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by cercatrova 4y ago
Industrialization via the profit motive has been the single greatest lever of increasing humanity's quality of life. The people who say that the rest live in shit in my experience have never been to a third world country and actually l
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Agreed, please don't eat cereal (at least the commercial ones) as they tend to be very high in sugar. It's like eating a tablespoon of sugar in the morning. Oatmeal and other non sugary breakfasts are fine.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Weight loss being math and being difficult emotionally are not mutually exclusive. It is difficult, yes, but it still comes down to the math of calories in < calories out. I think it's important that we not think it's complicat
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Hm I'm not sure it's very very few as you say. Most people I know also don't know much about the various countries in the world (vacation-wise) and would be happy to go somewhere for a set price (in a set time such as school
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by cercatrova 4y ago
There are always more opportunities every day. You just have to catch em this time. Also, analyze why your side hustles are failing, or why the companies you worked at failed, and use that knowledge to fail less and eventually succeed.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Ah yes, the AI Effect in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by cercatrova 4y ago
> Hardly anyone says "I have $200, where can I fly." Not sure about that, there are entire industries around cheap flights for people that are location agnostic. ScottsCheapFlights comes to mind.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
This is known as a revealed preference in psychology; observe people's actions, not words [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Good pun, I appreciated it.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
True, in a commune or something like that, it does work. I think though once we hit Dunbar's number, then it breaks down and we need a subjective value based market.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
The labor theory of value has basically never been shown to work, while the subjective theory of value, however many its flaws, has been shown to work and bring us the world we see today.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
I wonder how the world would be different had Zheng He sailed his junks east rather than west.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
I used to use the Alexa in my roommate's bedroom. By use, I mean that I would yell, "Alexa, add $RANDOM_ITEM to cart/wishlist" through their closed door and it would. It was a funny prank but I was astonished to see that
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by cercatrova 4y ago
As an American, yes backyard can mean the general area where one stays, but in the specific comment above, I also took it to mean literally in someone's backyard.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Yes. In my experience, technical people often assume that laws and judges act like programming commands, when in reality it's more like a case-by-case assessment from the point of view of a reasonable person. Judges are not stupid, the
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Would be interesting to see what he'd say about Nim, which is Python-like but compiled rather than interpreted and has a great static type system.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Like it or not, racial tensions fuel a lot of conflict inside nations. America itself has had a lot of racial tension based conflict in its short lifespan than many other countries much older than it. I'm not condoning it of course, ju
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by cercatrova 4y ago
What kind of question is this? What's the point of any game looking and running better?
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by cercatrova 4y ago
> Since no sane person would invest in crypto in the short to medium term, I don't see how the industry will recover from that. There are always marks to go around.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
It seems like that's not as much of a factor as one expects, as evidenced in Scandinavia and Finland [0]. Researchers said that even with high parental care policies, people still aren't having as many children. This is I think mo
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Well either that or their population continues to decline. I'm not sure what the alternative is.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
When I went to South Korea earlier this year, I was denied entry to a business while my ethnically Korean friends were allowed. I was astonished that this kind of thing happened in this day and age.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
So will every country eventually. Usually countries solve this with immigration but Asian countries (as opposed to Western ones) are quite xenophobic based on personal experience and those of talking with others. As such, they don't le
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Millennials? Or Gen Z? The youngest Millennial is 26, so they probably knew at least a little when they were young about what Yahoo was.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Their CGI trailer is still one of the best trailers I've seen for a video game [0]. When I saw it, I really felt a sense of futuristic wonder, thinking what it'd be like to augment our bodies in the near future. The color scheme i
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by cercatrova 4y ago
> There is something of a campaign going on now and it is not 'cool' to compliment some billionaires. I've seen this when HN shifted from YC applicants, ie startup founders, to tech workers in general. There is quite a p
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by cercatrova 4y ago
I've used Proxmox before for running a Windows VM for gaming inside a Linux/Proxmox self-hosted server, so I could have everything I needed on one machine, software apps as well as games. Unfortunately, games started implementing
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by cercatrova 4y ago
This is known as a euphemism treadmill.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Damn, if that's the battery life I might as well get a Framework or System76 laptop built more specially for Linux.
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by cercatrova 4y ago
Ironic when they lobby many politicians themselves. If they really wanted to put their money where their mouth is, they'd support a public fund for campaign finances, no ability to fund politicians outside of that.

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