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It's the kind of list an LLM might make up.
Stephenson's tokens were expensive, which explains the skipped endings.
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Did everyone like this Stephensen in this thread? I read Cryptonomicon and Seveneves, mostly. They slogged for me a bit. But I love what he writes about, so willing to try another one (even if he doesn't have an editor). It sounds like this could be topical 2027 read. I have a long summer ahead of me.
Big fan of Snow Crash. For background I liked Cryptonomicon a lot but also found Seveneves to be a bit of a slog. I would check out The Diamond Age as well if you’re generally taking Stephenson book recommendations.
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Sorry about your family’s experience with the Healthcare Industrial Complex. It’s really designed to drain every last dime. As bleak as it sounds I made sure to take a long vacation last year at the spur of the moment. Tomorrow isn’t promised and you might save for a retirement that you never see. I hope to do this every time I’m laid off or otherwise with an abundance of free time
Like all things, there's a balance between spending everything now and planning for the future. I always tell my kids that they won't inherit much cash, but they're having a great time with all of the vacations and fun equipment we have. We will have enough money to retire and live for 30-35 years at most, frugally, and 15-20 if we really go nuts. I'll be dead waaaaayyyy before that, so it'll be up to my spouse to pi…
After seeing how fast my family wasted the proceeds of an estate that took 60 years to build, I don't think leaving a large amount of money is a great idea.
A certain someone just didn't want to work, and while that's fine if you invest the money and move to Vietnam, it won't sustain you if you want to stay in America.
I'm sure your spouse would rather party with you today vs having no you and a lot of money. Can you retire today ?
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I did find this odd at first too, but then I realized something: it's a pain to maintain a device. Customizing it to the way you like it is not only a waste of time, it's tedious and never ends in an age where defaults are often adversarial to your interests. It's enough work taking care of one pet/kid, you might not want another. Now I'm a nerd and I went through a realization that I should treat my devices as 'live…
"your employer won't provision you a Linux with root" - there's your problem!
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i care that my data isnt being sold i dont really care that i get targeted ads, in fact i prefer targeted ads vs. ones that are of no use to me
Really do you care that your daughters are being advertised beauty products at the exact moment that they delete a photo because it's likely that they're feeling low self esteem at that moment? Because that's a service that you used to be able to buy from Meta.
and social media is probably bad