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My Life in Weeks
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#222I love how self-centered leftist people are. I have yet to find any trump supporter make a calendar website about their own life. Lol.
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#223Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.
Politicians in the states have more influence and can still do something and effect change. In Europe we're way past that, they are just bureaucrats spinning wheels, extracting value and doing minor changes (some good, some bad), gradually boiling us alive until they extracted any value from society and we collapse.
I like gradual change. I see things here in France changing (for the better mostly) here and there but yes no dramatic shifts. The US model seems irresponsible by comparison.
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#224I think of a friend’s baby who passed away, wouldn’t even complete the first line.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. My advice to young people is -- if you can't figure out what to do in life, make more $$. With enough $$ you will have a world of time to ponder what to do. I also regret that I gave up a FAANG level opportunity because my faily doesn't want me to go to another city. I would hit well over 200K TC by now -- a very comfortable salary in Canada.
Quite the irony that the thread started with reminiscing about life and purpose and needing time and valuing relationships and you guys go into the "need to make more money" spiel. Here comes a secret: It will never be enough for you. It's not the money that counts. It's the ratio of income versus expenses, if anything. And if you grow one and don't stop the other one from growing in unison, then you have gained noth…
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#226Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.
OP is a homosexual ( pls suggest the correct word here) so i think its of special importance to her. i would bet most ppl won't put "cheeto inaugurated" on their life in weeks.
> pls suggest the correct word here
Simply dropping the "a", turning the word from a noun into an adjective, would make the phrase sound more friendly.
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#227I once did the math to figure out, how much space would be required to track my entire life. I thought, I would want to know a couple of things: my location and my activity for every second of my life. Since I generally live relative to the surface of the Earth, my location could be stored in a GPS coord. And since the number of activities I engage in are not that big, I could probably store them as indexes into a ma…
So what's the number?
Assuming a 64 bit number for activities (more than enough, I think!), a 9 character geohash[0], another 64 bits for health (HR, BP, weight, etc.), and you've got 25 bytes per second, 2.2M per day, ~789M per year, and, given 75 years life expectancy (roughly UK average), ~60G per lifetime. Probably just fits on a 64GB USB stick / SD card.
It should probably compress quite well, also.
[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/... claims 4.8m^2 for 9 characters.
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#228I did something similar (also inspired by Buster Benson): https://days.sonnet.io Aaand, here's another one I like: https://days.rory.codes
Yeah, I did one as well (inspired by rory.codes). Was a fun little project but looking at it now, I can see a bunch of improvements I can make.
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#229Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.
Politicians in the states have more influence and can still do something and effect change. In Europe we're way past that, they are just bureaucrats spinning wheels, extracting value and doing minor changes (some good, some bad), gradually boiling us alive until they extracted any value from society and we collapse.
What are you talking about, what value did Merkel extract for example?
I think Europe has done more good for the world than bad in the last few decades. On the other hand we're still feeling the effects of US involvement in the middle east.
As for politicians in the states having influence... congress is supposed to make the laws that the president executes. The joke is that the US is now operating in complete opposition of that. The president rules by decree, congress members have no real influence and would get decimated in a re-election campaign if they act out of favor of the president. I'd say politicans in the US have less influence do effect change, not more. In fact non-politicians like Musk/Thiel have more influence than politicians, that's more the case than it has been in many decades.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing! It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
Although there used to be a time you could be a "successful blogger" and make enough money from advertising that you could focus on it full time. Those days are long behind us.
There are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)