relaxing (u/relaxing)

relaxing commented on It's not finance, it's your pensions theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-f... · Posted by u/kome

torginus · 12 hours ago

Good schools are certainly not free in most Western European countries, in fact for most middle class families, it's one of their biggest expenses to put their 2-3 kids through secondary schools.

relaxing · 11 hours ago

There’s a massive disconnect here between a “good school” in the US and an expensive international school, and no definition of middle class where a majority of families pay for it. “most Western European countries” is not a thing. Nonsense.

relaxing commented on It's not finance, it's your pensions theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-f... · Posted by u/kome

qwerpy · 14 hours ago

Agree, many of my peers are on track to reach financial independence around 45. No compromises needed: Nice large home, good schools, safe neighborhood, plenty left over for luxuries and travel. I don’t know of anywhere else in the world where fairly normal but hard-working people can reliably do this (provided you got lucky enough to get hired at and survive a FAANG for ~10 years).

From here we can then move to a lower CoL place or stay put, whatever makes sense for our families.

relaxing · 13 hours ago

> Nice large home, good schools, safe neighborhood, plenty left over for luxuries and travel. I don’t know of anywhere else in the world where fairly normal but hard-working people can reliably do this

There’s no way you’re really this dumb.

relaxing commented on Everything you need to know about lasers in one photo commons.wikimedia.org/wik... · Posted by u/mahirsaid

relaxing · 21 hours ago

Now if someone could make a similar power-wavelength chart for solid state diodes, that would be cool.

relaxing commented on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number theintercept.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/lehi

earthtograndma · a day ago

Why change the title?

"Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

relaxing · a day ago

Agreed. The way it’s written now sound weird.

relaxing commented on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries reuters.com/investigation... · Posted by u/nis0s

RupertSalt · 2 days ago

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

relaxing · 2 days ago

Fuck off, it’s antisocial behavior and should be shamed accordingly.

relaxing commented on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock github.com/jim11662418/ES... · Posted by u/tokyobreakfast

kotaKat · 3 days ago

Of note, having recently shopped at Walmart for a self-setting alarm clock (what I once knew to be “atomic”):

Apparently the entity today known as Sharp sells “AccuSet(tm)” branded clocks that “automatically set time”… but they’re just factory pre-set with a button cell and they include a slider on the bottom to set a timezone offset (only for US timezones). If you’re lucky, the clock’s battery is still good and the clock “set itself” out of the box several minutes late.

If you’re unlucky - surprise, you get to manually set the time anyways.

https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Digital-Alarm-AccuSet-Automatic...

relaxing · 3 days ago

You want a self-setting radio clock that receives the LF broadcast from WWVB.

There was a kerfuffle a few years back about the funding for the station being cut, but luckily that did not come to be.

relaxing commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr

ted_bunny · 4 days ago

I can, but do I need to? It's already "that movie."

relaxing · 4 days ago

I don’t know about need to, but it’s weird to talk around it.

Also some people might not have seen it yet, or might have been oblivious to the issue.

relaxing commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr

ignoramous · 4 days ago

> can barely name one good movie a year these days

Not really.

Of the recent movies, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a storytelling masterpiece. Since you mentioned it, I personally rate it alongside Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

relaxing · 4 days ago

That’s only one movie.

relaxing commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr

ted_bunny · 4 days ago

Confound: I think one of that film's themes made people deeply uncomfortable, and it was not hidden from the marketing as far as I know. I was a bit put off by its execution myself, even though there's really nothing untoward about it on a factual level.

relaxing · 4 days ago

You can just say it: It was weird how they made 12 year old Natalie Portman act sexy and come on to Jean Reno.

relaxing commented on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing inpractice.yimbyaction.or... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

paulddraper · 6 days ago

The phenomenon is "I believe X" and the reaction is "SO YOU DON'T BELIEVE Y."

Elsewhere people have reacted to a situation by saying "I believe this is okay, because free speech."

But those people didn't include this specific incident, so they apparently don't believe in this one.

relaxing · 4 days ago

The difference is a statement on waffles is not a statement on pancakes, but a statement on absolute free speech is a statement on all speech.

The first one is using a statement on an adjacent issue to demand attention on one’s own pet issue. The latter is calling out alleged hypocrisy.

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