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by pigsty 4y ago
Food is incredibly addictive. Sugar stimulates the same pathways as opiates and provides instant massive hits of dopamine. Many people who manage to lose weight end up relapsing. Most people end up gaining all the weight back. [1] It’s far
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by pigsty 4y ago
I mean, unless as a child you had abusive parents who forced you to smoke, it’s absolutely a choice. There are people who can’t stop doing stupid stuff for attention (like breaking electronics for YouTube views or whatever), and we don’t bl
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by pigsty 4y ago
I recently (months ago)left a company where everything was faxed. All records were typed on computers, printed, and faxed to companies. Orders as well.
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by pigsty 4y ago
In Asia I very often see men (and I don’t mean retired foreign guys moving to Asia) married to women 20, 30, even 40 years below them. I’m used to the idea of actors and weird new age dudes doing it in the US, but it seems rare for normal p
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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s strange to me that there’s a lot of overlap between people who think AI training should require explicit consent for every piece of training data, and people who think copyright and patents are insanely restrictive in the music/mo
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by pigsty 4y ago
> Erm, no. If you trained a bit, and it is not pitch black (which it never is, in the cities) you can move and act very well without light. The above comments’ point is literally that places are overly lit due to surrounding always on li
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by pigsty 4y ago
The point everyone is making is this is not an IT forum. It’s tech (which includes machinery) and business. You can avoid IT entirely and still work a tech job. I’d dare say the vast majority of tech jobs are in no way similar to IT.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I think you might also be looking at tech with a slightly narrower view. Silicon Valley Web 3.0 startups are one section of tech, but you’ll also see stories about John Deere and the right to fix farm equipment, optimizing motors, flood con
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by pigsty 4y ago
HN attracts people who have interest in tech or simply came across a news aggregator that isn’t full of political spam and endless dread.
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by pigsty 4y ago
The elevation of haute cuisine as “good” and common folk food as “mediocre” is strange to me. Sometimes a cheap-ass $5 meal really does satisfy people far more than a Michelin star restaurant. Humble bragging about only being able to enjoy
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’m an artist and I’m not worried at all, because I see more potential in the hands of artists than I do amateurs with zero skill. AI translation has been around for decades now. It’s pretty damn good these days. But translators still find
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by pigsty 4y ago
I don’t think it’s that people expect it. It’s that some people absolutely despise the idea of artists and have some irrational desire to erase their jobs and automate it all. These people usually aren’t people signing checks—just angry peo
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by pigsty 4y ago
I think there’s a difference though when a country has a population less than a typical large corporation and no major industry whatsoever. It’s at a scale where everyone knows somebody who can help you get things done.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I remember in the 90s when Walmart was the death of the world because they only sold junk. Turns out retailers just sell cheap stuff no matter the era and the world is still moving on.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Because as I stated, very few people emigrate from the US to begin with. Within the group this affects (permanent emigrants from the US), it’s not a small number. Especially considering it’s such a difficult and expensive process that most
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by pigsty 4y ago
That’s quite a large number especially considering Americans have one of the lowest emigration rates of any country. I think one reason it’s “low” is many destinations Americans permanently move to allow dual citizenship and Americans don’t
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by pigsty 4y ago
At the very least, a federal department to review issues with local police departments is necessary. Right now cops investigate their friends and themselves. It’s global news when one decides to even fire (not even arrest) a friend despite
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by pigsty 4y ago
And lots of other Roman buildings didn’t survive because they were destroyed so the blocks could be repurposed into churches in other locations. The Parthenon is one (1) building that survived basically as-is while countless others were act
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by pigsty 4y ago
CEOs and various intellectuals very much are hyped up. Then we realize they’re like anyone else and they’re massively demonized
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by pigsty 4y ago
Meanwhile a substantial number of Americans are envious of Canadian life and how much safer Canadian cities are. The grass is always greener.
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by pigsty 4y ago
I feel like Mac Pro purchasers also have an accompanying MacBook Pro and iPhone and are more entwined in the ecosystem than the typical user. Frustrating those people likely comes with a risk of losing high value customers. I think it’s sim
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by pigsty 4y ago
If you keep buying the same cables and they keep breaking things, they’re probably not high quality. In my experience, Anker products are nothing short of garbage. Keyboards and adapters all break within weeks. I feel like all the “anker is
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by pigsty 4y ago
Vietnam very much has overtime issues. Americans work more hours than Japanese. Many Viets work 6 days a week at typical office jobs which is more than both countries. Vietnam is currently rapidly trending to under replacement-level births.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Also because a casino isn’t infrastructure. A casino is the equivalent of building liquor stores and calling it a job well done. Amidst a thriving economy it’s fine. Otherwise it’s making a few wealthy at the cost of community health. Casin
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by pigsty 4y ago
Put someone in a village 100 miles from the nearest town, deny them the basic infrastructure you provide for everyone else, deny them proper education, skimp on government job programs provided to other struggling towns that would eventuall
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’m not asking this to be condescending, but have you ever felt cold? My hands lose all dexterity entirely in winter. With sufficiently cold weather my hands are either cold, stiff, and in pain, or I’m wearing gloves that are too bulky to b
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by pigsty 4y ago
The fact everything uses software doesn’t mean Slack, a generic chat platform with dozens of absolutely identical products, being acquired for 27.7 billion dollars ever made sense. That generic software company was valued higher than entire
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by pigsty 4y ago
I feel like there should be a law of the internet for this. The more a company asserts that their data is secure and encrypted and you should trust them, the more likely it is to leak and be proven to be massively vulnerable. It’s fine to s
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by pigsty 4y ago
If Google had a reputation for maintaining projects long term and successfully and if their experimental AI models got even 1% of the hype and attention these quietly launched and massively covered and functional models like ChatGPT got, I’
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by pigsty 4y ago
Closer to 15 years ago. Flat is a meme that simply will not die. People were posting on HN over a decade ago about how flat was over the hill and we’d soon move past it. It’s insane how it’s stuck for so long and still doesn’t have any real

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