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by boelboel 9mo ago
These short 'dopamine hits' are anywhere. As a kid I really loved reading encyclopedias, even read dictionaries for 'enjoyment'. Wikipedia was awful for me. Nobody ever saw it as a bad thing though, many people even enco
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by boelboel 9mo ago
A lot of American propaganda hasn't been about strict censorship (as in making it strictly impossible to find out about things). It's about shifting the narrative enough. Most people have been made lazy enough to the point they do
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Letter boxed is quite difficult if you want to do it in 2 words (which should always be possible), often taking me well over an hour. But they accept you 'winning' with 3-4 or sometimes 5 words. It's my favourite game as a no
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Chinese employees get less time off and many of them got less workplace protection. The availability to good healthcare for many conditions in China is quite subpar compared to the US. They don't have many physicians. Their healthcare
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by boelboel 9mo ago
It's interesting to talk about 'banality of evil' in the comment section about flawed papers. Her portrayal of Eichmann was very wrong, Arendt had an idea in her head of how he should be and didn't care too much about th
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I think it could end up helping a bit in the short term. But in the end an even more complicated system (even if in principle better) will reward those spending time gaming it even more. The system ends up promoting an even more conservativ
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Going to conferences seeing researchers who've built a career doing subpar (sometimes blatantly 'fake') work has made me grow increasingly wary of experts. Worst is lots of people just seem to go along with it. Still I'm
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I don't even think it's some sort of nostalgia for many. It's some sort of lifestyle they envision themselves of having by buying certain products, these older products are just more 'unique' nowadays.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Artists are a shrinking population, I wonder if having most of the top floors (20 out of 30) converted to extremely large luxury apartments (5000sqft+) and only 'adding capacity'to plumbing and what not for the lower 10 floors, wh
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by boelboel 9mo ago
People don't live alone they live in a society, even if you're above these temptations others aren't. This is why drugs are a problem, don't want tweakers in my train/bus/...
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Might depend on what sort of things people buy. Expensive makeup or skincare products, you're gonna get scammed 50% of time. Has been the case since 2015 or so.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Gallup polling says 1% of people in the US didn't believe in god in 1967, 17% in 2022. Of those 17% i'd imagine many believed at some point (or went to church/temple/...), these people don't really behave like a &#x
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Some secular people have values, I don't think religious people are saints. Secular people however don't have a framework to 'force' others with supposed values to adhere to them. I don't believe it's narrow mi
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Secularism, changes in 'christianity' in the US. I'm not some christian nationalist but I do believe changes in values allowed Amazon to do this. Maybe I'm wrong and people will end up going against this in the long term
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by boelboel 9mo ago
If you buy known brands from amazon you're bound to get counterfeit at some point. Only buy disposable garbage on amazon.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Fraud is good, these companies need their revenue so they can create an all powerful AGI. If you don't allow them to scam they'll lose against the chinese
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by boelboel 9mo ago
After years of scamming customers, amazon has finally seen the light and won't be prioritizing shareholder returns (which they're legally required to do). In reality hey're just trying to tone down the scamming they've b
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by boelboel 9mo ago
The time of retailers being 'honest' is over. Scamming, bargaining and the likes were a big part of business. Bargaining was normal before certain religious beliefs (like the quakers and calvinists, similar religious beliefs were
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by boelboel 9mo ago
In most countries living in the woods on your own isn't allowed. You're forced to be connected if you want a job, social life, not be seen as a crazy person. You pretend like we're all living on some island where everything i
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by boelboel 9mo ago
People are social beings. I could live a life which is (vastly) better than people in 1930 or 1960 by doing the most menial work. The problem is that if most of society wouldn't, I'd be seen as a paria. If I didn't have a par
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by boelboel 9mo ago
The biggest problem with ads is that even if I were willing to pay any amount of money I would still get many of the problems brought by this 'ad run' world. There's enough things where you can't even avoid ads.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
More knowledge, more misinformation. Hard to know if a world without google would be better or worse.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I'm not educated in painting but will just assume it's similar to music and someone like Mozart. I genuinely believe you wouldn't get as many as you'd imagine. There were few people making music at that time and only a s
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Many on HN are sad that even with tech workers/businesses having extreme wealth they're still not seen as better than the 'old elite'.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
So you're saying codemonkeys are mad they don't get seen as the 'cool guys', we have to kill the jobs 'cool guys' have. The codemonkeys will never be cool, just accept it, there's no way to fix it. These c
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Tech workers know it all, no way a non-tech job could be worth anything more than 20 dollars an hour.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
But america are the goodies, they should be able to meddle, spy ... in other countries. Tiktok is certainly a national security issue though, can't have those chinamen spying on americans.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Many of these activities have gotten extremely expensive or just died out in the majority of places. There's 2600 bowling alleys in the US compared to 4000 20 years ago. That's a decline of 35% without accounting for population. L
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by boelboel 9mo ago
“but it at least had some... class” Not if you’d have asked the WASPs at the time, they very much looedk down on Hollywood. Saw it as vulgar and beneath them for many of the same reasons people dislike MrBeast. The 'class' only ca
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by boelboel 9mo ago
The problem as with many things is that people just don't care and they just want things as cheap as possible. Even if people had a great local journal, there's no real reason to pay well for it when you can just figure things out

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