saiya-jin

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by saiya-jin 3y ago
While I agree with that shrink part, you must be living in a bubble for the family part. Literally all my colleagues in past 5 jobs (that few hundreds guys) have kids if they are over say 35. All colleagues of my wife. All of our friends. I
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
You must realize the world and humanity is bigger than you. Some people with low blood sugar would be very weak without breakfast (ie my wife and most of her family, tested repeatedly under various real world situations ie in wilderness). S
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Another one - if you want to lose a friend, lend him/her some money
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Now who the heck from banking sector would ever want to do anything with Apple after this? No deal will be too sweet to ignore this hard lesson. That's a colossal clusterfuck in banking on GS side (not that they are that rare in bank
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
You can't live without salt. Too much of it will kill you quickly. Why is it so hard to understand that both such statements can be true?
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Do you also buy phones with this mantra? Or anything for that matter? Because this is just a bit of electronics, nothing more. Sometimes I just want to buy half a kilo of butter, and not caring much about the craftsmanship of Swiss diary pr
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
We shall see, no point trying to guess where we will be in few decades. One random idea out of ocean of ideas - we might realize with a bit of training our brain will smooth out the difference and we shall be well immersed even with these m
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Try running on a treadmill. Very surreal experience at first, not much common with regular running, every sensory cell screaming WTF this is weird and I felt like some cartoon characters when they 'power up' for running. What you
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Is this valid also for places in US directly next to oceans? IMHO ocean shores are pretty mild in places all over the world in those lattitudes I've visited. We also have harsh dry continental weather in Europe, you just have to move a
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
We get the orange dump from time to time but its not like we get it often. The one time last year? it fell on winter snow was the only time I recall in last decade+, and on glaciers this layer is still clearly visible. Not many others impri
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Well, the alternative to diplomatic solution is total annihilation of palestinians in west bank, be it by forcing them off the land which is impossible since they have nowhere to run and other islamic states refuse them (so much for inter-m
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
I can imagine tons of things I would do in my last minutes, but neither watching TV nor eating is among those.
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
> A universe without consciousness experiencing it really exists? As long as we don't discover something truly novel this is how reality of this universe looked like before we came since its creation. And it fared just fine.
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Whats wrong with that? Kids play with anything, wooden stick is a great toy anytime for example. That there are some logos and not some other logos or pictures they couldn't care less about
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
You are mixing up EU and Switzerland, employment laws are very different (and each EU state has its own, but generally much more protective of employees than Swiss ones). One of the reasons Google has long term big center in Zurich, if gr
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
They are practically a must just to get there... to thrive in this 'layer' of society, a person is quite far away from regular average human in various worst ways possible
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Well, you certainly have right to your opinion, as do others to theirs. Law is the ultimate arbiter as usually.
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Some inflammation is good to repair damaged stuff, be it muscles, tendons etc. Very often I see this in gym freaks or rock climbers, fighting inflammation at all costs without understanding underlying processes. Or in case of infection move
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
I am fine with slower load if I dont have to see ads. Can't skip them on TV (yet) and its driving me insane, any short thing I want to show to kids has 20 seconds of detergents or similar stupidities. As a long term PC user with ublock
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Don't worry, you will grow out of it (thats not patronizing, just an observation on both me and many around me over decades). Life is complex, way more complex than you think it is and often a least-bad solution is used and stays aroun
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Show me 1 single truly good honest person who managed to get through all the crap of local and state politics to get into party and get elected... if you think you know some, you just don't know them well enough. There are no nice peop
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
What do you mean, there are systems out there which effectively deal with any and all complaints common folks have against the rich, ie Switzerland and its wealth tax. Not too much to force everybody to avoid it, not too little to not matte
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
1) bad drivers like being seated high and this helps when overloaded with information; and bad as beginner, constantly bad or just age-related 2) cargo cult culture in literally everything these days, including what some less-than-bright fo
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
I am not a huge tesla fan but to expect that car rental employees will babysit every customer and show them all the cars in detail is... unrealistic. I was once spending maybe an hour to figure out how to start and move a rental mercedes af
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Spanish election IIRC in 2004 were won by the party which promised to withdraw from Iraq. A small detail - bunch of bombs killed 200+ people few days before that, and terrorists stated clearly this is their reason, so they got their way. Wh
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Have you actually every talked about code and architecture to another peer? If levels are cca same it quickly becomes an effortless exercise where ideas flow quickly and topics are immediately picked up. Lets call it brainstorming. Why can&
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Well its in the news, Houthis attacking due to conflict/war in Gaza to force western countries into more pressure on Israel
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Yes, but society generally doesn't like liars and certainly doesn't seem appropriate for them to live in luxury. And what is doping if not lying about your actual skills, efforts put into training and your mostly genetical limits
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
I do care, I'd never put my time (my worth from marketing perspective) into watching these money-infested events, it doesn't matter if its cycling, football, hockey etc. Constant money chasing deformed these sport events into some
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by saiya-jin 3y ago
Its an amazing security feature, having all required info projected by laser straight to windshield. It also saves quite a bit of money on speeding fines in cities (ie where I live going 10 over the limit is already in hundreds of dollars).

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