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by piva00 1y ago
Perhaps fatigue is not limited by energy but by the byproducts of energy usage to do work. It becomes much more complex to tackle if that's the case, instead of finding ways to allow the brain to use more energy when available we would
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by piva00 1y ago
I used to be very happy with the old Premium Lite, I didn't need YouTube Music or other features of Premium, just wanted to pay to have ads removed on all devices and it was the perfect product for that. Then they cancelled it, got the
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by piva00 1y ago
> I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them) That's a very culture-dependent thing, it's much more unusual for me to see someone not using turn signals in Sweden than it is in the USA or Brazil. If no one around
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by piva00 1y ago
Some of them do, yes. Tone policing has always been around as well, just surprises me to happen in an online forum about "vulgarities".
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by piva00 1y ago
Anything of substance to add to the actual topic of the article?
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by piva00 1y ago
> The tech is amazing, let's build it in a nice way. We tried that before, during the early 2000s there was huge optimism about tech, democratisation of information, people would be more well informed, with access to all the knowled
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by piva00 1y ago
Do you think this infrastructure just sits there, being used all the time, without requiring constant replacement/maintenance? All the roads everywhere are only possible when maintained, you are in Germany so you are very familiar with
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by piva00 1y ago
> I'm one of these, but for another reason: hyper-dense urban areas are much more expensive to build (especially skyscrapers, they require massive amounts of concrete), and all sorts of other technology to work. In rural areas, you
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by piva00 1y ago
I get bored by myself repeating it but I always think it's worth to mention: the scale and degree matter, in almost all cases of an issue, if not we can reduce a lot of issues to "it has always happened before". Localised fir
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by piva00 1y ago
They're only potentially infinite if we figure out ways to expend an ever-increasing exponential amount of energy to capture them. Energy is cost, there's absolutely no way to know if we will figure a way to produce the energy req
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by piva00 1y ago
In the past week it's the third time I've read a comment on HN with this rhetoric against urbanisation/denser cities. I'm really curious on what has triggered this, has that argument appeared in some widely viewed YouTub
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by piva00 1y ago
They don't need to take on the monopoly on violence to become more powerful than governments, the sheer act of repeatedly breaking laws, many times knowingly because the punishment is either not levied or they can just pay their way ou
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by piva00 1y ago
I believe you would appreciate living somewhere else than in an American city, many other developed countries do not suffer from the same malaise as American cities, being dense doesn't mean "turning toxic", there are many wa
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by piva00 1y ago
And still millions of people outside of the USA in advanced economies do it everyday, in the rain, in the snow, it's not a big issue at all except for a society which has no other experience than personal, individual transportation. Mi
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by piva00 1y ago
What would be the basis of that though? Just thinking about every point in my life where I ended up in "who cares?" was due to concerns outside of my control/power. When I feel I have some agency, power, and/or recogniti
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by piva00 1y ago
Of course it has to do with appearances, hence "pompous and serious", requiring a term change just so it can be taken "seriously" because the portmanteau sounds too crass or colloquial. It's all appearances, the und
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by piva00 1y ago
Academics are completely free to rebrand the naming if they need to sound more pompous and serious, the semantics are the same.
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by piva00 1y ago
EVs are just a change in fuel, nothing else changes, it's ludicrous to think they will solve anything related to why cities become denser, I can't even comprehend the logical steps you have to take to think that. Dense cities exis
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by piva00 1y ago
You can take your car if its existence doesn't infringe on everyone else having a nice city where people can walk. For that to happen your convenience of being able to park anywhere close to your final destination will mostly disappear
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by piva00 1y ago
Cars are a 20th century fix for the lack of easily available, comfortable, and fast public transportation. It's a shame the USA got stuck in the mid-20th century on that front.
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't think comparing Go to developing systems to be useful, Go has a very clear goal to be achieved, it can be easily iterated over to achieve that singular goal. Developing systems is a much more complex task involving a lot of hum
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by piva00 1y ago
Curious what exactly differs between EU and USA to make American transfers so inefficient time-wise. In the Eurozone SEPA instant transfers are settled in seconds (usually under 10 seconds, with max 20 seconds allowed), and AML/KYC reg
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by piva00 1y ago
> Yah I definitely want to be fulfilled by having to pick a health insurance plan or a car rental reservation. Where did I not include "health insurance plan" as a chore, exactly? Do not strawman what I said, please. My point w
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by piva00 1y ago
That's how it works in Sweden though: part of your pension is your own private investments, they aren't taxed as normal investments since you can only withdraw after reaching retirement age, the other part of it is a state pension
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by piva00 1y ago
> It says they are interested in more than just chilling on the beach. Which is not necessarily a good thing, being more interested in reshaping the world even after it becomes clear their vision for the new world isn't making it be
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by piva00 1y ago
For speeding up chores it can be useful but removing the actual fun part of experiences, the research, the looking into, the figuring out, to instead only get the result of it sounds like a quick path into unfulfilling experiences. But to b
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by piva00 1y ago
He is such a slimy bullshitter: > The Tesla CEO asserts he’s seeing a major rebound in customer interest for his EVs despite persistent evidence to the contrary. “The stock wouldn’t be trading near all-time highs if things weren’t in goo
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by piva00 1y ago
Not my experience working in Sweden for the past 10+ years. Likely that I had outlier experiences here but standups have always been short, the person leading it had complete autonomy to call out "I think this should be discussed after
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by piva00 1y ago
In the audio/music production space Germany has Ableton, Bitwig, Steinberg, Native Instruments, u-he, and quite a few others. All following the Mittelstand model as far as I know. Notwithstanding all the physical audio equipment manufa
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by piva00 1y ago
Don't leave Hayek out of it, the whole Austrian school was a stupid experiment, Friedman packaged it in simple to understand statements so politicians like Nixon, Reagan, Thatcher could gobble it up to turn into policy and doctrine. Ha

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