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by badpun 3y ago
> The vast amount of my time, 10-15 hours a day is spend coding on any one of my companies This is the key. Vast majority of people can maybe code for 20 hours a week, and not 60-100 like you can. If you're blessed with such geneti
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by badpun 3y ago
> These statements are the true definition of a loser. I never got how someone who wants to simply get by by doing minimal (or prererably none, but that's not usually possible) amount of work is a loser, but someone who say inherite
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by badpun 3y ago
People don't start at being average. Average is (by definition) where majority of developers arrive at after years in the industry. Also, it's perfectly fine to aim at being average - one may be aware of various limitations (healt
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by badpun 3y ago
That's not average, that's bottom of the barrel. Average developers do a decent enough job, but aren't super fast about it. They also can't conceive of large refactorings in their head, don't follow all the latest t
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by badpun 3y ago
Your chances at peace and quiet are much much better in the suburbs though, where there's probably less than 5-8 families which could disturb it, whereas my apartment buildings alone has 25 families, and the neighboring buildings (defi
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by badpun 3y ago
Can't really use them because of my tinnitus...
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by badpun 3y ago
Suburbs get such a bad rap in certain online circles, and yet so many people choose to live in them. I'm from Europe and live in a flat in a historical city centre, but I think I'd prefer suburbs, if such a thing existed around he
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by badpun 3y ago
Indigenous people pre-colonization had in many cases pretty advanced civilizations going on, with decent-sized cities etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
> The entire idea of free speech really rests on something as shaky as the sticks and stones principle! I think that, rather, it rests on observation that restricting speech is basically jamming the communication in society, which create
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by badpun 3y ago
Show me the countries (ok, even one country) in the world where people are happy that they are/were under communism. In other words, it's not selection bias when everybody holds more or less the same opinion.
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by badpun 3y ago
What the studies say is that the placebos might have been as effective for you.
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by badpun 3y ago
The problem with homeless people is not that they don't have homes, it's usually that they're mentally a wreck (very often from traumatic childhoods), which leads to addictions and a host of antisocial and self-harming behavi
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by badpun 3y ago
> Again, my grandfather bought an entire apartment building from wages earned watching paint dry. It's not sustainable, or even just possible on a larger scale. You can't have people doing simple, low paid jobs owning apartment
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by badpun 3y ago
> Raising the face value of the tickets would eliminate scalpers but at the expense of reputation. They could rise the face value, but sell the first say 80% tickets at considerable discount (so that the price matches what the ticket cos
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by badpun 3y ago
There's a chapel in Poland (in Ojców) that's built on top of a stream, because the Car forbade Polish people from building new churches on land. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplica_%E2%80%9ENa_Wodzie%E2%...
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by badpun 3y ago
> One such tunnel requires building a 3rd because closing one of the two for x years is economicaly worse for the country than building the 3rd. So there IS a country where decision makers actually consider the costs caused by traffic ja
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by badpun 3y ago
> Note that given the franchise model, that's 50k profit on basically no expenses Profit is already past expenses. > That's just the tax they are charging the franchises for the privilege of calling themselves a McDonalds st
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by badpun 3y ago
It's simple - most developers aren't using libraries for their personal benefit, but as a part of job, where the company benefits from the library. We can use truck drivers as an analogy. Those who work a job (i.e. aren't own
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by badpun 3y ago
I think they meant eating 500 calories below their normal need. Eating 500 calories per day will loose you 4 pounds a week, not one (as they mentioned).
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by badpun 3y ago
It appears that, by their definition, a mere cheese sandwitch is a hyperpalatable food.
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by badpun 3y ago
No, it just means that, by 2035, you will no longer be able to buy a new ICE car. Existing ICE cars will still be allowed on roads.
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by badpun 3y ago
So, it means I have to make my life so boring that even work will seem appealing? I think I might prefer to stick to my entertaining distractions then...
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by badpun 3y ago
Peter Zeihan's YouTube channel elaborates on that in a very accessible way.
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by badpun 3y ago
Magic: the Gathering. I personally know dozens (hundreds, probably) of people who started playing 20+ years ago and are still playing today.
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by badpun 3y ago
Interesting that UT decided not to just play back an MP3, as that would be too heavy on CPU's time budget, and settled on mods instead. IIRC, Quake's music (by Trent Reznor) was just played back from the game's CD, which mean
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by badpun 3y ago
> (Case in point: the anti-nuclear movement in Germany started in the 1970s. Unless you believe in time travel, those big incidents at most fueled the flames) The whole green movement in the Germany was co-created by KGB, in order to ham
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by badpun 3y ago
And also, every now and then, the BMW's engine or uber-complicated automatic transmission will have major issues, and you're out of $5k-$10k.
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by badpun 3y ago
I am not advocating for any style of learning, I was merely responding to someone who said that it's constant help by parents is "more or less necessary in schools with large classes". I provided a counterpoint to that, citin
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by badpun 3y ago
Is it legal to wear earplugs while riding on public roads?
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm arguing that school's difficult level is set up for children to manage on their own just fine. Also, managing on their own means learning grit, figuring out what to do when you're stuck, learning how to find information e

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