SheepSlapper

You might have luck on the other side of the bay (Alameda is where I'd live if I ever went back) or far enough south out of the city. But no matter what cost of living will be higher than it should be.

This kind of pragmatism is useful in all aspects of life.

The tools are different but the ideas are the same.

The problem isn't the extreme cases, it's the every day ones. Opiates are being massively over-prescribed in cases where OTC medicine or a shot of whiskey would suffice, and this over-prescription is a driving force behind the addiction epidemic.

If you're watching the media then I assume you saw the article today about the bigoted statements that occurred last month at the Air Force academy? Turns out the "victims" were the ones that wrote those messages> Because claiming victimhood status is socially beneficial these days.

Not to say there aren't real problems out there, but we're deep in "boy who cried wolf" territory.

At my first startup the culture was really great (in the beginning, at least) and the product was really cool. I had more fun working in that office than I would if I had been going out every night after work instead, so the 12 hour days didn't seem intrusive.

At my second startup, it was the complete opposite. The culture sucked, and the product sucked. Which is why I put in what you're calling "bank hours" for a year and then left. Lots of the people there worked much, much longer days than I, and it's because they either believed in the product or they had responsibilities outside of work keeping them there (wife, kids, etc).

Just a few anecdotal observations that (so far) held true for all the places I've worked.

That being said, I'm not sure how this will work as a service. How often does your average man go shopping for clothes, really? I could see personally using this service once, and a small percent of men would maybe use it once a year. And only men without girlfriends/girl friends/mothers/sisters/whatever would even consider this an option.

It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Good luck to ya :)

Or if you're in my area and need cigarettes, you drive to the nearest reservation and buy them tax free (which like you point out, makes a huge difference). This one is a little bit more of a legal gray area, but that never stopped anyone.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

I know people that rent to own, and while part of me is screaming "WTF, save up for a couple of months" inside, another part understands the thought process that gets you things like couches NOW but at 4x the cost.

https://github.com/time4popcorn/popcorntime-desktop

https://github.com/time4popcorn/popcorntime-android

Are all unavailable, citing the DMCA request. So... that's probably Github's response.

I was out of commission for about a week after that. The whole right side of my face was swollen, and I couldn't see out of that eye for most of that time. It looked like I got in a fight and lost :)

And that was the last time I went into a hive without a veil.

What changes is you stop caring about being stung after a while, and you build up an immunity to it (stings start to swell less and clear up faster). And you learn to know when the hive is getting real angry, and it's time to back off for a while. But bees will be bees, and they sting things that mess with them.

For example, I built a distributed video transcoding system a few years back, and for the use case at the time it worked great. But let's say people want a new video format? That's a large rewrite. Want to add more servers into the worker pool? That's a large rewrite (the code was written to assume a 1:1 ratio of certain servers, which was dumb).

Basically anything that you might want to change was made harder by the code that I wrote to get the job done initially. Over the years you start to recognize that, and write your code a little smarter and more change tolerant (hopefully introducing less technical debt).

I also just sold a TF2 hat for $56... not sure how I feel about that one. http://i.imgur.com/Loqrvbw.png

The downside is that it's popular (thus a target), and left unpatched or unprotected it's easy to mess something up and become part of those Viagra ad rings ;) I've hosted, set up, or fixed dozens of WordPress blogs, and a few have been compromised for one reason or another (you find lots of PHP shells in upload directories).

Not to mention the fact that once you get outside the basic use case (blogging), and/or you start using plugins, things get convoluted FAST. There're a million plugins for WP, and if you're lucky the one you pick will do exactly what you want. But chances are it won't, and you'll spend hours digging through spaghetti code to get it to work for you.

Places like http://www.blueapron.com or https://www.plated.com will send you fresh ingredients pre-portioned, and then you spend < 30 minutes preparing your meal. And you can get decently healthy snacks through something like https://naturebox.com that are more "feed me like a hamster".

But if you're not rolling in the dough, then learning how to make a handful of quick/easy meals is going to be the healthiest/cheapest option. Cooking doesn't have to be hard or time consuming, especially when you consider leftovers :)

What will be really interesting to see is how the state can compete with the existing growers/dealers RE: price. Right now to buy marijuana legally in Spokane it's about $700/oz. Your friendly neighborhood dealer will have it for $200. As it is now, there's not a lot of incentive for the old growers/dealers to go legal, because it'll cut into their profits (and their customers won't want to pay more anyway).

But I just moved back to Washington, and there's no way you could do without a car here. The busses only cover about half the city, and they're few and far between (and they only run until 10pm). I'm 10 minutes away from a grocery store by car, so walking is out of the question. Cities that aren't packed full of people don't have a reason to invest in their public transit systems, because the payoff isn't worth the cost (there's just too much space to cover for so few people).

I just moved away from the Bay Area for this exact reason. I went from making $120k a year to $85k a year, but in Washington I can get a decent family home for $150k. The Bay Area can't come remotely close to matching that kind of deal, even with the ludicrous salaries.

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In this case the serial comma isn't creating any ambiguity, the bad writing is (and the serial comma shifts the ambiguity to the second/third item being listed). When they suggest a better way to write the example sentence, it uses the Oxford comma both times (though I'd argue that the second sentence isn't a solution).

I agree that nothing is ever absolute (hah), but the Oxford comma takes care of ambiguities most of the time, and merely shifts the ambiguity around when appositive phrases are thrown into the mix. And reducing ambiguity should be the goal of every writer.

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I got both the smallest Wikipedia page I've ever seen, and the one with worst "words I understand" to "words that make me go 'huh?'" ratio I've come across.