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by ggpsv 4y ago
The documentary "The Economics of Happiness" [1] deals with this subject but in the context of Ladakh. Specifically how the introduction of globalized culture introduced sentiments of poverty, unworthiness, cultural repression, an
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Quite the opposite actually. "all of human history" spans at least 160,000 years and the inequality that you and the parent comment to are alluding to is a rather modern artifact. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but this comme
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by ggpsv 4y ago
I didn't come up with the degrowth thesis myself but I will entertain the question even if you've answered it yourself. The question doesn't really matter. Whether we want it or not, economics will ultimately be subject to th
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by ggpsv 4y ago
I'm halfway through "The Dawn of Everything" to understand the reference on heterodoxy associated to Graeber and Wengrow. What sort of pushback are you seeing?
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by ggpsv 4y ago
I'm sorry but this is a misinterpretation of the degrowth thesis. The proponents behind degrowth (i.e Hickels, Kallis) are constantly correcting this misinterpretation. Degrowth stipulates that the global south actually needs to contin
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I've had "Deschooling Society" in the backlog for some time now and this was a good foreword to some of Illich's ideas. This, however, is the first time I see someone mention a link between degrowt
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Not sure what's up with Pinboard but yesterday he published a new post on his personal blog so it looks like he is around.
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by ggpsv 4y ago
I take TikTok is just an example and that this applies equally as well to other social media like Instagram/FB/Youtube? Or is there anything particularly notorious about TikTok? I haven't used TikTok myself but I have observe
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Can you expand on what you're specifically referring to regarding TikTok?
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Like I mentioned in my top-most comment, "developing nation" is what people typically refer to. As to your comment, I was pointing out that "global south" is not a euphemism for "developing nation". I'd sa
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by ggpsv 4y ago
There is not as it does not refer to a geographical designation. I wouldn't say it is a euphemism, but closer to what people actually refer to when they misuse the term "third-world". The closest geographical designation was
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by ggpsv 4y ago
It isn't as much as a replacement term, but you make a fair point that is doesn't translate well. It is both jargon and a loaded concept, which can be confusing when taken literally and without understanding what it aims to repres
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by ggpsv 4y ago
It isn't a geographical denomination, but rather socioeconomic and political. Most of the countries in the global south denomination are actually in the northern hemisphere.
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by ggpsv 4y ago
This is term is commonly misused as it originally referred to countries beyond the Cold War's NATO/USSR denominations. Today the parent likely refers to a country in the global south or a "developing" nation. I'm fr
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by ggpsv 4y ago
Thunderbird works great for me across different desktop operating systems. It doesn't have the best UI but it is all IMAP and it handles multiple inboxes/calendars (custom domains and an old gmail account) just fine. You can also
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by ggpsv 5y ago
It is certainly more nuanced and complex than reducing it in terms of a persons's propensity towards good and evil. You must look into the psychosocial conditions that made Germany the breeding grounds for Nazism. Why was it appealing
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by ggpsv 5y ago
That's right. I posted this one the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30913492
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by ggpsv 5y ago
There is some overhead in using SPAs when your application could have been built in the way that the parent comment suggests. Some front-end frameworks are closing this gap but I wouldn't necessary say they're equally a simple. Se
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by ggpsv 5y ago
This tends to work for me as well but signal vs noise ratio has worsened over time. Despite Reddit's questionable decisions in the past years it still has useful information for all sorts of things. Reddit's own search has become
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. That's certainly worrisome considering Tailscale's default configuration for the ACL and authenticating new machines. Fortunately I updated my settings to change the default ACL policy and to manua
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Some of my use cases: - Ditch my previous VPS + Wireguard setup which I had to maintain - Easily add/remove my own exit nodes as I wish/need (either using my own devices or any VPS) - Use my beefy desktop as a remote development s
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by ggpsv 5y ago
I've been using Tailscale for a couple of personal use cases and it has become one of my favorite products. It really simplified my setup and it "just works". That said, I share OP's concerns as someone who has been eval
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by ggpsv 5y ago
> but I haven't seen convincing evidence that meditation works. "works" to what end?
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm curious, did you consider at any point untangling those feelings with a psychotherapist? Your experience resonates with me, but I came to a different conclusion. Meditation did open the doors to a more conscious
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by ggpsv 5y ago
I've observed that sometimes "meditation" is used as a catch phrase for several different practices, especially those which the west adopted from eastern traditions. I would not rush to dismiss all of it as disingenous just b
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by ggpsv 5y ago
This should be written down somewhere! I glanced through the website and I couldn't find any mention of the security/safety measures taken other than the UI screenshot where it says "securely connect your utility account&quot
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Take this as constructive feedback. I don't doubt your intentions but these guarantees don't hold their weight relative to the sensitivity of the data that you will safeguard. Despite the process happening programmatically, develo
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Agreed, great book. Meaning comes from within, it is in you to create it. Status, material possessions, wealth, family, prestige - all of it can be taken away from you. But not meaning.
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by ggpsv 5y ago
> What if the actual reality is what you experience during a trip Aldous Huxley touched on this idea of the brain acting as a valve or filter, wherein psychedelics loosen it and let through the stream of consciousness that you're al
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by ggpsv 5y ago
Parent is referring to tango, which originated in a spaniel-speaking area. "Abrazo" has meaning within the dialect, and that can be lost in translation.

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