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by rosndo 5y ago
>Products getting cheaper and lower quality is a spiral I'm not sure how we are going to escape This is an imaginary spiral. Well, except for the products getting cheaper. That is a good thing.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Really been chugging the survivorship bias kool-aid, haven’t we?
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by rosndo 5y ago
They’re trying to measure overall mental wellbeing with the GHQ-12. Do you not think that less stressed people are happier?
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by rosndo 5y ago
But you know that sci-hub exists, no? Sorry if I’m wrong, but you’re on HN and seem pretty technically oriented.
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by rosndo 5y ago
See “view PDF” at the top or alternatively visit through sci-hub, but I think you already know all that. Edit since you rewrote your comment: I’m sorry if these studies aren’t convincing to you, I’m still waiting to see one supporting your
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by rosndo 5y ago
So lets study lottery winners instead :) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...
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by rosndo 5y ago
The study I linked references many prior studies. I agree with you regarding the quality problems of psychology, but this is unfortunately what we have to work with. What do you think is the gold standard study supporting hedonic adaptation
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by rosndo 5y ago
Probably the most recent one https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 In my experience this is obviously true.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Research has largely shown this theory to be false. Recent one: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/money-matters-to-happiness-...
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by rosndo 5y ago
> I suppose that depends on what you call cheap, and whether you include “guaranteed”/“dedicated” in the definition of reliable for bandwidth. Then there are no cheap options. Even frivolously expensive “cloud” providers don’t give
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Unlimited throughput on gbit/more lines is commonly available, but never both cheap and reliable It’s been a long time since you could call OVH “unreliable”, Hetzner chugs along just fine too. I think you might just be stuck in 20
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by rosndo 5y ago
Big providers like OVH and Hetzner (and many others) offer truly unmetered bandwidth. You can max out your line nonstop for as long as you’d like.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Yep, those. Also FDCservers, Nforce, psychz, worldstream and countless of others. I have extensive experience maxing out unmetered 10gbit lines with these providers 24/7. It’s been years and years since a host last tried to FUP me, ban
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by rosndo 5y ago
Free unmetered bandwidth is pretty much the norm unless you have fallen for some “cloud” scam. edit: s/unlimited/unmetered/
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by rosndo 5y ago
Ethnically and culturally the residents of St Barth are definitely Europeans. French people who moved to another part of France. People born there? French kids of French parents. If St Barth had different demographics, there might be a more
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by rosndo 5y ago
Yep, I was in St Barth when Macron ordered countrywide lockdowns from his throne in Paris. I was really surprised to see all the local businesses immediately complying, they sure seem OK with being French.
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by rosndo 5y ago
It really isn’t.
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by rosndo 5y ago
I think you might misunderstand how courts work. It’s very much humans making decisions, not computers. > meant that you could not, like, copy files off a server in the EU to a computer in the US, but you could sit in the US and access a
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s all about jurisdiction. If someone logs into an EU based server from the US, they are expected to abide by the laws of that EU country.
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s lawful. Should it be acceptable? Yeah, I’ve had BigCos send PIs to my home to harass me because they didn’t like what my really quite small multi-million-dollar enterprise was doing.
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by rosndo 5y ago
The logic here is the same as the logic behind UBO registries. The proponents of such argue that there is a significant benefit to the public from knowing who owns what.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> It is hard to imagine that Bitcoin would be useful to sex workers with it's transaction fees and speed Transaction fees are around $2, transactions are instant and permanently settled in around 10 minutes.
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by rosndo 5y ago
You could just dump a bicycle on the freeway, or a rental scooter. The options are endless!
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by rosndo 5y ago
Just park your car on a busy highway during a rush hour :) Anyone can screw others at a massive scale, luckily people mostly don’t.
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s not a problem of being able to pay for it, I spent hundreds of thousands on an all-expenses-paid site inspection. The client was happy to cover because they were planning a 5M+ wedding. Despite the frivolous spending, I didn’t really h
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by rosndo 5y ago
> How about we have dislike for those that hoard wealth, while the majority of the people live in poverty, and died of it. What about those that create wealth? It’s not a zero sum game.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> though ethically it is frowned upon. That’s a bit ridiculous. Just about everyone does their best to minimize the taxes they pay. Where would you draw the line? The lawmakers drew one, but apparently you aren’t entirely happy with that
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Further, for me at least, if I was a billionaire, I'd much rather stay at some posh penthouse in the center of town than some inconvenient boat on the water. Ah, you’ve just never visited Costa Smeralda :) One of the most beautifu
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by rosndo 5y ago
>I don't even understand why a company would decide to build a boat in a location where it's impossible to transport it from there to the sea. It’s obviously not impossible to transport the boat to the sea. > This seems far
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by rosndo 5y ago
I think you speak for a vanishingly small minority of Europeans.

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