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i do almost everything on cgpgrey's list, but i don't think i'm unhappy. life is pretty good! i also do about half of the list in the article. perhaps there are just different pref…

Not clear what happens if two people bid different amounts at the same time, or if 1000 people bid $5+ at the same time (does it just completely fill up the chat?)

whoa - I've recently had that problem start happening. I'm going to go build some more anec-data.

ugh, oh god

Well, they DID take $1500 of cash to join the explorer program. At least they could make it easier for someone to use the hardware if they were going to abandon it.

I've heard several mentions of this over the years as one of the better use cases for devices. Sometimes it takes having a problem really close to your life to drive that devotion …

indeed, per capita GDP is increasing, and the proceeds have not flowed proportionately to the workers...so it is a fallacy that we don't have enough goods to distribute, but it's a…

For an average four-person family, a minimum 350kg of cabbages and 200kg of radishes are required during kimjang. A winter’s supply of the fermented cabbage dish also requires 3kg …

..the Kim dynasty controls the weapons...

I've claimed a similar phenomenom before. Going back further, when there was much less content, even chain letters seemed awesome and hilarious (and worth keeping around). Now, in …

There's a saying that goes something like: "Any idiot can build a bridge. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that is just strong enough to stand given the weight it's meant to …

Intuit (owner of TurboTax) lobbied against the "government doing your taxes" for you.

A friend linked to this post to help designers choose what to work on: https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/what-kind-of-design-work-should-i-do-15726d81904f I wonder w…

This is definitely a valid problem for anything strongly driven by a network effect. If you buy your widget and pay for it, it's not a problem, but if the product is only cool when…

That would cause usernames with spaces to overwrite passwords ;-)

That sounds upper-middle if not upper class to me ;-) Disposable income going into high-risk investments after securing an excellent education for 2 kids - if the rest of the middl…

This definition is a bit leaky. For example, the executive who lives month to month live in a luxury penthouse "has" to work to pay his mortgage...but has the option to not pay tha…

This is true, but the developer in Palo Alto has the option to scale back her lifestyle and bank a lot of cash, whereas the developer in Arlington Heights will bank much less cash …

Living in an area can be more than an emotional decision - for example, nearby family members might provide free childcare. Moving elsewhere would cause childcare to be a (large) f…

The struggles of the poor ("poor" as defined by the original post) are not the same as the struggles of a fresh college grad. Households on minimum wage are often paycheck to paych…

Agree - and in addition, they may not have a 2-week buffer to find a new job even if it were available. They certainly aren't being flown in for interviews.

Financial sense depends on how you price the benefits of living in this area vs other areas. For example, being near family is a a benefit...so is being near people who care about …

The collection of this data mainly benefits employers.

I agree, the inner (premature) optimizer in us leads us to do all or nothing. It's a bug in our brains.

After years of working as a programmer, I also find something extremely satisfying about doing physical labor. When someone asks me how close my project is to done, I often say "ab…