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by purplethinking 2y ago
Why is there such a difference between men and women on this? I literally lived in a closet as a student. I'm quite content as long as I have a nice desk and chair, good internet, access to a gym and perhaps afford to eat out.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I took over a year off working on a project before I joined another company. Never made any money, but in retrospect I see that I could have made it work in 2-3 years, but the stress would have interfered. Wish I could be more chill, but mo
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by purplethinking 2y ago
At first I thought you meant you were living out of a storage locker
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I'm thankful it's not worse, I have a friend who gets a fever from taking a short walk. In fact, since opening up it seems that many people are battling some form of fatigue or sleep issue. It does feel like dementia, you're
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I probably have a milder version of post-infection fatigue, it's not as bad as mentioned in the article (like having run a marathon), but it means that I never feel fully well slept no matter how many hours I've slept, maybe once
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Valuation has no relevance to the layoffs. The valuation is down because brands left due to Elon's politics.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Tesla managed to do exactly that, why not Ford? They also started from nothing, built out a massive super charger network to support their cars, as a startup basically.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Yep. There's this massive blind spot created by years of "moderation". All the media has been heavily left leaning, as well as all social media platforms. So sure, when a major social media platform removes restrictions it wi
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Pure math is probably not worth the squeeze. I think more important to everyday life is systems thinking and a bit of probability/stats, mainly bayesian updates. "Superforecasting" was an eye-opening book to me, I could see h
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I've moved sharply right in the past 4 years. But I still see plenty left content on X so it doesn't seem like a complete echo chamber to me. It could be that the "left" content that reaches me is whatever enrages the pe
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I think that just based on the properties of the network/graph, it's unlikely that enough important accounts will leave, and therefore people who are interested in them can't leave. Anyone who's built a good audience is
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by purplethinking 2y ago
It will take a lot to break the network effect of X, probably more so than many other platforms, because it's very detrimental to their reach (and income/revenue share) for people with a lot of followers to move. So the important
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Was there anything controversial in that dossier? The Guardian claims it was blocked for leaking JD Vance social security number
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by purplethinking 2y ago
De-escalate by shutting down your own industry!
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Here is FSD navigating Manhattan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD3KSD620qk "FSD is a very small step above adaptive cruise control" Yeah right
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by purplethinking 2y ago
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115286/documents/... "“A new [Twitter Files] investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from tr
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I have no interest in being in a left-leaning bubble. I get both sides on X, so far. People think X has been leaning more and more to the right, but in truth it's just not being censored (sorry, moderated) anymore, leading to more righ
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by purplethinking 2y ago
The left is way more economically illiterate than the right. Price ceilings, unrealized capital gains taxes, more "socialism" in general is not good economic policy.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
No, this whole spiel of big pharma wanting to keep people sick is insane. That could work if there was a single pharma company in the world, but all it takes is one company making an effective cure for a disease and they will make big bucks
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by purplethinking 2y ago
True for most people on the left today. For example, they don't like Elon Musks personality/politics (which is fine, very understandable), so they are completely unable to objectively evaluate his achievements. Because they don&#x
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Not if the car drives itself 99% of the time.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Also, when it comes to cars, and probably other devices/vehicles in the future, they are increasingly operating themselves. You can buy FSD for Tesla and drive for hours in mixed highway and city streets without having to intervene. Wh
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by purplethinking 2y ago
It has taken root in Germany and EU as a whole. Why do you think they shut down their nuclear power plants while in an energy crisis?
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Definitely feels like there's no sanity left in politics. Capitalism is easy to criticize but is the sole reason we live in a much much better world today. Love Norberg
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I've never once seen solar being called "woke energy", is that a thing? Either way, everyone's realigning now that Elon is MAGA, solar and EVs are out, they're MAGA now. Now it's all about degrowth and going ba
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by purplethinking 2y ago
As a long time HN user, it's quite disturbing to see the slow descent of this community into a world view dominated by luddism, degrowth, anti-technology and anti-natalism. All these things seem to go hand in hand in the ideology of to
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by purplethinking 2y ago
They're spending more on VR in 2024 than 2023. As much as it's laughed at, I believe VR/AR will be a big platform, it's still growing healthily. And it's pretty awesome, go try the Quest 3. Most importantly for Meta
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I would say not having kids and then in essence relying on other people's kids for long term care and production of goods and services in retirement is much worse morally. And then there's the whole keeping the species going. If y
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by purplethinking 2y ago
It is completely avoidable, but you're right, there is no indication that anyone is going to do anything about it. We could start to fix the problem by using stratospheric aerosol injection as a stopgap measure and building thousands o
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by purplethinking 2y ago
My kids seem to enjoy existing, as do I What you're saying is, there is no morally defensible reason to have kids, and the human species should just seize to exist for this reason

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