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by Yeul 2y ago
Sometimes companies forget that their entire existence relies on a middle class that has money to spend. Way back in the 60s in my country the government in consultation with the business world came up with a genius idea: give everyone a bo
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Despite funding the CIA with many billions of dollars every year there are many surprises. This isn't because the CIA is incompetent. No politicians don't want want to hear what the CIA has to say. The US intelligence services isn
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I doubt there is a lot of money in PS2 games. Anyone who really wants to play those games can emulate them on PC.
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I would say that things like afterlife, divine intervention and souls are non existent parts. The clerics in Constantinople no doubt prayed very hard during the Fourth Crusade but it didn't work.
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by Yeul 2y ago
As an atheist D&D always annoyed me, but it was created by Americans so nothing you can do about that.But it gets especially weird when everyone knows demons and hell exist. In reality our ancestors have always dealt with a silent god.
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No the reason why they want young people is not speed. Managers hate mature people because they are a lot harder to command. You also run into the problem of someone being more qualified than their superior. I work in healthcare and seeing
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by Yeul 2y ago
Funny I very rarely see anyone older than 40 in the IT industry. Where are these happy 70 year old coders hiding?
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by Yeul 2y ago
Yeah for me work is work. It's not life. I don't make friends. I don't celebrate co workers birthdays. I make money for my employer and after that I go home. I do my research if the company has a ping-pong table or cafetaria
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by Yeul 2y ago
Pretty much already happening across the well to do city folks here in the Netherlands. Ultimately you have to choose a language that everyone can express themselves in and it sure as hell ain't Dutch lmao.
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I think the next generation will completely dump disc drives. Sony probably knows better than anyone how Blu-ray is dying.
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Why not both? Crazy people can be smart. As for mystic delirium well that's our modern sensibilities talking. Hell there are people today who believe in Marian apparitions.
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by Yeul 2y ago
People in my country don't like creditcards so they are trying to sell their debit cards. In the US,as I understand it, its considered perfectly acceptable for MasterCard to take a few percent of every transaction.
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by Yeul 2y ago
The code breaking was more important to WW2 than Los Alamos which simply came too late to be of any effect. The nuclear bomb was more of a backup plan for if the Germans actually managed to defeat Stalin.
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Ah yes nostalgic bullshit. It was always about the money.
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Americans have time and again voted against social welfare.
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Look your kids are going to discover all kinds of nasty things online or offline so either you prepare them for it or it's going to be like that scene in Stephen King's Carrie.
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Every once in a while I find a slip of paper in my postbox with the contact info of a local drug dealer. The police can't be bothered arresting them and even if they do such a dealer gets replaced in hours anyway. They use WhatsApp. I
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It's Telegram's "groups" channels that make it popular. I'm not sure if Signal has that feature?
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Good thing they have judges in France no? But let's face it many on HN deny the norm and couldn't care less if Telegram is used for criminal content. It's undeniable that the app has a certain reputation.
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In my country it is not unusual for people to work 36 hours. You'd imagine that a nation like Korea or Japan would be twice as rich because they work 70 hours yet it doesn't seem to go that way... Obviously if you do have a 50-70
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by Yeul 2y ago
Unfortunately for Musk the US Constitution doesn't apply everywhere. Lately I've been thinking that the Chinese had a good point with their great firewall. The EU is already banning Russian media perhaps we should ad Americans to
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My mom learned about internet banking because she had to. You'll be amazed what you can do when you don't have a choice!
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Elsevier are no doubt scum but I think that scientists share the blame. They all want to be published in the big famous journals. Which gives Elsevier the power to dictate terms.
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by Yeul 2y ago
It's actually worse if you moved to the middle of nowhere for your job. But if you live in a city there are plenty of employment opportunities. Its what enabled them to become economic hubs. The government in my country once tried to
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by Yeul 2y ago
The 1970s: When you have cheap coal and gas it would be financially stupid to invest in nuclear. Which is why most countries never did. Today: when a single nuclear powerplant is estimated at 20 billion you calculate how many windmills you
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Humans no longer have the big picture. Our knowledge is being atomised because there's so much of it. You can see this in medicine: a cardiologist spends all of his time and effort on a single organ. In the 19th century it was possible
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That's what happens when thanks to Henry Ford every middle class American could afford a car by 1940. It took Europeans another 30 years. (My brother lives in a 1926 apartment that is 10 minute walk from the beach. Although that privil
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They didn't have a choice. When Airbus developed into feasible competition Boeing suddenly had to start making money. The aviation industry wants cheap, fuel economic and reliable "air busses". A brilliant name indeed.
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NASA is funded with public money they should feel pressure to perform.
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Even a lot of Dutch people don't know this but for decades the Netherlands was selling huge quantities of natural gas for bargain prices to anyone willing to pay. Why? Because some very smart Dutch experts calculated that Europe would

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