Quite ironic they suggest we use "demanding or entitled White woman" instead of "Karen". Isn't a Karen actually a "a female of European descent struggling with mental conditions of entitlement?"
Today its glasses of water by the sink, tomorrow it's "you have to sanitize the car steering wheel after you drive," and eventually it's "don't get close to me if you walked by the bus stop." I feel sorry for anyone who has to endure this.
You have not really given us enough information to suggest the best solution. For example, is this because you host many websites for other people who all use your custom nameservers? Either way, if you are hosting many sites with custom nameservers, look at what AWS does for its nameservers for route53. Theirs are set-up like so:
ns-1271.awsdns-11.co.uk
ns-522.awsdns-02.net
ns-433.awsdns-03.com
ns-1870.awsdns-03.org
In your case, you'd likely want to each domain used in your custom nameserver configuration to be registered at a different company. In this way, you no longer have a single point of failure.
While I agree that 200K in debt for a BA in English is not a wise choice, there's a whole class of families that can afford the 200K out of pocket, and will happily pay it for a top school. I have a child, and will do it for the following reasons:
- You only get one chance to be 18 - 22 years old. College is a great way to improve your appreciation of culture, society, and build social skills, prior to taking a full time job.
- I know many youngsters here will likely have a problem with this -- but the average 18 year old has some intellectual and emotional maturing to do. This can happen via the social and academic challenges of college. In fact, the best colleges will sell this over any practical skills.
Work life can be a grind, even for someone with their dream job. When was the last time you had a chance to try your hand at literary criticism, or game theory, or learning a new language? How did it go the first time you had to ask for help with an intellectual problem? (Probably a distant thought in the minds of the average senior developer). How about the last time you had to cooperate with several people you dislike? College is a good place to get started with these things.
> When was the last time you had a chance to try your hand at literary criticism, or game theory, or learning a new language? How did it go the first time you had to ask for help with an intellectual problem?
Just to be a contrarian (on HN, of all places!), I'm in my late twenties and know a couple of people who are at least a little bit bitter/regretful that they spent their early twenties learning game theory and literary criticism rather than how to function as an adult.
Getting from zero to paying one's living expenses is probably the most difficult growth phase of any start-up. In my personal experience, this phase is best funded by technical debt. I suspect this is an unpopular opinion because cleaning up technical debt is no fun. None-the-less, I've seen it over and over -- a quasi-technical founder knows someone willing pay for XYZ, then that person makes it just well enough to work. A company is born, the rent gets paid, and perhaps an acquiring company cleans-up the tech stack.
I agree that it's the most difficult growth phase. "Funded by technical debt" is an interesting way to say about building something quickly and well enough to work. Loved it.
HostiFi was for sure funded by technical debt. I hacked the MVP together on WordPress plugins and Python scripts. That got us to over $1M in ARR then we spent about $100K to rewrite the entire thing and migrate to Laravel PHP and (better) Python scripts.
My friend, you are not lost -- you are free. From what I can tell, you have your health, your youth (35 is still young) and you have some savings. If you don't have a mortgage, kids, a spouse, and a job you cannot leave, then you are free. The next step is to see the world. Get a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai and try to stay as long as possible. Learn the language, get a scooter, and talk to people. Live close to the earth, and when you eventually miss home, you will return a different person. Certain places are easier to reboot yourself than others. Pick some place warm and friendly.
Chiang Mai and the rest of Thailand are rather shit at the moment with insane entry requirements. Even if you persevere (and don't get jailed in quarantine hotel) understand that there are no tourists, no expats, no nightlife at the moment and many many failed businesses and ghost town vibes.
"Just learn Thai lol" is not actionable advice either. I say this as someone who has literally done what you suggest in 50+ countries. If he could somehow sneak into New Zealand (not Australia!) I'd strongly recommend that instead at the moment. Buy a van. Hike. So many great treks and places that you usually need to reserve months in advance and far higher likelihood of meaningful interactions.
You can certainly catch a variant or just test positive even if you are fully vaxed and boosted. And frankly it wouldn't surprise me if this is just a way to shakedown tourists.
They decided last week that on the first and fifth days from arrival you must stay in an approved hotel. They don't tell you the results until you are all tucked in, and so you have a rather high chance of ending up in an expensive covid jail.
Next month is a long time away and they are making up new rules as they go as per usual. I admire your optimism and hope you get lucky and enjoy the place as few people will get to experience the islands so empty :)
I will attest to this being quite poor advice. I think the OP is well aware that a cheap exotic vacation and a scooter are not going to fill the gap he feels.
On the other hand, locales like the one recommended are full of first-world young adults testing the theory that a change of location will fix what ails them with markedly mixed results.
Travel can be great, but travel is at best a sort of emotional palliative care for a person in the OPs situation as I understand it.
Office buildings have the same layouts with windows at the ends and cubicles in the middle. I doubt the patrons feel stuck in a temperature storage facility. I prefer Munger's layout after looking more into it.
IMHO it's a terrible layout but not for the lack of windows in bedrooms. The pod shared space is basically useless. Why do students on a meal plan need a full kitchen? What are they going to do with a single big table? Why use 1/2 of each pods exterior wall for windowless bedrooms?
The common space should be the entire exterior wall. It should be a living room instead of a kitchen/table combo.
The proportions are off too, IMHO. The pod living spaces are too small and the great rooms too big.
It’s Southern California. I went to school in Arizona, and pretty much everyone put foil over their dorm-room windows. My sister went to UCSB. Their house had blackout curtains.
This building won’t win any architectural awards. But the idea makes sense and the objections don’t stand given the tradeoffs (fewer rooms, multiple students per room and/or higher cost) they would require.
>tradeoffs (fewer rooms, multiple students per room and/or higher cost) they would require
You can increase the house plan from 22 windowed rooms (counting the double room twice) to 32 without changing the shape of the building by moving 4 of the dorm blocks to the other side of the multipurpose room and not having one of the washrooms face outside. That would also reduce the distance from the dorm rooms to the multipurpose room/staircase. Design's just bad.
Unrelated to the windows, it's also weird that the bathrooms from adjacent dorm blocks aren't back-to-back so that they could easily share plumbing.
That is indeed a fancy building, but the product selection is poor. Notice how all the shown food is prepacked low shelf life snacks.
Japan's domestics convivence stores strength is in their supply chains. They will keep a single shop stocked with over a thousand products, many with short self lifes and low in-store stock. Thus the stores survive on daily restock. The bento and sandwich collection will stocked once a day in most locations, multiple times for busy downtown locations.
All of the short shelf life products are store label products made by child-companies of the owning mega-corp.
7-11 is owned by 7 & i holdings, which also owns Ito Yokado. FamliyMart is owned by Itochu (hence their prime chicken, as itochu owns the chiken farms). Lawson is owned by Mitsubishi Co.
A fun example to drive home the vertical integration: FamilyMart's uniforms are made by another company owned by Itochu. The kombini are in effect the tip of the icebergs of various mega-corps.
I live in Hsinchu, about 20 minutes from this 7-11. This is probably the only nice looking one in the city and not an average. 99.9% of 7-11s in Taiwan are consistently as ugly as 7-11s in North America. When I visited Tokyo, the convenience store experience is shockingly good. In Taiwan, I actually much prefer Hi-Life or Family Mart over 7-11. 7-11 in Taiwan is still better than the ones from back home but Japan has ruined convenience stores for me. I wish Lawson would come to Taiwan.
On a side note: paying for a bill or picking up a parcel at a convenience store is great.. until you are the one waiting in line behind someone doing both.
While I prefer Family Mart in Taiwan. I really don't find much difference between 7-11 in Japan vs Taiwan, both are great. But Singapore, oh man 7-11 in Singapore is terrible compared to Taiwan/Japan. Still better than anything in the west tho!
> But Singapore, oh man 7-11 in Singapore is terrible compared to Taiwan/Japan.
7-Eleven in Singapore is operated by a Hong Kong conglomerate that also has the licence(?) to operate in Hong Kong and China [1].
If we're just talking about convenience food, IMO 7-Eleven still has a better selection than its other competitor, Cheers [2], which is owned and operated by Singapore's government-controlled trade union confederation [3].
I'm trying to think when I've ever gone into cheers... They seem so rare... I definitely cannot comment on cheers as I just think of ever going into one.
