I looked into this. If I am remembering correctly the price was higher. It is just easier to connect a mini PC to an hdmi port and bypass all of the built in TV functionality.
There's historical speculation that a smart TV could connect to an open wireless access point, or more realistically, that it refuses to operate without internet access, perhaps after a certain number of power on hours.
I have had an old PC hooked up to the hdmi port of an old TV for years and it works exactly as I want. I have full control and don't have to deal with smart tv ads.
Answering questions fully and honestly means being vulnerable, and depending on a lot of societal norms, being vulnerable is frowned upon. Most people don't let themselves be vulnerable with anyone, or if they do, its only a few very close people that trust absolutely.
I'm not sure I can accept that it's just social norms. It feels like a human universal. I really like honestly, and I often bend to social norms and avoid these kinds of topics. But for years, I falsely assumed that other people were like me: if we could just be past the initial fear everyone would be so happy to be able to speak so openly and honestly.
And unfortunately, this just is not the case. From what I can tell, for many, many people they just don't want to go there; they don't want to offer real answers to questions; they want the questions un-asked, or they want to answer with a socially-please lie, or a joke, or anything that changes the topic. I don't think we've been taught to be this way. I think we are this way.
I said societal norms because I do think it depends culture to culture. Danes are famous for being incredible forthright and blunt while the Japanese are often seen as being circumspect.
In the US there is an incredible difference in what is allowed to be talked about in the midwest vs the west coast. I don't know about other regions as I have only lived in the two, but I would assume they differ as well.
Like many things different societies can be graded on a gradient.
The opening chapters of A Passage to India include an Indian man thinking about how irritating it is that these uncultured Brits don’t understand a polite lie as a refusal, and always want to try to solve the “problem” to get around the refusal. How unrefined!
East Coast and Midwest also differ. As someone from a WASPy east coast family with a partner from a working class Midwest family, a literal union steel mill family, I can attest to the challenges of navigating situations like this. I had a realization like this article through spending time with my partner and now I basically cannot interact with my family without changing modes of interaction.
Your questions have been the focus of religion since the dawn of humanity. I don't see how you can think nobody tries to figure this out or considers the question.
Go ahead, begin. What do you say about it? I could find the Wikipedia page, and put a name on the question I guess, some philosopher must have written some discussion of the matter. I kind of doubt it went anywhere.
You are commiting category error. "Why are we here/why does anything exist" implicitly assumes an impetus, a do-er with motivations. And "what IS this reality" contains it's own answer(and the refusal to accept it): It is 'this reality'. It is IS-ness itself. It's like saying "Perfectly describe the entirety of Moby Dick, leaving out not a single word or punctuation", and refusing when someone hands you the book.
Buddhism, Yoga, the more esoteric parts of the Abrahamic religions and many more all have you covered with an extensive corpus if you want people who are asking the same questions you are.
I wonder what you consider regular, not because I disagree with you, but because I wonder if the term "moneyed" means something different to you than the author.
I am always fascinated by the normal human bias to assume that a single person's experience is that "average" experience.
To me "moneyed" in terms of being an entrepreneur would mean that if everything failed catastrophically I would have somewhere to go to have a roof over my head and food to eat while I got back on my feet.
My personal bias would lead me to believe that most people have less of a support system then the wonderful people on HN. Most of us have degrees and/or well paying STEM type jobs.
> I wonder if the term "moneyed" means something different to you than the author.
I think the author was using the term to mean people who have enough resources available to them (through family or other support networks) that they don't have to worry too much about survival and have relatively easy access to capital.
I think that you and I define it similarly.
But most entrepreneurs I've known over the decades have had neither of those advantages. Although, I'm thinking of "entrepreneur" in its basic sense, not in terms of just starting tech businesses, and not in terms of people starting business with the goal of becoming anything like unicorns.
> My personal bias would lead me to believe that most people have less of a support system then the wonderful people on HN.
I agree completely. The HN crowd is, generally speaking (there are exceptions), a fairly privileged bunch.
I think you’re taking up semantics at a certain point. Entrepreneurs in our current environment has a much more narrow meaning than auto mechanic who takes over an existing business or starts his own shop after working at another for a decade and building up a client base.
Unless they are paying for the 1 hour of work then yes.
If the company wants to know if someone can do something then look at their github or bring them in for an interview.
Do not do work for free.
The take home assignment is to create a web service that changes the color of a cube, hardly anything cutting edge. Do you expect to be paid for coding interviews too?
Personally, I don't mind burning some time to interview for free. But I expect the company to also burn the time of their own engineers as well. It displays a degree of commitment and seriousness from them about this meeting. I'm never going to let them yank my chain and dance for them when all they've done is send an email. But I'm also not desperate for work, so it's a good filter for me to know what kinda dogshit work culture you've got.
I can't believe that people are this blasé about their privacy. Once something like images of your home are in the cloud you no longer control them. We should be fiercely guarding our privacy and our ability to not be monitored.
I have been struggling to find the breakeven point for me and my family. On one side, it keeps getting more and more expensive even though we are young and healthy. On the other, if one of us needs an expensive operation or months of treatment, no amount of HSA savings will be enough. I don't know if there is a 3rd option that would be more reasonable.
Third option is pay what you can reasonably pay and file for bankruptcy. Which sucks, but is an option.
Try to get assets into bankruptcy protected holdings when possible (401k, house, etc, depending on state of residence), so you have more flexibility post bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy is not an easy path out of debt. I've seen others go through it and it's stressful: they pry into all your finances, you still have to pay it off (just at a lower amount), and it destroys your credit. There are weird restrictions also like not being able to pay it off early even if you're able to.
EDIT: don't forget you have to pay the bankruptcy lawyer too.
The third option that becomes more tantalizing every year in the US is to not have insurance, pay OOP for routine matters, and when something catastrophic happens let the medical debt go to collections and settle for pennies on the dollar. It doesn't feel right, but it's the direction the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance cartel is pushing us.
That unfortunately is not an option for us. We talked about it when we were younger, but both sides of our family live within a two hour drive of us and it important to us to be present in their lives and have them be present in ours.
If I had no personal ties, I would very much like to live abroad.
I use journaling to slow down so paper and pen being slowing is a feature not a bug. I have come up with a formula that takes about 15 minutes and I get what I want out of the journaling process.
I use journaling to reflect on my day more than a record of what happened. I do it right before bed and I follow the same format. I write a paragraph to a half page about my day. Specifically, how it made me feel. Then I write down what I ate and what kind of exercise I got that day because those are the two most important things I am working on right now. Then I finish with writing 3 things that I am grateful for that day.
I have found I sleep better and feel less stressed the next day because I took some time in the hectic day to slow down and examine the thoughts and feelings I had. My job and responsibilities require me to be a very rational person, but I also have a non-rational emotional side that needs nurturing as well. Having a journal focused on my feelings has helped me be a more balanced person.
Same here. I'm a fast typist, so the effort and slowness of pen and paper make me think more about what I'm writing. My longhand notes make me feel more like I've really gotten the thoughts out of my head and examined them and can stop stressing about them, which is funny since I'm more likely to lose the paper notes than if I typed them into a file which would automatically be backed up. So it's more about the process of writing for me than the recording.
And despite being slower, I'll often find that I've knocked out a couple pages pretty quickly once I get started. Getting started is the hard part.
