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by anovikov 2y ago
Everything that's optimised for making money, is a scam.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Bonus point: the Russian word for a physician - "vrach" - has the same root as "vranyo". Eastern Slavic rejection of healthcare has looong historic roots.
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by anovikov 2y ago
I have many friends who started from really humble beginnings ~5 years ago (or instance, a typical small business like "an e-shop selling bullshit Chinese gizmos online making 20k per month"), and are now uber rich in crypto. Like
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by anovikov 2y ago
None at all. Being a religious Christian in Europe is mostly about accepting the general values of Judeo-Christian tradition and not being overtly atheist. Almost no one goes to church or observes any religious traditions at all, yet most p
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by anovikov 2y ago
>have you ever worked for Oracle? touche! No i haven't. And yes i can imagine, monopoly is a different beast. >If you're not regularly sued by clients, are you even trying? I actually heard it phrased in exactly same way! Op
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by anovikov 2y ago
That's correct, this is how it should be. Enjoy it. Get a hobby. If your software gets used, it means that you are hired by extremely smart and highly competitive people, because only those can get their software to be used while still
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by anovikov 2y ago
I think there's a big difference in what it means to be religious in the US and rest of the developed world. Extremely few people in EU are religious (at least as long we mean Christian) in a way that passes for "religious" i
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by anovikov 2y ago
So it's about concentration, not overall price growth? That's natural then - it also means incomes in those few places are much higher too that people are moving there. And yes they might have to endure hardships to do so. I mean,
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by anovikov 2y ago
It doesn't work this way because vacant homes in some place decrease values and rents on ALL the homes in the same place, and it hits the pockets of everyone really hard.
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by anovikov 2y ago
That indeed, is the biggest factor that hinders EV adoption today. People who bought electric cars 5 years ago, are massive bagholders today. And that could repeat with those buying today. Not a problem per se - it indicates a good thing: E
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by anovikov 2y ago
I wonder what happens to the old homes. Are homes being razed on a massive scale? If the population almost doesn't grow anymore, and some houses are still being built, where the heck all those house disappear? Owners or renters, but SO
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by anovikov 2y ago
...and it all started with https://thesecatsdonotexist.com/ 5 years on: this court case does not exist. who could think? if that is called human progress, i'll become a MAGA right winger
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by anovikov 2y ago
So the message is that there is no problem with housing prices, people only complain on housing prices because houses look very pricey compared to 'stuff', which is now absurdly cheap indeed. Houses are cheaper than in the 1950s a
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by anovikov 2y ago
Started coding for hire, then started my own outsourcing operation, which i am doing ever since... been 25 years.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Lucky you. My uni years was the most suffocating, depressive period of my life, i spent most of it drinking just to tune out of it as much as possible. Life actually began once i dropped out.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Why not just suspend payments if there is no traceable information of someone's personal activities - like credit card transactions - in some time, say a year, and then if the person is alive they just need to call a hotline if they st
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by anovikov 2y ago
Isn't it expected? With the high interest rates, how can insane valuations be kept? Also it means that ~15% of them still go public and that's good stats. Many others will just keep existing as going concerns, bringing profits to
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by anovikov 2y ago
On the other hand, right-wing government itself lowers limit of pandemic threat: they will be able to ignore a much more dangerous epidemic than a left-wing one will be forced to act upon, crippling the economy. Just simply because right-wi
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by anovikov 2y ago
There is a big pain point about Lisbon: it takes 2-3 years to get your first residence permit. Before then, you live legally in the country, but if you try to cross the border (even as there is no border!), you are now an illegal alien. Tha
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by anovikov 2y ago
Oh yes true you are right. They aren't even seen as "European" much from the continental perspective and are usually out of visibility from the local economic as well as cultural standpoint. Ireland as we see it from here is
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by anovikov 2y ago
Adding to that, they promise we will join Schengen in about a year. Hard to believe, but there is a strong political momentum pushing the country there (it's against interests of most locals so the system resists as much as it can, but
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by anovikov 2y ago
There's a huge benefit in having that part around because you can do plenty of shady stuff there that won't fly in any free countries. No Turks are nice people, in a way nicer than locals, it can never turn violent. They are stuck
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by anovikov 2y ago
Come over to us to Cyprus. There's no better country to live in at least as long as your passport permits you visa-free EU access, so Europeans, Canadians, etc. are fine, but Indians etc. will be fucked - getting Schengen visas here is
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by anovikov 2y ago
In general it would be stupid to expect things to be different. What kind of creature gets better because of being locked up for years with a bunch of other worse-than-average creatures of it's kind? Incarceration, if done properly, mi
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by anovikov 2y ago
I know some people who went through incarceration. Their life lesson is: don't get caught. They come out of there just being better criminals, not better people.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Because states have their own armies - the National Guard - it can be only done by military, not police, or even FBI/SWAT/whatever. That is, real military with tanks and fighter jets. A civil war. I seriously doubt military loyalt
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by anovikov 2y ago
What even if not? So Trump just stays, it doesn't harm the ability of blue states to defy Washington.
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by anovikov 2y ago
I think the existence of states and the need for 2/3 of the states to agree to change Constitution, with no chance for 2/3 of them to ever become red, is a good protection against authoritarianism, so people shouldn't worry.
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by anovikov 2y ago
It must be some really silly thing like windshield heater stuck "on".
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by anovikov 2y ago
8% per day is like a continuous 250W draw. I think you can use a thermal camera to see where it happens :) like that's a lot. Owned a Model 3 since August 2023, didn't have any issues with it yet apart from those in place from the

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