My village and the one next to it have around 14k residents, no movie theatre, no hospital, no traffic lights and no fast food outlets.
We also have two hospitals within 7 miles, four cinemas within 8 miles, far too fucking many fast food outlets and a very annoying number of traffic lights between us and all of them.
What you're describing as 'Bumfuck' I'm thinking sounds like a fucking great place to live. But hey, go pick up a cheap nasty burger to eat while you're stuck at a traffic light, if that's how you enjoy life.
they're aloof and don't care much if you are around or not
Reports from the people that look after them when I'm away tell me that my cats get stressed when I'm not around.
They come to me for company when I'm at home - whether they're hungry or not. They do demand attention, but they also show affection. Little nibbles, one likes cleaning my hair for me. It's not unusual for me to wake up trapped in bed by three cats surrounding (or on) me.
What makes them differ from dogs is that they know how to take themselves outside to shit, they bring me gifts and if I do leave them for a couple of days, they do actually survive and get on with life without wrecking the house.
Add the $600 to the £11676 you'll save each year by ditching the car you don't fucking need and use it to hire a car for the two days a month you actually want to go somewhere the metro doesn't cover.
That'll leave you $11k a year to invest. It may not pay for a million dollar apartment but hey, you're the fuckwit that wants to live in a stupid overcrowded shithole.
I would never pay more than 5$ for a bottle of wine. Because I am a teetotaler.
I don't drink wine. I have however found that paying between 2-3 times the supermarket minimum price for a bottle of wine gets you a far better wine that's still a sensible price and goes over much much better when you visit friends and give them a bottle as a gift.
The trick is to reach the level of wealth that you can afford to spend very little, and still have nicer things than people with less money.
Pratchett described this beautifully - see the Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
I drive a nicer car than most people. It doesn't break down, so I don't need lots of repairs or regular replacement. I bought a nice watch. It doesn't break, and it's worth more now than I paid for it. I spent around six times the normal price for an iron. I'm still using it fifteen years later. See also: All my kitchen equipment. I'm still using the vacuum I bought in 1999, for three times the price of a 'good' hoover.
It's definitely worthwhile getting to this position. Sure, it takes some sacrifices. I had to share a house I owned just to pay the mortgage, I didn't eat out and I sure as fuck couldn't afford coffee. It's paid off since.
There's no home machine that can even achieve its warm up cycle in 2 minutes
Just what the fuck is your coffee machine warming up? A good kettle will boil a litre of water in 2 minutes, my coffee machine only heats the water in its pipes. It can heat the water as it flows through them, as fast as it drips it through the coffee.
My big coffee expense is in the office. I treat it as a cost of employment. Sure, it's costing me $2k/year but it's enabling me to earn substantially more than that.
NICE latte instantly rules Starbucks out of the equation
By the time you've so heavily diluted the coffee with hot milk, Starbucks is as good as anything else.
I actually like Starbucks latte.
Getting up 15min earlier (because my morning routine isn't that long). Turning on machine, doing other things while I wait for the machine to reach temperature, pre-flush to warm group handle and cup, dry group handle, grind beans, discard first few seconds to clear out machine, load fresh beans, grind beans, tamp put group handle in, pour shot, discard the used puck, flush machine to clean out coffee, and clean group handle, wait a minute to warm up to steaming temperature, flush steaming wand, froth milk for a minute, pour coffee.... shit I'm finally done. but wait... I can't leave it like this. Get wet rag, clean off frothing wand, flush machine, go to sink, wash out milk cup, and final.... FINALLY after 10min of work (excluding initial warm up time which already cost me 15min of my sleep)
Hmm. I walk up to my machine, press a button and coffee appears. Freshly ground, freshly drip brewed through a nice press.
Sure, I occasionally have to empty the used grinds, empty the drip tray and fill the water tanks. Those are 40 second tasks each, so my worse case is around two minutes plus brewing time.
Still better than your 7 minutes at a coffee shop and rather cheaper (capital cost of the machine excluded).
let's not pretend like what they're selling is something that can be made that easily, because it can't
Hmm. So when I got home from swimming this morning, pressed three buttons on a coffee machine then sat down and enjoyed my lovely hot cup of freshly ground and brewed coffee, that was hard?
Ah, comedy. Someone posting anonymously thinking people actually buy slashdot IDs? Just fucking sign up mate, it's free - I did it 17 years ago, but it's not too late.
Musk made a lot of money through Paypal but he's made a lot of money since too. If he wasn't getting subsidies Tesla would've been bankrupt long ago, even with all the VC cash he's using to bolster the value of his shares.
Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about.
No, it's very clearly getting personal enrichment and power through government subsidies and exploiting consumers. See also: every fucking business he's ever been in.
Hey, it's working for him, I can acknowledge that. I just don't respect it.
Given the wage pressures from India and China salaries are already constrained. The real losers from increased local skills will be the H1B contract companies.
Scholarships, by their very definition, go to otherwise overqualified individuals who cannot quite afford tuition.
That was Stanford's claim. The reality is that it went to people that they felt would make them look good, with people in identical financial circumstances receiving very different awards.
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My village and the one next to it have around 14k residents, no movie theatre, no hospital, no traffic lights and no fast food outlets.
We also have two hospitals within 7 miles, four cinemas within 8 miles, far too fucking many fast food outlets and a very annoying number of traffic lights between us and all of them.
What you're describing as 'Bumfuck' I'm thinking sounds like a fucking great place to live. But hey, go pick up a cheap nasty burger to eat while you're stuck at a traffic light, if that's how you enjoy life.
I fear that says more about your ability to sell, to bullshit and to con idiots out of their cash than it does about your artistic prowess.
they're aloof and don't care much if you are around or not
Reports from the people that look after them when I'm away tell me that my cats get stressed when I'm not around.
They come to me for company when I'm at home - whether they're hungry or not.
They do demand attention, but they also show affection. Little nibbles, one likes cleaning my hair for me. It's not unusual for me to wake up trapped in bed by three cats surrounding (or on) me.
What makes them differ from dogs is that they know how to take themselves outside to shit, they bring me gifts and if I do leave them for a couple of days, they do actually survive and get on with life without wrecking the house.
Add the $600 to the £11676 you'll save each year by ditching the car you don't fucking need and use it to hire a car for the two days a month you actually want to go somewhere the metro doesn't cover.
That'll leave you $11k a year to invest. It may not pay for a million dollar apartment but hey, you're the fuckwit that wants to live in a stupid overcrowded shithole.
Through my entire adult life property has been easily the best investment for $100k.
I would never pay more than 5$ for a bottle of wine. Because I am a teetotaler.
I don't drink wine. I have however found that paying between 2-3 times the supermarket minimum price for a bottle of wine gets you a far better wine that's still a sensible price and goes over much much better when you visit friends and give them a bottle as a gift.
The trick is to reach the level of wealth that you can afford to spend very little, and still have nicer things than people with less money.
Pratchett described this beautifully - see the Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
I drive a nicer car than most people. It doesn't break down, so I don't need lots of repairs or regular replacement.
I bought a nice watch. It doesn't break, and it's worth more now than I paid for it.
I spent around six times the normal price for an iron. I'm still using it fifteen years later. See also: All my kitchen equipment.
I'm still using the vacuum I bought in 1999, for three times the price of a 'good' hoover.
It's definitely worthwhile getting to this position. Sure, it takes some sacrifices. I had to share a house I owned just to pay the mortgage, I didn't eat out and I sure as fuck couldn't afford coffee. It's paid off since.
There's no home machine that can even achieve its warm up cycle in 2 minutes
Just what the fuck is your coffee machine warming up? A good kettle will boil a litre of water in 2 minutes, my coffee machine only heats the water in its pipes. It can heat the water as it flows through them, as fast as it drips it through the coffee.
2 minutes? Shit, 40 seconds.
Adding extra hours is easy. Getting paid more for doing so nigh-on impossible.
You're actually paid by the hour? In this industry? That's.. unexpected.
My big coffee expense is in the office. I treat it as a cost of employment. Sure, it's costing me $2k/year but it's enabling me to earn substantially more than that.
NICE latte instantly rules Starbucks out of the equation
By the time you've so heavily diluted the coffee with hot milk, Starbucks is as good as anything else.
I actually like Starbucks latte.
Getting up 15min earlier (because my morning routine isn't that long). Turning on machine, doing other things while I wait for the machine to reach temperature, pre-flush to warm group handle and cup, dry group handle, grind beans, discard first few seconds to clear out machine, load fresh beans, grind beans, tamp put group handle in, pour shot, discard the used puck, flush machine to clean out coffee, and clean group handle, wait a minute to warm up to steaming temperature, flush steaming wand, froth milk for a minute, pour coffee. ... shit I'm finally done. but wait... I can't leave it like this. Get wet rag, clean off frothing wand, flush machine, go to sink, wash out milk cup, and final .... FINALLY after 10min of work (excluding initial warm up time which already cost me 15min of my sleep)
Hmm. I walk up to my machine, press a button and coffee appears. Freshly ground, freshly drip brewed through a nice press.
Sure, I occasionally have to empty the used grinds, empty the drip tray and fill the water tanks. Those are 40 second tasks each, so my worse case is around two minutes plus brewing time.
Still better than your 7 minutes at a coffee shop and rather cheaper (capital cost of the machine excluded).
let's not pretend like what they're selling is something that can be made that easily, because it can't
Hmm. So when I got home from swimming this morning, pressed three buttons on a coffee machine then sat down and enjoyed my lovely hot cup of freshly ground and brewed coffee, that was hard?
Just how fucking easy do you want it?
How do you think people get $100k to start with though?
Kevin's point is that he saves $2/day on coffee, which is $10k between the ages of 20 and 30. Just on coffee.
Find another 9 things of equally trivial cost and there's the $100k right away, at the age of 30.
Hmm. That's bollocks, the places I buy beans from charge exactly the same for the ground coffee.
Sure, you can get ground coffee cheaper than beans - but you can make coffee out of mud too. For the same quality coffee there's no price difference.
Ah, comedy. Someone posting anonymously thinking people actually buy slashdot IDs? Just fucking sign up mate, it's free - I did it 17 years ago, but it's not too late.
Musk made a lot of money through Paypal but he's made a lot of money since too. If he wasn't getting subsidies Tesla would've been bankrupt long ago, even with all the VC cash he's using to bolster the value of his shares.
There are people out there with ethics. Less in America, and disappointingly few as wealthy as Musk.
That doesn't mean we have to accept his approach.
Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about.
No, it's very clearly getting personal enrichment and power through government subsidies and exploiting consumers. See also: every fucking business he's ever been in.
Hey, it's working for him, I can acknowledge that. I just don't respect it.
Given the wage pressures from India and China salaries are already constrained. The real losers from increased local skills will be the H1B contract companies.
Yeah, I think a Title IX lawsuit is appropriate here. Lets hope someone with standing decides to make life expensive for Stanford.
Scholarships, by their very definition, go to otherwise overqualified individuals who cannot quite afford tuition.
That was Stanford's claim. The reality is that it went to people that they felt would make them look good, with people in identical financial circumstances receiving very different awards.
huge discrepancies between when their pies were supposed to be delivered and when they actually arrived
Wait, we were talking about Dominos and pizzas. Dominos now do pies too?
Do they do a decent steak & ale in shortcrust?
You're making a very large number of assumptions there, many of which could easily be wrong should you encounter an uninvited guest.
However, it's very clear: If I ever find myself in your house uninvited, I must kill you with immediate effect as an urgent matter of self-defence.
Please tell me why I should be unable to defend myself in my own home.
Please tell me why you need to defend yourself with lethal force against an uninvited guest in your living room?
I mean, civilised people would offer them a cup of tea, sit down and have a chat about why they're there and whether they're ok.
What are mud people? Are they the Louisiana alternative to a snowmen, because they're short on snow but have lots of mud?
I agree, running over the figures created by children is cruel, but is it against the law? Maybe vandalism?
It's not unethical to break a bad law.
Lets cut to the chase: Would you be bitching about someone smuggling jewish people out of Poland in 1940?