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by pigsty 4y ago
This stereotype about 170 million people is pretty overplayed.
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by pigsty 4y ago
> Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world at 0.9 births per woman on average. This data, while making Korea seem like the most rapidly growing population disaster on earth, is actually better than the latest data. Korea is now a
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by pigsty 4y ago
One thing is balance. If you draw characters out of the typical stroke order, things will often look lopsided or have weird proportions. When written with the proper order, proportions look nicer. For example, think about writing a capital
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by pigsty 4y ago
Personally, I’d simply prefer not to die. If something can reduce the risk of that happening by 90%, that sounds great. People were worried about dying from electricity—a power source out of their control—to turn on their lights, and it cer
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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s the oldest branch.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Western Buddhism is based off an aesthetic interpretation of Zen Buddhism. If Buddhism in East Asia is appropriation and people in East Asia have no authority to talk about it, defending western Buddhism, which is based off the customs of a
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’ve been to temples all over Asia, visit them weekly, and referenced the unifying elements. It’s like saying Christians pray and worship god. That’s not a generalization. That’s Christianity.
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by pigsty 4y ago
For the most part, western Buddhism is about good vibes bro and meditating and is, for all intents and purposes, irreligious and more of a general life philosophy (like how waking up at 5 am, jogging, and eating organic isn’t a religion eit
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by pigsty 4y ago
If you’re the type of person where BMI is irrelevant, you’ll know. But the average American is not doing 300 lb bench presses, and the average person doing 300 lb bench presses is also aware that BMI is meaningless for their case but a some
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by pigsty 4y ago
This is what terrifies me most about AI’s insane growth now. Not the risk of it destroying creative jobs. The risk of it giving us exactly what we want to always perfectly stimulate our brains and shortcut our pleasure pathways. Smartphones
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by pigsty 4y ago
They’re really just making an opening for a moral-less (and I don’t mean that in a bad way) group to come in and make an actually interesting AI. It’s like how TV tried clamping down on “bad words” and little guys on the internet had an eas
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by pigsty 4y ago
Just to use your example, you could dust off a 200 year old microscope and it’d be perfectly fine. If there’s a cracked lens, that’s an easy fix without any significant expertise. Same with any old blacksmithing tools and so on. They’ll lo
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’ve never seen a Vectrex, but having seen other vector displays on old arcade machines, it’s truly mind blowing. The warm glow of those smooth beams has no modern equivalent in consumer hardware. Despite technically being old technology, a
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by pigsty 4y ago
You’ve made a few massive leaps by assuming a single family home can’t possibly have a shop nearby, and that if it did it’d mean people are dodging feces. Because you can literally go just about anywhere outside of America and see that peop
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by pigsty 4y ago
You could say the same about restaurants, stores, or streets themselves. Those people can choose to live in the woods away from society if that’s a problem. The vast majority of people like having things they need within a few minutes of th
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by pigsty 4y ago
Living in a city where laundromats (even moderately large professional ones) are nowhere near residential areas is, to say it briefly, stupid. You want them right near your home so you can drop by any time. Nobody wants to go 45 minutes out
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by pigsty 4y ago
Similar experience. Although my most productive periods have been those days where I start drinking coffee again after a month of no caffeine. Then it tapers out but remains at a higher baseline than no caffeine.
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by pigsty 4y ago
And it tastes incredible with flavors varying from being similar to a pungent blue cheese to a mild and slightly meaty flavor. I’ve found Hunanese tofu to be the mildest despite looking the scariest (it’s completely black tofu), and Taiwane
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by pigsty 4y ago
You’re comparing a problem pushed by a software vendor that doesn’t exist with other OSes to an unavoidable biological issue.
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by pigsty 4y ago
And deal with one of the most tourist-packed cities in the world with some awful commutes. Buses just aren’t worth riding when tourism is high (you’ll be waiting forever with dozens in line ahead of you and then stuck in traffic) and the tr
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by pigsty 4y ago
Men also generally stink more. Just being too warm for a few minutes means smelly armpits and crotch for loads of dudes.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Yep. Key thing is to make small game projects that you aim to finish in well under a year. Once you embark on a big project and feature creep sets in, you’re back to avoiding programming.
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by pigsty 4y ago
A small group chat I’m a part of has one person who works for an insurance company. Reading his messages about his work day is just depressing. “Oh, yeah, if someone has that cancer and they’re under 45 it’s an auto-reject from me. Just to
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by pigsty 4y ago
Installing command line tools on my Mac through homebrew takes up hundreds of megabytes each time I download anything. I know that it installs various libraries. I do not know why those libraries are dozens of megabytes each.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Rules being what their allies agree on. Each of those countries get a bunch of allies who readily say what they’re doing is just while their opposing country isn’t following any sort of international protocol.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I don’t think people in central and South America, Vietnam, the Middle East, and so on were happy when diplomacy and coalitions were built against them to instate dictatorships and/or kill millions. America satisfies its allies. Those
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by pigsty 4y ago
Is that exclusively only manufacturable by multi-billion dollar mega corps? Is it impossible for every region of 10 million people to manufacture their own?
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by pigsty 4y ago
East Asia imports loads of wheat, yet wheat noodle dishes and breads are still popular. In peacetime, it’s usually better to just import cheap things like grains and focus more on making high value foods. Italy probably makes good money sel
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by pigsty 4y ago
I do think everyone here is making the point that store-bought tomatoes are inferior to canned ones. Home-grown vegetables picked and consumed at the peak of ripeness will always be better than store-bought and artificially ripened, and the
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by pigsty 4y ago
But an adult wouldn’t stand and watch his screen for 10 minutes either and put the pieces together. A kid might. They might also think he’s dumb and just goofing off. Kids also might find it themselves because they’ll do weird stuff in game

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