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by badpun 3y ago
If a person is doing at least a little bit of that in the small amounts of spare time they already have, then yes. Otherwise, I don't think so.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Honestly, it would have had them either way. The pre-soviet famines were of natural causes - crop failures due to droughts etc. After soviets took over the country, these were still ocurring, but were dwarfed by man-made famines, cause
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by badpun 3y ago
SU was economically unviable long before Chernobyl disaster. It was so mismanaged it had large-scale famines, for God's sake.
814.
by badpun 3y ago
It's not some magical automation though. The farmers, in order to be that efficient, need constant input of fuel and fertilizers and pesticides and machines (as they break down and wear out). Digging deeper, they also need financial an
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm not sure people would tolerate their cities being filled with constant annoying drone buzzing.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Until you reach a point where you find your innate creativity you thought you had lost in your teenage years shining in, driving you. That might require a massive lifestyle change. I'm 42, don't have to work any more really
817.
by badpun 3y ago
> My parents had a hard time adapting after I, as the youngest, also moved out and finally started being able to support myself, even though they had grandchildren from my eldest sibling to think about. "Thinking about" probabl
818.
by badpun 3y ago
Finland and Sweden and Denmark are countries though, just like US or say Mexico.
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by badpun 3y ago
The stats look much better if you compare the number of hours worked. When accounting for that, US is at the level of Scandinavian countries. Obviously, Spain is still seriously lagging.
820.
by badpun 3y ago
We've been using them in pre-industrial times. Their energy output was not high enough to start industrial revolution.
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by badpun 3y ago
Big hydro requires ungodly amounts of reinforced concrete, labor (to dig millions of cubic meters on earth) and transportation capacity (gotta transport that concrete on site - hard to do with ox-powered carriages on unpaved roads). I can&#
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by badpun 3y ago
We did that in preindustrial age. In total, it didn’t amount to that much energy.
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by badpun 3y ago
Producing solar panels requires an advanced technical civilization being in place. You cannot jump from middle ages tech to producing solar panels with skipping dependence on fossil fuels in the intermediate steps.
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by badpun 3y ago
I always wonder where's the legal boundary of abetting. If I sell a cartel member a pack of chewing gum at a gas station, I'm probably not abetting. But what if I'm a book store owner, I know the customer is a chemist for the
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by badpun 3y ago
Bog-standard seniors in Poland typically make 18k-25k PLN per month, which translates to 216k-300k PLN per year. If you're self-employed in software, you will pay roughly 2k of flat fees per month (health insurance, social security etc
826.
by badpun 3y ago
> Most speak better German than English. That's not true, at least not in Poland. Also, current German take-home salaries for coders are lower than Polish (gross amounts are similar, but in Poland a lot of coders are self-employed,
827.
by badpun 3y ago
The childred didn't earn it either.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think it matters that much if they're willing. They'll be motivated by NKVD-style second line troops which shoot all deserters.
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by badpun 3y ago
> I mean typically the US doesn't airmail dollars to the warzones. A significant portion of the help wasn't dollars, but obsolete weapons and ammo from the army's stockpiles, that US gave Ukraine instead of basically dispo
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by badpun 3y ago
To the downvoters: YouTube has been, for a couple years now, conducting a natural experiment that my confirms my claim. People can either buy a subscribtion or suffer the ads. Most prefer the ads.
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by badpun 3y ago
> The real issue IMO is that users do not understand that ads pay for their apps. Because it does not make any sense. No one wants to be shown something he does not find interesting or important, even if they say that they will. So if yo
832.
by badpun 3y ago
Yep, same here. I stopped following his Twitter once he got similarly into UFO, perhaps a year ago.
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by badpun 3y ago
Check out this guy: https://twitter.com/richgel999 He's an ex-Valve coder who's basically on a personal crusade against them, revealing a lot of internal politics and other unpleasant stuff. Last I checked, he int
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by badpun 3y ago
FWIW it never happened to me. Management never makes unrealistic demands re: timelines. They never make any demands at all really, we mostly just deliver the stuff whenever we deliver it. I work mostly for European companies though.
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by badpun 3y ago
Similarly, people who wanted to join the 1849 San Francisco gold rush, but were on the East Coast, took boats which sailed all the way around South America to reach SF the fastest.
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by badpun 3y ago
Last time I checked (which was roughly a year ago), even a toy project with modules slowed down IntelliSense to the point of it being unusable and having to be disabled. Do you know if it's better now?
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by badpun 3y ago
> Eg. Australia officially since 1920, with workers rights being an issue since the 1880s. Can you elaborate on history of communism in Australia? I'm not familiar with it. > > It ended with terror or at least tyrany in every
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by badpun 3y ago
People wanted Communism in great many countries. Easily a couple dozen of them? It ended with terror or at least tyrany in every single case. It shows that communism is actually impossible to attain and will morph into tragedy every single
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by badpun 3y ago
What you're describing is socialism. It can be dangerous if goes too far, but it's nothing like communism. In practice, the biggest traits of communisms were (of the top of my head, I might be missing something): 1. No private pro
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by badpun 3y ago
Aren't there libraries everywhere already (in developed world at least)?

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