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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Wow so many assumptions to disentangle here. Seems like someone reads too much reddit and the like. If said corp. and military interests really controlled America, things would look completely different. I agree they exert a some influence
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Japan has too many socio-political peculiarities for lessons to be translatable to other democracies. Especially when it comes to politics, its nearly a one party state with LDP having governed more than 50% of the time since the founding o
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
The description could be better. Would love this tool with a GUI
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I think we'll likely move to an oxbridge style verbal assessment methodology soon. The value of writing will be relatively lower when everyone can produce decent quality written output.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Not a surprise given their general method of action. Messing with seratonin pathways is always tricky. The issue here I feel is that sometimes depression is a symptom that one needs to change something in their life. So I dont think we shou
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Financial stress is a likely cause here. I think the NHS guidance is to blame here as well, they give them out far too easily to avoid liability. You're right people do self-medicate, but I guess better this than alcohol.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I think its easy to forget that sometimes people are just anxious by nature. OP doesnt say anything about his past, I am willing to bet he probably had Fomo on not having a side-gig before starting this company. He should treat anxiety as a
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Interesting project though the ephemerality has big potential downsides. Alot of value from these communities comes from the long-tail historical data. But this has its uses for sure.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
You could write this article at the start of any sector rotation.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Yeah totally agree. I feel lots of people do this and feel better which is why ios now pretty much hides notifications by default from the lock screen.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
They lack interactivity, update inconsistently (lets say if you're in battery saving mode) and most users across the platform haven' t been trained to use them
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I think its harder to do then it seems. There is still a massive race for talent.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I am guessing battery and display are the biggest problems. When you try some AR app on an iPhone the battery starts dropping like a stone.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I think the answer to this is more technology not less. I personally use black and white display on my iPhone combined with freedom site blocker and all notifications switched off. This way I am in control of what I want to do.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
That is a decent possibility. I can already see a combination of midjourney and chat gpt producing decent narratives. I can imagine personalised tv shows and narratives really taking over. If you lookup manga summaries on youtube, its very
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Totally agree, I often think of its writing style as a buzfeed coloumist on cocaine.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
This is just a simplistic model of human behaviour. People assume that the guilty are making these choices independently and the prudent are doing the same. In each case wider societal factors are at play. I was raised christian and was the
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
The thing is there is already company intervention in all this. Supermarkets charge money for the best shelf space. Companies put items with high sugar / fat /salt content on easy to reach items because they are more addictive and
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
In many wester countries there's guidance on how much sugar / fat / salt and individual should have in a single serving. Companies get around this by wrapping two or three single servings into a larger item 'to share&#x2
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
In the context of a Singaporean system what you spend matters, as it reduces your ability to gain benefits in the future. It will discourage people from getting scans and tests that are only of marginal benefit.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
But the choices are not the American system vs NHS. The dutch do a good job of an insurance based system, Singapore is totally different still (though obviously not applicable as its a fairly small country. A great counter example is Signap
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Yes living below your means is a key to happiness. Too many people end up pushing what they can afford without planning for tougher times. I think one of the biggest positive impacts on me was my parents deciding to raise me until 16 in a d
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
>Sure everyone is entitled to their vice, but should we provide healthcare to people that are consciously, actively destroying their own health? Should we treat lung cancer in smokers? Should we treat diseases in anti-vaccers? I think yo
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Given broad awareness of this taking place I wonder just how effective it still is. Surely motivated bad actors are now making using of encryption and hiding their activity away.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Sadly I dont see many rich world governments discussing this serious or planning. If covid is any guide things will have to get worse / bad before they are addressed.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I grew up an equally-sized 2 bedroom in a city centre and its totally fine. Neighbours have kids in a similarly sized house and are not planning on moving. They are wealthy asians with apartments being standard in their part of the world. T
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Yes I agree. I love a good deep-fried chicken and chips as much as anyone. But it should be an occasional treat rather than the cheapest / easiest option to get. Eating healthy is expensive, so its not surprising that most people dont.
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
I think regulatory thinking has failed to keep up with health issues. We need to treat excess sugar consumption like we do smoking. Its amazing to me how you can walk into a supermarket and be consistently advertised things that are bad for
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Not enough people critically question their day-to-day spending and life assumptions. I find the easiest way to save money is to avoid competition. Everyone wants a 2 bedroom house within commuting distance of work. I bought a 1 bedroom fla
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by looseyesterday 4y ago
Yes Russia and China are where it didn't really work out. But the EU for example has been very successful in reducing conflict. But I would also argue there are many other quiet successes. We simply dont have a world in which the US af

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