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jajko
2y ago
Make all tech knowledge available, spin it into another completely separate company with 0 ties to the parent and then we can actually start talking. Rest is fluff and PR.
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jajko
2y ago
Some animals have provably some sort of language, and most probably have them for tens of millions of years, or their ancestors did. No reason to believe there was no language before those 135k. Clearly you don't need something very sp
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jajko
2y ago
Well, depends what your goals are. Agile economy focused on health of companies, high revenue, and ability to quickly adapt to changing environment? US is great for that. It sucks to be the bottom 70% maybe, OK till maybe 95% and great abov
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jajko
2y ago
Proto-religions probably too
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jajko
2y ago
I am even OK with selling, but they should drop the usual PR lies and be honest. No business will ever do that though, consumers in general are not that smart/ have good critical thinking. So I don't see an easy solution apart fro
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jajko
2y ago
Hmm, did they lower their price correspondingly, at least compared to competition? Because I don't go to restaurants to just eat, albeit fine food, I go for whole experience, environment. Something clicks in each human brain and we h
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jajko
2y ago
We did that. Not letting them eat big chunks of dirt or mud, but not being too strict with clean hands, picking up food from floor etc. And yes few times for some reason they chugged in some small piece of outright dirt. Its much easier whe
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jajko
2y ago
Not everybody is as emotional as you based on your description, some of us naturally have more control over our state of mind, emotions generally, and don't live so reactively. This allows us not only avoid those typical massive mistak
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jajko
2y ago
You don't understand the situation in this case. This is not some auto-update, people have to put some serious effort into updating manually... effin soundbar. Why on earth would anybody do that? I have these speakers, exactly model D,
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jajko
2y ago
Yeah but how many people would do that? You, me, and maybe thousand other people here and similarly minded. That's sadly fart in the wind for such companies and not worth creating more friction and risk (ie folks hack their under-warra
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jajko
2y ago
I have those, desperately checking if they don't auto-update... whfff, luckily no. I never patch such devices as long as they work, the only exception is phone and desktop. Those idiotic phone apps to tweak some minor stuff - thank you
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jajko
2y ago
I've rarely seen those 10x engineers to bring massive long term added value. Most are/were well aware of their skills and detested working on anything but newest and shiniest, desperately trying to make work a fun park for them re
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jajko
2y ago
Which part of psychology? To me as a layman, getting interested in what makes people tick, how different issues manifest, how bad childhood and especially missing good father figure affects people proved invaluable. But I dont mean clinical
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jajko
2y ago
They really did the bulk of Wehrmacht killing on European mainland. But they didn't collapse only due to massive US support, be it in armament, equipment, medicine etc. Absolutely massive. Also it was basically due to bad German planni
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jajko
2y ago
Rooting out corruption in russia is simply not possible when biggest thief is at the top of the pyramid (absolute minimum stolen from russian nation is on the order of 100 billions $$ stashed all over the world, but its hard to count when i
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jajko
2y ago
Well it is technically possible to spend 10 years in a bubble, either academia or professional one, and not learn local language. If your colleagues speak all english, you have non-native partner and don't have motivation to learn it w
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jajko
2y ago
Costs are largely meaningless when talking about global situation and other nations and their strategic interests. Europe will move fully to ESA for anything actually important, China and India have their own stuff too. Private satellites,
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jajko
2y ago
> But there are many more galaxies in the observable universe … somewhere between 2 and 20 trillion A bit less officially, need to remove one zero [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy#:~:text=It%20is%20estim.
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jajko
2y ago
Yes, its called a developed society and compassion for a fellow less fortunate man. Christianity for example has this at its absolute core, as do all other religions. But since I saw first hand how US population in general sees and treats h
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jajko
2y ago
Yeah, not disagreeing with what you write but parent is talking about different type of complexity which your description/approach doesn't magically fix, I'd call it spread of complexity
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jajko
2y ago
Yeah, world is facing much bigger issues compared to that, coming from same source.
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jajko
2y ago
Past is truly cyclic, probably because human nature doesn't change much, so similar situations lead to similar outcomes. There is another parallel example - Munich 1938 agreement to appease Hitler, with current 'negotiations'
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jajko
2y ago
Nah not really, I grew up in communism/socialism and it was literally forbidden by laws to not have a work, that was ticket straight to jail. Of course any form of intelligence, university educated or former bourgeoisie suffered way mo
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jajko
2y ago
Watched videos, seeing photos... you should travel a bit more IMHO. Not everything is quickly solvable by 'billion dollar startup' mentality. Understand their culture and history a bit, where they are coming from and where they as
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jajko
2y ago
Wanted to visit US for 2 weeks next year or one after with kids. Forget that, will reevaluate that decision in 4 years but not holding my breath about future development. Shame...
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jajko
2y ago
Impressive it may have been, but he is still firmly in pos camp. Hitler (if I really have to go full Godwin) was a decent painter, loyal friend to those few close to him and a dog lover. Amon Goeth may have been a great manager too, at leas
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jajko
2y ago
In Switzerland amazon never bothered to enter the market, so local competition filled the gap, and it created much better service while doing it. I speak specifically about galaxus/digitec which often have more and more available stock
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jajko
2y ago
Well, it was a strength as long as people wielding such power acted at least a bit morally and with higher purpose than their petty egos. But now it shows its weakness. But things would have to get much much worse (and they probably will) b
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jajko
2y ago
Look how elon was worshipped here, long after his mental issues, massive ego and racist south African nepo kid upbringing started coming out with force. I find it very shortsighted to substract features from personalities of successful visi
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jajko
2y ago
No worries various groups will create or increase their own space investments. Nothing spacex did was a miracle just well executed engineering, despite an whimsical idiot steering it from far enough. Correction globally will take some time,
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