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I feel lucky that I haven’t been crammed into a small apartment with roommates or whatever. It’s so much easier to have a routine without having to bump into a bunch of other peopl…

I have recently started working on something, and it occurs to me that the project may be eligible for some grants or similar type of funding. In particular, it may be a useful pro…

I have usually had at least fifteen stupid little problems by lunch time every day, so just try to be cognizant of the irritating things that you regularly come across. The chances…

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I really cannot summarize the plot, but it is such a good read. My favorite author.

Even though I have begged the cable company to address the underlying issue, I have gone through several dozen modem/DVR boxes due to lightning strikes. I can only assume that the …

I have always been advised that it is prudent not to use any browser-based wallet generators, especially while you are online. There are quite a few app-based wallets that will all…

I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person i…

I suppose the transparency and the basic uniformity is what really separates chess from other mental activities. That is to say, there is no hidden information or any advantage tha…

Yeah, that’s not really the point. People are going to avoid using these types of services, whether it’s Robinhood or some other startup, if they think they are going to get scamme…

It is a shame that these types of tech companies are always churning up such bad publicity... they literally cannot afford to be making these sorts of unforced errors. It just make…

When I was in the UK I lived in a terraced house from the 1880’s with thick exterior walls. It wasn’t all that bad, but I wouldn’t say that it was very well insulated either. It wa…

I am trying to learn more about analytics in order to inform decisions about developments in my own project. Do you have any advice about a good place to start? I think most of the…

If I really get into a flow I will forget to eat and my dog becomes annoyed with me. That’s when I get irritated by stupid phone calls and turn off all of my messaging alerts. I us…

No one ever said that programmers were poets. It seems like they were just trying to get their point across while saving keystrokes, but it seems funny that something so simple and…

I do not remember Which language I was first introduced to as a kid, but I do remember being very on excited because it did not seem related to anything I was interested in. I agre…

I have never bothered to classify the personality traits of the people I enjoy spending time with, but there is nothing more exciting and interesting than being around a group of n…

I think quite a lot of people are going through a similar funk right now, and it could be the case that your lack of interest in programming is a symptom of all of this social dist…

I am not even sure I understand the premise... I mean, how do you not test? Maybe I have just done a bad job of being lazy all this time.

I suppose the salaries are somewhat comparable if perhaps a little lower, however the cost of living is much less in general compared to SF. The most important thing is that the be…

Weather aside, I really enjoyed living in Amsterdam. It is a crowded and rather small city, but it is a big center for banking and tech. Europe doesn’t really do the sprawling mega…

Not at all. I suppose that I am just trying to point out that every asset has its pros and cons depending on the situation. The Euros at the bottom of my travel case are just as us…

I had a .com domain lapse while I was in hospital a couple of years ago, and The hijackers wanted $20,000 to sell it back to me. I don’t know what planet they were from, but it is …

I agree with you that the fees for some of the cryptocurrency’s make them impractical, and this certainly will hinder mainstream adoption. I do not think that I will try to pay for…

I couldn’t help thinking about a lot of the kids I knew at University while reading that. Some of them were enrolled in classes, and some of them were only tangentially associated …

Bitcoin is probably not the best case study for this aspect of the conversation, but I suppose you have a fair enough point. Although to be clear, I am thinking of the assets more …