Processed food and high sugar diets are killing us.
These foods are addictive, and ubiquitous. A well informed and smart american would still have a problem switching over to whole food only. (Where the ingredient label only says one thing).
Fun fact! One way mirrors are actually bi-directional. You get the one way effect by having one side being much dimmer than the other side.
The same amount of light passes through from each side. But the side that’s brighter basically can’t see the dim light coming through the mirror from the dim side.
It’s like standing outside on a very sunny day, looking inside a building, but just seeing a dark hole in the building… It’s so bright, your eyes are adapted for the bright light, so even though you know there’s a light on inside the building, you can’t see it. Same principle
And if you’re one of the people who can crack a beer open with the owners of Google, then you found your right community.
However, in the general case, I don’t think these count is any individuals communities. You can’t rub elbows with the people maintaining Google and Facebook. You can’t talk to them about issues you’re having, they’re not going to dynamically modify the system for special cases that are important to your community. A community is a group of people who know each other.
Right. I think the real vision isn’t that every single person self-hosts, but every community has somebody in it who does the self-hosting for the community. Everybody can be independent like villages instead of totally centralized like empires
The Patriot act required banks to know their customers, explicitly knowing their place of residence. For people who have a non-standard place of residence, digital nomads, homeless people, etc it becomes difficult
I spent about 4 years traveling the world working remotely, as a digital nomad you might say. Before the name was popular
Put things I didn’t want to throw away into long-term storage. Had a laptop. Flew from place to place. The most important thing was securing a good internet connection in a place. If I couldn’t get a good connection move on to another place, or back to a known good place.
Libraries, coffee shops, hotels, co-working spaces, all viable options for internet requirements.
Mail digitized through a mailbox service, and emailed to me.
Google voice for an international phone number that just needed internet connection
The day to day living was pretty cool. You could stay in a place as long as you want, you could leave as quick as you want. Finding people was fun. Sometimes you weren’t sure about where you would be, could you book the hotel for more time? If you couldn’t you had to find the next place. So you always had a plan of where you are, and where you want to go next.
There are mailbox services, you get a permanent address, they can email you your mail.
Banks are more sticky, they don’t just want a permanent address, they want your place of residence. If you’re always on the move, you can have an intended place of residence… They may not accept the commercial mailbox service addresses, and in that case most people use a friend or a relative as their official banking location, but use the mailbox service for all of the mail. I live here, but I get mail there. That works for most people
That photo does not prove they actually ate it. None of that food was touched in the photo. Nobody took a nibble. Nobody grabbed a french fry.
What everybody else said, plus availability.
If I need to leave for an emergency trip at 5:00 in the morning, and I wouldn’t print stuff out for immigration before then… I basically need to have a printer at home. To be always available
People are coming over for game night, I’ll just print out a bunch of character sheets… I didn’t have a printer I’d have to plan ahead.
Availability, provides optionality, provides convenience. Making life easier.
But, I’ll concede, when I had available access to 24/7 printers I didn’t buy my own. Only when I lost that access did I buy my own printer
Ikea shelf instead of a rack, but I used metal shelves for better thermals!
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What you’re talking about is shorting the market, that is dangerous to do. Unlimited liability
You buy the dip, not the bump.
We are all made of stardust. We have a little bit of everything inside of us… Probably
Never go to a place because it’s popular, if you wouldn’t go there if nobody else was there, you probably won’t enjoy it when other people are there.
If you have a deep and strong interest in a place or a thing, it’s great to visit no matter what. Low season might be better
you can program without math, but it will be hard to pass a rigorous interview without math.
You should strive to learn symbolic math at least, and make sure you can do all the leet code problems and explanations using whatever math you are comfortable with.
I respectfully disagree, but in glad you have a diet that works for you