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by badpun 3y ago
Prices pf various goods go down all the time. Just recently, the prices of sunflower and rapeseed oil in my country (Poland) went down 30-40%. The GPU prices also went down considerably over the past two years.
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by badpun 3y ago
All that stuff is being worked on by domain experts. I.e. you need to understand cancer or food production in order to think up the code that will help make progress on those subjects. Then, you either code it yourself if you have the codin
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by badpun 3y ago
Developers aren't gods, we mostly don't have knowledge or skills to solve the problems we listed. In all companies (except for companies which sell software or software-related services, such as Microsoft, Google etc.) developers
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by badpun 3y ago
OMG. It seems that tech follow exactly the path of the media (TV, newspapers)- if we were paying customers, the tech would be tailored to our needs. But, since we aren't, the tech is tailored to needs of advertising, which leads to biz
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by badpun 3y ago
The emphasis is on "tries", i.e. genuinely puts a mental effort (including research etc.) into forming an opinion.
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by badpun 3y ago
I agree with Chomsky's definition [1]: intellectual is a person who tries to talk intelligently in public about affairs that are relevant to the general public. Being a top scentist or a top sellng author does not neccessarily make you
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by badpun 3y ago
In capitalism's case, the name is really informative. At the heart of capitalism lies capital and the ability to invest it, which gives people who own it power to get stuff without doing any work. People without the capital do work for
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by badpun 3y ago
Leet coding is testing two things: - Intelligence. It's basicall a form of IQ test. - Willingness to prepare for an interview (by grinding out the leet code in your free time). This is a good proxy for general work ethic, and also for
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by badpun 3y ago
> - Mind you, the worst interviews I'm referring to above tend to be from medium to large size companies. For smaller companies/startups I've noticed the interviews are still pretty fair and decent. Why don't you, ins
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by badpun 3y ago
In remote areas with low population density, the stations are like you say quasi-monopolies, so they can just raise the prices if the foot traffic declines. The closures caused by need for expensive maintenance can be a problem, though.
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by badpun 3y ago
Twizy's doors don't have glass windows, so you will get wet in it. Also, it doesn't have heating (or cooling), so in terms of thermal and rain comfort, it's closer to riding a motorcycle than driving a car.
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by badpun 3y ago
The stations won't "collapse", but merely the number of them will start declining proportionally to the gas vehicles losing popularity (assuming it actually happens). This way, each of the remaining gas stations will have a g
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by badpun 3y ago
True, but you still get ads in search and other places, so tracking your viewing preferences on youtube is very valueable.
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by badpun 3y ago
Is youtube really profitable?
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by badpun 3y ago
If they stopped tracking you, they wouldn't be able to show you targeted ads, which would make the ad revenue go way down. In other words, it's not gonna happen.
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No, and that's ok.
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by badpun 3y ago
Yes, it's normal. We're not machines, meant to operate in exactly the same manner day after day.
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by badpun 3y ago
I just don't think there's anything in particular that we could we doing that we aren't doing already. It's not like the whole capitalist enterprise is not working towards maximizing efficiency across the board. This mig
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by badpun 3y ago
The assumption that, in a lawless society scenario, he'd essentially win the fight over the land (against other people who also want it) is very optimistic.
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by badpun 3y ago
I did not consider what's the next step, as that wasn't the subject of discussion.
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by badpun 3y ago
The OP's stance was that the right for people to have essential stuff for free should be granted NOW, not in some hypothetical future scenario.
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by badpun 3y ago
Society is better because it offers you comfortable living in exchange for some work. In the state of nature you'd likely already be dead, so that's a huge improvement. Also, how is the current scarcity artificial? Are we limiting
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by badpun 3y ago
> The right not to preventably and painfully die should be unconditional. Take it up with the creator of the Universe, as those are the rules they've chosen - valueable things, such as food, heat or shelter, do not just materialize
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by badpun 3y ago
You should still apply if you're interested in jobs at the high end of salary distribition.
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> Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reasons: If aircraft seating dimensions cannot accommodate people then just like the ambulance services, they
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm not claiming that - I don't know either way. But, they claimed that they know that rich people are just as impulsive as poor people, so I wanted to know if they have a source for that.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Rich people are just as impulsive as poor people. Citation needed?
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by badpun 3y ago
Lots of people make the same assumption, and companies take advantage of that. E.g. if they want you to buy a bottle of wine at $10 a bottle, they'll place plenty of $10 bottles on the shelves, as well as some $7 bottles, with the assu
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by badpun 3y ago
1920x1200 are the best screens for coding, it's a shame they're hardly made anymore.
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by badpun 3y ago
$350k a year is an absolutely massive amount, even assuming you have nothing (no savings/equity) at the moment, you could achieve financial indepdenence within just a couple of years, if you make some lifestyle adjustments. For starter

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