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by pigsty 4y ago
You could choose to have less money and pay less taxes. It doesn’t go the other way.
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by pigsty 4y ago
My personal anecdote, but I’ve never had an LED bulb fail and I’ve been using only LED for nearly a decade.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Coal is awful, but also keep in mind that it’s shipped to centralized locations to be burned. Gas for cars is shipped to a distribution center, loaded onto trucks that are immensely heavy and require loads of fuel to haul, shipped to a loca
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by pigsty 4y ago
This has actually been proposed before. It’ll be exciting when it’s eventually used.
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by pigsty 4y ago
A problem is a lot of heavy addicts fully accept that they’ll die from it. It’s like closing your eyes while driving or playing Russian roulette once a week. There’s no guarantee you’ll die that time, but it’s likely going to happen someday
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by pigsty 4y ago
Endless shaming of people on social media as a means to change behavior, as well as people publicly denouncing their affiliation with people who had bad behavior, shows that that claim isn’t true. America has changed.
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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s really well past time to start considering overdose deaths amongst addicts as suicide. Yes, there are accidental overdoses where someone takes too much of a prescribed drug without realizing it or accidentally combines it with someone
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by pigsty 4y ago
This made me understand the metaverse less than I did before. There’s zero chance of a typical person knowing what this is supposed to be.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’ve seen random people on the train talking about ChatGPT. Even groups of middle aged women talking about going to a cafe and suddenly bringing up chatgpt and nobody was confused by the topic. Old people who’ve never mentioned tech to me o
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by pigsty 4y ago
You were tourists with lots of money.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Whenever people call out Europe for having paid toilets, commenters always show up to say they’re glad toilets aren’t free because they’d be so filthy otherwise. I’m glad you nipped that in the bud. Euro paid toilets have always been outrig
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by pigsty 4y ago
Possibly due to crypto still being niche and relegated to internet communities while the USD is the official currency of several countries, the largest having over 300 million people and trillions of dollars flowing through it per year.
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by pigsty 4y ago
> Not enough people enjoy seaweed as a food because it's just not appetizing. Seaweed being unappetizing is learned behavior. It’s eaten across the world and most people wouldn’t find it unappetizing unless told it is.
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by pigsty 4y ago
> on the other side you have WFH bludgers who spend 90% of their time on YouTube and reddit knowing they will get away with it. If they’re getting away with it, that’s a problem with the company not distributing their workloads properly.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Let’s be honest. Most humans just barely survive when taken out of an established society, and that’s with over a decade of public education
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by pigsty 4y ago
> Just announcing to pull a whole industry further away from Seoul would immediately drive up housing prices of the destination and collapse the housing prices in Seoul. That’s a win for the average person in Seoul. Housing prices are de
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by pigsty 4y ago
Everyone middle aged man I meet in Japan is either a pro or has a best friend who’s a pro and knows how to win nonstop. Those people are always just scraping by.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I grew up in a town very similar to this in the 90s. It’s nostalgic for me. Showing the conditions people live in isn’t necessarily exploiting them. Some of these people look very happy—take joy in their joy being captured and seen by hundr
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by pigsty 4y ago
You’ll see the same thing here on HN. I remember a discussion quite a while back about how SE Asia lacks a vibrant startup culture and people were going back and forth about how companies should just bring in Silicon Valley tech workers to
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by pigsty 4y ago
> If the European companies don't wake up to this, they will gradually see a brain drain I think the EU has taken a pretty consistent stance in wanting to avoid America’s massive wealth divide. It’s nice to know that you can be on t
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by pigsty 4y ago
Farming and hot sunlight isn’t something that only exists in california. High population density countries also do farming and using every inch of land is essential. Demand for things sensitive to harsh sunlight (herbs, berries, and so on)
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by pigsty 4y ago
If everyone’s saying we’re in a bubble, we probably are. Just because it keeps getting bigger doesn’t mean it’s not going to pop. We’ve had 15 years of people getting billions for phone apps made in 12 months and forgotten in 6. Random indi
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by pigsty 4y ago
Many more pounds of CO2 yielded in the production of the device. Greenwashing is going to end up doing more harm in the long run. Instead of coming up with real solutions, we’re burning even more fuel to pretend to reclaim a fraction of a p
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by pigsty 4y ago
I think the people who complain about drinking bottled water are generally drinking less stuff from plastic bottles as a whole.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Cold brewed microplastics after a trip across the world, powered by extra virgin bunker fuel.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Resources exist to fight them. It’s just a choice not to. Elizabeth Holmes was indicted 5 years ago. She was sentenced last year. She’s still walking around freely. A normal person would’ve spent at least 4 of those years locked up, if not
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’m on the other side. Almost bought a PS5. Or to be more accurate, wanted to buy a PS5, but they were insanely behind with shipping and the little stocks there were got bought up by resellers. Then once Sony managed to get stocks up somewh
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by pigsty 4y ago
If I open something in private browsing, that’s a time where I especially want every bit of BS blocked.
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by pigsty 4y ago
All of those worker source countries are facing their own aging problems. It’s not a solution.
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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s incredibly easy to get a permanent residence visa in non-authoritarian East Asian countries, especially compared to anywhere in the west. Asia just isn’t as popular of a destination because of 1) huge language barriers, 2) wages are lo

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