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Exactly what I was thinking. Does this still exist in some meaningful form? We used to have an amazing thing there... I remember before Endless September. alt.* was about as free a…

We (family of four, parents 40ish years old) are fortunate enough to be somewhat location independent with the stipulation that we have to be in US/Pacific timezone to keep sane ho…

Ha! Workers over 35 tend to have dependents who spend the money regardless and in fact may spend more the less time you spend with them.

This might help. http://www.davidsongifted.org I have no experience with them yet.

$1 million for middle class/working class housing built in 1964 sets it apart from most sleepy college towns.

On a sailboat "autopilot" generally means "keep this heading" or "keep this point of sail." I'm pretty sure in aviation it means "take me to this way point and elevation" or a sequ…

The general price of goods plummeting would be seen by most modern economists as something of a disaster -- so occupied are they with engineering inflation. I don't think any mains…

It is very interesting to me that the founders have agreed to pay people in very low-cost-of-living areas almost as much as people in San Francisco. I'm pretty sure USD$95k in Sout…

No one seems to be asking what was done to education to produce the higher graduation rates. Is it really true that everyone is now "smarter" or were standards changed to achieve t…

Of course they can. This has nowhere near the wealth spreading effects of an IPO though. First of all, most employees do not own shares but rather options. Option-holders do not re…

I wish they would be happy to service accounts like mine at $100/month. I prune all the time to stay on my grandfathered plan and not get bumped to $300/month. That said, we are mo…

I started with the conviction that I wanted to be the owner of a successful business. I did this at an age where I already had experienced plenty of wonderful ideas. Ideas always c…

Agreed. People make more of a deal about this than it is. If you are actually doing business overseas or own an actual operating business corporation overseas employing people (dep…

More attention to production and productive activity rather than consumption would help. Industry and thrift is what lifts people's fortunes. Not consumption and debt. The U.S. has…

Synology offers mobile apps to access the shares.

My four year old does this. "So, daddy... , you know?" wherein he states something he as learned, deduced or conjectured.

Yes. Reddit 9 years ago was different. Usenet 15-25 years ago was quite different than any significant forum today. Sometimes it feels like I grew up in a country that doesn't exis…

Well option #1 and #2 are untenable and result from uninformed naivete or deliberate head-in-sandism. You could rationally go for option #3 but you'd be rooting for the dark side. …

Google bought the company that had the archive and for a while it was searchable as part of Google Groups. Now it is gone. I hope archive.org can put it online if it isn't lost for…

I remember all this fondly since I became a young adult during the early years of the Internet when I setup up my first Unix system with a public TCP/IP address in 1990 and read Us…

Or you could buy a Synology like I did and forget paying rent per user. Integrates with LDAP. Comes with a ton of useful software but I bought it mostly for CloudStation and a loca…