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by dgut 9y ago
Reminds me of this statement... "If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being." - Kafka
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by dgut 9y ago
Maybe it grows your sense of anything, but for that child, life will never be quite right. Children who are adopted have a higher chance of developing mental disorders, alcoholism, major depression and so forth. [1] A portion of them go thr
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by dgut 9y ago
That's quite naive. You are just a pawn in this world, chaos is the dominant factor, and you'll be drawn to wherever the tide takes you. Just be happy you were born in this particular time and place because history shows peace is
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by dgut 9y ago
It's the only intelligent choice, although I wouldn't blame anybody who chooses to have children. Having children made me feel more empathy for others. Once you have experienced love for your own children, you feel more pity for t
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by dgut 9y ago
The story about the mother leaving her two children is too sad. Sometimes I wonder if the quickest way to end humankind's pain is to just stop existing as a whole... No matter how well-off you are, there are N humans in great pain some
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by dgut 9y ago
Hey. I was in the same situation a while ago (running a profitable service, making about the same and feeling miserable). What eventually helped was moving from Norway to Spain(Madrid), where I started exercising and for the first time had
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What’s so scary about free speech on campus?(theglobeandmail.com)
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by dgut 9y ago
Sounds like crickets you typically hear in Cuba.
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by dgut 9y ago
Well, it's not the first time the US tries something in those lines. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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by dgut 9y ago
While the media continues to spread bold claims and sensational articles lacking any facts, a Cuban panel of scientists has concluded the diplomats likely experienced a "collective psychogenic disorder". Stress can change the rati
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by dgut 9y ago
Social democracy != socialism. Also, what "current socialist regimes in Europe"? What you mean is that some European countries have a welfare system paid by a highly effective capitalist economy.
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by dgut 9y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted my comment as an argument about moral. Leaving babies to cry or separating them from their mothers for extended periods of time is primarily a health issue which I believe should concern society. [1][2]
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by dgut 9y ago
Just because someone has done something for generations doesn't make it right. They also send children to kindergarten by the 3rd month, for economic reasons. Having traveled a bit in Northern Africa, I noticed baby sleep problems are
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by dgut 9y ago
> I don't doubt that children who are being cuddles more could have their genetics changed. Looks like actual experts in the field disagree with you. [1] Also, deny a child affection and you have a mentally ill adult. Sadly, there i
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by dgut 9y ago
Jason Fried's whole business philosophy comes to mind [0][1]. [0] https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9 [1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-co...
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by dgut 9y ago
So what? Does it hurt you in some way? I don't see the issue with people advertising their projects when the opportunity arises. This is HN, the home of software hustlers, ya' know.
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by dgut 9y ago
The question is whether the Chinese would be better off without, or would it make them unable to sustain themselves? All nations went through horrible things to reach the high standard of living we take for granted today.
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by dgut 9y ago
> [...] ignores the fact that many may have preferred not to have had the choice imposed in the first place. E.g. subsistence farmers forced off their land and into cities, either by mandate or through unchecked externalities. Do you hav
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by dgut 9y ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't regard a photo of an object as having much value. These photos could have taken by literally anybody. Think of it as somebody using a piece of code you have posted online in their huge enterprise
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by dgut 9y ago
How does that help them? Pretty sure those working under "cruel" conditions would rather keep their jobs. Also, European regulations are the strictest and labor unions the loudest in the world, so it's unlikely any meaningful
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by dgut 9y ago
I was explicitly referring to the topic at hand: Marketing abroad/International brands. What I described is undeniably one of the major reasons, if not the most important one. Most true global brands were established in the post-war pe
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by dgut 9y ago
I've heard this been mentioned before, but I entirely disagree. The more likely culprit is the 35 years of post-war Franco rule, it crippled Spain under a period when most global brands were being established. It's also no coincid
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by dgut 9y ago
Hmm, I didn't get that impression. Could you elaborate?
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by dgut 9y ago
> "... randomness is not merely the noise but the dominant factor. And those reasons we assign to historical events are often just ex post rationalizations. As rising generations are taught the rationalizations, they conclude that t
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by dgut 9y ago
That's some of the most short-sighted comment I've read on HN. As somebody else here points out, there are a ton of unhealthy activities (I can think of a thousand) that are not only legal but well advertised. In fact, the current
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by dgut 9y ago
I definitely believe ICOs are the future of funding. We are at a premature stage, but as the ecosystem matures we'll see a lot of great things come out of it unless the SEC and whatnot decide to nuke it. For instance, until now ICOs ha
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by dgut 9y ago
With the exception of Bolyai, those are all Jewish. AFAIK Hungary did push above its weight for some time, but that was thanks to its Jewish population. Ironically Hungarians are extremely antisemitic, although nearly all known Hungarians w
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by dgut 9y ago
Many working on that, obviously not with dinosaur Bitcoin as a currency. See Mojaloop, Stellar/IBM, Humaniq, WeTrust and a bunch more that I can't immediately remember.
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by dgut 9y ago
Sure, but if A is worse, doesn't mean B is good.
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by dgut 9y ago
Just because it's worth a lot of money doesn't mean shit. The original authors of the game are the real artists.

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