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by badpun 2y ago
The question is: do people doing manual work are on average happier that people writing software? At least, in country, the sure don't look like they are.
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by badpun 2y ago
Prepare for retirement?
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by badpun 2y ago
If you want to optimize for least deaths and injuries, thr optimal speed limit is 0 km/h. Everything else is a tradeoff between convenience and potential harm.
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by badpun 2y ago
Those stats are probably very different for babies, who are more fragile and could get seriously hurt even at lower speeds.
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by badpun 2y ago
If, for achieving zero emissions, all capacity needs to eventually covered by wind anyway, then building out all that solar seems pointless. That money would be better spent on wind.
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by badpun 2y ago
If wind will be enough, why build solar in UK at all?
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by badpun 2y ago
> Neither China nor Russia depend on their fleets in order to win existential wars for them, as they're both continental powers Chinese are hopelessly dependant on imports of raw commodities (most notably oil), a naval blockade woul
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by badpun 2y ago
It’s mainly being tested in the Black Sea, where Ukrainians are methodically sinking Russian ship after Russian ship, with cheap drones.
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by badpun 2y ago
US has plenty of world-class arable land though, that’s why it’s world’s largest food exporter.
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by badpun 2y ago
US military spending is up by only 10-15% compared to pre-COVID levels.
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by badpun 2y ago
Extra students were financed by (student) debt, ie. made up money, which could lead to inflation. Whereas UBI could be done without any money printing - just via taxation.
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by badpun 2y ago
It’s „easier than ever” because of inflation alone. Doesn’t mean it’s easy. Also, „becoming a billionaire” is such a distorted goal that I’d recommend a psychiatric checkup for anyone who seriously considers it as their life’s goal.
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by badpun 2y ago
I imagine both Trump mania and Trump-induced rage were massive drivers of traffic for Facebook.
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by badpun 2y ago
I may be wrong, but I think infotainment does not have any access to vital parts of the car (engine, brakes, steering etc.) so has no way to mess it up and kill someone. Hence lower quality standards in it, as it's not safety-critical.
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by badpun 2y ago
For me, it's overwork. I sleep badly when I work too much and worry too much. Which of course leads to vicious cycle, as bad sleep generates more problems at work. When I don't work, or work lightly, my sleep is 10/10.
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by badpun 2y ago
And then get bluescreens while driving. Modularity will always come with some degree of flakiness, which is acceptable in PCs, but not in cars.
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by badpun 2y ago
Communist countries built large cities for pedestrians and public transit. I grew up in a place like that, it was an amazing place for a kid. School was a 5 minutes walk away, there were hardly any cars within hunrdeds of meters of my build
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by badpun 2y ago
The vehicle was cleared for use on public roads by authorities. Perhaps the laws should change so that such cars are no longer allowed.
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by badpun 2y ago
When doing propaganda, subject selection is the key factor. If you want to do a smear campaign, you just do honest reporting, but only of the things about your target that are negative.
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by badpun 2y ago
From wikipedia: > The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment. In other words, we’ve exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth because ou
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by badpun 2y ago
As Steve Jobs put it, "we're in a business of making phones, not hiring people". It makes way more sense for a company to get rid of an employee when they admit to burn out, rather than try to help them.
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by badpun 2y ago
There are hardly any jobs like that in the world. It would also be hard to create them via some state intervention, because it's very hard to create "meaningful, high impact, high autonomy" via bureucratic process.
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by badpun 2y ago
Planet of The Apes remakes are not movies, they're just a way to reliably turn 200 million dollars into 300 million dollars - similarly to all the American comic book crap. As long as the multiplier stays above 1.0, the process will co
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by badpun 2y ago
It's pretty good for dead authors though.
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by badpun 2y ago
> A bigger issue is: As one gets better and better at computer programming, at some point the specific implementation language starts to matter less and less. There are things that you can do in more advanced languages which are simply n
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by badpun 2y ago
What if someone doesn't have a family? Can they take a second job then?
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by badpun 2y ago
> If you start working on a side gig, that will take up a chunk of your time and invariably occupy your brain; thus, your employer doesn’t get their full value out of you anymore. It's the same if you have a family, an interest, or
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by badpun 2y ago
> still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? I think the curious crazy tid bits are still there.
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by badpun 2y ago
I've been FI for around 18 months now. I don't work on anything.
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by badpun 2y ago
I used the ECA stack once. The weight loss was successful, but I also permanently injured my body during that time, and I think it might have been caused by ECA (large amounts of caffeine allowed me to push beyond healthy limits). So, you k

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