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I've been going lighter and lighter and am down to a backpack that I carry (mostly just meds and electronics) and a small suitcase that I could carry-on, but I usually check. But m…

My parents had a sailboat, and just walking around the marina there were a ton of clever names. My favorites were: - Ménage à cinq - Never Again II

It's not completely irrelevant, especially if you're planning to move back eventually. If you're a decent software engineer, living in North Elbonia, making $20,000 / year, that's …

My in-laws never had the money to save for retirement, so they got suckered into a reverse mortgage in Florida. They saw it as a way to have some spending money in their old age, b…

On today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.

Two years ago I'd agree with you. Today I'd be concerned that an executive order would direct FEMA not to help out of spite against CA politics. I can already hear the arguments, b…

I don't. Growing up our house was built in 1910. In '88 we do a retrofit, just in time for the '89 earthquake. Zero damage to the house or anything in it. Friends nearby who didn't…

I'm insured, but I'm considering dropping insurance for the most likely disaster: earthquakes. I'm in CA, and even though I'm not on top of an active fault, I'm close enough to be …

I'm also currently at Google. > [Googlers live in a] vicious culture that can fire someone like Justin Poehnelt [...] without a clearly articulated reason At the end of the day, no…

You mean the ex that he actually did make contact with? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czp6cXAsHj8

How large is too large? I'm American with a roundabout very close to my house. The inner radius is 10 meters with an island in the middle, and single lanes in all directions. I hav…

Not if the economy actually does recover, or at least "looks" like it recovered on paper. Inflation helps with that. The average inflation over the last 10 years has been just nort…

Would it though? Thanks to CA Prop 65 every place I go has a warning that I'll get cancer if I take one more step. If I'm walking into a nuclear waste storage facility I'll never k…

Yeah, em-bee. You should just be not shy. As a fellow shy person, I feel the pain when someone basically just tells you to get over it.

As a user I actually appreciate it. But most of the stuff I google is coding questions. Before if I asked a question, the top 3 results would be StackOverflow. I'd click into the f…

I think OP is referring to the 80's movie WarGames - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames At the end a strategic defense computer is asked to play Tic Tac Toe against itself and …

This is the result of systemic problems at Google: - Launching is rewarded, keeping the lights on is not - The hot new teams get far more resources than tried and true ones You cou…

I was at Block and there was an interesting problem around this. A number of Google engineers had come over, and they pushed for a way to structure the codebase where you had a ton…

I jumped from Google to Meta in 2022 (Worst. Timing. Ever.) and by that time Google's IDE had pretty much caught up. Android app development at Meta was super painful because of th…

Yeah, I switched to a bike too. Way better quality of life, and lane splitting is a godsend. In my area not allowing a bike to pass is actually a ticketable offense (though I've ne…

That fancy Lamborghini is going to be sitting in the same traffic as my Honda.

Oh yeah, not a barrier, but for the volume they'd want to enable it's not a complete loss. Remember who uses GameStop. It's certainly not me, and it's probably not you. I'd guess t…

> Ebay commissions are not that high, 13.25% for most items. 13.25% isn't zero. > The barrier to listing [is] the amount of labor it takes to list and price everything GameStop has…

You're right that there's no real advantage to eBay buying a pawnshop conglomerate, but a pawnshop conglomerate buying eBay gets a massive advantage. They're already sitting on a m…

> Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers So much this. I regret that I have but o…