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Went to the gym 3 times a week, cycled 25k every weekday, ran on the weekends. Now I can only walk, after covid, which I got in early March. I'm hoping to try jogging again at some…

The Fed are buying corporate ETF bonds, not stocks.

Based on your post it seems: 1. Living walking distance from work/school 2. Working fewer days 3. Communal eating option (eg local subsidized cafes)

Agreed, not the main use case.

What's the point in producing trash if your only reason is to have enough money to pay for the trash?

Tech is the menial task now. We are wasting time looking at our smart watches!

Have smart watches really improved daily life for the masses? I really don't think they have. We need real technology that saves labour, like washing machines, dishwashers, sewage …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index Sweden: 4th Usa: 27th

Did the first company complain about you to Amazon, who then blacklist you for not playing ball?

I went to purchase a replacement iphone audio jack adapter today and I felt totally unable to determine the best option. One vendor's adapter appeared about 6times in the first pag…

You get emails. Imho it's not a big risk.

If you retrieve the data slowly it's cheap. It's expensive if say you are a retailer who needs their database restored asap. I use a Linux perl client!

"in just a few generations". One generation with an inheritance tax. With a land tax many wouldn't get rich in the first place, let's address the root cause.

Rich man wants even more as poor suffer. News at 10. Really we should tax land as there is no deadweight loss. I don't agree with taxing wealth creation. He should have articulated…

I've used glacier. For stuff you don't need to restore in a rush, it's cheap. I did however have a recent health scare and it made me wonder how my non tech wife could possibly hav…

Whenever post-covid comes, if you WFH you can meet a local friend for lunch. Don't conflate covid-WFH and non-covid-WFH as a reason to dislike general WFH.

Well others have pushed back. What I would like is for you guys to at least say this, instead of all the tiresome "freedom" stuff. Acceptance is the first step.

That's my working suspicion. They gave up.

This is more momentum towards decentralization. Fantastic. Little bit discouraged to see one comment stating 2mb/s for Canada, I wonder why it would be slower than the USA? Perhaps…

Can't wait for a sleepover, which implies several people, in a closed room. Just them, me and covid. What a great idea.

So would you say you are in a democracy, given the lobbying beats out voter needs and the state violently suppresses protests? Where does this end? edit as I hit the fake "you're s…

Why are the entire population just accepting the lack of democratic representation to defend their interests?

Airbnb is looking for cheap publicity and buzzfeed is looking for an easy article.

This seems odd. Most people don't understand bikes, although they are very simple. You'd think they'd want to keep you on side as someone who could refer others.

Totally correct, the other person cannot have read it.