That's the part that pisses me off the most. It's forever. We can't fix it and unspill the milk. I wonder if they will cover credit monitoring for kids too? I'm assuming my children's SSNs are now compromised, and their credit could be screwed up before they even get started.

Anthem was criminally negligent here. Businesses aren't going to take customer privacy seriously until people start going to jail and/or paying substantial, painful fines. When are the heads going to start rolling?

I put a fraud alert on my credit and have been keeping an eye on my accounts, but as someone that always buys top-of-the line security software and does everything right concerning the security of my accounts (long passwords, different for every site, etc.), this hack makes me mad. 40 years of keeping my accounts…

I'm part of Anthem. And I fucking hate shit like this with companies too fucking cheap to protect data properly.

It was always really helpful for me to try my best to focus on how I felt, rather than how I looked. Like ok, I may not have lost any weight this week, but I slept like a baby. Or, I haven't seen any reduction of my belly fat yet, but my anxiety has been completely manageable. I think the way you look can be a…

That's kind of a shit response. It'd be one thing if she wasn't living with him, but she is. The fact that they're living together by definition means there's a minimum of privacy to start with, and that the response was to expect him not to feel comfortable enough to service himself in his own bed. Yes it's her bed,…

I used to work with a dba who would no joke type with 2-3 fingers. He was the best DBA I've ever worked with, and that's not a joke or a rip, he was a really great DBA who just happened to have horribly slow typing.

If you can so casually dismiss the magnitude of these decisions, then I suspect you haven't faced many of them. Sometimes responsibilities throw off the math, making the answer to questions like "Where should I live?" more complicated than "live someplace close to your job." Sometimes the elementary schools near your…

As is noted by the article, if you get the chance, I suggest going to O'ahu for the Honolulu Festival, in early March. It's a cross-cultural festival between Asian countries and Hawaiian culture, so you'll see dozens of Japanese hula clubs doing free performances in several locations. It all ends up with a parade…

End of March through early April is an ideal time to visit Japan or South Korea, in time for cherry blossom season. This time is also ideal weather-wise.

This is rich guy behavior. Doesn't really matter how he got rich.

Good advice overall.

I'm even at the point where I invited a girl out to a big concert with free tickets I had won. She left right after the show with her other friends who happened to be there, told me we could chat more later, and I've yet to hear a word from her again week later.

I "lost" half the value of my retirement 401k back in 2007. But not really since it's already way back above what it was (20% average return the last 3 years).

This is such a good point. Keeping your reminders limited lessens the chance of your blowing them off in the end, but I'm beginning to wonder if there are any other mind tricks that will fix this.

Unfortunately, using automated reminders has the adverse effect of causing "reminder numbness"; dismissing nags becomes almost second nature when you're busy or on the go. I use calendar reminders for everything, but sometimes hitting "Dismiss" becomes a little too easy. Reminds me of the IE6 days with popup ads.

I invest heavy in my 401(k), about a quarter of my income, into a diverse horizon/target retirement fund. My thought is I'd rather have money be a bit tight now than have to worry about it when I retire, which is how my parents approached saving.

I like this idea a lot. Too often science- and research-based perspectives are overlooked and discounted due to the amount of noise on health issues by those with more volume.

If you're gun shy about investing in the stock market, consider investing in low volatility ETFs such as the S&P's, or one managing consumer staples. They've historically shown to have better upside, and less downside. Most of the companies found in them aren't the sexy investments like Tesla or Apple, but they …

The day I tell someone, without irony, that I am richly scheduled is the day I accept that I am assimilated in the the Borg of Corporate America, walk out, and move into a shack in the woods.