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by gretch 4y ago
I promise you, it's not that dramatic. You can still walk down to the creamery and drink a milkshake. There are plenty of flesh and blood people there to talk to. The birds are chirping and it's a sunny day. There are some bad&#x2
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by gretch 4y ago
I admit it’s true, it just has no value. You can say it about any govt in the world. Oh I guess some people still live in Iran/Russia so their govt is doing just fine. It’s not true, but it’s not insightful nor actionable. That’s why i
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by gretch 4y ago
I don't know if you meant this facetiously or not, but I'm pretty sure a LOT of people would want to take this deal if it existed. Which is also why a lot of people are perfectly okay with, and use social media
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by gretch 4y ago
I think people are excited that we can get back to money tracking with actual value generation and not financial hacking. Events like these are similar to Enron and Theranos. No, I'm not excited to see "the energy industry" o
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by gretch 4y ago
I think people fall into this delusion, but if you can peel yourself out of it, you’d find it’s not really true at all. One of the best politically served groups in the US are elderly evangelical Christians - this doesn’t come from being on
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by gretch 4y ago
This is the dumbest and most unproductive interpretation of what I said. But sure, it’s true I suppose.
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by gretch 4y ago
People often live here _despite_ the government, not because of it. Great weather. 4 hours away from skiing. 1 hour away from the beach. These things aren't attributable to the quality of the govt (except I will say that govt does do a
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by gretch 4y ago
Well yeah, obviously _infinite_ growth is not possible given the laws of physics. But the whole premise of technology is that you can break the zero-sum and reach arbitrarily high levels. For example Deuterium–tritium fusion runs on hydroge
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by gretch 4y ago
I don’t think this is true. In high school my friend was caught and arrested for stealing a bottle of luxury cosmetic shampoo (dumb teenager brain). Not cheap but certainly not felony limit
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by gretch 4y ago
>pay them the minimum they can get away with This is what everyone in society does, with the exception of tipping culture. When your pipes break and you get a plumber who quotes you for $400, do you think, we’ll I’m gonna pay him $500. P
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by gretch 4y ago
Not the poster you replied to but when I was a teenager I had summer jobs at Walmart and Kroger and it was super easy to get/leave a job (this was like 2005). And at that time I was a bumbling teenager. Here in the Bay Area I see help
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by gretch 4y ago
I don’t think he’s full of it. Maybe some of it is time/place depending? I was a teenager in 2005 looking for summer work. Over 3 years I worked at a couple different retail places and some fast food (not Starbucks but similar). It rea
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by gretch 4y ago
I believe that humans adapt to their environment and I think any one can live a happy life without X or Y luxury, in this case a family trip. What I’m talking about is a sudden change in normalcy - since you were a kid every year there was
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by gretch 4y ago
+1 to this How many teens had to watch their parent come home and announce that they got laid off from their job and that this year there wasn't going to be a yearly family trip?
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by gretch 4y ago
I wonder if ChatGPT opinions/positions are stable. (well actually I'm pretty sure I know the answer is that they are not stable) For example, if you ask it now about Electron in another session, does it maintain that it thinks Ele
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by gretch 4y ago
I don't think this is true. The actual raw amount of land on plant earth is abundant, it's just that much of it is unattractive to modern humans due to not being hooked up to internet/electricity and not near interesting thin
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by gretch 4y ago
If you watch kids interact with technology today, you’ll see that there’s already several thriving metaverses in the form of Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. These services no longer function as games in the traditional sense where there’s
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by gretch 4y ago
You can’t not believe either of us. He said a thing and I said it’s false. If you don’t believe him then you agree with me. This btw is the correct course of logic since the burden of proof is on the asserter.
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by gretch 4y ago
Okay don't do it. Instead you're just going to believe the guy who cited nothing? Live your life however you want I guess...
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by gretch 4y ago
This is very false. National studies show more violent crime happens in poor areas: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/hpnvv0812.pdf
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by gretch 4y ago
This mentality wouldn’t have worked out for MySpace or Snapchat or Facebook and it’s probably not going to be good for whoever is momentarily king of the hill.
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by gretch 4y ago
It’s definitely not the goal of human life. It that was all we cared about, e.g. we’d allow rape. It’s _some_ peoples goals (respectable), and I imagine they also have others they balance. The beautiful thing about humanity is that we are n
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by gretch 4y ago
> They got hired for leadership roles. They make big leadership money total compensation. Then, they make business 101 mistakes (don't over hire during COVID under the expectation that the escalated demand will remain permanently fo
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by gretch 4y ago
There’s no reason why Apple can’t be pulled into a stupid war. Imagine going to the iPad product page on Edge and being met with “hey you should buy a surface tablet instead”. Apple then retaliates with similar tactics.
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by gretch 4y ago
This probably doesn’t do the thing you want it to do 1) if there is a demand to have something, it usually raises price of that thing. You could interpret this as a forced buyback, which may raise prices of shares (and thus reward bad behav
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by gretch 4y ago
I think the left usually has very weak messaging (as opposed to the right which has strong messaging but is sometimes just blatantly false). Maybe you could call voters to action by saying we need to “protect our -lands-“ (stronger ring tha
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by gretch 4y ago
I don't think it's pedantry, I think it's misleading to non-technical consumers, the ones that can't easily differentiate a true fact of your product and an aspirational goal. The damage is that when they find out '
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by gretch 4y ago
It’s because needs and preferences differ. There is not 1 objective evaluation that makes it the “best”. Consider a minivan and a sports convertible on which car is the best car - many people will say my car is better and are optimizing for
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by gretch 4y ago
Do you realize how smug and condescending this comment is? As if everyone who happens to disagree with you is psychology broken and utterly stupid? Let me give you another perspective as an apple user - I don't think about Apple at all
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by gretch 4y ago
My philosophy is that Apple can do whatever they want (as long as legal and ethical). They made a thing, and you bought it. Why would anyone with a bent on free computing walk into what they know to be a closed ecosystem. Just buy an Androi

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