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by anovikov 6mo ago
Because this is vibes vs data. People are made to believe that houses are expensive and people are being squeezed, because it makes money to throw people into rage. Housing price per square feet is flat over decades...
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I'm not even sure where "houses got expensive" come from. Houses certainly did not increase in price (per unit of area) in last ~80 years, inflation adjusted - they tightly fluctuate around the same point. Housing affordabili
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by anovikov 6mo ago
But really that contrasts with the previous ~15 years during which literally nothing changed. Smartphone was basically the only invention that went mainstream between 2002 and 2017 that had any sizeable social or economic consequences. That
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I see one real thing here - since 2017, the sense of stability in everyone's lives has been throughly upended - and perhaps, stability really matters for people to the point that rich, but unstable and precarious life feels worse than
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by anovikov 6mo ago
What the hell is wrong about avocados really? They are a cheap staple food.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I'd go on to say, that when we are looking at a large group of people, "dumb" and "rich" not just usually coincide, but are the same thing. If someone is smart enough you won't make money off them, if someone i
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Perhaps the easier explanation is not "dumb" but that MAGA crowd is just older and thus richer so better monetizable by definition.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
"Support" of Greece - that was withdrawn when it was critically needed - resulted in the biggest disaster of our history, 1974 invasion. Greece only brought instability here and it was a much poorer and much more chaotic place to
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Sudan was under British rule and Cyprus was under British rule at the same time. Outcome is vastly different. The Brits brought civilisation and made Cyprus what it is, enabling its current prosperity (only difference between Cyprus and Gre
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I don't get it, why? RSF fights on Ukrainian side, SAF on Russian since 2024. It's the SAF that's the bad guy now. They flipped.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Well in the end of the day, everything exists to make money. Because if we remove that, only goal becomes direct power - violence and domination - and it's too dystopian.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Perhaps they have a point actually: if we assume that a significant proportion of society is retired with savings (and this is the case in the US - ~1% of population can afford a rich lifestyle on passive income alone, and ~5% can afford ab
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by anovikov 6mo ago
The free internet of the workers and peasants? I mean, how will the websites make money?
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Well, ever since the ads i see on iPhone Safari are utterly irrelevant bullshit because tracking there is crippled. Was 1996 88x31 banners world that just advertised random stuff, better than what we have today? They gave websites less mone
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Well, Cyprus is full of scam businesses and they are the backbone of the economy - except no slave labour is used. And this is in EU! And in plenty of other places. Core reason is capitalism, sadly. Capitalism means that a lot of money are
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by anovikov 6mo ago
What's the point? How is it better than using ffmpeg directly on your server?
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by anovikov 6mo ago
This; and it's also the fact that individual houses almost always have basements in US (not the case in majority of the world). They provide for good fallout shelters. That exploited Soviet economic weakness as well as sociopolitical l
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by anovikov 6mo ago
That's all true, but one should not forget why is this happening. The only reason why these homegrown, kitchen-table innovation became so decisive (for both sides, Russians do the same thing) - is that neither side has a viable air for
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Denmark is a very unusual country having an abundance of wind resources, it is an encouraging finding but it won't apply to many places.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Impressive! What are the most exciting opportunities for use of those?
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Almost feels like i was right to acquire Kyrgyzstani citizenship while it was still possible...
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by anovikov 6mo ago
There's a major difference: scam and cam girls work and make money, outsourcing these days... not so much. Even top outsourcers who have armies of lawyers and can afford to play harder than others, are in a sorry state: EPAM stock is 5
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by anovikov 6mo ago
And here's the trick: they use insiders to negotiate these deals, give massive kickbacks, and sometimes literally take over and destroy their victim (and i literally heard this term for a 'client' in outsourcer chats - '
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Yes, people who never did outsourcing don't know how dirty it is.
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by anovikov 6mo ago
That's right. That shit is hard. But it's the only possible niche for someone who's an outsider and doesn't have a Valley network: do something legit companies can't do for regulatory reasons. Otherwise, well-funded
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I know one guy who actually succeeded. He ran a hard-mode outsourcing shop for like, 15 years, for many years making 100-150K/month net in his pocket, but with AI, it went to zero by about end of 2024, so he was left with no income and
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by anovikov 6mo ago
I think the latter was the main reason why. Serbs were not Soviet puppets, USSR could not control them, they didn't feel occupied by foreign power. So even if Communism kinda sucked, it was more like "dumbass politician we elected
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by anovikov 6mo ago
My question wasn't about liking the 'socialism' or not as much, more about seeing it as something of your own - no matter if good or bad, or something that your enemies imposed on you by force?
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Successful products are usually built from inside the system, not from outside - and then it doesn't matter if 50 people from the outside copied it, they won't get paid because they aren't the right people to begin with. Now
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by anovikov 6mo ago
Was there "communist mind" in Bulgaria? Which is same as asking - did you guys perceive Communism as something homegrown, something of your own - "your take on how it is best to develop a country", or something forcibly

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