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AussieWog93
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I come from Australia. I am a Wog. I was born in 1993.
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- I'm not affiliated with mxroute, just a new customer that heard good things.
I am aware that HN is not Ozbargain, but holy moly you can't deny that this is something that "good hackers would find interesting".
- >Work on your project one day a week.
I have successfully bootstrapped several online business and absolutely, 100% this.
It'll either fail, stay a side project forever ($1k/mo isn't bad if you only need to put in 30 mins work per week on maintenance!), or reach the point where quitting your job becomes brain-dead obvious (for me, it was when the one day a week side hustle was pulling in 33% of the income as the 50 hour a week day job).
If you already have a decent job, there's no real need to risk everything and eat shit for years so you can have a crack at the big time.
Your idea is either good or bad, and part of business savvy is evaluating the idea without dumping millions of dollars/thousands of hours into a pit.
- Same in Australia!
- I've written a device and driver side USB stack, not even bare metal and it took several weeks of attempts and hundreds of pages of reading (mostly USB complete by Jan Axelson, this site is also good but just not as in-depth) to get right and there are still parts of it I don't fully understand.
Call it 15 hours to get a "ping" signal across, and another 15 to get data travelling at full speed with proper SOF handling.
Nowhere near as simple as something like I2C that you can get a complete understanding of in an afternoon.
- As opposed to Japan? US workers are pretty famous for being hyper-productive and highly skilled...
- >$28K per homeless person in the city per year to "address homelessness"
Do you have a source for that number, or similar numbers for other cities? I believe you, just wondering if there's a breakdown or something. It's absolutely bonkers to imagine.
- >Colleagues in workplace started buying and were receiving commission by referencing next client.
You can blame the West as much as you want, but it sounds like Poles were stabbing Poles in the back too.
- Looks like 50% of those scams could be eliminated simply by the general public not accepting cheques.
I don't think I've seen one here for at least a decade and a half, same for signatures with credit cards.
- You could make a similar argument about capitalism. We _should_ have grown past it by now, but we haven't, and every time we try to invent a replacement system we end up making things worse.
You can see the ethical decay unfolding in real-time as societies turn replaced the old, rigorously tested system of religion with shiny new secular ethics.
- >IMHO it should be possible for musk to run Twitter singlehandedly all by himself if He has no intention to change anything.
Not sure if this was a Freudian slip, but love the capital "He" here as if Musk is on the same level as God.
- I always assumed this was a purely Aussie phenomenon, but I guess it makes sense that it's more of an "informal speech" thing than a regional ism.
- >It sounds like men should either not get married, or if they do, then endeavor quite seriously to keep their wives happy.
I'm happily married, and in the sense of being counter-cultural would be in completely the other end of the spectrum (very conservative about family, intend on having 6-8 kids that I will cherish even when they're adults).
That said, I think you've hit the nail on the head about "happy wife, happy life".
It's important to basically dedicate your life to being in service to her, but on the flip side it's important for her to do the same.
This level of dedication is almost counter-cultural in a sense, because you're not putting yourself first, but it's absolutely worth it in the long run.
On a visceral level, you feel always loved, always important, always worthy.
- I'm not sure this is the general case. In the case of most divorced couples I know of, the "monster" tends to be whichever party I'm less close to.
- >The best way to manage those people is to fire them as fast as possible.
Depending on the country you're in, this can be really difficult legally.
- For a website? Wordpress honestly works pretty well if you don't install 20+ plugins.
- Condensing GPs wall of text, I think the overall point is that Aspies are bad at ascribing motivation and mental states to neurotypicals, but much better than neurotypicals at ascribing them to other Aspies.
It's more a case of speaking different "emotional languages" than a strict deficit.
- Come on man. This article is about autoimmune diseases, not witty quips about trans women.
- We had fake nudes back in the day but not full blown photorealistic videos depicting hardcore sex acts.
There's definitely a difference there.
- If you have a Mac, the full screen mode with virtual desktops is fantastic.
i3wm achieves something similar on Linux.
- C _is_ the most productive language for certain tasks!
- Slight tangent: I've noticed that robot waiters seem to never actually be doing their jobs, and the presence of one in the store is the sign of the restaurant being poorly managed.
The idea that there could be hucksters selling these door to door to bad managers explains so so much.
- Really enjoy the irony that an article complaining about how technology ruined dining shoves a full-page popup in your face while you're halfway through the article.
- Not saying you're wrong, but I really think you've overlooked the cultural shift towards individualism.
Maybe not so much in the 1920s, but in WW1 men would lie about their age so they'd have the opportunity to fight for the empire. Family, nation and duty came before self-actualisation and security.
- Are you actually a parent? That seems like a very warped view.
- I don't have PTSD, but do struggle with other health complications.
Focusing on the aspects of your health you can control (diet, exercise, to at least some extent sleep) won't cure you, but it'll make it easier to cope with the problems you have.
If you haven't already, by the way, look into melatonin. I get a couple of bottles of the liquid from a company in the US called Pure Nootropics, and a 0.25ml under the tongue every evening really helps me fall asleep and stay asleep.
- >How would you react if somebody tells you to head to a mosque because you are not feeling well?
Personally, I'd thank them for showing a genuine welcoming kindness and sharing something that has made their life much richer.
- I'm guessing you're a fair bit older than me, but from my experience when someone unexpected calls/messages it's almost always a scammer or spammer.
Of course, these people probably only make up <1% of phone users but >99% of unsolicited calls.
I wish we had some better system of just kicking them off of our networks altogether (permabans tied to real name?), so we could get value out of random interactions like the Maasai do.
- It means he can now get health insurance again, which means access to Multiple Sclerosis drugs he requires to walk.
He is also able to afford rent and food.
For a lot of people, a gift is not a gift but an invitation to abuse, and it's hard to be rational or pro-social about it when you were on the receiving end of that as a child.