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jajko
1y ago
If you travel around the world a bit, ie more remote parts of south east Asia, you will see this attitude towards animals is often still well and alive.
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jajko
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A strange position, to require to experience something to believe in it. Yet in the same time, reverting back by default to superstitions and supernatural beliefs, which in the most logical sense were never truly experienced by anybody. But
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jajko
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You can replace almost whole body and its still you as the mind. But once you replace brain then its just a copy, you can't literally move biolectrical complex that makes us into silicon in any possible way. And brains age like the res
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jajko
1y ago
What is more important, raising next generation of Musks (albeit ideally much less broken sociopathic piece of shit as current one), or avoiding next generation of Trumps? Both of those can add tons of societies (or avoid their downfall), b
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jajko
1y ago
I am deep in one such corporate complexity, yet I constantly see an ocean of items that could have been in much simpler and more robust way. Simple stuff had tons of long term advantages and benefits - its easy to ramp up new folks on it co
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jajko
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I tested chatgpt when it launched with my obscure native language which is spoken by maybe 6 million people, and certainly isnt easy to learn nor elegant in design and doesnt have much common with English. It was absolutely flawless, to the
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jajko
1y ago
We all had similar experience(s). But if you have been around long enough you will experience also highly competent and sometimes outright brilliant folks who run circles around most of us. A bit less common in India than say eastern Europe
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1y ago
> Contrast with the usual software engineering types I know that work insanely hard solving difficult problems day-in and day-out. Well you just know some... not effective or smart folks then, unless they literally enjoy living such life
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jajko
1y ago
Psychedelics arent foolish, not everybody can or wants to arrange their lives around yet another (albeit important) item in semi-endless list of items of our lives, tripple that when having various responsibilities adults tend to have. I&#x
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1y ago
Only if US lets you use it, and given constant instability current government shows, next generation of fighters won't be bought from US. Better to have something even worse on paper that can actually fly and lock targets than an expen
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1y ago
Any military pilot has what, 2 or max 3 ejections even in best case scenario before they have to be retired due to medical reasons? If given army lets them actually fly another one. Its the last resort, lesser of 2 evils situation, not some
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jajko
1y ago
> Outside apps for accessing useful services or doing work, everything seems designed to addict, manipulate, or drain bank accounts: most games, social media doom-scrollers, payday loan in your pocket apps, crypto and stock trading apps
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jajko
1y ago
> and Merkel did what she does best. You mean f_ck up safety and security of whole Old continent for decades to come, for some ego polishing, personal weaknesses or similar noble reasons? She still admits no failures nor missteps durin
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1y ago
The underlying logic is flawed though, there is no deeper action plan since they will still have 0 control over the company and any of its bigger decisions. Also nobody buys from Intel foundries, and for good reasons, this won't change
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jajko
1y ago
Yeah folks judge Chinese output by 1$ usb cables, ignoring how ie DJI came to the market and ate everybody's lunch including US companies like gopro who basically had to cancel whole drone product pipeline overnight, thats how badly be
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jajko
1y ago
Sure we do, not everybody got married and got kids at 20. And I mean proper life, backpacking for months around south east asia, himalaya, diving in remote tropical islands, doing extreme mountain sports to the fullest capacity. You know,
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jajko
1y ago
You talk about US or China? For outsiders, the lines are getting blurrier every day, in quite a few aspects US is currently the bigger/worse offender and a proper bully. China just wants to sell their cars here. I wouldnt take my famil
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jajko
1y ago
So many incorrect statements... you know the world is bigger than your (presumably US) backyard. I suggest travelling around the world a bit and visiting ie Borneo how entire rainforest ecosystem is being reduced to nothing just due to palm
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jajko
1y ago
I don't think you understood my post
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That would be properly dumb thing to do, giving trivial-to-track thing very much tied to your identity to some random folks... why on earth would anybody smart ever do that? Then you suddenly end up locked by ICE or worse when having layove
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jajko
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You would be amazed how many seemingly basic things about this world and IT you don't know... a bit of humility goes much longer way than this.
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jajko
1y ago
Luckily corporate greed it not the only thing that matters in this world. If they want to sell in half a billion rich market of EU, they will soon need to start behaving more morally. If not they can fuck off, write off 20-30% of company va
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1y ago
> Good structure helps people use the skills they are good at. That's extremely rare and even in overall success stories you will find plenty of unhappy folks. But as a general excuse for some micro-management-obsessed middle manage
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1y ago
If folks are regularly sore and their goals are not some lofty races or even higher and further down the progression path, they are doing it wrong. You should feel the exercise and specific muscles afterwards, sometimes even a day after (li
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jajko
1y ago
Most of us don't have work phones, that's stuff from early 2000s at best. Lugging around another brick just for work, no thank you. That being said, answering anything work related outside of work, unless they are your truly clos
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jajko
1y ago
What sort of argument is that? Anybody who lived long enough anywqhere saw many times what a cancer screens are to kids and their development, the smaller the worse. You can't make any sort of strawman out of this topic, its proper can
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jajko
1y ago
very strong claims, any facts to back them up?
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jajko
1y ago
Overconfident in your numbers you are, just because they suit your narrative. Zero actual backing for those you provide. Not reflecting reality I can see they are.
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And phone tracking and recording was in place since phones went mobile. Sure, nothing smart there but BTS were there, and NSA was listening on all levels. CIA/NSA perfected the art of tapping optical undersea cables using special subma
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jajko
1y ago
No I didn't find other ways, desktop is the only gateway for me even after maybe 6 years. I am generally not a very addictive personality generally (at least compared to many peers), don't have mental ticks, insecurities or mental
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