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-Visceral reminder that you carry all your old baggage with you wherever you go. Sometimes I'd wonder why I'm not happier sitting in paradise, doing what I've dreamed about for years. Sitting at a picture-perfect Thai sunset or Vietnamese beach and not feeling that much more content than I did back...

There is a car price guide here called Parkers which just celebrated 50 years in existence. As part of that they compared the price of the median car when they started to the modern equivalent. The price had increased by twice the rate of inflation, approximately inline with the increase in earning...

They are always available, cheap, fun, no hangover. Once you know that, you are doomed. I don't think it's that much of a problem. For me personally, it's almost impossible to find a new game I'd enjoy. Most are simply in genres I never had interest in, or are a reskin/ripoff of a game I already kn...

@jacob I'm around five years younger than you, so I missed the entire BBS thing. I got on the relatively early stages of Internet though (from 1996 onwards IIRC), and I think it greatly expanded my horizons. For one thing, I participated in discussions with people much older and mature from me on va...

I'm struggling to come up with something that cellphones+computers+internet have added other than convenience. Most humans don't use computers as computers ... Internet made knowledge universal, which disproportionally helped people who can take advantage of knowledge being available to them (i.e. ...

@Scott, if you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to do well in a demanding tech executive job with both ADHD and autism? It seems that either one of them would be a serious obstacle for such job (autisms makes it hard to read and influence people, while ADHD hinders general execution).

Full size truck from the 80s or 90s with a v8. An ERE peak-oiler in a v8 truck would be quite a sight. However, one could argue that, if not driven often, taking the v8 off the market would be actually doing the world a favor, as it would minimize the waste (vs a counterfactual scenario, where some...

ETA: I have sometimes wondered about the tradeoff of getting a much newer vehicle with low mileage and keeping it alive for as long as possible versus a treadmill of used cars at 8-12 year old range. Tough to analyze even when considering depreciation schedules…newer vehicles have better safety fea...

Let's keep an eye out for an increase in bear maulings.

I'm not entirely sure if this story is an inspiration or a cautionary tale, but nevertheless it's interesting. It's about a guy relentlessly pursing his art while making little to no money:

https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/it ... man-wilson

Nearly done with my last assignment. I still feel I owe this subject (Mathematics at large) more attention, too much skimming the surface the last year and a half. In particular, this module I am doing now is a brand new one and the amount of 'we state this without proof' makes my heart sink. I did...

Thanks for suggestions. It's not that easy to be cat-like while weighting 95 kg (I guess tigers are gracious even at 300 kg, but humans aren't tigers :). I think my downstairs neighbor is working 7-to-3 during the week, I can fit the excercise then. I have a lingering, chronic shoulder and Achilles ...

Speaking of burpees, is anyone doing them while living in an apartment? Any particular tips on how to not annoy the neighbors?

Given how cheap "brainpower on a mission" is, finding a way to find it while avoid corrupting of the selection process by Goodhart's law, might make establishing such a think tank much less expensive. Maybe we should start paying select people to move to ERE City... you see the strategy, ...

In the short term, at least in northwestern Europe, coal is more expensive than natural gas . That is without taking any other factors into account, like carbon footprint externalities or demand surge adjustment. Both of those are in favour of natural gas. I'm not sure what you mean by "taking...

How would a European hedge this ending of fossil fuel with no good alternatives on the immediate horizon and the catastrophes resulting from demographic decline that Zeihan predicts? I don't see a way other that slowly backing out of the anti-fossil fuel policies, with plenty of political turmoil a...

If the answer is "because our body feels bad and we're not doing that super cool thing we've dreamed of since we were kids" I encourage you to follow that advice and if the answer is "because playing video games and eating cheetos makes someone a bad and lazy person," I encourag...

For me, the most interesting of his recent videos was his prediction that Poland will dominate its major neighbors (Russia and Germany), possibly even taking some territory from Russia. It seems so unlikely that if it happens, he's a geopolitics uber-genius. I'm not betting on it though.

(This is a fairly crude split and usually there will be a transition. For example, 1950s style transition from traditionalism to modernism would be the idea of the man of the house going to work and supporting the housewife who in turn support the children.) That wasn't universal. Communist Eastern...

I would also experiment with handwashing by agitating the clothes in the water + washing powder - letting the clothes soak in there for fifteen to thirty minutes - agitate them a little more - drain the soapy water - rinse with several batches of clean water (agitate the clothes in it) until no mor...