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by badpun 2y ago
It's not like that in the countryside. But in the cities, especially among the major inbound roads, yikes.
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by badpun 2y ago
Poland was partitioned in XVIII century by three similarly backwards neighboring Eastern European powers: Russia, Prussia and Austria. They were more efficient that Poland though, because they were ruled by ruthless tyrants, while Poland wa
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My friend is an honest poker pro who's been making a living from playing online since 2008 or so. He may be "1 in 1000", but that's because online game is tough, not because it's rigged.
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The right-wing party in Poland (PiS) still won the latest election (as in - got the most votes), but didn't anyone willing to form the coalition with them that would secure enough votes to form government - other major parties campaign
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I thought we were discussing total wealth and not wealth for some portion of the population, at the cost of somebody else's wealth (computed holistically, not just money but also health and overall wellbeing). By this logic, stealing i
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Not every company increases wealth though. Selling addictive poison (cigarettes) for example does not increase wealth.
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People don't want to live like their grandparents did in the 50s, so the market mostly doesn't offer it. So, instead of working much less and buying a 1950s-liike house, people prefer to work the same amount as their grandparents
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by badpun 2y ago
I don't think you can get competent people in Poland for $35k. Double that, and you're getting somewhere.
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by badpun 2y ago
Let's compare apples to apples. What's the median price of a house at the 1950s standard of living (sqft, amenities)?
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by badpun 2y ago
Possibly those companies don't really need more people right now, but won't say no to a unicorn.
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I think it's by design. People with no lifes are usually better workers. And those who have lifes, but managed to find time to leetcode really want to work for you.
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Weren't high turnover rates at FAANGs largely due to people job hopping to other FAANGs for even higher salaries?
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Largest employers don't neccessarily translate into their segment being largest in the job market. For example, fast food restaurants in the US employ 4.7 million people, while higher ed institutions hire 3 million.
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by badpun 2y ago
...in coding. Coding jobs by neccessity are about adding new functionalities, and most of the useful stuff has been written already. So now, whether you're coding for a power plant, a yogurt factory, a bank, or Amazon, you're prob
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The Japanese have been supposedly working on robots to support their aging population for a couple of decades now. It sure seems to be extremely difficult to make progress in this field (and in robotics in general). Also, as you noted, half
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by badpun 2y ago
Limit your spending, save as much as possible, learn about investing. Start planning your life of financial indepdence way before you attain it - i.e. where will you live , what will you be doing, with whom etc.
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by badpun 2y ago
Being in top 50 of anything seriously competetive requires monk-like existence. You can't just coast, many atlethes who don't have the true monk mindset tried to coast a bit after a couple years of ruthless grind that got them to
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by badpun 2y ago
I've read Q&A on your website. You didn't list a quite obvious question - who is this for? Specifically, who would want a personal computer than can't play compressed audio or video?
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by badpun 2y ago
Government tank trucks will shortly begin distributing water. It might not be enough for a good wash, but nobody will be dying of thirst.
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by badpun 2y ago
...in America. In Eastern Europe, even 100k-200k city will have trams or trolleybuses, and will have most people living in condos near public transit, not in suburbs.
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by badpun 2y ago
There are degrees of evil though. I'd prefer to be conscripted to an army that's fighting the Russians, than to become russian slave and die in a concentration camp somewhere in the Siberia over the next couple of years (a common
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by badpun 2y ago
If you allow companies to expense only money spend inside the US, you break their international supply chains.
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Los Angeles is located in semi-arid climate, so there's not going to be a lot of vegetation there.
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Bribes like these are absolute peanuts. It would be hard for them to add up to $100m, let alone a significant part of $100b.
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by badpun 2y ago
> Germany just built a tunnel under the sea to Denmark for a lot less $ per mile. How did you come up with that? It seems that the tunnel is $450m euros per km, while SF to LA will be $80m per km.
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by badpun 2y ago
> I've got a book or two on stoicism that I mean to read through at some point and see if there's anything to that. I think Stoics believed that being "stoic" (quiety going through the suffering) was neccessary to acc
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by badpun 2y ago
You thought your work life will be an exciting adventure. This is misguided expectation, as it only happens for a very small minority of people, most of whom are privileged (born in advanced countries, very talented and hard-working, having
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by badpun 2y ago
What about this: > Which makes me think: I have like 5 years of experience of real life. What kind of tricks under their belts do people in their 50s, 60s, 70s have? What kinds of crazy heuristics and meta-heuristics they’ve got in their
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by badpun 2y ago
Being terrified of people who are smarter, wiser, more competent that you is not a healthy reaction. The world is not a hunger games (at least, not yet), so someone being better than you is not an immediate threat to you. However, the write
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by badpun 2y ago
Have you tried walking? Just by walking one or two hours every day, you should burn enough calories to steadily lose weight. The health benefits of just walking are numerous: staving off musculosceletal degeneration (it will get to you quit

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