fourthwaveska

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Ask HN: Have emotional illnesses impacted your career positively or negatively?
2 points by fourthwaveska 5y ago|1 comments
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
You’ve reminded me of that xray spex song, “I live off you”.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
She just gave you an icy look of doom.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Nope. Nada. None. Zilch. But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriotic kids do today. We really have no country or stable home r
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
I’m guessing you have never volunteered at a refugee camp? Would you like to? I ask in all seriousness. The UN has several programs which are basically refugee tourism. Like missionary work but without forcing them to get baptized for their
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
> Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago. Citation needed.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Hmm. So it is OK for me to say make all of my money in San Francisco then go buy property in much poorer Detroit? Now what if about 1/3 of that income came from my wife who is from a poorer country than Spain?
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Damn. Maybe I should tell the IRS that I’m an oil company instead of an expat.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
I just realized, I never mentioned Bush, you did. See, I didn't even have to mention Bush, just his legacy, and you instantly knew what I was referencing.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
My life experiences have made me incapable of empathizing with this view. My fellow citizens have never had my back, and I disagree with most everything they hold dear, as they disagree with most everything about me. I don't hate Ameri
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
> Please don't take this personnaly as I'm not targeting you specifically with my comment: but I don't know how I feel about wealthy foreigners coming to a place, buy property and extract rent from locals, who may not even
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Sure by these measures I'm rich, but I don't feel that way. Our current income isn't really indicative of the whole picture. Since I was diagnosed as Bi-Polar 20 years ago, I have averaged 2 months of unemployment per year, a
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Summers really are lovely there. Now that I'm finally vaccinated I'm hoping to go spend 3-4 weeks hopping back and forth between Fano/Esbjerg and Copenhagen. My treat to myself after over a year of Covid-induced unemployment
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Yes Bush isn't president, but the failures and hatreds of the entire Bush family are still incredibly relevant today. If you don't believe that, look at the 10s of thousands of Afghans currently walking through Iran and Turkey t
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
This argument also gets me icy cold stares of death. It also reminds me of how mind-blowing it is that a country whose land-area is 1/5 of California managed to conquer almost 1/2 of South America!
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Yeah that kind of pissed me off too. Luckily most countries treated everybody the same and we got out jabs with our age groups without a fuss.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Not really. I dont think I fully got over the us vs them mentality with dev organizations until ‘07 or ‘08.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Oh no. I understand that america’s military exists mosty to force christianity on the world and to maintain high oil prices, not to protect little old me. I just expected them to, you know, pick up the phone or have a hotline with a recordi
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Patriotism? What exactly is that word to you? To me it is merey loyalty to mud.
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Yes, I love it there. My two closest friends moved there to study marine archaeology and within 3 years another 7 had moved there. We were married in Fanø. I’m old, I like the quiet. Ideally we would spend our winters somewhere warm and the
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
The Spanish golden visa will require a €550k housing investment, then the normal amount of accrued in-country time for citizenship. Maybe we’re sort of upper midde-class then. We gross about $200k consulting. Not rich, not poor. We live in
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Re: Nato, fair point. There is still a difference between being bullied into submission to American hegemony and being part of the us empire. I really, really detest cold weather and drunk people, both of which Russia has in abundance. Russ
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
I wish! Greece was my secone choice (I used to study Lyra in Crete, and Rembetiko Bouzouki (Rembetiko style) in Thessaloniki and Athens. We almost bought a flat in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens! Politically/Energetically It’s wh
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Yes, but my wife has spent the past four years learning Spanish and every time I suggest Portugal she gets a murderous look in her eyes. My preference is actually Denmark, but it is an order of magnitude more difficult to move there, and my
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
By most western standards my family teeters on the line between middle and upper middle clas. We sold all of our US property last year; and now we are shopping for 4-6 unit buildings within 100km of Barcelona to get our Golden Visas. Our go
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
> From the bottom of my heart, fuck off. If you get blackmailed, abducted, squeezed or raided in any way, the U.S. will have the privilege of not caring. Guess you have never lived abroad? If you think the US doesnt care about you when y
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
> Sysadmin is a System Administrator, which performs operations manually. For decades before DevOps was coined, Sysadmins were automating infrastructures with tools like Kickstart, Jumpstart, CFEngine, ISconf, Rancid, netboot/pxeboo
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Man, I am in full agreement with you on every single point. The pure animosity between Dev & Ops was really a negative self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating trope that did a great deal of harm, both emotionally and professionally. O
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
I've been writing software since I was about 10, and a sysadmin/systems engineer for almost 30 years now. You could be very successful with the right mindset, understanding of process and deep-knowledge of operating systems, netwo
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by fourthwaveska 5y ago
> It doesn’t tell me anything about what you do; and it implies that sysadmins never used to code either. Back when Luke wrote Puppet, he himself admitted that he was a mediocre developer with a good idea. His premise was that most SysAd

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