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by kochikame 4y ago
Well, I mean, in the sense that basically all historical ages are invented by people long after that time and would not have been recognized as such by the people who lived through it, then, no. The early moderns didn't know they were
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by kochikame 4y ago
Nice thought experiment but utterly unworkable and politically unacceptable in the real world
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by kochikame 4y ago
No, it's a good analogy. For example, it might make sense to restrict the availability of very high-calorie, low-nutrition foods like fast food, or tax them to raise their price and/or subsidize healthy food. It would make sense t
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by kochikame 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it's just a joke
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by kochikame 4y ago
This is all over LinkedIn these days as well. Every other post is a close up of someone bawling their eyes out with the post something like "This was when I hit rock bottom", or maybe it's "Ten years ago I was a self-har
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by kochikame 4y ago
Great analogy
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by kochikame 4y ago
No, most of Bezos’ or Musk’s wealth is tied to the value of their companies. To this extent, they don’t “own” a thing that someone else is deprived of.
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by kochikame 4y ago
Example: what value to assign to the productivity benefits that Amazon and AWS have created for individuals, companies etc and society in general? I think we can all agree that it is an enormous amount in dollar terms.
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by kochikame 4y ago
Istanbul is one of those amazing cities where the sheer density and richness of the history to be found there is almost hard to take in. Era stacked on era stacked on era, civilizations borrowing from each other's buildings, two thousa
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by kochikame 4y ago
Starting off by calling yourself "highly intellectual" (with the strong implication that you are superior to your countrymen) is not a great position from which to win people over
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by kochikame 4y ago
Life, uh, finds a way
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by kochikame 5y ago
So "inadequate", not "adequate", right?
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by kochikame 5y ago
I think a lot of people on this thread are missing that this is a humor piece
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by kochikame 5y ago
Elon Musk was born privileged and is probably wrong about a whole bunch of things. I don't think it's an appropriate or useful point of comaprison.
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by kochikame 5y ago
I have this reaction every time some mentally ill person murders some people or sets fire to a building or something. In general, people react with "The laws need to change! We need to ramp up surveillance/social care/police
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by kochikame 5y ago
That's morally indefensible. Millions of people worldwide will die from omicron as you reach herd immunity. No one can deliberately choose to do that.
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by kochikame 5y ago
In Japan, ventilation has always been seen as one of the main ways to keep cases low. Restaurants and bars keep their doors and windows open, busses and trains have windows open, campaigns encourage everyone to open any windows in offices a
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by kochikame 5y ago
So, you could probably call this a “dark crystal”
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by kochikame 5y ago
I guess it’s not too dissimilar to the nuclear fear felt by kids who grew up in the 70s Only difference is, that was solvable
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by kochikame 5y ago
I mean, it’s an interesting theory and all, but nothing more.
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by kochikame 5y ago
What do you mean by "learn" travelling? Isn't it just... travelling?
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by kochikame 5y ago
Sounds like you’re playing with sloppy players
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by kochikame 6y ago
This is the point that people who say "but what about tourism?" completely and spectacularly miss. Versailles is one of the most visited places in the world. Having no royal people in there makes zero difference to that. We could
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by kochikame 6y ago
I hate the word “alignment” with a passion. It never means “let’s do things in a coordinated and mutually beneficial way”. It always means “you will do the thing that I want you to do, or the way I want you to do it”. Weasel word, if ever
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by kochikame 6y ago
Seems pretty obvious to me. It’s one of the last remaining places where you don’t have a screen in your face. No wonder we suddenly have ideas there.
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by kochikame 6y ago
You're lucky For many people on HN, it's going to be the opposite. A smaller than desirable city apartment and an office which the company has spent money on to make it comfortable, well-lit, good facilities etc.
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by kochikame 6y ago
Agree. If it were true "work from anywhere" and the preparation was all in place and the employee was going in with the right tools and set up and the mindset of being a true remote worker, we might not see the same drop in produc
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by kochikame 6y ago
This is a great comment I think it's increasingly clear that blanket policies and one-size-fits-all WFH plans are just not going to work. People may gripe, but it seems like WFH is not going to be for everybody, in every position, at e
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by kochikame 6y ago
And yet we need people to have children
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by kochikame 6y ago
Be really, really good at something extremely rare and extremely valuable, while knowing how valuable that makes you. Do I get a prize?

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