-be peers ask questions that seem irrelevant and seem confused that I don't have answers ready for "what frameworks do you use? Which languages do you like? etc.", but then I get in an interview with someone who would be above me and we have a great chat about architecture and design and things that are actually relevant.

I'm here to build a house, I want to talk about the architecture of structural design of it. I don't care what brand air nailer you guys use.

We've been using a Raspberry Pi400 (the computer in a keyboard model) as a media center pc for a little over 6 months now. It plays amazon and netflix videos fine, handles the netflix browsing UI pretty well, but has been rather painful for selecting shows on Amazon for a few months now. Not sure what they changed because it worked great when we first got it.

I'm not sure whether it was the best choice or not, but we figured we'd fall back to a regular pc if we needed to, and so far we haven't been bothered enough to do that.

The reason heat pumps have traditionally been untenable is that they are prone to icing over when below freezing. If the coils are covered in ice, then air can't be blown past them to get new heat to pull in.

Further, in many cases, the heat pump wouldn't keep your house warm during the coldest period of the year, which meant you still needed a heater. Not a huge deal since you probably have an AC for the summer anyway.

The issue as I understand it, was that the thermostats were not smart enough to know when to quit and so a heat pump would run until it literally could not keep up with demand, when it should have instead switched over to gas heat some time earlier than that when efficiency dropped.

Modern heat pumps deal with all these factors to the point that I expect them to become standard fare as current ACs get upgraded over the next decade or two. I know that if we ever need to upgrade our AC it will be replaced with a heat pump.

> where we begin to operate on a higher level of complexity, similar to when life transitioned to multicellular.

I've thought about this exact thing before and something to keep in mind is that there will be a split where part of the group consents to being absorbed into the mega-organism, and part will stay individuals.

Humanity won't move in unison. If it happens, part of the group will stay behind, just the same as we still have single celled organisms.

> I think its too easy to get a patent

I'd modify that to say it's too easy for a large corporation to get a patent. I've heard quite a few acquaintances who work for large companies mention offhand that they just were awarded a patent for something or other.

Meanwhile, at my tiny company, we have I think one patent and another that got hung up with the examiner due to completely unrelated things. I think we finally stopped protesting it.

Patents are pay to play.

> Hopefully those that are vaccinated can move on with their lives

At least here in the Midwest, life is back to normal for all but the very most cautious. Even the people who were most glued to their televisions during the pandemic can't be made to care about "variants".

I really don't think it would be feasible at this point for the government to force restrictions back on people. I think the majority wouldn't comply.

I got hit by the comment rate limiter earlier.

I agree that downvoting someone on HN is not censorship.

What I meant is the biases of the people writing and training the ranking / flagging algorithms bleeds through into the implementation. Similar to how there have been stories that facial recognition tools only recognize white people.

I don't know that it's a great argument or analogy. I mainly was trying to point out that when you escalate from individuals downranking items to individuals writing algorithms that have similar built in biases, then you end up with something very near censorship, even if it isn't intentional.

I believe that's really the whole argument behind "system discrimination", maybe individuals aren't overtly discrimination, but the system is built up in such a way that the result is discrimination.

You can agree or not, but it's worth considering, and I'd guess most people could be convinced of it in one context or another.

> your claim that it's obvious that there's coordinated censorship.

> I don't think it is that obvious because, at least me personally, I haven't seen any evidence of this.

Not going to argue one way or another on this, but I do want to point out that you can change some words around and end up with:

"I think the downvotes are due to your claim that it's obvious there is systemic racism. I don't think it's obvious because I haven't seen evidence of it. Black people just happen to commit more crimes"

> I hope that it can work as well against alt-right violent movements without harming regular Conservatives.

Great. I'd like to see them do the same with Antifa and co.

Every time I think about WWI, it seems like about the most miserable and terrifying war conditions I can imagine.

But then when I watch old interviews with WWI veterans they all seem unusually chipper about it. Really kind of confuses me. Not sure if it was just a different time or if they had just repressed all the inhumanity of it.

Similarly, glioblastoma (a brain cancer) is still a death sentence. My dad died of it a little over 5 years ago, lasting about a year and a half from initial diagnosis.

Maybe a year later, John McCain came down with the same thing. In a weird way it was comforting to know that all the money and power in the world didn't make any difference in the outcome.

Modern news is all propaganda, all the time. Start with the narrative and shoehorn the events until they fit the narrative. Depending on the company, you get a different starting narrative, but the playbook is the same.

> Commuting has a cost too so if low paid workers can afford housing an hour away

Maybe I'm wrong, but given my experience driving through the Rockies, I doubt there is any more housing an hour away than there is town. It's just a giant vastness of undeveloped land.

Wikipedia says that the county Ketchum is in has a population density of 8 people/sq mile, and an area of 2600 sq miles. Wikipedia also says that many people commute in for work from neighboring Lincoln county, population 5000.

I think the OP's comment is correct in general, but the particular situation in question has more nuance to it. I don't see any conflict between the two.

The article isn't actually about housing being unaffordable. It says housing is unavailable.

They could build more housing, but no one wants to get caught holding the bag if the boom turns to a bust as the world returns more to normal.

And even if they did choose to build the housing, housing next year doesn't solve the issue of housing today.

That said, where I live we are building plenty of housing but we still can't fill jobs. Why exactly is hard to say, but general consensus is that government unemployment benefits are currently compelling enough that people will trade taking a hit on their income in exchange for not having to work. Can't blame them, I guess.

Seems like a painful readjustment in the coming years as we unwind all the emergency decisions we made last year.

I calculated last year that for my family of 5, our health insurance premiums (when you include the portion my employer pays) equaled almost to the dollar the amount we spent on every other thing last year.

Granted we are pretty frugal, but health insurance is insane.

The town is having an economic boom because it saw a large influx of remote workers this past year. Those workers require goods and services, which leads to job openings to fill the demand.

It may come as a surprise to people in large cities, but the vast majority of the country (geographically) was pretty much business as usual from summer 2020 onward.

And that's the real rub of it.

I don't know what I don't know, but I also don't know where to get that knowledge, so a reasonable first step is to investigate the people pushing "self-help" methods.

From there you can often learn the right keywords to get a foot in the door with someone knowledgeable and have them actually tell you something useful rather than just taking your money and sending you on your way.

I gravitate towards self help because expert help has almost always resulted in very large expenses and my actual problem not being solved.

Every experience I've had with a doctor that was less severe than "I am actively dying" has just been "Take pain killers for a couple weeks and come back if it isn't fixed by then, also here is a $200 bill."

The one time I hired someone to fix something on my house (to fix some water damage), I had a literal stream of water coming in to my house above the repair the next time it rained.

In most cases, it seems you need to know the answer to the problem yourself before you can trust someone else to diagnose and fix the problem correctly.

Any time I see anything about hiccups, my mind immediately jumps to this [1]. Rubbing your butthole is supposed to stop the hiccups.

Never tried it, but it is firmly planted in my head as random trivia.

[1] https://malct32.blogspot.com/2011/03/rectal-stimulation-to-c...

I don't think it's quite what you were asking, but I always avoided Two Factor Auth because I don't use a smartphone and all the approved methods seemed to use phone apps.

A year ago, one of my accounts forced me to enable two factor auth, so I spent time looking into how to make it less onerous. Turns out the TOTP code stuff is an open standard and there is a command line tool [1] you can use to generate the codes.

Thought that was really neat. I wrote a little script to integrate with my password manager and went from avoiding two factor auth to enabling it everywhere.

[1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html

The context here was rolling your own password manager, not cryptography.

I wonder how much of it revolves around the fact that fat upload pipes probably mainly matter when you are serving out content, and at that point probably the ISP would prefer you had a business account?

I have 50/50 symmetrical, so I guess I can't complain. Nowhere close to gigabit, but always more than enough for my needs.

I don't have the link handy, but I remember seeing something on Twitter a couple weeks back where a news site published something like, "The video of a man looting a store while police watch in San Francisco has gone viral, but is it really a problem?"

The comments basically pointed out that if people aren't being punished for a crime, then police reports don't get written because why bother, and then some politician can point out "Hey, fewer police reports. Crime is down!"

There's a huge element of "Believe what you're told, not what you see" in politics lately. (Probably always, but the past year has really brought it into focus)

A trap the company I work for got caught in for a long time was not realizing we had transitioned from "start up" to "small business."

We aren't growing like a hockey stick. We never will.

We are moderately profitable, fill a small market niche, and are providing predictable income for ten people and their families.

That's something to be proud of. But if you are stuck comparing yourself to the VC backed people down the street, it can feel a lot like failure.

Was with you for the first half.

For me it's lots of XXX commits to save work in progress, followed by a `git reset <base>` and several passes of `git add -p` to build up a set of reasonable standalone commits.

If we're going down that road, I generally try to be productive from roughly 2pm to 4:30. The rest of the day is for waiting to see if something unexpected catches fire and figuring out what it is I should be working on for my two and half hours of focus time.