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by bagacrap 4y ago
and notably, if you actually climb mt everest, you start well above sea level so the total ascension is much less than 8848m. Clearly not a direct comparison
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by bagacrap 4y ago
negative real returns
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by bagacrap 4y ago
not to alarm you, but the sp500 is only above the pre pandemic high by about 7.5% while the Dow is below. inflation adjusted, sp500 is below pre pandemic highs.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
amd?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Hedonic happiness doesn't have to penalize one's future self, either. I can have a good time without alcohol. The distrinction is whether or how much something is enjoyable while it's being done vs in retrospect.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I disagree with the premise, but if you really think changing the default is so hard, that seems like FF's fault, not Google's.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Is there such a thing as invisible evidence?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
and the only reason they could get a way better house somewhere else is bc their own home greatly appreciated in value... so let's not paint homeowners as victims here
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by bagacrap 4y ago
don't they still make new Simpsons? hence something invented yesterday could be a Simpsons reference
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by bagacrap 4y ago
as reluctant as I am to trust this kind of anecdata, for the sake of argument let's assume it's true. What matters is usage, not the reason for the usage
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by bagacrap 4y ago
"won't somebody think of the drug addicts" is a novel (to me) argument for why all ads are bad
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Different APIs, but all in the realm of (client-side) storage.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Real estate is an asset. The price of assets increases when there's inflation. I'm not so sure you pay for things in the order listed. You probably can do without new clothes longer than you can go without shelter.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I think this is it. But 2900 seems very arbitrary. It's not even that round. If he were close to 3000 that would at least be a satisfying number.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
has Adderall been shown to enhance performance or is this a preventative measure to protect player health? what else do they check for? caffeine is probably helpful and not banned. LSD (microdosing)? Galantamine? If there are nootropics t
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by bagacrap 4y ago
doesnt that help? he needs to play (defeat) opponents with high scores to have a chance to boost his own score
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I think it's a problem because most societies rely on working age folks to support retirees. As birth rates fall off, the ratio of young to old reduces and too few people in the society are working for it to function well.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Some of these are hilariously still true. I know plenty of hardcore cyclists who let their hobby get in the way of home life (disrupting marriage and homemaking). Of course there's nothing actionable here, but I think these should be r
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I think both the percentage of income and effective tax rate vary wildly with income so it's probably not worth trying to nail down a specific percentage
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by bagacrap 4y ago
the mountains have a tendency to be surreally pointy
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by bagacrap 4y ago
we do expect humans to keep getting faster and faster for some reason, so we are expecting nutritionists and coaches to continually improve and move their baseline
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I have met 10x engineers. They solve a problem in an hour that takes me all day and which someone else might never be able to solve. They identify and solve problems I couldn't even begin to tackle. In that sense, they're not real
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by bagacrap 4y ago
or, they felt being a dead weight was wrong, but wanted to be one, so came up with a justification. If they actually didn't want to be dead weight they'd work in spite of their situation.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I work at one of the two mentioned companies. 20% of the employees do 80% of the work, and another 60% do maybe 50%. the last 20% account for -30%. It's demoralizing how incapable management seems to be at jettisoning the chaf, however
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by bagacrap 4y ago
basically it's the lowest common denominator. There are so many chat apps out there (signal, sms, fb, ig are popular in my circles) and the default app is the only one everyone has installed. For people close to me, I insist on the use
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Because it requires a central authority to arbitrate disputes.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
you've definitely experienced blurry media if someone texted you from the other kind of phone (note that your own media will still show up crisp in the conversion window even though the other end gets a mega compressed version)
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by bagacrap 4y ago
that's terrific, but if telegram were the universal standard used for 95%+ of messaging then Google wouldn't bother with this effort.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
A lot of Android handset manufacturers do not in fact leave the default X in place for most X.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
No, Google isn't trying to ship another messaging app. It's trying to improve the interoperability of Android and iPhone when using phone number texting. Your experience in iMessage when texting with an Android user would be impro

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