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by piva00 2mo ago
Sure, if they are extremely passionate about it and make it their life's purpose they will keep fighting even against hugely unfavourable odds. I'm not one of those, I just commented somewhere else in this thread that I spent 10 y
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by piva00 2mo ago
> I haven't suggested someone should wait it out, but the notion that nothing can ever change because it's "culture" sounds absurd to me and as an excuse to not try I simply did not want to waste more of time by feeli
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by piva00 2mo ago
> That's never true, countries changed extremely, also cultural-wise. If talking Germany the basic example is changing from a very militaristic society (far before the Nazis) to a rather pacifist society. After suffering a massive d
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by piva00 2mo ago
That's what happens when a culture is broken to the point of requiring generations of work to fix it: people who are unhappy will leave because there's no hope for enough to change to keep them there. How do you imagine that me st
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by piva00 2mo ago
> If you like how a country does things, why not change the country you originate from instead of going to that other country? Because it's neigh impossible for an individual to meaningfully change parts of the culture they dislike
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by piva00 2mo ago
There's no need to be technical about a social aspect of human life, there's no paradox of the heap when considering the human aspect: people alive have felt in their skin and soul the displacement of their parents which is not tr
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by piva00 3mo ago
Same for me, have Philips Hue bulbs for the past 10 years, some 50 of them and only had one failure unrelated to the LEDs themselves.
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by piva00 3mo ago
78 years is not that far ago in terms of human generations, the children of the people displaced are still alive, and they've disputed it all the time since then. Don't understand why you think 78 years is a long time, even less w
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by piva00 3mo ago
> Also the Arabs took the land from the Byzantine empire in the 7th century AD. A historical event from 1300 years ago is a bit irrelevant to contemporary issues.
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by piva00 3mo ago
> It's your responsibility as a scientist to step up and say that some research is garbage when you see it. The only case I personally know of someone doing that during their PhD didn't end well. My friend couldn't replica
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by piva00 3mo ago
Zionism can be both the nationalist movement for making Israel a Jewish state as well as the interpretation that such a movement is inherently colonial and racist. So Zionism for Israelis might just mean "we support and advocate for a
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by piva00 3mo ago
My cat almost doesn't chew at all, she's only fed wet food which she swallows in chunks and the rare prey she catches outdoors is teared and swallowed in chunks as well.
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by piva00 3mo ago
Germany still has expensive thermal power plants which dictate the price of electricity given the bidding system used for pricing it. Sweden and Norway have very cheap electricity while mostly being renewables.
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by piva00 3mo ago
Vance's support of Orbán; Musk's support of Reform, AfD, and other far-right parties across Europe; Thiel's shadow interference through his "gatherings" with other countries' elites while being explicitly anti-
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by piva00 3mo ago
The few times I had to Slack someone way out of office hours I simply set a delayed message to be sent in the beginning of the workday. People have different notification management than we do, I disable any work-related app notification ou
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by piva00 3mo ago
Spain is as rich as Japan on GDP PPP, richer than Israel and New Zealand. Readership issues in countries like the USA started way before mass adoption of AI, so also it's not related to AI effects.
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by piva00 3mo ago
> They stayed quiet while the FDA let transfats and MSG fester in baby food for decades I need to nitpick on this: MSG is not harmful to babies, if it were then breast milk wouldn't contain MSG. I didn't think the anti-MSG hyst
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by piva00 3mo ago
> Tell me exactly what you mean by "ragebait". Shouldn't things that make people angry be reported on? Should they be swept under the rug? I'm kind of tired of hearing this word being used, without a good explanation.
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by piva00 3mo ago
I don't follow, the argument is against the addictive design of the feed algorithms, not the information being shared per se. Nothing in this is geared towards curtailing platforms like social media to exist, it's trying to curtai
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by piva00 3mo ago
Memories have mostly been detrimental to me, I have disabled it completely after many moments of frustration. In general Claude would decide to save irrelevant memories, or apply a memory that was lifted during work on a project to a comple
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by piva00 3mo ago
> but being fueled by massively excessive taxes in the USA I think it's even worse, it's funded a lot more by debt than excessive taxes, taxation in the USA is not even that excessive (to its own detriment since the budget is n
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by piva00 3mo ago
If that's the case, the capitalism you allude to has never existed. Never.
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by piva00 3mo ago
Completely agree with you, it's not progressivism itself making bad films, it's bad films going through a checkbox exercise to tick things off a list. It feels worse because it's a mindless, careless addition to check the &qu
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by piva00 3mo ago
300GW / 120kW = 2.5 million satellites, I don't think SpaceX can launch 2.5 million satellites. Even less keep replenishing all the ones needing decommissioning after 3-5 years, no maintenance can be made, so on and so forth. It&#
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by piva00 3mo ago
Very drastically, the ISS solar panels can generate up to 120kW of power, look at the size of its radiators needed to cool it down. Scaling that to the hundreds of GW range is quite laughable.
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by piva00 3mo ago
A Twitter proxy to avoid having to access X.com directly.
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by piva00 3mo ago
Would be easier to continue the conversation if you had answered their question though. There's empirically someone up your comment saying that, better to address it with arguments rather than calling them brainrotted.
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by piva00 3mo ago
Happily surprised to see Joshua Clifton's designs appearing on Hacker News, thanks for posting it :) I know many jugglers in the circus community who really enjoyed the process of making their own beanbags from his designs, I just neve
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by piva00 3mo ago
Taking words at face value and nitpicking on it while missing the forest for the trees is exactly what a "Technical Genius"-archetype does on online discussions, recommend the read if you never encountered it: https://w
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by piva00 3mo ago
Ok, we are doing semantics nitpicking so I need to spell it out even further: my main argument is against people telling others to shut up about societal issues outside of their individual power. Can we continue the discussion from this or

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