daviross

Average commute in the US is 45 minutes each way, so as long as $25k is ~15% of your income or less, it may not be so bad of a deal as you think. (or total income of ~$167k; which isn't outlandish for even non-megacorp devs with some years under their belt.) And given you're mentioning paying that much for an apartment, I'm guessing you fall closer to that side of things vs. the general average.

This looks/sounds neat, I'll be happy to keep an ear out on how you're doing. The thing keeping me from anything more yet though: What's the ductless option like?

I don't have any ducts, just hydronic+baseboard heating currently (and a dual-hose portable AC unit for cooling). I'm looking at a mini-split setup, but that's a fairly daunting prospect for the issues you note with the existing market.

You mean 2009? The limit was 100k before then. I wouldn't be against pegging it to inflation, but that's still only moving it up to ~$330k.

If I'm writing for just myself, I could save myself the trouble & just not post. If you were just writing for yourself, you wouldn't have commented here (and neither would I have).

When this gets to reasonable stability, this may be enough to get me to buy ReMarkable just for it. It might be worth seeing if they have any sort of referral program. "Buy ReMarkable through me & get X months syncing free!" type deal.

"viewed as assets to buy and sell for a profit, and nothing more."

I'm not sure this act in itself is morally neutral, imo. There's reasons ethical concerns about objectification (in the older 'treating something/one as an object' formulation of it) pop up not-infrequently through time.

Reducing something to a market view of itself is a choice. Similarly, seeing something as being more complicated but turning away because 'it doesn't have to be'.

Now, I'm not trying to suggest you should take up my concerns here. I'm not saying "you're terrible for this!" in any way. It's just an interesting springboard of a question, what do we see as 'morally neutral' and what has moral salience?

> if I don’t respond to your email in a day, treat it like a phone call and just try again. Don’t assume I’m ignoring you.

I mean... aren't you ignoring them? It's an email. Where'd the first one go that the second one is going to be any different?

It seems dire, but I'm also hopeful in the recent organizational shift. I'm not aware of many other sites moving to a community-run model, & if they can build out enough runway I'm excited to see what it might look like.

That's where I used to be for years, first in Tiddlywiki, then away from that as it was having trouble with browsers (it's good again now, I gather) and into a Dropbox folder of pseudo-markdown text files.

That said, I've stuck with Obsidian so far, specifically because it doesn't lock me into a format. I was able to drop it on top of my folder-o-markdown & go from there. We'll see if it sticks, but so far so good.

I've run into a variant of this: Beer. Citrus is a popular adjunct flavoring for IPAs and other hopped beers. Sometimes it's obvious, a grapefruit shandy is going to have grapefruit in it; but I've also had beers labeled something like Orange Citra Juice Bomb where down in the ingredients it notes that the citrus flavor is boosted by grapefruit, but I didn't catch that.

Now, that's partially on me for not scrutinizing the ingredients, but also *beer doesn't have to list ingredients*. So it's entirely possible to have a beer containing a significant amount of grapefruit without any indication of it on the label. And that can be life-threatening, depending on the medication in question.

So that's something where I'd definitely appreciate a standard of noting grapefruit if it's in a food. Activated charcoal similarly.

Isn't that the sort of question a non-conscious entity would ask?

> protein pacing diet for the remaining five/six days/week (Protein pacing refers to 4–6 meals/day evenly-spaced, where each meal contains 25–40g of protein)

> During fasting days, participants fasting for one day/week were allowed to consume 400 Kcal/day, while participants fasting for two consecutive days were allowed 500 Kcal/day. During non-fasting days the dietary regimen provided 1350 and 1700 kcals/day for women and men, respectively, and a macronutrient distribution consisting of 35% protein, 35% carbohydrate, and 30% fat.

That's somehow more calories/day than I would expect for a "fasting day", and fairly restrictive over-all. I'd be curious to hear how these compare to someone on the 1350/1700 kcal/day diet 7 days a week.

> Extending beyond 4-weeks reduces compliance and may be overly excessive for a caloric restriction and 2 day IF and create undue metabolic, physiologic, hormonal, and psychological stress in the study participants.

Also something I was wondering, the repeated emphasis on short-term benefits has me wonder how the participants did after the trial. Does it do much good if you drop more but it bounces back?

> Isagenix International, LLC (Gilbert, AZ, USA) provided all meal replacement shakes, bars, beverages, and supplements.

> Whole Blend IsaLean® Shakes, Cleanse for Life®, Ionix® Supreme, Collagen Bone Broth, AMPED™ Hydrate, Harvest/Whey Thins™, IsaDelight® Chocolates,

> This study was supported by a grant (IRB#: 1911–859) from Isagenix International, LLC

> P.J.A. (the primary author) is a member of the scientific advisory board at Isagenix International LLC, the study’s sponsor. E.G. and A.E.M. are employed by Isagenix International LLC.

Ok, that reads as very suspect, now.

"being okay with unfavorable outcomes; knowing how to control your risk"

Isn't the winning move not playing, then? I've never seen the appeal. If I lose, I feel the loss of money; but if I win, that's not enjoyable in the same way losing that equivalent would be displeasing.

And either I'm playing with friends, in which case there's no joy in depriving someone else (if I win); or I'm playing with strangers, in which case why would I care about what's going on at the table?

This is a good way of putting it. Having graduated high school in 2008, it's felt my entire adult life like I've been reaching for brass rings just within reach (for me), barely clinging on, but still doing better than so many people who weren't even in position to do that.

We'll see about 'stable', there's some work I need to do if I want this to be sustainable/not something I'm at risk at crashing down from, but I've made it on the train while feeling the flames lapping at my neck.