Bakary

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by Bakary 6y ago
>I think it is a terrible sport. It's not only terrible for the competitors but also for the culture as a whole as normalizing steroid physique hurts normal people. It's not only bodybuilding by the way. Fitness magazines and H
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by Bakary 6y ago
If everyone is gaming the system, then nobody is.
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm not attempting to lay the blame on a specific element for the current situation, as we must look at the whole. Simply blaming the banks doesn't make much sense in isolation, either. I'm just saying that at the final count
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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't want to inject needless cynicism, but why did you think that Apple was doing "the right thing" before and what exactly did that entail according to you? It just seems like strange to attribute those goals to a company
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by Bakary 6y ago
>Google translate still sucks at Mandarin <> English Google is one of the worst for that language pair, FYI. This type of translation in itself has improved at a rapid pace considering what it used to look like. As a result, even t
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by Bakary 6y ago
You can learn to wade through all of that eventually, because the fundamental problems of life remain the same. What info can help purchase your freedom from want? What info leads to situations where you feel fully alive doing things that g
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by Bakary 6y ago
We get easily used to it because presumably the fundamental parameters of our lives will not change: we will still have to work for a living and so far advances in AI seem to simply help to increase inequality, the concentration of capital,
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm surprised that people seem to overwhelmingly prefer the Apple aesthetic compared to Thinkpads. The red and black design and keyboard make for a better overall experience and look in my view.
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's a bit circular because mental illness is societally determined. If enough people deem something to be an illness or no longer one, then so it shall tautologically be. >But yes, religion seems to be a bit of a get-out-of-jail-fr
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by Bakary 6y ago
In his defense, religious belief has a history of sliding down that slope at full speed in most cases when left to its own devices. I feel that religious extremism is often treated much less harshly than secularist abuses. One example of th
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They do understand the concept, they just start from premises that are different from that of the anglosphere.
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by Bakary 6y ago
>America could bring the whole world to heel on "freedom & democracy" Nuclear weapons may have something to say about that...
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by Bakary 6y ago
The true price of most entertainment tends to be its opportunity cost (which can still be low)
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by Bakary 6y ago
Not what you are looking for but Flight Simulator has a 1:1 map of the Earth for its gameplay
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by Bakary 6y ago
If there are 0.34 lines per buyer and 37 days per line, does that mean that the average playtime could be in the proximity of 12½ days? That's impressive, and is probably much higher if you take into account the traditionally large num
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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't know who that person or their business is, but the situation is thought-provoking. On one hand, having that sum of money at that age would be amazing. You would have the freedom to spend the entirety of your remaining time doin
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by Bakary 6y ago
What blocks you from spending time on important things? Chances are it's not knowledge of how you spend your time, but a lack of energy, will, motivation or any other relevant feeling. Even if time is technically the most important res
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by Bakary 6y ago
To get back to the topic of the thread, I do not think it is a rigid monoculture. In this sense, I agree with you. I see it more as a spectrum. I don't think that you will be cancelled wherever you go, either, merely that it will be mu
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by Bakary 6y ago
>I suspect that no matter how abhorrent the view is, I can start an in-person discussion if there is scope for discussion¹. Go ahead, state them here. I will bring the arguments up in person. I don't need to be convinced, I am sure
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by Bakary 6y ago
To be more precise, Anglo-saxon in French refers to the anglosphere and its culture. It's a commonly used word with neutral connotations
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by Bakary 6y ago
The Normans weren't French or Viking, they were their own thing just like the Anglo-Saxons. The concept of Frenchness wasn't even well defined then.
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by Bakary 6y ago
I think this is a theory of mind issue. People find motivation in various ways. I admit that payroll software sounds like one of the most boring things imaginable, but it's also one of the most useful and relevant things imaginable as
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's not about the actual fact of being against unions, but the website itself. A self-parody
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's more about wanting a device that you subjectively enjoy using than worrying about perception in this case. But then again I have never used a BB I still don't get the point of letting people live rent free in your head. In fa
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by Bakary 6y ago
In my experience, people only want to debate views that are familiar but with a twist. The actual depth of the opinion is not the main factor. For instance, among those you have listed there is the bog-standard and comforting "we have
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by Bakary 6y ago
I am not in the tech world, but reading through HN has been more than enough to understand exactly what you mean. Ultimately, people's opinions will change depending on what increases their material conditions at the expense of other g
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's more about discouraging the implementation of infrastructure as much as possible. To some extent, I agree with you: the change is almost inevitable at this point. But any delay represents fewer lives through the grinder and thus p
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by Bakary 6y ago
Google and Facebook are so powerful that it makes sense to err on the side of anything that could decrease their reach.
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by Bakary 6y ago
If the goal of abandoning Google is about privacy, surely picking Yandex is counter-productive? Unless you make the conscious choice of having one entity keep the information from the rest, which I agree can make a lot of sense.
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by Bakary 6y ago
The more cynicism-inducing aspect of it is that criticism of a lack of masks or safety distances was set aside for the latter protests, only to resume later. Either the virus is continually dangerous or it isn't to begin with, it can&#

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