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  1. Comment on What are some hilarious moments you have experienced in games? in ~games

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    Lots of funny bugs in GTA5. I had ended up in the wilderness somewhere and was trying to run back towards civilization. Somehow my character ragdolled and very slowly was falling down a river bed...

    Lots of funny bugs in GTA5. I had ended up in the wilderness somewhere and was trying to run back towards civilization. Somehow my character ragdolled and very slowly was falling down a river bed type are. It seemed like it lasted several minutes with the character constantly tripping and rag rolling further down the very slight incline. Kind of like the insurance missions in Saints Row.

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  3. Comment on Scale AI co-founder says the FIRE movement inspired her to live ‘very cheaply’ on McDonald’s and free flights until she made $10 million in ~finance

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    Not sure how applicable this is to most people but I liked the idea of asking a private equity firm about their investments that are growing the fastest. Have others had experience in approaching...

    Not sure how applicable this is to most people but I liked the idea of asking a private equity firm about their investments that are growing the fastest. Have others had experience in approaching wealth building this way?

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  5. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Fantastic series. I personally loved Tai Pan and Noble house the most. King Rat is probably the least fictional but also fairly distressing so I've only read it once.

    Fantastic series. I personally loved Tai Pan and Noble house the most. King Rat is probably the least fictional but also fairly distressing so I've only read it once.

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  6. Comment on How do you parent boys? in ~life.men

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    It is more of a reaction to how many "mother" books there are. I agree most child-raising information is pointlessly gendered in that it assumes that the reader is the mother.

    It is more of a reaction to how many "mother" books there are. I agree most child-raising information is pointlessly gendered in that it assumes that the reader is the mother.

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  7. Comment on How do you parent boys? in ~life.men

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    Thank you for the insight. I think you've touched on an important are: how to do a better job than our parent(s) did. I've been trying to think through how to balance providing confidence without...

    Thank you for the insight. I think you've touched on an important are: how to do a better job than our parent(s) did. I've been trying to think through how to balance providing confidence without going to far. Focusing on congratulating hard work and effort over phrases like "you did so well!"

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  8. Comment on How do you parent boys? in ~life.men

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    "How do you parent boys" is a much better phrase. My mind was thinking "preparing a son to be an adult" but that sounded overly wordy. I am trying to be a good role model and am very interested in...

    "How do you parent boys" is a much better phrase. My mind was thinking "preparing a son to be an adult" but that sounded overly wordy. I am trying to be a good role model and am very interested in others' approach to raising boys.

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  9. How do you parent boys?

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    I would be interested in tips, thoughts, and experiences folks have had with raising sons. I work in healthcare (in finance) and am acutely aware that most of my colleagues are women, as were most...

    I would be interested in tips, thoughts, and experiences folks have had with raising sons. I work in healthcare (in finance) and am acutely aware that most of my colleagues are women, as were most of my teachers, and class mates in college. With this in mind, it seems that the feminine side of raising sons is well represented. I've been reading and soul searching about good practices for the father of a son but would welcome all perspectives. Another interesting aspect is that I've found many parenting books to be focused on mothers rather than fathers. The few I've found that are focused tend to be religious/ Christian. Nothing wrong with that but would like to hear the collected wisdom here. To be clear I am hoping to get specific thoughts and actions rather than a broad topic with concepts and ideals.

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  10. Comment on Any BBS sysops here from back in the day? in ~comp

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    Fascinating insight - thanks for sharing. I feel like I missed out on this history as my first experience with the internet was AOL. By the time I was in college, Ethernet NIC cards were in use...

    Fascinating insight - thanks for sharing. I feel like I missed out on this history as my first experience with the internet was AOL. By the time I was in college, Ethernet NIC cards were in use though I'm sure they were fairly slow compared to today. Every so often I think it would be fun to get a modem and either connect to or run a BBS locally.

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  11. Comment on Are we stuck on a innovation plateau - and did startups burn through fifteen years of venture capital with nothing to show for? in ~tech

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    I was probably overly contrarian in my response as I generally agree with the examples you gave. Meal delivery in particular is overly expensive, in my opinion, for the value proposition. Pay 3x...

    I was probably overly contrarian in my response as I generally agree with the examples you gave. Meal delivery in particular is overly expensive, in my opinion, for the value proposition. Pay 3x the price of the meal for tip and various service fees to save yourself the 10-30 minutes of going to get your own food. I have not used an AirBnB myself though I have heard many people complain about them and the various rules. I've found that hotels still meet most of my requirements and the prices haven't been much different for a property.

    I think the area I would most push back on is ride sharing. I found traditional cabs to be inconvenient and expensive. Even worse are the shared vans for transport to/from the airport. Now I can order a car and generally get where I am going at a nice midpoint between the cost to drive myself and what I would have paid for a cab. This is especially a savings for both time and money when parking is involved.

    With that said, I agree these are all incremental "innovations" rather than something truly new. If anything, they've joined common services into an easily accessible marketplace as phone apps. Nothing too unique there except requiring a proprietary app which does not invite competition. Honestly it was a stretch to think of disruptive technologies rather than incremental changes. I think there would be a lot more if technology played better together. I'm not sure what smart fridges do but I would bet they don't scan in my grocery receipt and let me know that I should drink more milk before it goes bad.

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  12. Comment on Are we stuck on a innovation plateau - and did startups burn through fifteen years of venture capital with nothing to show for? in ~tech

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    I would argue this is somewhat reductionist and minimizes many of the upsides we've seen recently. Working from home is not only possible but a material part of the workforce thanks to advances...

    I would argue this is somewhat reductionist and minimizes many of the upsides we've seen recently. Working from home is not only possible but a material part of the workforce thanks to advances with telepresence, broadband speed, and ubiquitous intuitive technologies such as Zoom. I can order almost anything, be it physical or digital, and have it delivered quickly. Information flow is easy on a worldwide scaler and really only limited by timezones (as in I might need to wait for the other party if they are asleep).

    There is some merit to the argument that we have had an exaggerated economy due to easy money. Businesses that could prosper from low interest rates and easy access to VC fund raising will be less feasible and some will fail. We saw something similar with the dotcom bubble in 1999-2000. So while pets.com (I believe) didn't make it, Amazon did. It was a similar time of gogo technology and easy money throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck.

    There are many areas that have thrived and are arguably better than they ever were such as music. Subscription services are very reasonable and retro tech such as vinyl are highly accessible. Now a fan can listen to music, but the latest album, follow an artists tweets and find concert tickets with ease. Middlemen such as ticketmaster are making this less reasonable than it should be but that is more of a failure to ensure competition rather than the fault of technology.

    I would say that the best comparison is to look at the office imagined "present day" in Back to the Future" or "20,000 leagues under the see". These works of fiction imagined many great things which we don't have (where's my Mr. Fusion?) but also missed out on many of the luxury items we take for granted such as pocket cell phones and Wikipedia. Still, I think where have had most of the investment and incremental improvements are not necessarily what we would look for. Facebook and YouTube I'm sure have robust user engagement technology whereas our space tourism and clean fuels seem stagnant.

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