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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> Firing people is really, truly hard. Traumatizing even. For the people getting fired it certainly is, I used to think this was true of people doing the firing but my recent experiences have changed my view on this dramatically. I'
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
I have a reasonable twitter following (between 5-10k followers) and have recently realized that I needed to remove the app from my phone and only occasionally check it from time to time on a laptop. I'm considering giving it up all tog
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Comments like this are strange since anyone with eyes can see that the break down of the systems we rely on is not some far off future event, it's happening right now and will likely escalate fairly rapidly in the next few decades. It&
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
While this is true and a very important part of understanding life on Earth, our current situation as a species is the consequence of high energy density, non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar, geothermal, wave and other forms of energy will su
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Entropy is tricky when it comes to life and other forms of complexity. The book "Into the Cool" explores this is away you might find very interesting. It spends a lot of time exploring the question of how the complexity of life em
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> That's not the case if they had invested the same money in a 401K. The unquestioned assumption that the stock market is a source of infinite growth is both foolish and, for anyone that thinks about it honestly, very likely to be w
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> hey arent currencies, they are assets The irony here of course is that the only way that Crypto currencies would meet any standard definition of an asset would be if they were functioning currencies. Going with Investopedia's stra