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by hedberg10 5y ago
Movies were never about meritocracy, but somehow every now and then through competition or the stars aligning, something good came out of it. The formula was changed, forcefully. It's very openly not about 'good' anymore, sin
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by hedberg10 5y ago
> Killing them feels much more like payback I'm sure many find that it didn't feel like it at all, because of my argumentation. Payback will always be incomplete. It can never be paid in full. Even if you kill someone over and
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by hedberg10 5y ago
You can never 'match' the crime. Even if you go justicing around 'an eye for an eye' style, the perp will always have taken the initiative. You can never get that back. Everything you do is just a reaction. That is what
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by hedberg10 5y ago
I knew this was coming, but those ads are not the feeling based, narcissism invoking ads of today.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Neurotic journalists who don't build anything ever, much less sell it. "OMG, this still runs on COBOL? haha" Yes.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
It is an ad. It worked. Don't expect a car advertisement to teach you how an engine actually works.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
This is Lisa Bronner of Dr. Bronners which I used as a starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLCBz6JdQI There is also a girl who hasn't used any plastic for years and makes everything herself including beaut
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by hedberg10 6y ago
My parents consciously moved away from the city and big roads to have their kids. Which I reversed in my infinite 20 something wisdom. If you ever experience a skin condition that seemingly won't go away and is surprisingly painful, yo
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by hedberg10 6y ago
>Due to ageism I am sure I don't fit the culture of a startup or relate to 20 somethings. Whatever you believe, your brain, like a sentry, will find confirmation for. Be careful with that.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Thats why I invite them to a live bridge building session over zoom!
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by hedberg10 6y ago
People lie. Drug addicts claim to spent 1000s a day on their habit. They don't, but it makes their loss and frowned upon habit seem less so, "I'd be a rich, upstanding citizen if it weren't for this one thing!", wit
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by hedberg10 6y ago
The banner is moving (thus moving the whole text below it) and loads after ~a sec. I don't give money to people who intentionally try really hard to annoy me.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Japanese people take in 1000 kcal less than their American peers.[1] Daily! That is, pardon the pun, huge. It would be nice to get some more recent data and to adjust for height. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Notice how your mood changed by just thinking differently. This can be done with anything. Its not the event(e) that makes us feel, its the callback(us).
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by hedberg10 6y ago
How do you get to focus in the afternoon? I can focus in the morning until maybe 3, then there's no juice left. So I do the opposite and block until then. It often has the benefit of clearing up whatever the people who were swiss chees
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by hedberg10 6y ago
You would like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Insurrection
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
In areas of the USA with the average temperatures of Finland there isn't much (any?) homelessness either.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Biggest hurdle is finding stuff outside of Amazon. People are used to it and Google results are gamed from every possible angle. Even searching for [item] made in [country] yielded nothing for me, because the SEO gap is too huge. Turns out
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by hedberg10 6y ago
>Yet, the Bob from software can write a sloppy spec and Alice from hardware can not care about the spec being sloppy. Ehhh, you have not been long in industry, have you? :) And that's why you get everything in writing and doubly sig
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by hedberg10 6y ago
It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Look into Albert Ellis and "long term hedonism".
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Thank you, that was where I remembered that sentence from.. Great book!
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Make it much easier on yourself: Micro fuck you money. 6 months of living expenses saved up, ready to go in an emergency or to say fuck you. Even if you were to get assistance from the state where you live, you want to be able to say fuck y
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Just your phone is enough. As is this very website. Any screen really.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
I declare you to be a fascist and ban you. You may protest at spam@hedberg10.com
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Good point. But the company was doing quite well before the pandemic, no?
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by hedberg10 6y ago
You can ridicule fads, but I think it's interesting. I know people will pay a reasonable price for a product they might not even need, but an unreasonable price? How the hell does that happen?
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Put smart people together and don't manage them.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
No. Pick up the can, citizen.
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by hedberg10 6y ago
Keep in mind this can also be used as hero theatre which happened in the orange revolution if I remember correctly, also an alleged poisoning and still, 15 years later, very murky. Both sides can lie. As per John Le Carré's Moscow rule

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