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$3900 is our max target, but we could buy a second car for that.

I wonder how much cost plays in, I mean, my fiancée and I are adult middle class millennials and we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one.

I read the article, and I’ve been spending the past 20 minutes looking at the SPA framework.

I’m still not sure what it is or why anyone would use it. It looks extremely complicated and verbose.

I ride my bike to work every day. It’s a 25 km journey, so with 250km a week I think I ride quite a bit. The fastest I’ve ever gone was 58,8km (ran out of hill before I got to 60) and holy cow that was scary.

I can’t imagine getting to 80, must’ve been terrifying.

Very true, and I do still prepare for presentations.

For me though, the side effect of practice has been how I can now naturally put my thoughts to speak and deliver the points I want the way I want. Both of these things seemed almost like magical abilities to me 10 years ago.

Practice, practice, practice. I used to be unable to do presentations, unless I had practiced them out loud twenty times in the days before the presentation.

I wouldn’t write a script and stick to it word for word, I’d make slides and general points and then practice them out loud until I got them right.

After a few years of doing this, I only had to practice a few times.

Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about anything to anyone without notice. But it was a long road getting here.

I still get the same feelings of anexiety, but the way they effect me has changed with the practice. Where they’d once made me mumble and lose my train of thought they now motivate me. I still get red cheeks once in a while, but I’ve learned to laugh it away.

So practice, practice, practice, but it’s a lot of hard work. I mean, practicing a 30 minute presentation 20 times takes maybe 12 hours, and if you’re anything like I was, there is no short cuts.

In what world would you close a billion dollar income stream to “win”?

What have you won?

China running out of things to tax, doesn’t mean America has actually gained anything. America was stronger, but that doesn’t create jobs.

I think it’s sexists, but I also think that targeted advertising should be allowed as long as Uber hires women drivers who want to drive for Uber.

I think there will certainly be some issues if it becomes a trend though. I mean, most programmers are men, most doctors are women and if you target your adds based on that, you’ll only further increase the current norms.

Frankly targeting sex makes little sense for most jobs, doesn’t it? It’s be more reasonable to target interests, qualifications, education and current job status. I mean, Facebook knows what job and car you have, it might even know how much you drive, wouldn’t it make sense for Uber to target that instead of sex? But maybe they combine it all.

The problem with these American views into Scandinavia is that they are always political. I mean, do you even have non-biased news over there anymore?

I say this, not because the article is wrong, but because the best school system in the world, the Finnish, does exactly the same thing as the Swedes.

It’s a tad ironic that an article so against social constructionism is pretty much constructing it’s outlay of reality. You could look at Finland and construct the polar opposite article, but if you want anything based in realism, you should probably look into why it works in one country and not in another.

Don’t modern mining pools work exactly like coin voting? The entry level is buying hardware instead of digital tokens, but it’s not like proof of work is a democratic process anymore either where every small timer has as much to say anymore.

It’s also a little weird to read about economics from cryptcurrencies that you still can’t use to buy beer.

Do the galaxy models have headphone jacks?

This, I see people calling the removal of the headphone jack a colossal failure, but if phones are selling, then how can it be a failure?

People have a natural resistance to change, 20 years ago my city saw major protests when it wanted to close a road and open up to the river underneath it. It would be a colossal failure, naturally it wasn’t and today no one can imagine the town without the nice nature stuff.

I think the headphone jacks are in that category. They weren’t really great, and now that they are gone, only niches really miss them.

The AirPods are such a nice product. I mean, Apple basically made Bluetooth not suck. They are locked to the Apple ecosystem, but they connect seamlessly across your devices, and Apple has frankly once again embarrassed the rest of the tech sector by making age old technology actually useable for people who don’t want to fiddle around.

Now, if removing the headphone jack had been a failure, it would probably have come back, and everyone else, the one-plus included, probably wouldn’t be removing it.

I’m not for or against it by the way. The AirPods would’ve worked with the headphone jack. I just think calling it a failure or a fiasco is silly when it’s so obviously working out great.

I think they are highly overrated and underrated at the same time. I think that useful opinions based on the practical experience of making stuff work, are extremely undervalued.

A lot of opinions aren’t bought by experience though. Opinions on the best x, are largely useless in my eyes, and easy to come by. You’ll see it in almost any HN discussion on a specific tech these days. I mean, when is the last time you saw a HN thread about JavaScript where half of it wasn’t a debate on why JS is good/shit and how WASM is the next Jesus?

I wouldn’t call all of those opinions undervalued, because they have no real use and serve no purpose. X is typically terrible and unproductive, but it’s also lovable and very productive. With almost everything there are pros and cons, and the only truly valuable opinions on anything are from people who make it work or crashed trying and then succeeded by doing something else.

I think this world needs a whole lot of “talk is cheap, show me the code”, but once someone actually does the work, I think we should learn from their experience. I think HN has been great at sharing the useful opinions, at least so far.

This was a semi-useless opinion by the way.