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by piva00 4mo ago
I think we ought to separate hobbies from consumerist/collectionism behaviours. At least to me they are very different activities. Better is quite subjective though, again to me there's something better in hobbies that develop ski
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by piva00 4mo ago
So you are saying AC is a need in the Netherlands for the odd week of heatwaves in a year? Installing thousands to millions of AC compressors, piping, having the grid ready for the spike in consumption when all these ACs turn on, etc. is a
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by piva00 4mo ago
A need is a necessity, is AC a necessity or a comfort? It's only a need if without it your life would be so insufferable that you cannot live normally, otherwise it's not a need but a comfort. Many things aren't needed, survi
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by piva00 4mo ago
> That's not because Europeans don't want big houses, don't want infinite stuff. In very large parts of Europe they can't afford it. But this is true of the USA as well, large parts of it people cannot afford a big ho
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by piva00 4mo ago
Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Benelux, the Nordics, Baltics, most of Central Europe don't have a need for AC. It might make life more comfortable during some days of heatwaves but it's definitely not a need to survive. Southern Eu
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by piva00 4mo ago
Air conditioning is not needed in most of Europe, no idea why that would be a measurement of economic advancement. Krugman presented arguments with data, it'd be nice to see your data that counters Krugman's argument, not a whole
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by piva00 4mo ago
It's insane to read that US$ 350k doesn't afford a home in New Delhi... Even in Stockholm that is enough money to outright buy an apartment, not necessarily dead center in the city but definitely within a short ride on the metro.
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by piva00 4mo ago
I think you are in some kind of wishful thinking world. The USA and Israel have killed dozens of leaders, creating a vacuum which is being filled by other radicals just like the ones before. The IRGC is still there, the hardliners are takin
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by piva00 4mo ago
Ok, I thought there was more to it. I'm not trying anything, I want more information if it's available, otherwise it's all conjecture... Even though I dislike anyone at that level of power, the way you phrased things implied
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by piva00 4mo ago
Unfortunately it's not widely distributed information, if you care so much about shedding a light on Amodei's shadiness it would help a lot folks like me to understand what you are talking about. I know of Sam Altman's shenan
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by piva00 4mo ago
Support for Hamas also came from Netanyahu[0], he explicitly gave support to be used as wedge for the Palestinian cause, to perpetuate the conflict giving casus belli to Israeli actions against Palestinians in Gaza. [0] https://w
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by piva00 4mo ago
Much the contrary, it showed them that without a nuclear weapon they can be attacked willy-nilly by the USA/Israel, without a nuke it doesn't matter what kind of agreement or deal they reach it can always be reneged. Iran looks at
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by piva00 4mo ago
If you ever go to Lisboa take a walk under the 25 de Abril bridge, the hum is intense[0]. [0] https://freesound.org/people/Diegolar/sounds/612615/
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by piva00 4mo ago
Better off by being exhausted on never trusting any purchasing process? No, thank you, I don't need nor want to be curious when I just want to purchase a flight ticket.
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by piva00 4mo ago
I don't think we are disagreeing, expanding my point: the forever pursuit of more material wealth narrowed whatever was the USA's vision as a nation. More material wealth showed other good indicators for society being correlated t
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by piva00 4mo ago
Even though the forever pursuit of more material wealth is exactly what brought the USA to this point.
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by piva00 4mo ago
You are leaving out there was a global epidemic happening at the time, it's easier to see the logic of a global crisis which shutdown the global economy creating inflationary pressure from both supply economics, and mitigations taken b
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by piva00 4mo ago
I think we need you to provide the numbers about what you consider "very unfair war debt" to the EU. The 90B€ loan is just the latest mechanism for financial aid, there have been a lot of equipment transfers/donations from me
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by piva00 4mo ago
Russia != Soviet Union, even though Russia was the Soviet political-administrative center, contemporary Russia Federation is very different to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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by piva00 4mo ago
> What I was aluding to is that people have profound consciouss experience when they are dying. Even clinicaly dead people with zero brain activity. But even if EEGs can't detect extremely low brain activity, it's still weird t
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by piva00 4mo ago
Even Opus 4.7 felt like a regression from 4.6, consumed a lot more tokens while I didn't experience any substantial improvements. The company I work at simply rolled back to 4.6 on everyone's configurations, disabling the toggle f
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by piva00 4mo ago
I don't know why you assumed it was a PM thing, the mandate is for EMs to be more "hands-on". On your points: Manager changes are always going to go through the usual pipeline, we are 10k+ people so there's not even a wa
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by piva00 4mo ago
It's the mandate from top-down. Of course it's a people issue, the problem is that the people creating this issue are exactly the ones paying us. My manager got the mandate she needs to start coding, she doesn't want that, no
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by piva00 4mo ago
For a brief period it was social. Even if you had hundreds of people you had barely interacted with there were still people you continued to interact in real life from that lot. Getting updates helped me even to form friendships long after
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by piva00 4mo ago
You having this opinion doesn't mean it allows you to be a racist asshole, what part of that you don't really understand? You are annoyed by Indian nationalists, there's absolutely no need to behave like you did just because
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by piva00 4mo ago
No amount of nationalistic proselytism makes it okay or just "a bit mean" to say: > A nation of slaves with desperate delusions of grandeur. > build some toilets or whatever. It's not just perhaps a bit mean, it's
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by piva00 5mo ago
> Tesla has been able to demonstrate significant growth which Toyota hasn't. That doesn't mean much when Toyota was already a behemoth company, it's much harder to grow when you are already enormous.
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by piva00 5mo ago
This = this person is clearly morally corrupt, displaying a pattern of behaviour over decades of being untrustworthy, a liar, and taking advantage for personal gains. People decided to elect that person, it's part of the package.
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by piva00 5mo ago
You still only think in individual terms, you are not at all engaging in this discussion with any kind of systems thinking... All healthcare resources were stretched thin during the height of the pandemic, your proposal is to add yet anothe
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by piva00 5mo ago
Not only communist countries, Sweden had Miljonprogrammet[0] between 1965-1975, Wikipedia's page about it is a good read for more details: > At the time, the intention to build one million new homes in a nation with a population of

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