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In the lottery jackpot/UBI scenario where money is no concern at all I'd camp, fish, read books, and drink whisky.
In the need a job, but every job will pay my asking salary scenario, I'd make software like I do now, but probably for a smaller, less bureaucratic company.
That's easy. Writing books and researching curiosities. I have dozens of book ideas, from novels to reference volumes. My research would at least partially focus on energy/power generation/storage, and partially on current scientific mysteries in our reality. Ideally, such work could help enrich humanity. Make the world better in some way. Sadly, unless I win a lottery tomorrow or a wealthy person issues me a grant,…
Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job?
> would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated?
How does a job contribute to 'society'? Who works to contribute to society? What company exists to 'contribute to society'?
Has 'hacker' news become so cynical to believe one's existence is about finding a job?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've gotten into a habit of watching homebuilders on YouTube/reading about construction methods (especially with ICF forms), and it's been quite fun. Lots of advancements happening these days. As for foundation issues, I live in a Gulf Coast state 2 miles from the Gulf as the crow flies, and my crawlspace is so humid that I had to get it encapsulated. I have 2 dehumidifiers, and now that summer is here 1 of them runs…
This probably edges into the industrial-control level of automation, but have you thought about hooking up your dehumidifiers to humidity sensors to maintain humidity at a specific level rather than an all-or-nothing approach? It's my understanding that wood rot occurs mainly due to frequent changes in moisture, the expansion and contraction causing breakdown of the wood fibers, while warping occurs when wood transit…
They have a knob on them that sets it to a specific humidity level, which I believe is 55 or 60 percent.
>Allowing the moisture to increase back to previous levels may reverse some or most of the warping that has occurred
Warping has already occurred on the joists due to the ridiculous levels of humidity in the crawl space, this is just more warping occurring. I'm talking like 90% or more humidity down there, and the moisture content of the joists were at 21% and mold was growing all over. At this point, I'm willing to take warping over the other path, which is having my joists rot out. Encapsulation is part 1, and part 2 will happen next year in the winter where I'll get beams and jacks installed.
> basically what would your ideal job be Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job? > would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated? How does a job contribute to 'society'? Who works to contribute to society? What company exists to 'contribute to society'? Has 'hacker' news become so cynical to believe one's existence is about finding…
It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question.
If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary.
I am quite surprized how few people are proposing to make art or music. Is this why artists/musicians can't make money, because so few people enjoy it? I always thought it was the digitization and easy access that allowed us to enjoy these things from our homes (instead of going out to clubs), but maybe not. Anyway, for the record, I would be recording my lifetime backlog songs I've written. And probably re-recording…
Currently, I’ve been on a sabbatical for two years. In that time, I’ve spent a good amount traveling and living in other areas. I’m living in NYC mostly rather than SF.
I’m interested in having a family and have been single for a few years. So, that’s why I moved to NYC. I simply couldn’t meet enough single women back in SF. The ratio is really bad in SF. In NYC it’s tolerable. (Check out census data - table b12002)
That’s what I would do because it’s what I’ve done. I’d spend all my free time looksmaxxing and looking for a partner. It’s not a trivial task. I offered my closest friends in SF over $500k if they introduced me to my future wife but no one could even think of a single woman they knew who was single. I wasn’t being facetious - I was 100% willing to offer that matchmaker fee but they knew there was no one. Thus, I had to move and here I am.
It’s better but hard to find someone who is marriage material here. Also, the standards women have here are outlandish given what they bring to the table. I’ve met several women who don’t even make $100k who demand a millionaire husband - lol. That level of delusion is just commonplace.