Dave_TRS

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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
Charles Darwin's writings in 1838 include an amusing list of pros and cons: CONS OF MARRIAGE — "Conversation of clever men at clubs — Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. — to have the expense &am
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
Interesting a commenter on the video notes the pressure there is equivalent to only 10 meters underwater. Imagine the force 2 miles below
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
In 2010 I was at my first job out of college and frustrated that iTunes took over such a huge amount of resources on my PC. But I loved the UI look and function and the way it had playlists, and didn't like the other options on the mar
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
Yes, the dynamics of a 30 years mortgage are what I'm looking for, but turn-key. Because purchasing a property and getting a mortgage is a huge hassle up front and requires tons of work for many years. Compare this to buying a publicly
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
The saddest part of bank interest is that on top of it lagging inflation, but also gets taxed aggressively making it effectively lag by inflation by an even wider margin! Being a borrower is the way to go, where your interest payments are l
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to re
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by Dave_TRS 3y ago
Some studies show potatoes are the most satiating food, so one theory is eating them makes it more pleasant to stop eating generally and keep calories low (exact opposite of sugar, which makes one crave more food). "Susanna Holt of the
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I love Mercury. Their interface is dream, a world apart from TD, Chase, BofA etc. Merucry is online-only so nothing requires a branch, ever. Wires are free and take 1 min to initiate. I don't have more than $1M in the bank but if I wan
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
That's interesting, in the long run I would say I'm that way too, but it'll be toward the end of the meeting after things have been hashed out I'd contribute my new perspective. Or even worse for first impressions, I&#x2
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I am an INTP and this resonates with me, but is mostly an issue in group settings rather than one on one meetings. In one-on-one first meetings I naturally participate in the back and forth. It's group meetings where I can just listen
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I do a watered down version of this and have still seen great results. I try to eat only in a 11-12 hour window each days, which for me means only between 8am-7pm. More energy, less food craving, better sleep. I started this after reading a
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
Me too. Most blog posts have one pretty simple idea that it takes a ton of reading to figure out what it is. I appreciate the time he put into distilling it. If he were to make it longer some examples might be interesting to read about and
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I have a whole arsenal of strategies: - Creating a hard deadline, such as booking a meeting to share the work. Then "If you leave it to the last minute, it only takes a minute" can work and be efficient - Carving out time for that
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I might have answered my own question - perhaps it's when we see corporations speculate and win it adds no value and is gross? But if they actually do come up with a better way to price houses and fix them efficiently it's a posit
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
Honest question, why is it gross? Fixing up homes is very inefficient and usually done by mom and pops. Why not find an efficient model to do it, just like car manufacturing, chip fabrication, etc.? It's a massive industry and could be
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
Google Voice is free and will forward SMS's to email, which can then be set up with rules to various other emails. Most banks accept google voice numbers Twilio numbers are a dollar a month and will also forward to email or you can log
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
There is indeed an American romantic comedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Ringer
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
I'm the same way, keep me away from buffets, cupboards containing sweets, and any newsfeed. One thing I've founds success with was getting a digital Economist subscription (confession, just a shared password). Having a steady stre
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
Just regular sandpaper. I like the paddle idea, that'd have been a more interesting goal and given something to show for the effort.
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by Dave_TRS 4y ago
At summer camp we had joke activities like "sand a log to nothing" and "dig a hole to China". Kids would sign up for these activities and actually sand down the log and dig the pointless hole for hours. Just as popular a
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
"more social" and "Amazon-free" may also not lend themselves well to bundling together. For me personally I'd love an Amazon-free version of goodreads that was built by someone who actually cared and updated it. The
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
Mail clients have issues like emails getting "stuck in outbox", it not being clear when new emails have loaded, etc. Also if I use a mail client then my setup is tied to a particular machine so if I'm away from it, or lose it
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
The dark patterns are so ridiculous I almost get a little enjoyment out of it like playing a game. When you sign up for a domain name it's a mini mission to get past the 5 separate screens of upselling and clicking the small Skip link
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
My friend had a good suggestion I used. When you're signing up, I had them write down and sign beside the big lie I thought they were telling me about cancellation. Then when I cancelled and mentioned the terms, the manager said "
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
My grandpa is 94 and still enjoys working. Drives to Home Depot every day to pick up supplies for our family company, and other errands around the city. His view is that he enjoys it and helps him stay active.
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
HN is also different in that it's full of serious thoughtful discussion about things that matter. It's certainly addictive, but after I get sucked in I don't feel the same regret as with FB because at least I learned somethin
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
+1 I would love this app if it did birthdays. I like sending texts, not FB messages, but it's a pain to check Facebook to see who's birthday it is and then find them in my address book. I'd love to sit down once and manually
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by Dave_TRS 5y ago
You can turn on "apps only" mode which gets rid of most of the pre-loaded stuff, though one massive advertisement remains on the main homepage. Huge improvement over the Fire Stick which doesn't let you turn off the Amazon ju
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by Dave_TRS 6y ago
If anyone is interested, below is a relevant portion of the court's analysis from the Up.Codes case in the original document linked to at the end of the Techcrunch article above. They lay out criteria by which a copyrighted work is con

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