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by blubb-fish 9y ago
OMG ... take it easy, buddy - install uBlock Origin and have a nice day ... :D
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
my guesses: - no driving b/c no car b/c less income - no sex b/c porn - no booze b/c ... well, is that even true?
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> Whatsapp is now solid security for user to user. WA communicates your address book to Facebook.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
of course you are downvoted by the cubicle victims here. but bottom line you are right. even alcoholism and liver zirrosis is considered socially more acceptable than admitting you are vaping a bud once a week.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
it definitely should be used in moderation. regarding psychosis - if you compare weed consumption with number of schizophrenic diagnoses then the idea that weed causes schizophrenia can be easily falsified. but - of course - any psycho acti
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Here in Germany politicians are still stating that Cannabis is a gateway drug, causes psychosis and makes stupid. They will even actively lie and twist statistics. My theory for why many politicians - especially from the right-wing - are so
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here (waited for a long time to use this formulation): > War on drugs has failed. Yes - but - most politicians will go the extra mile to deny they failed. > Consensual crimes that don’t
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
23m = 3m leaving desk + 10m smoking + 10m talking + 3m returning to desk
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
would it really make a difference? my guess is that expenses would be as always adjusted to the budget. and if the budget is u-payments + ads then the advertisers will still have power. what actually matters is the ideology of the journalis
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I totally second the basic idea here. I also try to avoid abusive monopolists where I can. I never order at Amazon, I deleted my FB account, I switched from GMail to FastMail and try to use DDG instead of Google. Having said that - the prob
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
and you think she is being idolized for being a businesswoman? That is just the reason for why she is able to sell herself so successfully - that doesn't change though that she doesn't have anything of value to offer.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
there is a difference ... any actress is an artist actually co-producing art in form of movies or plays. kim kardashian is merely publicly living a hedonistic and materialisitc life - nothing more.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> But I guess I'm just old and grumpy. No, I think you have a point.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> can pick up any iDevice, authenticate, and be looking at effectively their own device. This is so obviously the opposite of what Apple has in mind. They want to sell as many phones as possible - not make them shareable.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
They are also closer to management - having drinks with higher ups and important customers, going to events. They tend to be more fun to be around and in a better mood. I'm an engineer and I am really not happy about this industry habi
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
based f.x. on suicide statistics and common sense. measure your own well-being by spending a week programming vs spending a week in a hut in a forest.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
the noble/happy trap is closer to reality than the primitive/pitiable trap.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> municipally-supplied mains I don't know where you live but here in Germany this water source is pretty cheap while of high quality. So this would rather be an example of pragmatic spending behaviour. A $1000 smartphone would rathe
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day? there is objectively no reason to spend more than 200 Euro on a smartphone - except for attempting to inflate one's ego.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
at the end of the day life is not about being impressive. life is about living. and I have not doubt those tribes are happier than 90% of the people belonging to advanced civilizations.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Some people here seem to suggest that people who care about environment have a hippy mentality and hence are open to consume LSD b/c the real hippies in the sixties chose accidentally LSD as their drug. As if Cocaine or Heroin could ha
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
True - but deleting FB is not just about data safety. For me the primary interest was simply removing myself from an unhealthy, superficial, hedonistic and materialistic part of reality and society.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
I also tend to triangulate - but this also leads to news binging - and I would like to make my news consumption more efficient. More accurate and relevant info in less time. B/c I also would like a news source to mostly ignore what Tom
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Ask HN: What news source do you consider the most reputable, sober and unbiased?
5 points by blubb-fish 9y ago|6 comments
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
just start learning and you will see what math comes along ;)
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
Porn is 90% about visual input - hence acceptance hinges on the graphical resolution which is currently lacking.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
VR will have its breakthrough as soon as it makes porn available in a way that makes you feel like being "there" or involved. Simple as that. Technology is driven by war and porn.
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
restricting a machine to mechanical operations takes severe engineering effort - what you are doing is just playing with words. you can program to display a time on a watch running Python inside - but you probably would have to research for
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
> I am sure it's possible to draw parallels with equally complex software Absolutely - I mean which programmer wouldn't admire the mechanics of an Enigma, a Z3 or any mechanical calculator. I sometimes use an Abacus or a slidin
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by blubb-fish 9y ago
A mechanical watch is a beautiful little creature living on my arm. I love to take off my automatic Seiko and enjoy looking at the pulsating balance wheel through the transparent back. It reminds me of a heart beating. If I don't feed

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