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by anovikov 2y ago
Indeed, raw healthy foods like chicken breast, rice, banana, are cheaper than junk food those people eat. They just feel too bland to them and won't satisfy their acquired unhealthy tastes. So healthy stuff isn't even sold where p
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by anovikov 2y ago
Isn't it the whole point of co-ops? Allow it and they become just normal companies where you earn stocks by working.
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by anovikov 2y ago
One reason may be that proper grocery shops are too far from the places where they live, and they can't afford time driving there and then cooking, working two jobs?
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by anovikov 2y ago
Radical left are no different from radical right. They are just as unhinged and crazy. A sane person now probably should stay away from politics and avoid holding any kind of views on it, taking sides in this charade of insanity is a just a
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by anovikov 2y ago
Amount of Russian LNG that enters the system is insignificant, don't exaggerate it. It's 15% of overall LNG imports at most. Price for all LNG is the same because it circulates on the same, global market. Pipeline gas comes with p
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by anovikov 2y ago
This isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. Ukraine gas transit has ended so this year, the numbers will go down again to new historic low. Vast majority of what's left is LNG, which is rather hard to shut off because it's easy to
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by anovikov 2y ago
But today, inheritance still plays a very small part compared to what it was even 40 years ago.
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by anovikov 2y ago
TL;DR: PE industry is a really small thing and can't possibly explain the evils of society the way it is portrayed to.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Can't upvote this enough. Finally a piece that's not about LLMs or how are they going to ruin the world.
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by anovikov 2y ago
It's simple, well-connected founders. It's not a business, more like a friendship circle. Investors socialise with each other by playing with this toy.
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by anovikov 2y ago
TL;RD: to make housing affordable you need to make everyone poor - not just the renters, but owners too.
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by anovikov 2y ago
It changed my worldview negatively. I am actively preparing for involuntary early retirement which is probably looming in the coming month because my industry seems to have evaporated.
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by anovikov 2y ago
They almost make it sound like it was a bad thing. What's wrong about people keeping at least the minimum of an "extended family" thing?
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by anovikov 2y ago
Look at space and it was obviously broken 20 years ago in the West: Shuttle that finally proved itself, after 20 years of trying to conceal it, to be a generational, unfixable mistake - and stubborn insistence on pushing through with a repl
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by anovikov 2y ago
...and there are numerous shadow players who create AI tools that simulate activity in these (because they are not algorithmic driven, it's much harder to weed them out vs say on Facebook), and even hire people (sometimes in crowds!) t
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well i kinda did. Not anymore. It ran dry.
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by anovikov 2y ago
https://iiif.elifesciences.org/lax/49555%2Felife-49555-fig1-...
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by anovikov 2y ago
Average "healthy" body temperature is down more than half degree exactly because of reduction in inflammation. People used to have very unsanitary lives and were fighting infections nonstop. 37.0C was the "normal" body t
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by anovikov 2y ago
And they used to be more in control? Epidemics wiping out whole families? Gulags, concentration camps? Religious violence? Persistent threat of starvation death that was just the norm of life? One year of crop failures, and your kids are de
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by anovikov 2y ago
The frequently cited "stress" thing of modern lives is just eyebrows-raising. Do anyone actually believe that lives of people 100 or 200 years ago have been less stressful?
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by anovikov 2y ago
Yes but this is offshore, hard outsource - team expenses are not that significant.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well, i have made $15M+ worth of business from Upwork and from people who i met there (over 15 years, but peaked at almost $3M last year). That certainly isn't/wasn't an insignificant thing. I am not sure i can agree with you
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by anovikov 2y ago
I specialise in video (ffmpeg and webrtc, in essence - on the level of "build me a demuxer for format ffmpeg does not yet support" or "build me a from-scratch C++ implementation of webrtc endpoint tailored for a particular na
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by anovikov 2y ago
It worked for freelancers and freelancer agencies SURE! But what about clients? That's who i meant. Demand was never economically justified/it was never a mean of producing capital - they always spent on freelancers more than the
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by anovikov 2y ago
I talk to a lot of my previous clients. At the moment, all of them just don't have cash to hire and they keep laying off their full time staff too.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Thing is, individual freelancing or small-sized development agencies, they never economically worked. They always lost money to clients, never generated net positive returns. It's just a form of systematic mistake of the market caused
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by anovikov 2y ago
You are probably young and don't remember previous downturns. It is true that it's not possible to find any freelance project these days. And not just freelance, companies who sell outsourcing services to companies, have budgets f
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by anovikov 2y ago
Reading all this from Europe sounds unbelievable. I barely know anyone who ever goes to church. And certainly not anyone under 50. Religion here is just history. Some people from older generations where great-grandfathers used to be Catholi
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by anovikov 2y ago
Are margins really shrinking? Corporate profits stand about constant at around 10% of GDP in the last 30 years or so, apart from the big dip they took around the GFC, quickly recovering thereafter.
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by anovikov 2y ago
I mean, is there really still a tech worker shortage? People are sending resumes for 6+ months to no avail. Upwork has ran dry.

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