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This reflects my career path as well. I worked for a large company and I was impacted by Step 2. Left for a startup (step 3), startup takes off with a competing technology. Fast fo…

Exactly! I've found I'm a lot more talkative and I appear to be more of a fast thinker with this approach. I have about 15 subjects (outside of coding - sports, wine, pop culture, …

I put in random facts and categorize them. Topic of reading comes up, I can never remember books I’ve read. I started making Anki flash cards of book summaries. I review this and o…

The plumbing, electrical and code requirements are completely different for residential. Think kitchens and bathrooms every 10 to 20 feet. People need windows in all of the rooms. …

This! I have a cabin rental in a semi rural area. 90 miles from an expensive major metro area. 20 miles from a small city (15K). It's impossible to get anyone out there and I need …

I had the same problem. The games are blacked out if they are televised on any other platform. The team I follow (Cowboys) is an out of area team but they were blocked all but for …

In Virginia, suppression costs of the fire are the responsibility of the fire starter even if they take all proper precautions and there is no negligence involved. It's a good law.…

It definitely is. I was lured in by the promise of 60K in revenue with 24K in mortgage expenses. There's so much wear and tear and so many things break. I agree that eventually it …

That's exactly it. That's the cost to pay a good handy man, that will definitely show up on short notice. I'm paying for those 5 9s of reliability. I can't stop doing what I'm doin…

Yeah, we also have a $2000 square foot home. That's correct. I can't stop what I'm doing at work to check on an issue with the home. $200 is the cost to get someone else to stop wh…

I have a whole home AirBnB. My energy prices have tripled in the past three years. My labor costs have gone up 50% in the past three years. Guest has a problem connecting to WiFi? …

I'm a host now and roughly 30% goes to AirBnB. There is both a Host Service Fee and a Guest Service Fee. They also take out taxes

Isn't the better analogy that, "If I take aspirin with water for a hangover it works but if I take it with whiskey it makes the hangover worse. Why doesn't aspirin work with whiske…

Very cool! I made just about all of my birthday cards in early elementary school on the Mac Plus Print Shop. How long do you plan on having the site up?

70K overdose deaths per year is certainly not victimless: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html Families lose sole providers and parents have to bury their own chi…

I have a similar story. My first year of college I worked two 40 hour/week jobs during the summer and a 30 hour a week job during the school year. I was determined to get a well pa…

Two day presentation skills class. The class went over how to present for a large group and how to make slides that are easy to understand. Other topics focused on engaging the aud…

Utilities don't work that way since we've made laws that say they don't work that day. That's the point of the article. A false accusation can essentially shutdown a lifetime's wor…

Let's say the power company decides to stop providing electricity to people that disagrees with their political views. It's okay right, since anyone is free to start their own util…

You should have bot the Domain Name insurance! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754056

It's also not as simple as adding 7 more beds so we have all we need on 99.999% of days. Sure you have 14 beds, but you also need more doctors, nurses, surgeons, OTs, etc. to suppo…

I found this video to be fairly demeaning towards women. I got the sense of entitlement that he deserves to sleep with a certain number of women. He should be less set on the numbe…

I was driving across country, became tired and had to check-in at a roadside motel a few weeks ago. It was 3AM and the clerk took about 15 minutes to complete the check-in. She apo…