bproctor

I've lived 40+ years in several places in the northern US, mostly in rural areas and this isn't my experience at all.

Having wasted 6 years of my life intensively working to create an algorithmic trading system (and failing to make it consistently profitable), what they have here is the easy part. You need a system for discovering strategies. That's were almost all your effort will go. The simulator for backtesting, integrating with a broker, etc. is such a small part of it, if you're serious about it, you're probably better off writing your own.

I still regret missing Michael Scott's 05-05-05 party. It only happens once every billion years.

I don't know what I'm missing, but I've tried to use Time Machine many times over the past decade and every time it's the same thing. After a few weeks, it forgets what it's doing and has to rebuild the backup from scratch.

If you keep prying after "I'm fine... leave me alone" then you'll quickly become the reason for them going from "fine" to "not fine".

As a former TSA agent, it's most definitely theater. We used to practice by trying to hide something and see if we could get through. The xray operator didn't stand a chance even when they knew it was coming. This was over 10 years ago so maybe it's improved? I doubt it.

Well sure, if you're writing a generic CSV parser, it's very complicated. But if you know what your input looks like, CSV can be one of the simplest format to parse.

I thought he explained why not in the second paragraph.

I think the analogy to energy is pretty good. Like the FizzBuzz thing, you can also build a machine that has a lot of energy but doesn't accomplish anything useful.

Agree, I love the idea and wanted to make this work for my home, but from personal experience I'd say most people would find this more trouble than it's worth.

I wrote something very similar to this a couple years ago for our household. It runs on a raspberry pi and uses a barcode scanner and when we go shopping we scan everything in and then scan things out as we use them. We live far away from town and shopping trips are rare, big all day events. It's easy to forget to scan things out and then things that don't have barcodes like vegetables are hard to track so we don't bother. Manually entering it all in and then remembering to remove it while cooking is too much trouble (we tried).

I agree that having a routine is important. But I think what makes the routine is up to the individual, clothes may be important for some, but not for others.

There are a lot of porn friendly payment systems. The big issue is chargebacks and fraud.

Of course they do. This post says nothing to the contrary.

A happy idiot I guess. Since the miserable know-it-all is actually also an idiot, they just don't know it. So they're just a miserable idiot.

Took me a bit to understand, courier doesn't have the bill, the drop does.

Boss: "Courier, deliver this money to <address>, code is 12345678" Courier: at <address>, "Hey Drop, what is the code?" Drop: "Code is 12345678" Courier: "That's correct, Here's you're money" Drop: Tears bill in half and hands part with serial number to Courier as proof