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by badpun 1y ago
The reality seems to be that only the genius founder is allowed to do any unorthodox moves as the CEO. Once he's out, the board selects a CEO that will basically continue business as usual without rocking the boat. The new CEO essentia
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by badpun 1y ago
Back when sugar first appeared in Europe, it was only affordable to upper-middle classes and above. And yet, I haven't heard about any addicts robbing people so that they can afford sugar. I don't think it's holding quite the
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by badpun 1y ago
Imagine how hard it would be to kick oxy if you were taking it every day for 20 years. Habits and addictions get ingrained with time.
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by badpun 1y ago
For me, the better graphics, mocap etc., the stroger the uncanny valley feeling - i.e. I stop perceiving it as a video game, but instead see it as an incredibly bad movie.
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by badpun 1y ago
Not to mention making your device obsolete. My 12 year old laptop already can't decode some of the videos on Pirate Bay in real time, because the codec is too demanding.
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by badpun 1y ago
Also „Have you ever”.
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by badpun 1y ago
All the electronics (inlcuding the insanely expensive GPUs from Nvidia) are imported from Asia.
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by badpun 1y ago
The money goes to hardware this time, not to labor.
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by badpun 1y ago
It got the Bolsheviks to take over, and one of their main goals on international stage was to estabilish Communism in Germany. They didn't get to it only because they were defeated by Poland in 1920, and you can't get to Germany w
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by badpun 1y ago
A business that is only reasonably profitable if it doesn't have to pay rent is not really profitable. If the owner owns the building, he might as well rent out the place and get majority of income without doing any work. The bookstore
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by badpun 1y ago
Finland is a democracy.
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by badpun 1y ago
The US can't, but humanity as a whole can. Finland has both, for example.
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by badpun 1y ago
All those things could still happen if private enterprises pooled their resources and did R&D together. This is already routinely happening in the car industry, where companies band together to develop new engines, to make the R&D e
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by badpun 1y ago
Sales are great for the few top performers, lackluster to terrible for everyone else. Whereas software is good to great for anyone who manages to get employed.
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by badpun 1y ago
> This is simply because public university does not look on student like on a customer who put some good money on the table to get the final paper. Even 10 years ago, this used to be the case in Poland. But now, with demographic decline
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by badpun 1y ago
Me too! I'm about 40% through.
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by badpun 1y ago
If salaried software dev work is not worth it, what other salaried career is?
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by badpun 1y ago
There might be some hidden variable at play that's correlated both air pollution that is really causing the dementia. Like street noise. Not saying it's likely, but it's not impossible.
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by badpun 1y ago
We very well could survive, but maybe only after 6-7 billions of us starve. 1-2 billions of people is considered to be natural carrying capacity of Earth.
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by badpun 1y ago
Alcoholics in Poland steal live train and tram traction. Once in a while, they die.
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by badpun 1y ago
No electricity means no pesticides, no fertilizer and no machinery. Farming productivity levels would go back to around 1800 or so, and we could barely feed a billion people at that time.
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by badpun 1y ago
> If the internet or electricity ceased to exist forever life would go on. Life would go on, but most people would probably starve. We can't grow at today's efficiency without electricity.
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by badpun 1y ago
They're talented hobbyists who are not interested in monetizing their passion. Such people exist in US too, although perhaps are more rare.
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by badpun 1y ago
Art piece cannot do buybacks/dividends.
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by badpun 1y ago
I got a job by just picking a telephone. Recruiter called looking for someone with similar experience. One one hour long interview later, I was hired. I'm a senior data engineer with experience in financial companies.
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by badpun 1y ago
They still needed expensive studios and technicians to produce a commercial-grade quality album. Nowadays you can try pulling it off at home by yourself.
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by badpun 1y ago
You can't have civilization without roads, so people naturally accept them. Large buildings and factories are not common in the countryside, and people do protest when you try building them in their backyards. No different than wind fa
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by badpun 1y ago
> One big example is the DMV since almost every has experience dealing with it, long queue times are almost universal because no one gives a crap and it's very hard to fire a government employee. I don't know what's wrong
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by badpun 1y ago
Isn't that because of deaths of despair, namely by drugs? Why are there so many desperate people in the US if the country is doing ok?
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by badpun 1y ago
I personally have just 20% of my net worth in stocks, as they seem very expensive right now. A crash would allow me to increase my allocation at reasonable prices.

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