mantas

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by mantas 3y ago
Overall smaller languages is abysmal. Microsoft translated Windows to my native language decades ago. MacOS still not translated. Nor iPhone. While Android phones come with translation out-of-box for most manufacturers UIs.
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by mantas 3y ago
The problem with houses is if you just build - it won't solve anything. They have to be built in desirable locations. But then you've to either replace existing buildings in there. Or you need to extend commuting infrastructure. A
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by mantas 3y ago
I'd say modern retirement doesn't work. Retirement of the old era worked in two ways. a) people were passing away shortly after retiring. E.g. the early pensions after the industrial revolution. b) people in retirement would take
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by mantas 3y ago
vBulletin seem to be still alive for old good classic forums. Maybe phpBB as well?
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by mantas 3y ago
Why your budget and timing should take higher priority than my privacy? Arguably social coherence is at risk too since targeted ads in politics may be very nasty. Targeted ads benefit few at expense of the whole society.
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by mantas 3y ago
And here in europe we can’t even deal with the Chinese because muh German car market. Let alone local and murican corporations who have a lot of leverage.
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by mantas 3y ago
What could be a product only for such a specific niche? All dentists is Cervelo market :) Even if you really really want to target specifically Chicago dentists, you’re probably better off doing a presentation at local dentists’ union or so
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by mantas 3y ago
I rarely see yes/no. Websites doing no tracking (thus no dialog) seem more common. Usually it’s „accept recommended trackers“ or customize by unchecking trackers one by one.
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by mantas 3y ago
The cookie banner 2.0. Where you either approve all the „recommended“ tracking. Or have to go to advanced dialog, uncheck all trackers and then click non-primary submit button.
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by mantas 3y ago
There’s a lot of jobs in boring sectors building all sorts of software to run old school businesses. Or helping people do all sorts of tasks. The world does not turn around content (over)consumption.
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by mantas 3y ago
Ad targeting may be old good regional advertising. Or advertising in specific content rather than trying to target specific human beings based on their profiles.
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by mantas 3y ago
Median consumer is getting fucked by central bank loan rates, sky-high housing prices wherever jobs are and overall inflation. Talking from EU perspective, but probably applies to most of the world pretty well.
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by mantas 3y ago
Is EU really trying to slow it down? TikTok ban in US seems to be a common talking point. Meanwhile here very few people talk about it and those are seen as lunatics in most cases. Most people seem to happily approve all the GDPR dialogs to
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by mantas 3y ago
In my parts of the world it was the opposite. Kitchen and living room was traditionally joint. To use kitchen heat in winter to heat up the living area. Usually people would also sleep in the same room during winter.
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by mantas 3y ago
I doubt bigger rooms was hard to build. Here in north-east Europe traditional wooden houses were essentially 2 big rooms on either side. With entrance and storage in the middle. One side was kitchen and living room while the other was „cold
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by mantas 3y ago
Same here! Talking about traditional setup… It probably varies from place to place? Here in north-east europe traditional peasant setup was kitchen and living room together. Kitchen stove was used to heat the house as well. Usually houses w
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by mantas 3y ago
It's not crazy at all. For example my house has floor heating. It takes a looong time for that slab of concrete to cool down. There's no point at all to mess with the temperature for a short time.
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by mantas 3y ago
It's funny that everybody is focusing on how Germans won't change language to something else to attract muh migrants. But there's no talk about local culture. How do we raise next generation to go do real jobs? Instead of dre
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by mantas 3y ago
GDPR does not help with TikTok. It’s same cancer over here.
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by mantas 3y ago
Sounds like Vietnam…
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by mantas 3y ago
„West“ as in Allies sans Soviets.
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by mantas 3y ago
And Nazis allies against the West. Essentially a 3rd power that tried to win against both. And looking at how they helped Nazis/Germany before the war, they were one of the main actors to kickstart the war.
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by mantas 3y ago
It’s not even outdated. Drinking tap water here in Lithuania was safe since forever.
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by mantas 3y ago
Yep. Lithuanian here. Tap water is safe. I heard about rare nuts who drink bottled water because they saw it on TV in movies. But that’s about it.
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by mantas 3y ago
Is US willing to pay cushy salaries and provide education to those electricians? Supply and demand and all that jazz.
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by mantas 3y ago
More people -> more consumption -> more workforce needed ad infinitum Or maybe technical innovation is needed to raise productivity? Maybe some services shouldn’t exist if people won’t pay for them enough to make them viable without c
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by mantas 3y ago
> Yeah, because those don’t exist in third world countries. Of course they do. That's just a natural part of human existance. But dealing with those issues is vastly different. Nowadays in „developed“ world people are pretty much le
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by mantas 3y ago
We insist humans have 20 fingers. Even though there’re both natural and human-made ways that number may not be true for few individuals.
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by mantas 3y ago
What is enjoyment though? Suicides, mental health issues, obesity, various substances abuse… Let alone that such enjoyment is on next generations. Wether by wasting resources, abusing environment. Or generation that will never be born thank
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by mantas 3y ago
Quality of life in a very narrow materialistic definition for an individual? Or overall and sustainable society quality of life?

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