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by keiferski 20d ago
Not sure I understand your comment. On Sundays, you can send packages via paczkomats (outdoor lockers) and convenience stores (Zabkas) but the post office, DHL, UPS, etc. offices are closed.
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by keiferski 20d ago
Most non-restaurant stores are closed in Poland on Sundays. At first I found it a bit inconvenient, but as I've lived here longer (going on ten years) I really appreciate it. It's a forced "slow down" day that's soc
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by keiferski 20d ago
1. Maybe because making life easier isn't always a good thing? That there are certain things which benefit from being difficult, or at least not as easy as possible. Especially for children. 2. There aren't billion-dollar corporat
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by keiferski 21d ago
Check out a book called Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? It’s looking far more likely that traditional approaches to these questions will become more popular with time, simply because the people that have kids don’t have the opinions
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by keiferski 22d ago
Is that runway based on US expenses? If so, I’d seriously consider going abroad to a cheaper country. $24,000 saved is poverty level ~9 months in America but could last you a frugal 2 years in many places. After that I’d figure out what you
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by keiferski 22d ago
Could be useful for hub and spoke type systems, where you fly from a smaller city to the main hub, and catch a connection from there. Even then there are lots of flights in Europe that are between cities less than 1 hour apart. This idea ge
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by keiferski 23d ago
If this viewpoint resonates with you, I highly recommend the Japanese film Perfect Days. It is about a man living a very simple life as a public cleaner in Tokyo, and after watching it (it’s been three times now) I have the desire to throw
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by keiferski 24d ago
If you want stuff to exist in the world, pay for it. Work is work, and expecting things to be free, or to never raise their prices, is a good way to ensure that they don't last.
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by keiferski 24d ago
This is essentially just Ontology applied to mundane topics like salads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology It might seem trivial when debating silly topics, but when you get to the actual structure of reality, deb
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by keiferski 24d ago
The fact that you haven’t been in central or Eastern Europe might be the key. I haven’t seen an actual countdown timer, but many of the public toilets in Poland have time limits that are displayed on a sign, and announced by the computer vo
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by keiferski 24d ago
The short answer is probably to find people making online content about the thing you want done, and contacting them. I follow a couple electronics repair YouTubers, and I imagine they would be interested. Personally though I live in a city
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by keiferski 25d ago
Yeah I’m sure there would be a regulation against it, and you’d need to brand them as rest centers or something. And I think public access to toilets, at least in NYC, should probably be something more like the subway system than a service
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by keiferski 25d ago
Public bathrooms are such an interesting public services issue. In some places it’s totally normal to pay a small fee, and in return you (usually) get a clean space. In other places, the idea of paying to use the bathroom is considered an o
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WordPress as a Desktop Environment(openstation.me)
2 points by keiferski 26d ago|0 comments
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Prison Gothic – Hong Kong Typeface(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by keiferski 1mo ago|0 comments
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by keiferski 1mo ago
> someone included a link to philpapers.org The bottom right of each work listed shows how many times it has been referenced. For example, the top link, Beyond Good and Evil, has 510 academic citations on PhilPapers, alone. That’s a lo
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by keiferski 1mo ago
Nietzsche is referenced constantly: https://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?strict=1&searchStr=Nietzsc... Also, some pretty substantial continental philosophers wrote about Nietzsche. Heidegger wrote a ton about him. Foucault
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by keiferski 1mo ago
Yes, I did and as I said, the title is pretty out of line with the actual article. Which itself has almost zero mention of modern art / 1930s-40-50s art outside of the American context. Modern art was not a CIA psy op. Modern art prece
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by keiferski 1mo ago
Pretty embarrassing that this is the title of a post on JSTOR. Modern art started in the late 1800s, long before the CIA or its predecessor existed. Using this term to describe contemporary art, or abstract art more generally, is an (anti?)
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by keiferski 1mo ago
No, not really. Nietzsche was a trained philologist with a brilliant academic career, before he ended it early because of health issues. He was leaps and bounds more educated and knowledgable than 99% of people making philosophy content on
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by keiferski 1mo ago
Going to college is worth it for basically everyone other than those that are choosing between a mediocre college / mediocre degree and a blue collar route. AND if college is going to put you into debt. Financially, intellectually, soc
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by keiferski 1mo ago
I think pg answered the question as “what I’d do as a project” and not “what I’d do as a career.” So the critical comments are kind of missing the point, IMO. I don’t see why learning how LLMs work is a bad project for a 17 year old. Optimi
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by keiferski 1mo ago
I don’t know why people use “Europe” as a broad term. The city layouts in Warsaw, Paris, Athens, and Amsterdam are quite different. Even then, I’d say that most larger/capital cities have 5-8 story buildings, with retail or other shops
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by keiferski 1mo ago
2049 is a pretty mediocre film that would be forgotten if it didn’t have the BR name. I like both the 1984 film and the book though, but I primarily like the movie for the cinematography and atmosphere, more than the story, which is more in
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by keiferski 1mo ago
I am a big fan of both, but I think what's missing in reality, but in their fiction (and cyberpunk fiction in general) is a sense of coolness and caring about aesthetics. For all the evil that the mega corporations do in a Gibson nov
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The disjointed Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided(killscreen.com)
32 points by keiferski 1mo ago|10 comments
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by keiferski 1mo ago
The link isn’t loading for me, but I definitely relate to the title at least. PKD’s stories definitely have a tendency to untether you to reality, and you finish them feeling both extremely creative and kind of mentally lost in space. The i
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by keiferski 1mo ago
This is from Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, and is a book worth reading even if you’re not a Christian or religious at all. (Some of the other books in the Bible are not in that category.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by keiferski 1mo ago
IME a lot of smart people aim at optimizing for whatever system they find themselves in, rather than questioning that system and asking themselves if it’s actually the life they want. And so you get an army of very bright people all jumping
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by keiferski 1mo ago
It's very rare and extremely un-recommended to get a loan for a PhD. For most people, at worst, you're losing money by opportunity cost.

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