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by achenet 3y ago
thanks for sharing those nice links ^_^ I recently got into sewing recently, and I gained a new appreciation for my clothes (generally relatively cheap basics, made overseas). Somewhere in China/Vietname/Malaysia there's a pe
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by achenet 3y ago
if you'll excuse a cheeky well actually ... you'll occasionally get things with high costs of production being cheap because they are subsidized [0][1]. Although I agree that in the general case, price reflects production costs :
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by achenet 3y ago
you can reprogram your brain. Journaling and meditation have helped me a lot, and I've heard of others who have had success with therapy. If these habits/accumulated traumas are causing you pain, know that there are ways to heal t
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by achenet 3y ago
gymnastics and olympic weightlifting actually both favor shorter statures.
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by achenet 3y ago
just like blockchain two years ago :)
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by achenet 3y ago
the article mentions that in this case, what they're doing does actually seem legal, as opposed to the Prenda case (which the article also mentions)
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by achenet 3y ago
I do feel like you somewhat misrepresented my comment. I was clarifying the meaning of the previous comments. FWIW, I did actually get locked up in a psych ward once, for reasons involving drug abuse, and while it was unpleasant, it probabl
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by achenet 3y ago
they probably are. From what the article says, the lawsuits are actually more lucrative than the actual films they make.
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by achenet 3y ago
they mention that in TFA ^^
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by achenet 3y ago
comment you are replying to said "forced rehab" - this is not sheltering people from the consequences of their actions, it's forcing them to accept them and change those actions. Rather hard examples of this that I've se
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by achenet 3y ago
> The overwhelming majority of fortunes are made and squandered within three generations people keep saying this but I can't find a rigrous source when I google it, it's always just LinkedIn puff pieces or Quora... would you ha
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by achenet 3y ago
In the case where "you" is the government, the moral basis for the claim on wealth created is that 1) government was instrumental in the creation of this wealth: you needed the legal system to enforce contracts, the common languag
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by achenet 3y ago
longtime Firefox user here. I switched to Chromium recently bc Firefox started bugging on me.
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by achenet 3y ago
<insert Star Wars joke here>
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by achenet 3y ago
I think the comment you're replying to was trying to point out that growth mindset should not be forever. At some point, obsessive focus on growth has to lead way to something more sustainable.
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by achenet 3y ago
> The entirety of the homo sapiens experience, all the strategies we have in the modern era and all the reliable tactics we use to stay ahead of other lifeforms rely on us being much better at pattern identification than literally anythi
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by achenet 3y ago
because our home grown power hungry individuals are more likely to be okay with things like women dressing how they want, homosexuality, religious freedom, drinking alcohol, having dogs and other decadent western behaviors which we've
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by achenet 3y ago
We live interesting times ^_^
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by achenet 3y ago
useless to society... fashion allows people to optimize their appearance so as to get more positive attention from others. Or, put more crudely, it helps people look good so they can get laid. Not sure that it's net positive for societ
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by achenet 3y ago
I'm not. I'm actually French, and generally prefer nuclear over coal. I'm simply pointing out that this graphic may be somewhat misleading, because it only focuses on a part of nuclear waste. Obviously coal is pretty awful as
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by achenet 3y ago
I believe Peter Thiel would say that capitalism and competition are opposites, and the goal of capitalism is monopoly. https://morfene.com/021.pdf
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by achenet 3y ago
What about the not so high level nuclear waste? Is that not also dangerous? How much of that is there?
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by achenet 3y ago
my goodness... that's absolutely awful.
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it's not just America... lots of other countries will blame their problems on others... I apologize for invoking Godwin's law, but Nazi Germany is a good example, as were/are communist countries blaming everything on 'th
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by achenet 3y ago
to be fair, having used both Android and iOS devices, my experience is that the former will tend to have more frustrating software bugs.
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by achenet 3y ago
The opposite has been true for me. Bizarrely having my own desk, not having to wear pants, being able to turn the wifi off (use ethernet), having full control of my sonic environment (I have a good hifi, I play white noise, rain noise, cafe
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by achenet 3y ago
okay, this is probably a really stupid question but if you're trying to cut down on real estate cost, why not go full remote and sell all your office space?
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by achenet 3y ago
due to toxoplasmosis?
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there's intelligence and wisdom. To use a car metaphor - there's how fast your car can go, and what direction you're driving it in. And often the latter beats the former.
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by achenet 3y ago
> There might be a sense in which bubbles are getting more ridiculous over time (e.g., NFT) but it would be hard to prove it in any objective sense. Remember tulips? [0] I think tulips were probably at least as ridiculous as NFTs. [0] h

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