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School, and the socialization that occurs there, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Work is generally just work, it's not like your personal development suffers if you skip it.

This dude's stuff is incredible and I never heard of him before today. He should be famous!

I find that boredom is death for creativity, but tedium is a goldmine. If I'm not doing anything, I don't think of anything. If I have a tedious but active chore, I need to bring a notepad along with me to capture all the ideas.

Your analogy only holds if the customers to that pub were also supplying the drinks, the food, and handling the orders.

I believe the answers are CC-SA.

But the parent to your response has a point - knowing that the answers are CC licensed and knowing that the owners might have a ten-figure exit are different things. If the community were more aware of the latter, they might have been more canny about donating their efforts.

Not the person you originally asked, but an HOA is an additional layer for a start. Moreover it tends to have more restrictions, of a kind that would seem ridiculous at the level of local government (e.g. what color your curtains can be, in the case of the condo I'm currently renting.)

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is my experience as well. It's to the point where if it doesn't ship from Amazon, I don't buy it.

The last thing I accidentally bought from a non-Amazon shipper arrived in a semi-destroyed box, inside a too-small bubble-wrap envelope, apparently shipped from someone's condominium (I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?)

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile.

I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between.

Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

I should have said potentially intrusive. Giving any extension permission to "Access your data for all websites" would give me pause.

I'm surprised anyone ever installs browser extensions, given how many malicious extensions exist, and how intrusive they are whether malicious or not.

Holy shit. I've never used Venmo, but thanks for the warning.

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