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Ball is life.

Yea, I'm gonna get a condo for sure.

> I will acknowledge that owning a house is sometimes like having an extra part time job. I'm forever fixing little things or gardening or changing things about the house. I consider this to b…

This seems to be the defining factor of homeowners: they like the idea of owning. They are also open to having home maintenance/renovation become their main hobby in life. If you have large, nont…

The thing is you still "throw money away" in owning a home through maintenance, see the 5% rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl3-jBNEd4 . There are large, unrecoverable …

Start rock climbing, take an intro to mountaineering course with a guiding service (lots of them in WA, OR, CA), or find someone to introduce you to it.

Getting to the Kearsarge Pass TH is a 5-hour drive from Reno. I'll go out on a limb an assume most HNers are not from Nevada. This is really a lot of driving / sitting on a bus just to try o…

OP, terminology nit: a thru-hike is a way of completing a long-distance hike, not a type of hike in itself. It just means completing the entire trail in one continuous go. You can section hike (do pie…

Start out car camping. My progression was: 1. Avid day hiker (10-16 mile hikes every weekend, 5-8k ft gain) 2. Car camping in Ojai (near Los Angeles). Drive in, setup your tent, chill, sleep, leave ne…

The Sierra really has the most challenging terrain of the entire trail, and is hard to get to from most major cities. Better would be to enter the trail near Mt. Baden-Powell / Wrightwood / …

It's not just about being smart/dumb, it's also about being trusting and agreeable. I think falling prey to the occasional (hopefully not life-destroying) deception is part of the cost …

Behold the California filmmaking map. The whole world, in one state. https://mk0brilliantmaptxoqs.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload... …

I just watch Kenji Lopez-Alt's late night gopro videos. The guy has epitomized bachelor meals (though he's married). His tortilla pizza is brilliant.

Tip 13 should just be tip 1 applied to recipes. Searching reddit for recipes can yield ones that many people have actually tried and feel like opining on. The downside of Reddit opinions is that it he…

The internet was a mistake.

Any non-trivial hobby is a lesson in concentration: painting, playing piano, rock climbing, carpentry. Ultimately it's all mindfulness.

Left a low-paying, stable, very boring non-software engineering job. Working in tech now, good money, but man do I wish for those "boring" days sometimes. It's meetings and craziness ev…

Twitter CEO said we can give them the right to speak, but that doesn't mean the right to go viral. I think "viral" is an apt term - these are mind viruses that are 95% harmful.

I heard somewhere that under 40 (or was it 45?), most people die of suicide or trauma. After that, people can die of pretty much anything. Just goes to show...

How does age discrimination manifest? I'm less concerned with being passed over for promotions than just having a job. Is it mainly that older guys are first on the chopping block for layoffs? Ho…

I like coding, I don't like management. I'm not good with people. Other hobbies of mine are cooking, woodworking, rock climbing. I like getting my hands dirty. I value good management and I&…

Yeah, Boeing (can't believe I'm citing them positively) had two tracks for engineers: management and technical fellow, with the latter basically being a researcher. Tech changes much more qu…

I'm just worried about age discrimination. I'm 35. Do I have 15 years to make bank, after which they take me out back and shoot me? How common are developers over 50 at these companies?

HN Bingo item: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

I guarantee that everyone, including you, will have forgotten this completely in 5 years. I would put money on it. It would be cool if carriers caved into this fear and sold 737 MAX tickets at a disco…

Reminds me of those who said they'd never ride in a Toyota again after the unintended acceleration catastrophe. It cost them BILLIONS, now people hardly remember it.

> Apple is my hero in that regard, where you actually pay for the product experience instead for being part of some deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cabl…

Do you want to pay them?