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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"Finally there are a lot of problems we have (thousands of health conditions, the environment, autocrats) that will prob take centuries to tackle even with ai, robotics, and being freed up from menial labor." I am very worried tha
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
This is not only a problem for tech workers, but for all industries. The stories I hear from non-tech friends are pretty crazy.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Don’t be fooled by the “non-profit” label. Many are as greedy as for-profit hospitals, except that the money goes to execs and their friends instead of shareholders.
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The plastic industry is basically an extension of oil
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Big tech and advertising industry.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I had a similar thought when I did my yearly checkup at Kaiser some years ago. The doctor what interviewed me looked like hell. I thought for them any health advice they are giving is just a theoretical concept that they clearly don’t live
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Germany doesn't have negative ads criticizing opponents (at least it didn't have them when I lived there). This makes them refreshingly boring. I would guess at least 90% of the US ads are basically "the other guy is bad. Be
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
That’s one of the big problems with these dominant trillion dollar corporations. For them it’s not worth to pursue something as small as a billion dollar market but they still have enough market power to suppress any competitor who wants to
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
In the old Apple passwords thing, they used to have that export feature but they took it away at some point. Learned this the hard way when I switched to Linux for a while.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
You may not like it but you need to be pretty smart to pull off what he did. I don't think too many people could do what he did even if they wanted to. I think the same counts for a certain presidential candidate. A lot of people say h
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Problem is that your bets have to be of a certain size to make a difference. Making 100% on $100 is not doing much good for you. So the guy with less money has to take much higher relative risks if he wants to get somewhere.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I did some real estate deals with guys from wealthy families a long time ago. We failed but the difference in consequences was enormous. I lost my savings of 10 years and struggled getting out of the situation. The other guys got bailed out
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think people are using the word "fail" a little too much. Not getting your marathon time may hurt your ego a little but ultimately it's not a big deal. I would use the word "fail" for things that have real consequ
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I would say Deutsche Bahn has managed to combine the disadvantages of public services with the disadvantages of private companies into one coherently terrible package.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Same here. The focus is usually on a document. I find video pretty distracting.
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"anybody ambitious would kill for the kind of opportunities Americans have" That's probably true for the very ambitious. I think the US doesn't work as well for people who just want to have a decent life.
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Does this translate into better quality of life for the majority of the population? I don't think so.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
They show strong evidence for more profit.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
People look for alternatives but they are increasingly hard to find. Seems most businesses raise prices in lockstep. Competition seems to be sooo yesterday.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"then gradually raise prices" It's not exactly gradually. I would call it "aggressively". At least for vets.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
That’s my theory. They are good at obvious things but if something is a little tricky nobody puts the time in to figure it out. And nobody talks to each other. I always read about “care teams” but I have never seen such a thing.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It's a pretty sad thought that everybody will be on a drug that keeps weight in check while most people will still eat a basically toxic diet. Weight is certainly an important factor but there is more to a healthy life.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I have done this since a long time. I always thought I am too dumb to read and debug complex code with multiple function calls in one line. I always put intermediate results into variables. Makes debugging so much easier.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Depends on where you set the limit. A 500 billion dollar company can get a lot done.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
" in Google's case, GMail and Google Maps" They did this when they were much smaller. I haven't seen anything impressive from the huge tech companies in the last years, be it MS, Google or Apple. All the the cool stuff w
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think as a general principle it would be best to break up companies automatically from a certain size on. We need more competition and less powerful corporations. I don’t see any benefit that these trillion dollar companies are providing
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
As far as I understand Public Benefit is as meaningless as non profit. The names are extremely misleading. A public benefit corporation doesn’t necessarily have to provide benefits for the public and non profits can be extremely profitable
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Scrum, Agile and management in general have beaten the fun out of me. I can imagine doing some coding for fun when retired. But I don’t want to work for a corporation.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
That’s what some guys I knew in New York told me. People talk to each other and the hedge fund guys don’t really compete with each other.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think that’s why I prefer exercise with some level of freedom. Free weights feel more engaging than machines. A fast hike up a mountain feels better than running on a treadmill indoors.

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