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by asdf6969 2y ago
Anyone who would rather not be alive is free to make that decision. Why are you still alive if you really believe this?
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by asdf6969 2y ago
I use it almost daily for asking questions. It’s 100x faster at reading documentation than I am but it’s still pretty bad at actually writing code.
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by asdf6969 2y ago
There’s no such thing as an obvious error in most fields. What would the AI say to someone who claimed the earth orbited the sun 1000 years ago? I don’t know how it could ever know the truth unless it starts collecting its own information.
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by asdf6969 2y ago
The advice in the article is great for things that don't really matter. Fill in your knowledge gaps about the world or learn some random new skills. For things that actually matter, I agree.
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by asdf6969 2y ago
> What are some things with easy entry-level learning curves? Last year I realized I could memorize every country on a world map and it would only take a few hours over the weekend. Connected it with some wikipedia searches about countri
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by asdf6969 2y ago
What are you guys printing in 2025?
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Do you read books about management in your evenings?
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by asdf6969 2y ago
> you already do Most of us rarely interact with these people so it doesn't matter. They're just the newest placeholder name in the emails I get every few months as they're shuffled around.
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by asdf6969 2y ago
No thank you. All of the worst managers I've worked with know just enough to offer annoying suggestions but not enough to understand why it doesn't work (usually workplace politics). Sometimes I can't "just" do anyt
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Taxes are a lot higher because the higher brackets kick in at a much lower income while cost of living is similar. A top 5% income is not enough to live a dignified in London where most of those jobs are but it’s high enough that the govern
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by asdf6969 2y ago
taking the kids home takes at least as much time as commuting to home and back “Just live closer” thanks I’ll just ask to double my income
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Who gets to choose their own hours? This would get most people fired. You can’t just leave in the middle of the afternoon to spend an hour+ driving your kids around
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Why do you care if people slack off? That’s the company’s problem
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Hell yea brother. Blood and soil. Georgia is for the Georgians and nobody else should be allowed to settle there
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by asdf6969 2y ago
You’re right, I mistook the Canadian numbers for all of North America. I know south and Central America had a much higher population but that’s not what this thread is about. It looks like a more accurate number is in the low millions so my
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by asdf6969 2y ago
working on it :) I like it here but I have no future and it’s seriously impacting my mental health
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by asdf6969 2y ago
You’re just not living in a HCOL area yet. Eventually we all will. After that it will make sense
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Because you own land. It will make more money than most people make through employment. This is true in many parts of Canada over the last decade and the trend will probably spread
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by asdf6969 2y ago
In the sense that there’s a growing class of landed gentry and nobody else can buy anything. People with houses today will be the aristocracy in a few decades
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by asdf6969 2y ago
That’s better than a system where future janitors are still expected to grind math problems instead of having a childhood
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by asdf6969 2y ago
There were a few hundred thousand of them across the entire continent. In the best case scenario, most of them still would have died to disease. Unless you believe a few hundred thousand people own should own an entire continent as their bl
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Almost everyone I know got several hundred thousand dollars gifted for a down payment and most of these people are from typical middle or upper middle class backgrounds. I have a top 2% income (by Canadian standards) but the best I can do i
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Most people didn’t graduate high school back then
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by asdf6969 2y ago
It’s not going to happen. Nothing ever does
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Nothing ever happens
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by asdf6969 2y ago
> focusing on other people, and their motivations, and what they get out of whatever they're doing I want to focus on this because I don’t believe in the idea of an authentic self and I want to know how anyone can find something tha
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by asdf6969 2y ago
I want to know where their goals and favourite source of flow come from. Do any of these bloggers know what they’re writing or does it just sound good to other people who are also aimlessly playing on the computer? I want more depth. It’s a
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by asdf6969 2y ago
Why don’t posts like this ever explain what the end goal is? The biggest problem in my life is that all this work and productivity feels meaningless. Everyone is always writing as if these goals are common knowledge but I don’t even know wh
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by asdf6969 2y ago
RIP. Dishonored was a beautiful game with a surprisingly deep world. Sad to read this. I was hoping to see more
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by asdf6969 2y ago
This would be great if I had enough money for my preferences to matter

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