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by achenet 4y ago
> Tim Sweeney, the CEO of "Fortnite" maker Epic Games, tweeted on Wednesday that fighting Apple's "monopoly" was "an American issue transcending party politics". Forget fixing healthcare, reducing gun c
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by achenet 4y ago
or maybe just he paid them off with the stolen cash?
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by achenet 4y ago
> A journalists job is to report the news In theory maybe, in practice, journalists are simply Instagram influencers with fancy degrees. They make content to draw eyeballs for an organization that sells ads.
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by achenet 4y ago
um, because the people making that decision are executives?
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by achenet 4y ago
I've had hallucinations whilst meditating. Didn't really seek them out, but they randomly happened a couple times. Furthermore, you have other extraordinary experiences, like for example feelings of universal love, that people see
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by achenet 4y ago
> I think people who facilitate the sale of community destroying hard drugs deserve punishment I'd argue Instagram has done more damage to human relationships and communities than MDMA, despite the former being around for much longe
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The Attraction for Drugs Is Spiritual(o-meditation.com)
1 points by achenet 4y ago|3 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
> Anyone around interested but presumes me as gay wouldn't even bother asking. Hot girl walks by. Make a point of checking her out. Believe me, there are a myriad of ways to express attraction to a certain type of person when in pro
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by achenet 4y ago
Not sure the authors are getting much money, compared to the publishers. Perhaps it depends on the nice - I heard sci-fi is rather low margin, whereas academic publishing tends to be rent-seeking. Still, with the world wide web, it's p
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by achenet 4y ago
C++ I think gets similar hate. Perl maybe, if you end up having to re-read some.
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by achenet 4y ago
Never been to Norway or Spain, but England and France are generally okay w.r.t. migrant labor. Not saying there isn't some hostility to foreigners, because ceterus paribus you'll get many more job interviews with a CV that says &q
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by achenet 4y ago
if the people Jesus fed with the duplicated fish and bread were too poor to afford buying any food, is that still lost sales? If some student in Rwanda downloads a copy of some obscure Springer-Verlag text (I'm picking on SV because th
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by achenet 4y ago
> Then the people you are interested in "romantically" won't be interested in you cos you're thought as gay. And you can fix this in like 10 seconds via asking the person out on a date or casually mentioning that cute
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by achenet 4y ago
and yet this man makes waay more money than me. Maybe it's a sign that I should quit the weed for a bit and go play capitalism with the rest of the nerds.
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by achenet 4y ago
don't confuse the "best practices" of late stage capitalism with what life is capable of. The biosphere is, and has been for several hundred million years, incredibly diverse. CF: Amazon rainforest.
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by achenet 4y ago
> If we want to treat the numbers as meaningful and make low effort quips about wealth inequality being bad for society when they go up then we must also concede that it is meaningfully bad for him when the numbers go down if we are to
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by achenet 4y ago
their money comes from ads. Of all the things you mentioned - Maps I'm pretty sure is a loss leader or used for data for ads Gmail as well Android is platform to hit you with ads Chrome/Chromeboooks also GCP is actually a viable b
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by achenet 4y ago
both are highly valuable - to every business that advertises on them, and to users who find information (Google) or connection (Facebook) via those platforms.
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by achenet 4y ago
having lived in both the US and Europe for over a decade each - I'd rather have happier poor people that happier rich people. The sign of a first world country isn't having a bunch of billionaires - you have those in Brazil and Ru
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by achenet 4y ago
I don't think it's burnout, I think it's boredom. OP can be perfectly rested and want to try something new, similar to how if you have pasta for dinner everyday you may eventually want to try something else.
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by achenet 4y ago
> Women are attracted to high-status (doctor, lawyer) and thus men spend time attaining status. Uh... I think you're vastly oversimplifing it. Women are attracted to men who give them orgasms, see for example: https://www
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Ask HN: What advice would you give your younger self?
3 points by achenet 4y ago|7 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
> Yes, but not if you own a telephone company. Why not?
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by achenet 4y ago
> In the spirit of Jean-Luc Picard, while the interlocutor is abhorrent, removing him from the internet, a fundamental service feels just as wrong as doing nothing. I know that Finland will disagree with me here, but the internet is not
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by achenet 4y ago
> It's not like they need to know your real name to give you targeted ads. They don't need your real name, but it helps. If Google knows to who you are everytime you sign into your Google account, that's easier than just r
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Russian Political Jokes(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by achenet 4y ago|1 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
I have a hard time believing that the monstrously bloated spyware know as Windows 11 is "the most efficient usage of resources".
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by achenet 4y ago
Upvoted, but wanted to add a little comment to thank you for writing that, your analysis is spot on and has helped be see the world more clearly.
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I actually upvoted you, but to answer your question - any sports team. It's an environment where you can't get away with "muh opinion is da truth :DDD" type bikeshedding you find when discussing large political issues (e
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by achenet 4y ago
You're assuming this is entirely genetic. I believe desire to procreate is just as much caused by environmental factors. In particular, living in cities vs living in the country. If the organism sees "resources and space and hard

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