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by mihaic 4y ago
Completely agree. You can very quickly reach diminishing returns, and now I get great coffee for about 70 cents per cup when I make it at home (including milk). I can't help not notice bad beans, and most places serve almost undrinkabl
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by mihaic 4y ago
Observing from Europe, US politics seems like an extreme case of identifying with the opposite of the enemy. Over several cycles of oversimplifaction, each party simply takes some position from the other, and vocally proclaims the opposite,
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by mihaic 4y ago
Any sufficiently useful strategy to handle complexity needs to have some amount of ambiguity, which needs to be filled in by people with a minimum of life experience and good intentions. I've become more convinced in recent years that
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by mihaic 4y ago
I get that they might be professionals with possibly a good amount of skill, but even then what gives them the right to make any tourist attraction a lot less enjoyable? Museums are usually closed on Mondays, why not make "photographer
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've actually become a bit of a dick in these situations since a trip to Italy, and every time I see a large camera in a public place I walk in front of it on purpose. I'm a naturally nice guy, but these people were making my vaca
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by mihaic 4y ago
Besides the fact that TV shows always get consent all those being filmed, there is a quantitative difference between this and Candid Camera. Too many people now want to engage in these fake and superficial acts of "kindness", and
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by mihaic 4y ago
Does someone have any intuitive explanation on why Hubble images for bright stars seem to have a cross-shaped lens-flare effect, while for JWT it's got six spikes? It might be because of a different post-processing algorithm, or some p
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by mihaic 4y ago
I do like that this is generating interest and optimism for science again, yet I have yet to hear a good answer on what new insight we can expect from the lifetime of the telescope. Does someone have a good list of questions we're hopi
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by mihaic 4y ago
Unfortunately this sort of thinking spreads and it will eventually become everyone's problem unless we address it head on.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I know it's a hard argument to make, but what I mean is that if there were fewer gyms that would be a more developed culture of 5-minute exercises at home. Sure, people can go to youtube and learn. Nobody is stopping them but at the sa
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by mihaic 4y ago
Personally, I think a lot more blame should be dumped on the gym industry. Sure, the unhealthy food industry is primarily to blame, but keeping physically fit was something that people did everywhere: sports in the park, exercise at home. N
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'm only now leaning of this phenomenon, and I'm absolutely floored that something like fractal wood burning has claimed the lives of 34 people (known), and there's a general laisse-faire attitude around it. By itself this is
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by mihaic 4y ago
One overgeneralization I've become allergic towards is the Girardian theory of mimetic desire applied to everything. To me, there are internally and externally generated desires, and most of the external ones really are mimetic. But in
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'd venture to say that internet food snobs have also ruined proper food lessons. Snobbery can be good or bad. At its best, it allows people to learn from the experience of others and protects against mistakes that aren't bad for
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by mihaic 4y ago
Seems interesting actually. Imagine this gets enacted into law: - Corporations put large bids on their competitors products to drive up their bids as well (colluding has to be explicitly forbidden by law). - As the amounts bid only result i
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by mihaic 4y ago
In theory, I think that something like this is way past its due date in many applications on the internet. In practice, does anyone know how these expert groups are formed and how they operate? The execution feels like the same terrible EU-
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by mihaic 4y ago
> I think anyone who can’t work well remote, on average, will not be your top performers anyway. This sort of overgeneralization just tells me we'll have people in 5-10 years "realize" that many of the benefits of remote w
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by mihaic 4y ago
I now honestly think that great entertainment is an action-lead plot that's executed by an auteur with a deep vision, helped by a crew of true professionals. I was reminded of how great and multilayered Conan the Barbarian (also with A
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by mihaic 4y ago
Ron Cobb is my absolute favorite "hidden influence" on how 70s-80s sci-fi/fantasy turned out. He was a designer on Dark Star, Alien, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian and even the unproduced Dune helmed by Jodorowsky that has be
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by mihaic 4y ago
This comment captures my experience from lowly Eastern Europe as well, even though the US has some exceptional business opportunities. It's true that money can insulate you from this societal degradation, but because of this approach b
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by mihaic 4y ago
Sorry, I should have double checked, that sentence was incomplete. Yes, I meant to say that a more nuanced approach is crucial, and that means rejecting that we have to choose between Disney-backed extreme IP laws or total freedom.
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by mihaic 4y ago
This type of argument always distracts from the fact that figuring out where we draw the line between theft and reimagining. The Magnificent Seven for instance was a reworking of Seven Samurai, but stands on its own as an original creation.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I upvote maybe around 25-30% of replies, mostly depending on the perceived quality and effort of the message. That's the amount I think deserves an upvote, and more would feel like tipping in the US: automatic and too much.
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by mihaic 4y ago
One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often p
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by mihaic 4y ago
> I think it's more like hundreds than handfuls. Could you be a bit more explicit here? I'd be curious how these entities coordinate themselves, since I don't have hundreds of cookies set by any website, so there must be f
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by mihaic 4y ago
As a non-English speaker, I find this pretty useless. I always want to get English version of any website, and not some poor translation, and honestly the fingerprinting entropy is negligible. This seems to be PR-driven development, just to
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by mihaic 4y ago
Hypothetically, why can't you only allow private individuals to buy houses in a residential area? I honestly see no real issue with this in many communities.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Maybe objects at low angles are perceived with another computational unit, since they are part of the scenary and we need to extrapolate, and the sky is a big whatever. But really maybe there's no simple explanation other than "th
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by mihaic 4y ago
And why should they know it? Just like how I can't understand the exact side-effects of every industrial chemical that I might come into contact with, I expect the government to offer some protection against these things for an unsuspe
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by mihaic 4y ago
I know I'm a bit tangential, but what are some actually useful examples of push notifications for browsers? Every time I've seen them in action was with spam/clickbait, after someone accidentally subscribed and couldn't

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