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> It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.

It legitimately is way better than cable, though. Ignoring the disputes over fees, I once tried Spectrum's TV Android app (probably 3-4 years ago, I gave up on getting it to work), and this is what I experienced:

* Refuses to work if a VPN is on

* Must disable developer tools (doesn't matter if you changed any settings in there or not)

* Root check

* Must be from a Spectrum home IP (and remember, you can't VPN to your home network to use this app)

* Must allow access to all contacts, all texts, etc or the app would close itself (there is no legitimate justification for this, unlike potential contract stipulations requiring no root, etc - it's purely for selling all your data)

* Didn't even work after I installed it on a totally stock Android device on my home network

* No web interface; if you can't run the app, too bad

Compared to that, YT TV's app is a breath of fresh air. But ignoring the streaming convenience, you also have:

* No ads in the TV guide (which is also more responsive than any DVR I've ever experienced)

* Unlimited DVR is nice (and it's not utter dogshit hardware that would've been considered unimpressive in the 90s)

* You don't need a cable box - just a Chromecast (which is absolute tiny by comparison) or a TV with Chromecast built-in

* The pricing is much easier to understand

Of course, I don't actually pay for it. My mother does, and she put my Google account as an allowed user. I just use it to watch hockey.

It's true that you're paying for the same product, but it's delivered in a package that doesn't scream "fuck you, pay me."
I suggest looking into the FIRE movement. That community has many of the same questions about what to do after reaching Financial Independence, and a lot of people have written a lot of words about their struggles.
I love that you didn’t consider yourself wealthy until you sold off the crypto, converted it to fiat, and paid taxes to a government.
Lots of great answers in this thread about finding meaning after your base needs are taken care of. I'd like also include this clip about setting up a Position of Fuck You (a stable base from which you can launch riskier endeavours) https://youtu.be/rJjKP8vYjpQ
"Art of war", Sun Tzu -- only partially applies to modern wars, still a great reading. Many to the point maxims to understand life, history and the world.

"The Gallic Wars", Julius Caesar -- for the enjoyment of reading a 2k years old book by a major historical character. Probably more interesting if you are french, belgian or german. Truly epic ending with the battle of Alesia. The staging of this battle is almost unbelievable although to date, every archeological finding has only confirmed the description made by JC.

Both are short, direct, self contained books.
Are you saying this based on actual knowledge of how this stuff works? I ask, because the person you're responding to definitely is (and also I like to keep track of who the lawyers are on HN.)
One immediate and incremental thing you can do is start seeing a therapist. It's not just for the depressed, I think everyone can benefit from therapy, but you really might find help in your situation. I'd also get a personal trainer and gym membership if you don't already have one.

Basically, you can afford to pay for some external motivation, and you don't need to be motivated to make money, so you can get motivated to work on yourself for a bit.

On top of that I'd try to give yourself something to look forward to after you finish your masters. Maybe book some nice travel, but buy the tickets soon so you know you're really going!
I'm also a supporter. I am a bit confused why groups I normally support on the left have this as a somewhat low priority relative to the equity issues. This has an equity component too. The folks most likely to be unbanked, carrying around cash etc are minorities.
It shouldn't. All mugs sold commercially should satisfy FDA guidelines for lead in the glaze.

Note that only one mug here produced coffee that was over the FDA limit for lead in bottled water (and still below the tap water threshold).

Now, the foreign mugs, or vintage mugs, or handcrafted mugs you buy at a local market from a local artisan who may or may not be using lead-free glaze? There you have to be careful. NYC had severe lead poisoning cases from this just a few months ago: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/574547-lead-poisoning-....
I was responding specifically to this thread, which is not assuming malice but was arguing that bad software incentivized using WhatsApp. In that case, licensing or building anything would be cheaper.

If this was done for malice, I agree that the fine would have minimal effect.
So for new companies the data (that a lot of time IS publicly available) cost a lot of money, i.e. Api access or charing per requests. A lot of time companies start with scraping and then once they have more customers (and data access price can be shared amongst them) they switch to paying for it.
For the vast majority of ceramic homeware, your beverage never comes into contact with the ceramic material - the shiny 'gloss' surface is a glaze material. It's that which often contains lead.

It's particularly common on 'artisan' home-made ceramics, due to the ease of working with lead glazes.

Wikipedia even has a section on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_glaze#Lead(II)_oxide
I don't know too much about the simh project, but at least the Z80 emulator in "simh/altairz80_cpu.c" appears to use the "traditional" instruction-stepped approach with one switch-case branch per opcode:

https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/3621db4e6a5469ba0570fb422c...
My great grand uncle is known in my mother's family side for getting killed by a camel that he mistreated years earlier. He apparently was usually very gentle with his camel herd but at some point that particular male didn't want to move so he hit him with a cane, and years later when he was working behind that male again he just got stomped to death.

I'm sure the story has been "embellished" a bit though and there's probably tons of confounding factor but I've heard a lot of similar stories about camels and their famous penchant for revenge :).
Naval always comes off as pretentious/didactic, in my opinion. I respect his accomplishments and ideas but his ego is really off the charts. What makes it worse is his legion of fans that hang off his every word.
> Google is evil (Google "don't be evil" for more info on that).

Or better....

Use Ecosia.org, Startpage.com, or Qwant.com to search for

"Google is Not What It Seems"
> It takes a lot more effort and housekeeping in Rails to make it scale well.

It takes increasing the number of pods on your k8s which is how almost all teams deploy nowadays. Bigger amazon bills yes but the devops overhead isn't really larger in Rails,
Congratulations! I recommend bogleheads.org for advice on managing a windfall. There are lots of threads on this from people who have had similar experiences. Also they have a wiki on this topic https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
Extending and Simplifying C++: Pattern Matching Using `Is` and `as`-Herb Sutter
I read +50 books/yr and I use highlighting to help me retain the most material. Highlights help in so many ways: they are physically attached to the material, it gamifies the reading process as you chase the next highlight, and you can easily skim past highlights to help you pick up a book you didn't finish or just to review the best parts.

After I've finished a book, I translate those highlights into written notes on my blog. Last year I consulted a reading specialist on retention and they said this process is also what they recommend.
I actually know what this is like, somewhat -- I had a startup that IPO'd a long time ago, and my life had been defined by my struggle to be successful, which could no longer define my life.

Now you're going to have to get systematic about finding out what you like to do, and make a good list, and when you're feeling depressed, just do one of those things. It'll lift you out the funk. It really works.

What you should not do as view the money as buying you anything other than freedom. Sure buy yourself a nice TV, car, computer, take trips, etc. But don't overdo it, live a human-size life.

One other thing, do not hire a money manager. Just invest in the S&P 500. It's the best investment possible and requires no thought.
I'd first handle practical matters: an accountant to ensure all your ducks are in a row and that you've got passive income through investments to ensure that you'll still have enough in your twilight years - i've seen too many people piss money away when they have no sense of how much will remain in the end.

also the right lawyers to create a will so should you pass away, the money still goes to a cause or loved ones that you cherish, rather than somewhere that you don't. Sometimes just having that in place is peace of mind that you've been a positive influence on this world.

then I'd finish the masters and then take one year to re-calibrate and travel to someplace you've always wanted to go. Life changes, sometimes just having a new experience alone helps re-align priorities or makes you find a new cause that you feel like you can live for. Maybe there's an untapped void in startups or people with your education level in a different area of the world and you could pass on your knowledge to others. Maybe there's a creative craft you might find along with its Muse and pick it up. Maybe you'll find new friends on your travels that open your eyes to worthy causes. some things can only be left to fate.

wishing you the best of luck.
These monkeys are not fatally dangerous if that's what GP is saying.

But they cause heavy and serious nuisance.

Where I live, these monkeys invade gradens, agricultural fields, house rooftops at least 4-5 times a month.

The locals drop anything they do, and chase away these monkeys.

When chased by an adult male human, these monkeys don't fight back and are easily frightened. They don't mess with adult males or groups of humans.

A kid or a lone woman is not safe, though. When faced by them, monkeys gesture retaliation, and that is enough frightening.

An adult male cannot physically take on a monkey. It is impossible. Still they don't attack.

They steal bananas, mangos, guavas- all kinds of fruits, any food item not indoors, and destroy flowers and plants.

Thus, for families depending on these as their source of income have to always remain vigilant to monkey invasions. Common methods include- stone being thrown directly at them intending full harm, pebbles thrown by slingshots, and firecrackers. Banging metal objects loudly also seems to help.

We have mango groves that we lend on a yearly basis. The people who lease them from us establish outposts during the mango season which are always manned by at least one man with ready reinforcement in case of monkey invasion.

For those families not depending financially on tree products are also harmed. They make growing flowering plants difficult. They steal food from outdoors, and not to mention the awfully smelling solid and liquid excretion they leave on your rooftops.

(All rooftops are flat in the plains region, and they are important in our lives.)

By the way, I lost one pomelo (Citrus maxima) to a bunch of monkeys this very afternoon.
Having recently worked for a hedge fund I noticed that too - although my idea predated that engagement .
That's probably my first go-to market (if anyone has leads send me end email) .

Hedge funds actually call this "alternative data".
Take humanities courses there; you come from the land of some of the heaviest continental philosophy thinkers.

Roll with the chances of life.
Maybe something that could be dissolved with saliva? But then the crooks would just cover themselves in spit... We can't win!
Well, crap. How do you tell which ceramics use lead-based paint/glaze and which don't?
Wow! Lucky :) Keep it to yourself. If that happened to me, I'd have a problem; most ppl I know are regular earners; they wouldn't be able to take time to join me and travel etc; unless I helped and of course I would.

In your position I wouldn't have to overwork and do other things that are nice.
Does anyone know the credibility of this site or the journal this article is in? The subtitle is odd enough to make me question the legitimacy “comparison to California Safe Harbor Levels”.
I am in a fairly similar situation. Your issue is simply that you must learn to relax, after spending most of your life grinding it can be challenging to simply... be.

You worked your arse off for money. And now you have it. It's completed, finished, done. Mission accomplished. Whack at least half of it in stable investments and chill.

You don't need to join Facebook or Google because you don't need their money. You know as well as most of us that they're not doing anything useful or even interesting.

So go and buy that house you wanted. Learn DIY. Learn a language. Travel. Learn to cook. Work out, get a personal trainer. Figure out how a microcontroller works. Garden. Build a car. I don't know, I'm just describing stuff I enjoy.

Do all of the things you couldn't do because you didn't have time. Now you have time and money.

Now life really begins, because now you are free, truly free, to do what _you_ want, and not what others decree upon you for their own benefit. Savour it!

Along the way, I promise you, you will figure out what you truly love.
My wife does pottery, and makes her own glazes. This is a major concern for potters, and you usually won't see a professional or semi-professional potter use lead in their glazes...

Of course, if you're buying on Amazon, who knows.. but you are very, very unlikely to have this problem with people who make pottery for a living (like local artists, or reputable Etsy shops)..
It feels like, to an extent, Microsoft was all but admitting they were giving away Windows for home users (how many of us are still on perpetually upgraded Win7 licenses?) and betting (the desktop software sector) on commercial licensing and Office.

I notice a lot of OEM PCs, for example, come with an Office 365 trial install. I'm sure the OEM deal is "Windows is 30 cents cheaper if you include the trial."

But if the OEM is already installing Ubuntu or whatever, they 1) no longer need to negotiate to shave pennies off the Windows license and 2) have an office suite pre-installed, potentially capturing a large number of the easy customers who'd click on the first thing available.

How does Microsoft keep that sales channel open?

I can't imagine them going the road of the shovelware antivirus vendors and outright paying OEMs for presence. But I could see them packaging up a cut down "Linux Subservices for Windows" product. This would be basically a blessed virtual machine package, which OEMs would be willing to include-- or maybe even pay a token sum for-- because, well, people still want to run their games and legacy software. More importantly, it's a way to get millions of people to install a MS-provided package on their desktops, which could include cross-promotional offers and telemetry. (Yes, there will be the inevitable shut-up packages from third parties, but they have those for Windows already).
Amd what if youre scraping data thats... already being scraped? :D
> Laws don't stop people who don't know, don't understand, don't care, or some combination.

So what? That doesn't take away from the credibility of the insinuation.
Google Warns That NSO Hacking Is on Par with Elite Nation-State Spies
That's actually the reason for the price drop: They are giving you money to get Disney+ so you don't just cancel your YouTube TV subscription and go elsewhere.

It's a retention move that they accept a short lack of their cut of the Disney portion in exchange for not losing customers entirely.
Found this through url hacking:
https://kinesis-ergo.com/wp-content/uploads/Adv360-Overhead_...
If the tea and coffee comes with lead poisoning, well, screw it, I'll take it :)
Dude still compared to Europe even with clunkers like the Balkans thrown in, it's still pretty far down the list on many many metrics. No where in Europe do kids regularly get killed in schools, or live under the threat of homelessness.
Being shown what NOT to do is often as or even more useful than being shown the correct usage.
"monkey patch" is frequently used by Rubyists without anny derogatory meaning.
Get a project.

Project#1 : Find a worthwhile project.
Hey mate, congrats!

I hit financial independence in my early 30s (not flashy rich, but sufficient to never work again) and am now 37.

Here's my take:

People get directionless and depressed after winning the lottery. It's a common thing, and you can read a ton of sad stories about it. Also from hitting it big in professional sports, business, whatever. I say that to reassure you that (1) it's not you, it's human nature, (2) you aren't doing anything wrong, and (3) you aren't alone.

Essentially, what has happened (if you'll forgive me for generalizing and guessing) is that you're suddenly suffering *a vacuum of purpose.*

You used to get your purpose from your studies/struggles/work, and now those things have had the legs kicked out from under them.

So on the one hand: fuck! That's a lot of change.

But on the other hand, this was going to happen eventually anyway. Eventually, you were going to retire, or get fired, or get injured, and end up with a lot of time on your hands and the inability to follow the prescribed path. People get bummed out in retirement, too, for the same reason.

So now, what you've got is an opportunity to bring the learning forward: to figure out how you want to live while you've still got maximum optionality.

That's a terrible responsibility and a tremendous luxury.

But it's in no way easy.

The hardest part about your current situation will be the lack of understanding from everyone around you, because they only see the upside. But the downside -- and it's real as hell and hard as hell -- is that you now need to figure out how you want to live, completely unconstrained.

That's a life's work. But it's also a life's meaning. So try stuff.

When I first got free, I learned to sail, bought an old boat, spent 6 months in a boatyard working 10 hour days of manual labor to repair it, and then spent 3 years sailing around the coasts and canals of England, France, and Spain. I thought that was what I wanted. It's what I had always imagined doing if I didn't need to work.

And you know what I learned? That I enjoy working on interesting projects with smart people. And that I enjoy being able to have friends over for dinner parties and board games. So in the years since then, I've been gradually trading off pieces of my freedom for other things that I find more rewarding.

Learning how to live a life is an experimental, experiential, exploratory process. I wish you well with it, though. It's not easy. It's not supposed to be. But it's very, very meanignful.

It's less about deciding how you want to live, and more about discovering how you want to live.

In terms of mundane tips, try to keep the expenses in check for at least a couple years while you give yourself time to explore it. Don't throw yourself into the icy waters of complete overnight lifestyle change. Take your time; the money will still be there. Maybe you'll find new meaning in the journey, and maybe you'll find a new passion in the process. We all need something to be excited about, but sometimes we need to go find it.
The beauty of the financial and many others ( see oil, tobacco, cable, health ) industry is that they have a bad reputation but still manage to be politically favored. Once you have achieved the status where your broad reputation doesn’t matter as long you keep political leadership in check you really have won the game.
Start to build your own projects , movement , charities etc
This is exactly what my wife said (also doing the pottery). Lead glazes are never used unless you use it for some "special effects" or you are playing it cheap.
Same thing happened to me. My ARR went from 0 to $2m with a profit margin of about 60%.

You need a spiritual angle. Don’t do drugs. Don’t do a “religion”. Find a way to help humanity through technology, and make that your mission. Ever since you were a kid making money was the goal, but that is small drop compared to the actual work that needs to be done in your life. As you serve others, you will discover your life’s purposes and calling.
Do not reveal anything. Take this as a template, follow this recommendation. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_...
The problem is that you can't atomically write to your other database and also put a message on a redis queue. So you'll either end up with db changes not conveyed to redis, or you'll have messages on redis not reflected by changes to the db.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan, which I read I think in college. It changed the way I look at reality, giving me a much more materialistic perspective on life, meaning that I started to require material evidence as pre-requisite for any kind of certainty. Overnight it became impossible for me to believe in any religion.
Counter example: SQLite
The main thing makes me curious about is how many companies cut corners. The fact that only one mug was significant seems like poor quality control by a single manufacturer, which probably says we need more random sample monitoring.
Pursue truth and beauty, join other in this pursuit. the definition of truth and beauty is yours. Climb a mountain, get a pilot license, teach at a school.
So, you hit the jackpot. You probably had certain motivations to get a CS degree. You also had certain motivations to launch 3 startups. You now need to do some soul searching, and ask, what, apart from money and prestige got you started with CS and each of your startups. These motivations or goals will become your mission. Some possibilities:

1. Provide more personal service in an industry where that is not a priority;

2. Provide a service or product that simply did not exist, but give enjoyment to others;

3. Curb some excess in society, with a minimal amount of harm, that all acknowledge to be needed;

4. Delight a child;

5. Expand frontiers;

6. Invent a new formula that expands society at its roots (for example a new fertilizer that works 2X better than existing).

These are just examples. So you need to figure this out for yourself.
Next step, partner with an engineer or finance person who is a skeptic, but a realist. This would be someone who can help you abandon an idea that simply can't deliver on what seemed like high possibilities. You will need that person to help you not shrink your fortune into a small (or no) fortune.. I'm thinking such a person can be an angel investor, such as you might see on Shark Tank (a popular U.S. TV show about investing).

When you start with your next project, ask yourself this question: "Will my kids (when I have them) be proud of what I build for them?", and imagine how you will answer that question in 1 year and in 5 years.

Finally, don't be afraid to lose money. It may be that this fear is making you lose trust in people (in general) and cause you to play it safe. Also imagine, that if you did, fight the good fight, and do your best on your goals, that you did lose most of your money -- ask yourself, "Will I have a good story to tell my grandkids -- something they can learn something from?"
I used to be grandfathered in for the Play Music all access + YT premium + YT red for $15/month plan.

That was a pretty good deal for me. But without Play Music (YT Music was awful at the time), I couldn't justify the cost.
GP referred to other hominids. I'm pretty sure Neanderthals liked eating fat too.
Absolutely not. My point is the poor training (or mistraining) that leads to unwarranted use of force in the first place. Train and outfit police like paramilitary warriors and every encounter with the public is a question of how much force to apply. That's the problem in my view.