StrangeATractor

Not a fair comparison, Newsom has a substantial portion of his money directly tied to the fate of this bank. If this were a legal case a judge would have to recuse himself.

As someone about to be in the market for something like this, propriety lockout is a complete deal breaker for me.

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That sounds like a security nightmare tbh.

FFS nobody's called CPS?

My first non-trivial bash script was a CLI frontend for an MPV daemon that used regex to manipulate the playlist. It also had all the basic controls you'd expect from a music player. Kind of like a CLI quod-libet. That thing was awesome.

Sadly it was lost in a when the HDD crashed and I never got around to remaking it because reasons.

They don't have the connections.

Ted was a different matter, lol

Even Sylvia Plath got rejected. Her success was a small part of talent (a skill which she refined magnificently), but mostly a fanatical work ethic and she didn't let rejection by publishers get her down.

Ask around and do internet research. Firms will usually have bios for their partners on their websites which will give you an idea of their caliber. Find the firm that has partners with SCOTUS cases under their belt (preferably winning them), or winning cases for 9 or 10 digit estates. They may cost >=$1000/hour but their skills and network are priceless when you need them.

You don't need a connection to get a foot in the door with them but it doesn't hurt.

Firms will often handle a range of issues, for example estate, trust, and real estate law (along with other things), which would be the people with the connections you're looking for. It also helps if you have a legal problem that needs dealing with. Go in for setting up a will or a trust and ask for some help finding somebody you can trust to help you manage that stuff (CPA, accountant, bank, broker, etc).

Be prepared to leave a good impression though. Nobody wants to share connections if you make them look bad.

If you get set up with a good legal firm they'll point you in the right direction. A lot of people who get ripped off got tied up in some shady dealings but a good attorney will not only have connections, they'll keep you with people who pass the sniff test.

Yeah I think it was the French specifically around that time with the post structuralist influence, and the humanities in America that imported a lot of that thought and language. I'm not well versed in the school of thought by any means though.

I thought so too at first, but I've seen more than a few French speakers say the situation is just about the same in French.

Anyone interested in this should read Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulation is more relevant than ever. A warning, he has great ideas but he is a terrible writer. So bad that I wonder if it's intentional to make the reader think more about it.

You see this pattern with almost anyone who is proficient at almost anything. Start with something in the simplest, smallest or most general way you can and master it, then build from there.

Mathematicians and physicists make a career out of this, but it works with almost anything, including sports.

I have to confess I was partly inspired by ZK to start doing this, but by doing it for transitory notes and putting it into my day-to-day habits I feel like I've gained super powers. It's less effort to use a timestamp as a UUID for everything and I don't have to think about how to organize them until natural patterns emerge which I can sort by with lists, or refine into a more focused note. I can also remember roughly when I was thinking of something, even years later, and zero in on the note based off of that if I can't find it through links or lists.

ZK, to me, requires a lot more focus and energy. It's not very well suited for, say, taking notes while you're on the phone or in teleconference. They aren't mutually exclusive, they just have different uses (I also have a ZK).

To clarify: If all smartphones were basically just an encyclopedia, instant messenging and music device I think they would be much better for people. Currently, most time on a smartphone is spent engaging with the attention economy, which I think is where most of the real poison lies.

I think even if you got rid of the attention economy though, smartphones would still have negative consequences. A smartphone will help you kill some time, even if you're just browsing wikipedia. I think sometimes it's good to be bored, it can spur you into doing something new. Now we don't get bored, we get placated.

I love legal pads instead of bound notebooks because you can tear off and rearrange pages so they can be with other relevant notes, also the top spiral makes it easy to put in my backpack.

Do yourself a favor though, and time stamp each page down to the minute when you start writing (eg: 20230310T1029).

You can:

- Link between notes. Also enables you to specify the previous or next page in your notes which is useful if they get shuffled.

- Save a stack of relevant notes by making a list of their links on a separate page before filing the notes away chronologically -- you can link to the list itself if you want to link to the group of notes.

- Have a TODO list for a certain date? Link to it from your calendar.

- You can save time by writing only the significant digits (eg: if the note page you're writing on and the page you're linking to share the same year and month, only write the day and time in the link).

- You can add line numbers or paragraph numbers if the situation demands it, and append, say, "LN23," or "¶5" to the timestamp to get specific.

It's a simple system but enables a lot of complex patterns in your note taking system.

It's funny the lengths I've seen people go to on HN to make everyone and their kid suddenly given a smartphone not a big deal at all, which couldn't possibility have any ramifications for mental health or development.

I heard a tale in the days of yore where a radio station was not getting the range promised by the laws of physics. When they did some investigating they found an engineer that lived next door to the tower was syphoning power from the radio waves as part of a home experiment.

I'm not qualified to determine the plausibility of this, but I hope it's true.

Do you have outdoor cameras? What did you do for weatherproofing?

These are mostly for managing your baseline anxiety levels:

Valerian capsules help, but get a good brand like Oregon's Wild Havest, valerian tends to pick up lead in the ground. Valerian helps a lot with panic attacks, too.

Make a habit of drinking rooibos tea. After it builds up in your system it counters cortisol (in my experience, very effectively). Mountain Rose Herbs sells quality rooibos.

Cut out caffeine, or try to limit it to green tea. Green tea has L-theanine in it, which helps with anxiety. I'd like to point out that caffeine doesn't leave your system completely for quite a while and reduces your quality of sleep leading to cognitive decline over time.

Eat well, sleep well and go outside more, preferably involving vigorous exercise.

(I have no affiliation with the brands mentioned above but if you're going the herbal route, quality is an important factor and those brands have worked quite well for me)

A slightly different take is that it's easier to police people's language than to try to change the world.