elindbe2

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by elindbe2 6y ago
I'm suffering. I'd like some of your money, please. I'll send you my venmo email. Thanks, I appreciate it.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
I have to disagree that many of these programs are pursuing "knowledge" at all. They're pursuing a victim mentality and simply make up rationalizations as they go along and call it knowledge. And they're the ones filin
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by elindbe2 6y ago
"The most straightforward modern equivalent to Turchin's "elite" nobility would not be people with advanced degrees" I disagree here. The closest equivalent would be people in academia, specifically the portions of
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by elindbe2 6y ago
No way, it's already lived up to it's promise! I can't even watch cable any more, it's 8 minutes of programming followed by 5 minutes of commercials. Why pay to watch advertisements?
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by elindbe2 6y ago
> Pichai's net worth in 2020 is estimated at between $600 million and $1.2 billion. Somehow I think poor Pichai will survive.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Uhhh...this is how being the CEO works. You're paid the big bucks but you're also responsible for an entire company.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
If you have a yard you could potentially keep it outside. It's can be a bit invigorating during the winter though.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
A portfolio of investments! It was was the reason I felt no financial or job worries during COVID. It's also given me the financial confidence to sublet my apartment in an increasingly unstable downtown environment at a loss and fina
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Credit is fine if the interest rate is low and you aren't stretching yourself financially. I could've bought my car in cash if I wanted to but at a 2.5% interest rate I figured why bother, that's almost nothing after inflati
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by elindbe2 6y ago
This is my dream! I recently moved and working from home is great but I keep thinking to myself "gosh I really don't have 8 hours a day to spend working."
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Buy them from Tesla.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Should according to whom? Obviously, I would want to earn the maximum my employer would be willing to pay for my labor and the company would want to pay the minimum that would allow them to attract quality candidates.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Glad that was cleared up.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
That's not true. With a six figure income, you can live like people making half what you do, save the other half of your income and retire early to live off your assets indefinitely. That's harder to do the lower your income get
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Keep in mind if you have an income of more than ~$60k as a single person, you're in the global 1% by income. https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i Also keep in mind that if you give your income to poorer
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by elindbe2 6y ago
The same is true for the ancient pre-contact inuit which is probably the closest example we have to a carnivorous population. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/surprise-ancient-inu... And the Masai, another popul
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Not to mention that of the "blue-zones", the most long-lived populations in the world, none are following a carnivore diet.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
In other words: "tax anyone who doesn't follow my fad diet" Whole grains, fruits, vegetables (and sure meat too) are time and time again show to be healthy components of the human diet. Just cutting out the sugar, white flou
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by elindbe2 6y ago
And before anyone complains about BMI, it's useful as a population-level measurement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896802/#:~:tex... .
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what equation you're referring to?
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by elindbe2 6y ago
To some extent all firms have to grade on a curve, so does it really hurt me if my parent coworkers are less able to deliver? If anything it would help me comparatively, though maybe at an overall cost to the firm's goals (which are d
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by elindbe2 6y ago
I don't think it was "highly centralized" compared to say Imperial China as an example. It was a bunch of nomadic tribes banding together. And there's no reason to believe all autocracy could be abolished and forever p
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Maybe. Or maybe a band of like-minded people get together, arm themselves and take over the "individuals leading happy and fulfilling lives", declaring themselves monarchs and killing all those who oppose them.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
But your minimal government wouldn't work. If you have taxes then you need a justice system to enforce collection of taxes. You'll also need a military to prevent outsiders from taking your treasury.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
"the capacity for doing harm is only very large when you have highly centralised power structures" I don't think this is true. Look at the Mongols. A few nomadic tribes got together and conquered most of Asia. They create
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by elindbe2 6y ago
"The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be" I'd like to try and understand Graeber's argument but I get stuck here. If you take one glance
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Couldn't you say that at any point in time? There hasn't been a time any of us were alive when, for example, kids in poor countries weren't starving or dying due to treatable diseases. So it seems your point is you should n
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by elindbe2 6y ago
I've been fine using a dining chair at home too. I don't feel much difference between my office chair at work and my wooden dining chair at home. I'm a runner too, for reference. Maybe sitting in less comfortable chair is b
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by elindbe2 6y ago
I am actually ok with some censorship (e.g. clear-cut harassment, not just offending someone but for example death threats) as long as it is implemented very fairly and very transparently. The problem I have with tech censorship is that it
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by elindbe2 6y ago
I lay the blame at the feet of the mainstream media and tech companies for their extreme bias. Conservative voices have had to find alternate ways to get their message out due to our cancel culture and the way it is applied unfairly agains

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