Valakas_

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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Russia is a like an abusive man with PTSD - always expecting an attack that doesn't come and victimizing himself while abusing others. Has Russia perhaps thought for a moment why are countries making an alliance to defend against Russi
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Google's ideal would be that every single search result would be both relevant and an ad. And it's going there, somewhat at least. Because the people who have the most time to write articles are employees writing/researching
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Hi! I love the ideia of an off-grid house. If you didn't get that permit for urban land ("you can build a house here") then the whole thing has no sanitation, electricity or water connected to the main supply right? And are w
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I'm sorry, but I will do this: I used to think like you're thinking. Pointing other people's logic fallacies, understanding sophism and the logical soundness of arguments. Logic, for human debates, is very nice in theory. But
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I was in the top 1% both in highschool and college and for me going in person, in terms of learning, was (and still is) a waste of time. I would learn MUCH faster outside of classes. I much prefer a recording of a class which i can watch, r
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
There can be many reasons for that and most have nothing to do with life choices or "mental models" whatever that means. * Trauma triggers and unprocessed/unconscious trauma. You'd be surprised how common this is. People
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
!remindme 100 years
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
It must be safe to do tax evasion, money laundering, and drugs with a system that is transparent and traceable till the beginning of its existence.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
What is your view on the relationship between ADHD and childhood trauma?
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I don't know if NFT's have a future or not. I'm kind of agnostic on this one. But what is not cool today can be cool tomorrow and vice versa. Internet used to be for nerds only. There's a famous sketch of Letterman makin
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I agree that there's no plan or roadmap, so maybe I was not clear in my wording. What I mean is that given infinite time, a smart species will tend to emerge, and when it does, it will be the most successful one. So evolution (by rando
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
We need to stop talking about "the mob" as if these people came through a membrane from another universe and are fundamentally non-humans and different from us. Instead of being condescending to people maybe it would be more usefu
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Intelligence is indeed just one tool. But as we see, maybe one of the best tools after a critical point. So it could be expected that after a while, evolution does converge to create intelligent beings who are able to control the environmen
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
But OpenSea is cool and SecondSea is not. Anyone can own things on SecondSea so it's basically worthless. "I own a Mona Lisa NFT." "Oh really?? You mean THE Mona Lisa NFT?? How did you manage? I thought that was owned by
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
The end result of unregulated capitalism is feudalism/slavery. Just think: What is more competitive than a company where its employees work for free? Should we be surprised that this is exactly where things are going? Not literally for
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Exactly. I mean food that we buy for 10€, 15€ a pop counts for inflation. And then the most expensive thing we ever purchase in our lives, say 400 000€ right now, and the effect on inflation on that doesn't count? Doesn't make sen
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I agree with you about the abuse aspect. That's one thing this could change. I would for example change the voting system to not allow a negative score. It doesn't happen often, but it still doesn't feel good that people disa
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
For depressed people I wonder. How much is it the brain's "fault" or is it genuinely something (a lot of) thing(s) wrong in the person's life? It's easy for example to overlook trauma, and just blame ourselves &quot
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
We humans are gene making machines. We like to pretend we are superior and full owners of our choices, that we are above animalistic tendencies, that we are special and not like the others, but... couldn't be further from the truth. We
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
DDG should change their name though. Seriously. Who wants to use such a ridiculous sounding search engine? AltaVista sounded good and had a meaning (seeing from above). Yahoo fine. Bing also ok. But duckduckgo seems like the most ridiculous
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
We are humans. We need social connection, we need soap operas, "trash TV" is just human drama basically. Our brains were not made for studying math 24/7 but they were made for social interaction 24/7. Social interaction
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Unregulated capitalism you mean.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Totally agree with your comment about the cancerous need for growth. If a company is not growing, immediately it's seen as if something is wrong with it.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
We live in a society where everyone is almost fending for themselves. When we lived in tribes, a woman would rarely have to provide for herself, be competitive or fierce. She could if she wanted, but only by choice. She could just as well
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Would there be a bad situation if there was nobody profitting from it? Maybe there is a root cause, but Zillow is certainly one cause why this is so bad. Not the root one, but a cause still.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
The thing with FIRE movement is more about escaping being forced to work soul sucking jobs, commuting, management, mindless boring tasks.... And it's not always easy to change fields, or change company, move city, .... People that I
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
It provides value though. It's a great medium to store value. Throughout history there have been stores of value which had little intrinsic value except their scarcity and tradeability - rai stones, certain sea shells, (...). Just like
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
We've gone full circle again. History tends to repeat itself. But now we don't have pitchforks. I wonder how the next revolution is going to happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
If you look at future predictions they almost always make the same mistake: they're based on the technology available at the time they were made.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Unfortunately if we bring up 'ethics' we're the laughing stock of the room "aww he's so cute thinking about the good of humanity, what a nice guy. Anyway, as the adults were saying..."

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