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Emphasis on "In its simplest form"

I read that as "in general" it is accepted that one shouldn't spend more than what one can afford. Generally on luxury. But if it's a necessary need. Then you will indeed need to make a deal with the sharks.

I'll copy paste the last paragraph:

> In everything you do, you’re either playing a short term or long term game. You can’t opt out and you can’t play a long-term game in everything, you need to pick what matters to you. But in everything you do time amplifies the difference between long and short-term games. The question you need to think about is when and where to play a long-term game.

The last paragraph:

> In everything you do, you’re either playing a short term or long term game. You can’t opt out and you can’t play a long-term game in everything, you need to pick what matters to you. But in everything you do time amplifies the difference between long and short-term games. The question you need to think about is when and where to play a long-term game. A good place to start is with things that compound: knowledge, relationships, and finances.

And if you have played the short game for awhile already. Then the choice of short vs long is now harder as you point out.

Lifestyle is big factor, imo. There is a lot of things people pay for nowadays that isn't "a must". Especially paying tons of money for a wedding (I never understood why people would go thru all that hassle, but I do appreciate the beauty in it, but too extravagant I think). Paying tons of money for a wedding ring that you would likely drop in a sink or misplace anyway. Any tons more.

Sounds like car dealers.

Horay for Free Market! This is why all our stuff are low quality now as all the brands are actually owned by 1 mega corp.

Nuclear Diamonds[0], sounds cool. Pretty sure this will the most viable as the 1% will surely want to get their hands on this because of Conspicuous consumption [1].

[0] https://climitigation.org/nuclear-diamonds/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

Horray for Free market!

This article feels salty and jealous.

I wish we can design the web better. Maybe a human readable breadcrumb instead of reply?id=18250367&goto=item%3Fid%3D18249755%2318250367

Best to use Brave as your browser. Or even Opera. Both has built-in ad blocker.

Sure they got good financial security, even if you are employed at some unknown third-world software company. You're prospects are still very good compared to a blue-colar.

However, financial security is not the only thing you need in life to be happy.

Ok, not ruined. But denial in creative fulfillment. Imagine working so hard to finish your music record, only to be destroyed by illegitimate forces.

If he is saying it because he simply wants to point this fact out (or even brag about it), and do not care doing anything about it. Then not so humble IMO.

It is however still a merit that somebody raises it. It's probably the biggest Elephant in the room that there ever was. Especially if you are born in the third-world slums paying rent to the slumlord.

Cause Russian meddling.

Not with NATO all over the place.

Oh I heard about the US backing off Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Treaties. And it's probably because of Russian hackers.

The hand that was dealt to you when you were born is probably the biggest luck factor of all.

In this context, what do you think of Datomic? Wish they make it the usual open source with a paid version with more features.

> a chicken-and-egg problem

The way I see it. Large corporations have the golden egg laying hen. And plebian project like PostgREST have little to no chance.

Lower tech access to the image:

https://i.imgur.com/o0Dtkai.png

Another analogy would be is working with different client. Every client has their own domain and can be very interesting. You'd however might need to quit and change jobs if currently in a company focused on one product/client/domain.

One of my previous companies was about writing automated betting software for Horse Racing. Interesting.

And for sure there are lots more domain.

And we would have probably reached Alpha Centauri by now.

Most doctors I've talked to, my Pulmonologist, and doctors that do the checkup during company required medical checkups talked like robots. Saying the same sentences every patient every day gets old fast.

I remember one doctor playing his gameboy while waiting for the next patient in his very small examination room.

That looked to me very uninteresting. What do you think?

Edit: My Dad however long ago, a GP, had his own clinic in our remote town. Went to medical missions to an even more remote island riding on a speedboat. That should be interesting.

The world would be a lot nicer when profit is not the goal

So no democracy for the writer that gets paid flat fee?

It's like thinking of Free Market as something beneficial to you as a pleb with a meager capital.

Haha gov't websites and banks here in my country is still best viewed (or only works) in Internet Explorer.

Not totally unrelated: What do you think about the state of Ethereum and it's progress and Brave + BAT?

Also just in case you you've checked other blockchain-like projects, are they legit?

For more of this, I recommend this podcast:

https://softskills.audio/

Called Soft Skills Engineering Podcast. It's hosted by two seasoned developers whom experience becoming managers. It's hilarious.

I listen to it when I commute with earpohones, then and suddenly laugh like a wirdo.

I suggest reading this comment from one of the dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072

> There's a lot of people that ended up bankrupt, in a bottomless depression, turned to drug abuse or committed suicide.

Ain't this what Americans say when describing Communism?