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by achenet 3y ago
number of people posting in this thread != number of people hired via those threads :)
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by achenet 3y ago
> 25 million people who pay for Youtube Premium today. and there are 2.5 billion monthly active users on Youtube, according to [0]. So about 1% of the userbase are willing to pay for ad-free content. [0] https://www.globalmedi
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by achenet 3y ago
> Russia and China are concerned with their borders and it's trivial to verify my assessment Is correct. Russia is invading a neighboring country, and from talking to Lithuanians, the Russia people seem rather keen on returning to
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by achenet 3y ago
giving people tools like Word/Docs, Excel/Sheets, etc that they can use to express themselves and calculate things? Providing email for people? Giving people "it just works" (albeit not as well as Apple's stuff) ope
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by achenet 3y ago
> That is, you can have a bunch of software developers (or miners), but if there is no gold to mine, they'll just sit idle (and eventually disperse). not sure this is a good example - while it's true for actual gold mining, in
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by achenet 4y ago
for me the rewards to learning (basic) German have been more personal than professional - attempting to speak with a German speaker in their native language generally makes it easier to bond with them.
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by achenet 4y ago
Do you work for Google?
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by achenet 4y ago
the wave speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgs2O7Okqc
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by achenet 4y ago
I get what you're saying, and I've basically only done the "cowboy-style drop acid/MDMA/shrooms in random settings" and sorted my shit out that way (well, some of it, at least) myself, and honestly, it's w
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by achenet 4y ago
nah, there are some good ones. The mechanical keyboard and ergomechkeyboards ones are fun to browse, bodyweightfitness is generally good, and I've started exploring the music production one recently, it looks nice.
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by achenet 4y ago
living in a midsize French city, this has not at all been my experience. Could be due to sampling bias (I'm basing this off of people I know, who are probably not representative of the population as a whole), but most people here seem
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by achenet 4y ago
they're more the exception than the rule. The biggest software companies (Facebook/Meta, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple) are all American.
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by achenet 4y ago
> Canada and the EU disprove your statement, when people are arrested / convicted because their dog raised a paw on video, or because someone was offended by a tweet or have compelled speech laws to force one person refer to another
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by achenet 4y ago
read your comment as "what percentage of entrepreneurs are people with mental health problems and or drug addiction?" which actually is a really interesting question.
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The Workman Keyboard Layout(workmanlayout.org)
2 points by achenet 4y ago|0 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget if the market is a government monopoly, you'll likely have fewer problems than if t's run by violent criminals.
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by achenet 4y ago
> You think Americans dealing with bills need drugs more than subsistence farmers in Bangladesh? well it sure seems that way, don't it? perhaps the issue is because Americans spend their time alone staring at screens, getting mad ab
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by achenet 4y ago
what about a state monopoly, like alcohol in Sweden? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget
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by achenet 4y ago
journaling, meditation, more specifically lying in the corpse pose for about an hour a day, diet (I currently follow a paleolithic ketogenic diet with no salt, although find what works for you via keeping a food journal), exercise and good
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by achenet 4y ago
> Capitalism is the most successful economic system ever created and is responsible for more human happiness, prosperity and health than anything else. Fun fact: "The initial use of the term "capitalism" in its modern sens
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by achenet 4y ago
televisions are cheaper, food, housing and healthcare are more expensive [0] I'm pretty sure the latter 3 are more important to standard of living than the former. Ergo, I believe your claim that standard of living is superior to 1970
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by achenet 4y ago
they learned to drive, not how a car works all the way down to the thermodynamics of the engine. they learn to send WhatsApp messages with their iPhone, don't see why they'd learn how computers work all the way down to Maxwell&#x2
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by achenet 4y ago
startups, while they can have funding, do not have near unlimited piles of cash allowing them to keep building something no one wants. At some point, they have to start being profitable, and this constraint is what forces them to be adaptab
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by achenet 4y ago
I blame television + social media favoring stupid, anger inducing soundbites over well thought out rhetoric. And Duverger's law [0] leading to a duopoly of two political parties who spend all their time bickering and scheming to get mo
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by achenet 4y ago
from my recollection of Scott Young's blog and to a certain extent my personal experience, you can generally up the video speed to 1.5x-2x and retain the same amount of comprehension - people generally talk much slower than you you can
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Experimenting with Advertising on MDN(developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by achenet 4y ago|2 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
I have a hard time accepting an argument against government regulation by a guy who supports large amounts of housing regulations to keep people from building anything near his property. Deregulation, like charity, begins at home.
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by achenet 4y ago
ehhh.... You have genes. Certain genes are well adapted to certain environments, for example hi/low melanin to protect from UV radiation. In environments where people don't move a lot, such as the Earth 5000 years ago, genes will
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by achenet 4y ago
twitter tends to do that to people
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by achenet 4y ago
easy as spinning up a CRUD app

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