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by badpun 3mo ago
Due to population distribution, you're most likely to be born in a poor country. And, in those countries, you're way better off being born in 2026 than in 1970s (to be able to watch when the Internet was starting). Chances are, if
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by badpun 3mo ago
No, not boycotts. The influencial youtubers I think of actually can shape political debate and thus policy - what they say, if it gains enough popularity, sometimes seeps into the political agenda of the ruling party (which is always lookin
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by badpun 3mo ago
Legally, you can do a lot more than ignoring. If you have any talent for it, becoming an activist (say a youtuber) rallying people against whatever you believe is bad, can be pretty powerful. A single person (again, with some talent for pub
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by badpun 3mo ago
> I’ve been battling unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline throughout my 30s. If it's not severe, it may be simply getting older.
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by badpun 3mo ago
SF Bay Area (land) has population density of a third of New York metro area or an eight of Tokyo metro area. The population density does not justify a world class public transit system. Not to mention there's a large body of water in t
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by badpun 3mo ago
> but if I created a lovable comic character and someone offered me a dumptruck full of money > would like to think I have integrity, and I think I do to some extent (there are certain types of companies I will not work for e.g. casi
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by badpun 4mo ago
Women in Poland in 1980s (when I was born) mostly worked full-time jobs and mostly had children.
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by badpun 4mo ago
Germany, Italy and Japan already had a fertility crash in the seventies, way before the social media dopamine maxxing.
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by badpun 4mo ago
Voxel below topmost were not „ignored completely”. They were absolutely rendered in e.g. steep cliffs.
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by badpun 5mo ago
How much would it cost to build out batteries which cover entire continent's electricy needs for say three weeks (as there can be 2-3 week lulls of no wind and no sun in Europe in the winter)? Cause that sounds like a lot of batteries
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by badpun 5mo ago
Typical salary for a senior dev is around 20-30k PLN per month, which translates to $65k-$100k per year (gross). Also, a lot of devs do a little bit of tax avoidance that is currently not persecuted, which allows them to pay total taxes bel
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by badpun 5mo ago
I'd say it's a country that builds a ton of infrastructure, at the expense of living standards of common people. The money from infra has to come from anywhere, and an all-powerful central government can just redirect the stream f
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by badpun 5mo ago
You can't hire people cross-border though. That sp. z o.o. would need a German subsidiary if it wanted to employ people in Germany.
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by badpun 5mo ago
I think majority of the profits come from extracting the oil from the ground, much less from refining (more competetive - everyone can just build more refineries if margins become high enough), and the least from retail (gas stations).
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by badpun 5mo ago
Aren't there health insurance plans with a high deducible (say $10k) that are quite affordable? In your early retirement, you can cover catastrophic health failures with them, and pay for everything else out of pocket.
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by badpun 5mo ago
Same argument goes for Hitler though. If he didn't do it, there'd be another fascist leader exploiting the masses' love of fascism in early 1930s Germany.
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by badpun 5mo ago
> No, it isn't. No LLM platform ever will be. No platform or vendor of any kind ever will be, if we are being honest. One cannot set up a business where another company becomes critical to your operations. Most of companies in the w
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by badpun 5mo ago
All recruiters get paid accounts.
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by badpun 5mo ago
Most notable examples of both are China and India, where China outperforms India even despite decades of violent Communist rule.
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by badpun 6mo ago
In Poland, factories' light installations ran on non-standard voltage, so that, if you stole the lightbulb, it'd be useless in your household. Unfortunately, they couldn't figure out similar solution for toilet paper and many
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by badpun 6mo ago
A lot of investments gets amortized over many years so even if you're investing all your free cash you'll still show a lot of profit.
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by badpun 6mo ago
One of the first things to do on a fresh install is to disable the Web search results in Start menu search. There's a setting in the registry to do it.
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by badpun 6mo ago
For games, part of that mere „output” is 3d graphics, so replicating the internals of Direct 3D exactly right and getting the Linux GPU drivers to cooperate. That’s a hardcore task.
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by badpun 6mo ago
I have plenty of such scenes in my city still, but these people are usually either pensioners, or local unemployed drunks who have an entire day to fill. People with jobs don't hang outside, unless they're with their kids.
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by badpun 6mo ago
Putin is not a mad dictator ruling against everyone’s wishes. He’s a leader of a large establishment elite which shares his views and gets very rich. If you replace Putin, most likely outcome is his replacement will not be very different (a
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by badpun 7mo ago
Car tires are made with synthetic rubber, which is made from oil.
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by badpun 7mo ago
If it wasn't in his power to toughen regulation, why did he promise it in his campaign?
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by badpun 7mo ago
Frank-Dodd wasn't nearly as strict as the post-1929 regulation (Glass-Steagall act) that actually prevented such crisies for half a century.
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by badpun 7mo ago
Consequences would be nice, but actually forbidding it for the future would be enough. Obama promised to do it, but didn't, and everybody kind of forgot and moved on.
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by badpun 7mo ago
"It's funny because it's true". Parts of the German green movement (esp. the anti-nuclears) were actively funded by the KGB.

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