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by badpun 7mo ago
I get a lot of "UFO: Enemy Unknown" vibe from the art.
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by badpun 7mo ago
Have you looked at the Wikipedia article? China is specifically addressed there, with elite (as in - highly educated people) overproduction and unemployment reaching such levels that government is now suggesting they should seek manual labo
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by badpun 7mo ago
Luckily, hearing all the complains early adopters of 26 had, I disabled auto updates on my SE. Since you can't go back to previous iOS version, leaving it on is a bit risky in general.
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by badpun 8mo ago
Part of the profits come from employment of capital. Almost no company relies solely on labor, they typically rely on both labor and capital (machines, buildings etc.). Owner of capital wants compensation for their investments, and he gets
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by badpun 8mo ago
Would it affect HackerNews? The list of topics on the main page is a form of infinite scroll.
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by badpun 8mo ago
Luck was required, but not sufficient. What are the odds that, while bumming around, you'll meet a guy who singlehandedly built an awesome home computer, and needs someone to market it? Jobs took initiative he wasn't the only one
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by badpun 9mo ago
Did you get a local job, or are you taking advantage of geoarbitrage via a foreign remote job?
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by badpun 9mo ago
Poland is frequently listed by Putin and his crew as one of Russia’s greatest enemies.
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by badpun 9mo ago
Tesla is also „bound by GDPR”.
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by badpun 9mo ago
That’s assuming Venezuela does not turn into a civil war, or the American-installed dictator will not be as bad as Maduro.
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by badpun 10mo ago
My Mum just had a giant pituitary tumor removed by a neurosurgeon and I have to say, the things they can achieve and they obstacles they can overcome to perform surgery boggle my mind. In this case, the whole 9 hour surgery was done with a
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by badpun 10mo ago
I joke that a $100 gift card is an "inferior $100 bill", because you can spend the bill anywhere, but the gift card only in one place. People give them as gifts because it shows marginally more effort than just giving cash.
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by badpun 10mo ago
The agricultural people were able to produce, collect and store a surplus, which allowed them to raise armies. After that, it was all downhill for the hunter gatherers. They no so much chose the settled life, but were co-opted to it.
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by badpun 10mo ago
They have some major catching up to do, right now, compared to ChatGPT, Gemini is laughably bad.
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by badpun 11mo ago
Poverty is usually (always?) result of politics. I.e. in poor countries you have a highly dysfunctional system and elites which profiting off it. So the only way to to help is to instigate some kind of coup, eliminate warlords etc. But then
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by badpun 11mo ago
So they're basically a real estate company with a rail transport component?
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by badpun 11mo ago
Sounds good until you try to run a business. Having businesses randomly out of commission is not a way to bring country from developing to developed status.
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by badpun 11mo ago
Some of the sacrifice is not voluntary - most panels contain parts and/or materials made by slaves in work camps.
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by badpun 11mo ago
Sportsmen compete in imaginary competitions with equally physially gifted people just to win a prize. And yet, many are fulfilled by it. For some people, competing is what drives them.
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by badpun 11mo ago
Plenty of philosophers wrote those. Maybe not in manual form per se.
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by badpun 1y ago
> if you finally just accept yourself for who you are (because that's basically what love means) That's not a good definition of love. Counterexample: most parents love their children, and yet don't just accept them for wh
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by badpun 1y ago
That's true, however the question was "what are healthier dynamics (than our current society)", not "which dynamic wins out in the long run".
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by badpun 1y ago
The important question is where you draw the boundary line for the conflict. These groups are fighting together against the environment, whereas we are both fighting the environment and against each other (in capitalist system, everyone is
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by badpun 1y ago
Hunter-gatherer tribes have healthier dynamics than settled neolithic societies ( like ours).
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by badpun 1y ago
Yep. Toxicity is just built in into foundations of our society and, like you said, at this point there are no alternatives.
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by badpun 1y ago
The fundamental relationship of capitalism, i.e. capital owner employing people to work for him and make him money, is quite toxic. No wonder it seeps into the workplace relationships.
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by badpun 1y ago
You're right, I missed that! But, essentially this makes the case for buybacks even worse - paying over book value for shares means that the company is reducing its book value via the buyback. So, it's worth less after the buyback
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by badpun 1y ago
For businesses, employees are a necessary evil and not company's beneficiaries.
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by badpun 1y ago
> Those who do not sell, get their reward in the proportion of their ownership of the company going up. This is incorrect. If the company buys back say $100m worth of its stock, it's true that the individual shares remaining represe
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by badpun 1y ago
Dividends work as well for executives rewarded with stock (unless it's options).

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