Reading a textbook on abstract algebra so I can ground myself to the stability of mathematics. The country, the world, it all changes too quickly but at least this is forever.
Which textbook are you reading? How is it?
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I’m not sure if I agree with your experience, in New York City Obamacare plans are horrendously bad, The coverage comes nowhere near to the crappiest employer plan. I had to hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan, and about only 40% of the doctors really did (this was for a delivery). $1400 per month for a mother and a child. I currently pay $1400 per m…
> hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan How much did this cost? How did you find/arrange it? This is fascinating. When selecting my healthcare I remember wishing I had the time to make so many calls and then just gambled with an educated guess.
I paid him the US minimum wage and that was a bit too much for him for very little work, kinda spoiled him a bit.
I think I paid around $200.
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> hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan How much did this cost? How did you find/arrange it? This is fascinating. When selecting my healthcare I remember wishing I had the time to make so many calls and then just gambled with an educated guess.
I paid him the US minimum wage and that was a bit too much for him for very little work, kinda spoiled him a bit. I think I paid around $200.
How did you find him? An upwork-like platform? Personal connections? How did you vet for english ability/reliability?
I suppose my fascination is that this seems like a 'platonic' example of globalism in action. But in my mental model of globalism, the ability to engage with its benefits are an exponential function of ability to spend public-company amounts of money.
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#864Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video…
For future reference, channel is live here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeeZEadhY0fNoVUgbYPfj3Q
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consider starting a family :-)
Ha! I've considered it and if I found the right woman and we had a relationship that was in the right place I'd definitely do it. But starting a family seems like one of those 'slow and steady wins the race' type of situations.
I have some rich friends who had 4 kids in a short time span. It certainly gave them a full time job. They seem pretty happy.
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Can I ask you what the name of the org is? I really like to teach, I've done it before, and being Brazilian really makes me want to give back to an institution closer to home.
Please add an email to your profile so I can reach out directly - I shouldn't doxx myself that obviously and if I post the name of the org I will
My email is my HN username on the gmail domain, I've also added it to my profile.
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#867Kinda just stare at the sky a lot. Went from a job working 60-80 hours a week nonstop with no expectation of time off if you got a call to one with 1/10th the effort needed for the same pay. Feels surreal at difference in compensation vs effort in, especially because I’m more productive at the new place. Not really sure what to do with all my free time when there’s no fires to put out
reminds me of this story/legend
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#868I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file. Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is…
I have a very small/specific hack I would like applied that I'd be willing to pay for (changing hardcoded joystick button allocations for a 90's game)
Please send me an email if you have time (details in profile).
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Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.
Some jumping off points: https://web3.foundation/ https://dci.mit.edu/decentralizedweb https://berkeley-defi.github.io/f21 Find a DAO aligned with something you like. Join their discord and get engaged. It's really the wild west right now.
The Berkeley course is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing this.