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1yr ago
Sounds like you and your wife have different thresholds. Your wife has a lower threshold for mess and so gets irritated with even a few dirty dishes, which is well below what you'll put up with. Same for the plane tickets, her threshold for buying tickets "at the last minute" is earlier than yours, so she gets jumpy and can't rest until she's bought them.
In my experience these thresholds don't change. They seem intrinsic to a person's psychology. What you can do is acknowledge them and work with them. So if you job is to do the dishes, be aware that this means you have to do them to meet your wife's smaller threshold for "messy kitchen" so that you're both happy.
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1yr ago
Now that you mention it, the only girl to directly ask me for a date was Chinese. And I think 25.
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1yr ago
I have many video files on my windows desktop. How do I watch them in bed on my macbook? I'm guessing this is what a media server is for, is that right? If so, does anyone have recommendations?
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1yr ago
As a kid I had the vague impression that I wouldn't grow up. I just couldn't imagine being an adult.
I understood that I was growing up, every year the number on the cake gets bigger, but I couldn't get my head round the fact that one day I would be 18, or 21, or 30.
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1yr ago
In the words of Joe Biden, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
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1yr ago
Sarno's Healing Back Pain could help, or also see https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/06/26/book-review-unlearn-your-pain/
both are along the same lines as the other comment
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1yr ago
There have been no special moments I can recall, but this year has been very good. Right now I am very content in bed, following our company party earlier today, and with plans to see Oppenheimer tomorrow. So this moment will do just fine.
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1yr ago
Congratulations. I had similar anxiety with checking my email. It was very hard to explain my predicament, even to myself.
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1yr ago
Peter Thiel complains about the lack of ticker-tape parades, as the West goes from definite optimism to indefinite pessimism about the future. I wonder about the cause and effect. Again, wtf happened in 1971?
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1yr ago
Seconding the FIRE reddit. There is also the UK personal finance flowchart and their wiki which I generally endorse.
Assuming you have your bases covered, I would just buy index funds. Pick a diversified fund, stick your money in it and then ignore it for the next five years.
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1yr ago
Are there any low-overhead charities out there where you can mostly-directly send money to poorer people?
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1yr ago
Buy your own Motte & Bailey, comes with 10 bedroom house. Only £1.7MM
https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/bronllys-brecon-powys-ld3/WRC012361727
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1yr ago
My guess is physical space + wealth.
When I watch woodworking videos, I am in awe of the size of these guys' garages and workshops. Google suggests the average US house is 3 times larger than the UK's. Plus these guys have the cash to buy the tools and the wood, and a big truck to transport it all. Americans are just richer.
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1yr ago
Thanks, appreciate the write up. Interesting to see how you're doing things.
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1yr ago
I was experimenting with something similar - an AI accountability buddy/nagbot
Is it mostly steered via the system prompt? How do you interact with it?
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1yr ago
TPOT just means "this part of twitter". Recently there was the second annual Vibe Camp, a tpot meetup, but I don't think there is much more to it than that. I think a lot of it is excitement when people find others that 'get' them.
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1yr ago
The term Lindy comes from Taleb.
Lindy is a deli in New York, now a tourist trap, that proudly claims to be famous for its cheesecake, but in fact has been known for the fifty or so years of interpretation by physicists and mathematicians of the heuristic that developed there. Actors who hung out there gossiping about other actors discovered that Broadway shows that lasted, say one hundred days, had a future life expectancy of a hundred more. For those that lasted two hundred days, two hundred more. The heuristic became known as the Lindy Effect.
https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf
There are two classes: perishables and non-perishables. For humans, the older you get, the more likely you are to die. For non-perishables, it is the opposite. The older a building gets, the more likely it is to survive. In 200 years, the pyramids will still be standing, the Eiffel tower will probably still be there, and those newly erected apartment blocks almost certainly not. Same goes for books, ideas, countries, laws, and so on. Shakespeare will live on longer than the latest Hugo Award winner.
That's the Lindy effect. The adjective lindy is used to describe anything that's old, that has stood the test of time, and thus implied that is it true or useful or valuable. Or at the very least, a certain lens worth applying.
Video games? “Not Lindy.”
Nightclubs? “Lindy. In fact, deep Lindy.”
Sleek midcentury modernism? “Anytime you get away from fractal patterns and ornate details, it’s not Lindy.”
How about sex toys? “Lindy,” he said, adding, by way of explanation, “ancient Egypt.”
The Jeffrey Epstein scandal? “Some rich guy going around and doing criminal behavior and abusing people? It’s pretty Lindy!”
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I didn't know it was an LGBT space until I walked in and saw the pride flags and pro-trans slogans. The meetup had been previously held in a neutral space. But this is just one data point. I can imagine that normies enter a discord server of furries and get put off, but then where do they go? I find it hard to find more 'normal' spaces.
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Do gays have higher IQ? This is news to me.
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No, I don't live in America or a 'liberal' city. But my town is full of students and young people, and we all live in Amerika.
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I don't have strong conviction. More of an assumption on my part. Many may very well be bi, which would fit better with the theory.
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1yr ago
Why are gays over-represented in the arts and creative fields? Even in tech, I go to an artsy coding meetup and it's hosted in an LGBT space. I go to a discord of people building interesting things and they're 50% furries.
I would presume there's a biological/psychological explanation, if the effect is even real, but it's hard to find good answers. My first guess would be the same loosening of priors that allows for creativity also loosens the heterosexuality prior; but then why gay and not bi?
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1yr ago
I believe it. Watch this video to get an idea of what he's doing https://youtube.com/watch?v=509wv0cohgA
A single judge can just pull a number like that out of their ass?
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