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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Given the number of failed suicide attempts, not everyone is capable of committing it successfully. Which is actually a good thing if these statistics are correct: "Approximately 7% (range: 5-11%) of attempters eventually died by
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> If she doesn't end her life humanely and in the comfort of trained professionals, she can just simply do it at home in a far more unpleasant way What's the difference? It's unavoidable that long term if assisted suicide
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Euthanasia for incurable cancer patients is a no-brainer, but for incurable depression sufferers? Well, their bodies are healthy. These are fundamentally different situations. Incurable cancer patients are basically guaranteed to die b
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> If a person has tried every other option and there is still no end to their pain Except they certainly haven't, both because of very limited resources and became they are probably in no condition to figure what they could or shoul
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Fundamentally this is not different at all from suicide. Every physically healthy and conscious person is capable of committing it if they were strongly want to. So why would we as a society want to make it more acceptable and encourage peo
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> leftovers can kill you Still probably worth a try, I mean doesn't seem like a big deal at all considering these circumstances. Also IIRC modern(ish) MAOIs are a lot safer.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> both seem to come from a place of insecurity and heavily play up some positives while ignoring the negatives > Or is this some weird alt-right Catholic White Nationalism fetish? I see a lot of projection going on here. No, you were
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Median disposable income is not the same thing as average wage/salary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... > the salaries were around $30-40k, but we could have paid much less if we
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
It's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... You don't just seem to know that disposable income and average wage/salary is not the same thing..
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
No, sorry that was a typo, of course it's yearly (the $20k is not for tech pay but average wage for the entire population, tech would be 1.5-3x more)
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
But the company is still profitable on the whole (even if their margins are not great these days) they basically just shifted some of the costs from one department to another
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> $8-20k range, which is Eastern European level Are you talking about software and tech in general? Because that's several times lower than the average. In every single East European country in the EU, the average ~~monthly~~ [edit
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Current Intel and its leadership seems to be much more focused on long term goals/growth than before, or so they claim.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
I might sound quite judgmental (and maybe a bit awful) but I can't think of another way to phrase it: but unless you have a history of substance abuse that only makes sense if you have a very strong fear of not being able to control yo
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
I think psychological dependence is a lot bigger concern for most people when talking about alcohol/weed or even sugar. > Under the addictiveness angle, one can say that the majority of the American population has an addiction That
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Didn't Germany have a way, way more ambitious plan at the beginning, basically the Canadian model with fully legalized sales, dispensaries etc. only for it to get shot down by the EU? So they backed down and ended up with this halfbake
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
But that's just a policy some companies have, it has nothing to do with legality.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> better than sugar Maybe let's not get ahead of ourselves... sugar when consumed in moderation and with enough fiber/etc. is not really an issue. Also a lot depends on how you chose to consume cannabis if you're smoking i
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> and after producing some foul fumes, they were just passively lying on the floor with a stare of apathy That's like deciding to never try beer after seeing some people getting blackout drunk. Of course, it's your choice and t
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
The very specific figures from that comment are obviously not really correct. e.g. Pfizer's profit margin in 2023 was ~3.5% which isn't that great (and that's the largest pharma company by revenue).
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> How can the value of work ever approach zero? Human work is value. It would never reach zero, it would keep approaching zero though (relative to the amount of money of people who earnt it before you). Basically, someone could just hoar
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Why? What would change in those years? I'd bet that he would be still extremely likely to commit fraud or other financial crimes (if presented the opportunity) after he got out. Maybe letting him keep a few billion would entice him to
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
That's a 10 year old article. Although if we rank by market cap top 6 are from the US these days (by revenue 5 out 10 seem to be European) so not much has seemingly changed (besides Novo Nordisk becoming the second most valuable pharma
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
How can you rehabilitee someone like him? It can work even with violent criminals, whose crimes was strongly related to the circumstances they were in. A guy like him who stole billions? What could anyone ever do to convince him to not comm
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_retreat in all of those states the duty to retreat doesn't apply if in your home (or workplace)
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Just like it works everywhere else. That's certainly not the case, though.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
But now there is chance that Intel will at some point overtake TSMC again and most(?)/much of their production capacity would be in the US? That chance would no longer exist if the government nationalized Intel.. so what would be the p
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Your Delphi setup isolates business logic from UI. Which may seem "overly complex" in trivial demoes, but will help you the very moment you write the first test or add some business logic. So basically, the same as Cocoa&#x2F
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> A "talent" Was equal to about 26 kilograms. For most labourers that was about 10 years worth of wages...
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
If the real costs is decreasing that's usually good, a decrease in nominal prices not so much. Why would you invest into increasing productivity etc. if you know that you revenue will only go down Longterm? Generally we'd want to

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