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by badpun 3y ago
> The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy Can you name that technology?
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by badpun 3y ago
> IBM is not a trustworthy vendor, and plays old school dirty tactics in almost every large customer: from attempting to get people fired for questioning IBM, to near bribery. Or straight up bribery. An IBM exec in Poland pleaded guilty
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by badpun 3y ago
Please read what Purtanism is, before you start talking about it. E.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans (short version - puritanism was a movement that orignated on the British Isles, and spread to the US f
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by badpun 3y ago
> Being wary of change is usually the excuse to perpetuate awful systems in both technology and society. Do you have any evidence to back that "usually" claim? I'm from a country that went through the horrors of malicious
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by badpun 3y ago
> Yes advertising restrictions for tobacco companies but there is no need to produce a govt ID when purchasing vapes, booze or cigs. What country do you have in mind specifically? I live in a non-puritan country (Poland) and we absolutel
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by badpun 3y ago
"Social progress" got us the holocaust and tens of millions killed by communism, though. It's perfectly reasonable to be wary of it.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to. It's not neccessarily all locked behi
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by badpun 3y ago
In non-puritan countries there are still age restrictions for cigarettes and alcohol, but you cannot get a gun easily. Seems like it doesn’t have anything to do with puritanism at all, and the main differentiating factor is just US’s love a
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by badpun 3y ago
I have Chrome as default browser, and don't use Microsoft login on my Windows.
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by badpun 3y ago
> People with high-paying careers rarely choose to radically reduce their work hours after achieving financial security. Do you have any data to support that? I'd actually expect them to fully retire in their fourties or fifties, on
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by badpun 3y ago
Andrzej Sapkowski (polish fantasy author, of "The Witcher" fame), when asked about his advice for young people who want to be professional writers like him said: "get into an honest and, if at all possible, profitable profess
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by badpun 3y ago
As usual, Ancient Greeks had it figured out already. Aristoteles wrote: "make war to have pace. Do business to enjoy leisure". That's the natural proclivity of 99% human beings. The other 1%, for whatever internal reason, doe
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by badpun 3y ago
Example - try to launch a startup as a technical founder. If it fails, you can still get a coding job and do ok. Example of what not to do - try becoming a pro poker player. If you fail, you have no marketable skills to fall back on.
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by badpun 3y ago
India is essentially at the development stage matching that of XIX century Europe and the US. Back then, nobody was following passions, and everyone was just starting practical businesses and investments which will (hopefully) bring in some
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by badpun 3y ago
great: immense; notable; momentous; exalted; grand If you can dig ditches faster than anyone else, then you're a great ditch digger, and you're doing great work. Similarly, if you're a surgeon who saves much more lives than t
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by badpun 3y ago
How do you do it? I'm also on Win 10, and every time I want to play a game, I just hit the Start button, type the game's name, press Enter, and the game launches (sometimes, there's a Steam update along the way, if Steam wasn
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by badpun 3y ago
> If you've learnt all that, you can learn to use more. From my experience, at least in Europe, companies are paying the most for people who can "hit the ground running", i.e. being able to contribute from day one - both i
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by badpun 3y ago
> Moral decline is only ever important in economic troublesome times. Adam Smith wrote that none of his theories, about free trade and specialization making everyone richer, could not work if the society was not moral enough. If everybod
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by badpun 3y ago
Sounds like the Soviet Union. Store clerks, factory workers and other working-class people were of the "desirable" background and had extra points when e.g. their children applied to universities.
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by badpun 3y ago
Even if they aren't, Ukraine is very corrupt, so getting through the border will just cost you a couple thousand euros at most.
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by badpun 3y ago
Going even further, just 50 years ago, "games" meant activities such as tag, dodgeball etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
Even if the frantic handshaking is somewhat necessary, I don't think it's justified that it takes over 1 millisecond, let along multiple seconds with monitors turning on and off in the meantime. Seems like shoddy work on every end
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by badpun 3y ago
Jai is still in closed beta, it's not being promoted at all yet.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Happiness is a reward. Chasing happiness is a fundamentally mistaken project because if you just want to be in a mental state of happiness, do drugs, it's that easy. We got plenty of pharmaceuticals that short circuit all the anno
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by badpun 3y ago
> Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. They are risking. Land value can go up or it can go down. It just has been mostly going up (in real terms) in the past decades, but it's far from certaint
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by badpun 3y ago
You’ve listed excellent reasons for wanting to live in suburbs, which confirms my suspicion (suspicion because I don’t live in the US, so I don’t have any experience with US-style suburbs) that OP’s claim that suburbs make life worse on eve
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by badpun 3y ago
> Suburban life is terrible for every single happiness metric. Why do so many people want to live in the suburbs then? Are they all myopic and stupid?
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by badpun 3y ago
Karl was proven wrong recently by the Swiss though, who voted against UBI in a referendum.
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by badpun 3y ago
> I guess I always assumed that making your best customers slowly deaf surely wouldn't be very good for business. Many venues with loud music caters to young people. Destroying their hearing is not a big problem, because they'l
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by badpun 3y ago
In my country (Poland), it's various local suppliers. Some large, some mid-sized. Basically, whoever agrees to do the job for the least amount of money, it seems.

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