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by fleddr 4y ago
The EU's largest trading partner is China. For the US, China is the 3rd largest trading partner with a mere 10 billion difference from being the largest trading partner. We all sing to the tune of China, and we fully enabled that. We w
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Right, for all the users that watch Youtube at wall-sized $40K TVs?
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Definitely a key insight: every attempt to be less addicted to your smartphone will fail if you do not fill up that void of newly available time with something more productive, healthy, etc. The good news is that you don't need to set
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It is all on Google as the lack of a market fit is absurdly obvious. In theory, cloud-only gaming would make it possible for low budget gamers to experience high budget gaming. To play games they normally can't run because they can&#x2
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It's very much good advise to optimize spending by not spending where it's useless (no utility, social signaling) and to possibly increase spending where the happiness return is high. For the people that are frugal for life to the
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Humans are simply not organized to take care of long term issues. A system of nation states ensures a "tragedy of the commons" situation where everybody optimizes for their own short term interests. One failed climate summit after
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For me it was especially shocking because I've experienced no transition, straight from 0 to 100 instead. I've always exclusively interacted with Youtube from my PC, with uBlock enabled. I don't see ads and because I haven&#x
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We're a trust-based species. Even if you're skeptical or cynical, you'll still fall for well-written nonsense if it remotely feels authoritative, sane, reasonable. Especially when not a deep expert on the topic. The above eff
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Because it wasn't minimalism he was after.
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To be clear, I pass no judgement on any setup. At all. Use a smartphone. A single lens. A bag full of them. You do you. I specifically objected to the weird comparison the author makes, the sense of superiority, the self-contradicting argum
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Absolutely gear heads exist. I also agree with the idea that purposeful constraint can be fun. I have a 40 year old manual focus lens myself, just to fool around. Chose your own style and gear, do what you want. The only thing I object to i
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"During my exploration in Europe, I saw plenty of travelers and photographers lugging huge camera bags stuffed with multiple prime and zoom lenses. These folks would set down their bags and fiddle with their cameras, changing lenses, e
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by fleddr 4y ago
Or more likely 41.
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Also mixing millennials and GenZ. Somebody born in 1982 is not a "young worker". They're 42.
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I find your positive scenario extremely frightening, even more so your approval of it. It would literally be the Matrix scenario coming true. Also, I'll have imperfect friends, thanks.
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Bundle into office and price hike the office bundle. Or don't price hike and attract new customers because competitors lack the deep integration.
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Office + ChatGPT is coming, as in...integrated. Think about what that means for writing (and reading!) emails. Powerpoint slides. Internal Wikis. The ability for enterprises to do custom training based on their own data.
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Teams is software that makes laptop fans sing, how can you be against that?
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The only public consumer-facing product I can think of is Stadia :)
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My first question would be: how do you sleep? In terms of enough hours but more importantly also the quality of your sleep. Find a way to measure it if you don't know, and of course be brutally honest with yourself. Sleep is a game cha
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by fleddr 4y ago
Sometimes. I live in a small, sleepy, insignificant town in the Netherlands. Usually in these kind of places, there's an attempt to arrive at a democratic decision regarding the installation of fibre to the home in a collective way. Th
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Doing irrational things for kicks is very much on brand for Musk, but in this case he did want to back out of the deal, but couldn't.
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I don't know about the hormonal changes, you'd have to back that one up. But regardless, we can't ignore some major cultural shifts. LGBT is an example where you have real LGBT and what seems to be a cultural version of it. P
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by fleddr 4y ago
You make an excellent point, there's a major oversight in my original post. The distortion lens of media and social media is a thing. The real world and its people are vastly different from what one might read online. Yet an increasing
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With some (pending) regulation, there's indeed the risk that they require such advanced tech that only Big Tech can comply. I don't know if that is the case here. I see Zuckerberg as a sociopath in a pressure cooker, a highly comp
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"Through intense digging I found a researcher who left a notebook public including tweet counts from many years of Twitter’s 10% sampled “Decahose” API and discovered the surprising fact that tweet rate today is around the same as or l
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Had any of this harm been physical, everybody would be cheering to combat it. But because it's mental, it's "not real", right? Behavioral scientists can plot any metric against the last decade and it spectacularly deviat
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I do think there's a limit to how much doom and gloom an individual can productively handle and I suppose this also applies to society as a whole. People seem to accept that it's all downhill from here, and sometimes even cynicall
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I was about to say the same thing. The article's premise is based on nothing. I've never heard a serious person say or believe that content creation would be a viable and stable career for the masses. Even the 1%'s success is
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thanks for the extra context. The Udacity post is especially educational.

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