Some fast food restaurants are in the experience business, so not strictly so, although I am sure that some food produced in the food business would be considered fast food, so I suppose it doesn't preclude it either. I'm not sure the question really overlaps with the discussion, although perhaps I don't fully understand what you are asking.
yeah, i would like an example of a meal for $5 from a restaurant of any kind. A meal for < $10 is quite rare even for fast food, a slice of pizza and a coke from 7/11 is pushing $10.
> yeah, i would like an example of a meal for $5 from a restaurant of any kind.
Eating out doesn't necessarily mean restaurant, unless you use the term loosely. Restaurants typically sell an experience, not food, and indeed you expect to pay for that experience. It is something not duplicatable at home, at least not for the price a restaurant can offer it to you. Even a high priced restaurant is cheap compared to hiring servants to come to your home.
What's fast food? I consider McDonalds fast food, but they aren't in the food business and thus wouldn't be expected to provide for $5. The term fast food is quite loaded, in my experience.
Which market are you in? We know for certain that there isn't price uniformity in all locations. I'm not at all surprised that you could be paying $10+ for the same meal I pay $5 for. Which brings us back to asking what is rent? Again, that kitchen is occupying space that must be accounted for. You're being completely disingenuous if you ignore the bulk of your costs of operating a kitchen.
You can choose to accept those costs. I like to cook and would hate life if I had to eat out every day even if were at the best restaurants around, so I do too, but I'm not going to pretend they don't exist. The cost of eating at home isn't just the raw ingredients. That would be unfair to not only the discussion, but also yourself and your finances if you aren't being honest with yourself.
Almost nothing around here is less that $10 and most $12-15 a head unless it's taco bell or the dollar menu at some fast food menu for sure. I think someone lives in a much smaller town than we do or something ?
Maybe OP refers to the situation where you lose all data since the last takeout, but if you had a daily imap backup running you could mitigate this loss for your emails.
>> You still can, but it takes much more effort and deliberate protocols to follow.
>is absolutely true, words for words :-)
Do you follow a specific protocol or method for learning these days? And compared to when you were learning something when you were younger, do you find it more challenging (even with the protocol)?
My general health is not very good and age has effect. Basically, memorizing is much harder. I need about 3x more time to memorize. Moreover, in the past I could memorize some stuff "by heart" but now it's almost impossible so the consequence is that I have to understand every single bit of information I learn. That needs a lot of work. So I need to work a lot more and plan a lot more than when I was young. Moreover, when I was young I was a top 10% student and without too much work. Things have changed and I had to realize and accept it :-)
Being older has its advantages : when working with young students, I can influence groups to go in the good direction (before I was more of a follower). Also, since I've chosen to study again, I'm 100% clear on what I do. This translates to studying very seriously (I'm not distracted by the web, tv, etc. except HN of course :-) ). The professors have also lost a bit of their charisma, so I don't fear them any more.
The life/studies balance is a bit tough sometimes but fortunately my family is very supportive. This is really important because when the work load is high (say, work 12 hours/per day for several days), the kids, my wife start missing me. I also most often refuses socializing 'cos it takes time and energy. All in all, they show a lot of patience.
The hardest part for me is the stress of the exams. Before I was (over) confident in my ability to succeed, now I'm not at all, so it's stressful. Also, I sit in front of my courses for long hours and it has real effects on my muscles. It's difficult to maintain physical activity when under pressure.
So my protocol is simple : I work 5 days a week, about 10 hours per day. Saturday is off, no matter what. Sunday I work only 7-8 hours. I do my best to be in bed before 11pm; I start working before 9:00. I do my best to have a 40 minutes walk 3-4 times per week. I try not to spend time in front of my computer when not needed (I don't spend hours tuning emacs or Debian any more :-)). I try to read 15-30 min. before sleep. The rest of the time is for family, preparing diner, dishes. So basically, I don't have personal leasure time anymore (but since I like studying, it's not much of a problem).
All in all, it's doable if you can afford to stop working the time needed (2 years in my case). But you need lots of discipline and a supportive family 'cos your brain has definitely aged...
Also Indian here. If the OP is used to cubes of sugar, he’s probably quite wealthy in India. Indian middle class consumers usually use granulated sugar as the cubes are more expensive, and middle class Indian consumers are usually quite price sensitive.
I think what the OP was trying to refer to here is the granulated sugar that is more popular in India. Mostly the sugar has crystals that are .5-1mm thick while in the us it is closer to the consistency of powdered table salt.
I had a Moto X (2014), and I had a very similar impression. The launcher was very minimal and AOSP-like. It was also one of the first Android devices that had always-on listening for a trigger word (Hello Moto X?). I always found that almost magically useful at setting alarms when I was already in bed.
I had the same experience. It started off great, but I was not a fan of the idea of having all my data hostage with Notion. I'm using emacs with org-mode and org-roam right now, but I still don't have good flow with org-roam.
Both Obsidian.md and vimwiki look really cool though. Do you use Obsidian and vimwiki together, or for separate purposes?
I take notes with vimwiki (using tags) and then obsidian is the visualization layer (being able to filter and see what notes are related to one another)
