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by achenet 3y ago
> I always wonder what the morals and ethics of these kind of business owners is. > you will do anything for money regardless of morals and ethics. I think you may have answered your own question.
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by achenet 3y ago
and with organised religion you get the crusades and the inquisition. Current day catholicism is pretty nice, because we've had a good 300+ years of post-englightenment/rationalism in society to balance out the violent intolerance
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by achenet 3y ago
Speaking as someone who grew up in Houston and then moved to France - a society that depends on cars as the only method of transportation is, at least in my opinion, much more miserable than one that can be lived in car-free. You're ri
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by achenet 3y ago
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by achenet 3y ago
I switched to Helix for this reason :)
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by achenet 3y ago
you mean like this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
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by achenet 3y ago
there's a very nice video I saw posted a while back where a graphic designer talks about how he'll charge different amounts for a logo for different customers - a small mom and pop shop will pay much less than a large multinationa
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by achenet 3y ago
It doesn't. they live in constant paranoia of being assassinated. Their super-yacht comes at the price of their peace of mind.
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by achenet 3y ago
Chirac was pretty cool
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by achenet 3y ago
> aspiring he thinks he's smarter than everyone, and he therefore feels justified ramming his policies down everyone's throats.
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by achenet 3y ago
Eh... French cops are relatively lazy. I've seen people literally smoking joints in front of the police station. Listening in on someone to find evidence of them doing something illegal is actual work, the odds of them doing it to ever
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The Kia Boys will steal your car for clout(theverge.com)
1 points by achenet 3y ago|1 comments
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by achenet 3y ago
https://gdpr-info.eu/ regulation around data already exists, and there will likely be more coming in the future :) In fact, I recall seeing an article about OpenAI and Microsoft having to pay a large fine for some illegal d
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by achenet 3y ago
I know some tattoo artists that use their smartphones a lot for discussing ideas with clients, sharing images of their work, etc, via Instagram. Could in theory be done with a camera + computer, but probably easier with smartphone.
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by achenet 3y ago
I'm pretty sure drug cartels, and more generally organized criminal groups, are pretty viable financially, at least short term. example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
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by achenet 3y ago
the problem with chasing "equality of opportunity" is that it's basically impossible to quantify. And when you do quantify it, you end up usually looking at something that is an outcome. Example: assume that a) whether or no
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by achenet 3y ago
uh... as a Frenchman, I've noticed a lot of riots, but it's generally white people/native Frenchies doing the whole "fuck the government" thing. It's probably important to understand that protesting is to Franc
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by achenet 3y ago
> The real reason is because they want equity - equal outcome for all. That means penalizing the overachievers and redistributing the outcomes they deserve to the underachievers. I think you should assume most people act in good faith an
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by achenet 3y ago
you should read a bit more about the history of that area.
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by achenet 3y ago
https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ it's possible in theory
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Custer Wolf – a notorious animal outlaw(en.wikipedia.org)
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by achenet 3y ago
very good question to ask. I recall reading that higher status was associated with longer life in 19th/20th civil servants in the UK or the US, it's possible that this was true in mesopotamia as well. In theory, the trappings of w
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by achenet 3y ago
I disagree - I believe many groups have a dynamic much more complicated than that, where the 'rank' question can basically remain in constant flux, forever.
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by achenet 3y ago
the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron kinda does this for some things. It did help me a lot, I guess you could say it taught me the art of "self parenting".
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by achenet 3y ago
this is just my hugely biased opinion, but I honestly think the world might be a little nicer if more people were like you and less people spent a bunch of time thinking about status.
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by achenet 3y ago
Deep psychological trauma can be viewed as a form of brain injury. It's honestly hard to compare emotional and physical trauma. You'll heal from a black eye in a few weeks, a broken bone in a few months, whereas I've personal
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by achenet 3y ago
I also quit smoking. I recommend the book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" by Allen Carr, which basically spends a like a hundred pages explaining that no, smoking isn't fun, at all, you've just been brainwashed to think i
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by achenet 3y ago
I don't recall the exact quotation nor the source, so there may some factual inaccuracies in what I'm about to write, but I think I read somewhere that under bushido (the samurai code), no distinction was made between someone retu
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by achenet 3y ago
It isn't necessarily a money issue. Here in France we also got rid of classes with different levels in favor of a "one size fits all approach", for ideological reasons. As such a school can have 3 teachers, but they'll a
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by achenet 3y ago
sitting is natural. Sitting on a chair, at a desk, staring at a screen, for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and then sitting in your car, and then sitting on your couch and never actually walking anywhere, isn't.

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