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by sershe 4y ago
I feel like I cannot get into many pause-based Paradox games because of the realtime aspects. Even e.g. Stellaris. When I have to manage time flow between pauses it always either feels like I'm pausing too much and I could be wasting l
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by sershe 4y ago
You overestimate the level of financial literacy that people have in tech industry, especially the immigrants... I can say from personal example that I "lost" a ton of money by letting cash just sit there, especially 10-12 years a
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by sershe 4y ago
Note "objectively". Subjectively, their lives are worse. Why? Coddling of the American Mind is a great book that I think has part of the answer. Personally, I also think social media, general political polarization, and general gr
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by sershe 4y ago
Why is it though? In non-obfuscated language, the whole idea is "the job of someone hired to do something is to do the thing". If I own a room full of groceries, the job of the people I hire to run it /should be/ to run
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by sershe 4y ago
I think the rule should be, the combined salaries of the teachers and anyone else spending most of the time with kids, like special education assistants, counselors, etc. have to be some multiple of the salaries of everyone else in the dist
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by sershe 4y ago
Parents in rich areas, and kids in poor areas, according to teachers I know. I suspect "best teachers" introduces a selection bias for particular districts or private schools. It's kind of a choose your poison situation... ei
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by sershe 4y ago
I really doubt it is. The biggest barrier must be the weather - biking in the cold and rain is just super unpleasant for an average person, especially for errands and commute. I know you can prep, but it's still pain. I gave up due to
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by sershe 4y ago
Hmm, if we do that (as a formerly avid cycling commuter) can we also make it so blasting thru the red light (on non empty streets), riding wrong way on the road, talking on your phone while riding, etc - something I saw pretty much daily wh
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by sershe 4y ago
A good article covering kibbutzim as an example of bottom-up, community socialism https://www.cato.org/policy-report/march/april-2021/how-i-be... And the immortal quote from Milton Friedman: "There are f
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by sershe 4y ago
"Zuckerberg or Musk could end homelessness in the US easily and still be in the top 10 richest people in the world." [citation needed] Major cities spend 100s of millions per year each on homelessness (LA is $500m-1B iirc, dependi
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by sershe 4y ago
I'd be really receptive to CBDCs if the blockchain was completely open with no impediment to chain analysis, and all elected politicians or those employed in the public service above a certain level were restricted from any other money
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by sershe 4y ago
My point was that not helping your coworkers succeed because you are afraid they'd take your job (unless that appears to be an explicit goal) is a very bleak mindset, and probably self-limiting too, as far as one's own career goes
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by sershe 4y ago
Hmm, so if there are a lot of junior developers - inevitable as more people are getting STEM degrees - I should not help them grow, so that they are not able to do my job? Sounds pretty bleak. Continuing this to its logical conclusion, shou
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by sershe 4y ago
On average technology has been overwhelmingly good. The GP is too vague, but what is the alternative to blind progress being proposed - some ethicist deciding what's good? When has that ever work out well? I'm pretty sure it has 1
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by sershe 4y ago
I think having this position is actually a tacit partial compromise (a perk) for people like the OP (or myself, I'm in a similar situation and have similar feelings about it). I've seen people willingly jump from being a senior de
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by sershe 4y ago
> He seems to ignore a lot about what the living conditions for people were throughout history, and have a blind trust in the positive power of 'human progress'. Eh? A contender for the most self-contradictory sentence I'v
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by sershe 4y ago
> The article points out that both policy in the US and social norms/values have become highly preferenced towards those who work crazy hard. The point isn't that it's bad for certain individuals to value work over everyth
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by sershe 4y ago
It's interesting the comments here are about (a) dead-end jobs where they don't care about you (b) poverty and such (c) jobs one only tolerates vs self-realization. The article however is about the upper-middle class men. So, thes
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by sershe 4y ago
> Not an American You sure sound like one, by the level of entitlement ;) So I take it you provide your own food, build your own home, and do your own healthcare; or find volunteers who love their jobs to do them for you? I hear farming
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by sershe 4y ago
The mix of complaints points to two causes (1) Noisy people, young people not caring about quality, etc - it's caused by a phenomenon called "aging", I'm struggling with that myself. (2) Major metrics going downhill, etc
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by sershe 4y ago
My impressions seems to be it's the combination of the 2 (1) people in the US will balk at paying others' healthcare if you ask them directly, so it "has to" be subsidized in a roundabout, inefficient way. ER is obliged
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by sershe 4y ago
I do live in Seattle, but where I've previously lived the temperature routinely goes to -30F in winter and 95F in the summer, and for the reasons of previous lack of availability plastic windows were one of the first things people inst
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by sershe 4y ago
The new-ish plastic windows I have are actually ~15 years old and they have none of these issues (they are new-ish compared to the older wooden windows). They are in a condition that could be described as "looks new" and keep in w
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by sershe 4y ago
It's obvious, you hire 2 diversity consultants to figure it all out, and then since you only have budget for 2 employees, fire all 3 of the original ones.
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by sershe 4y ago
Vinyl/plastic windows and siding might be used because they are superior basically in every way? They don't rot, don't require almost any maintenance (exterior painting, etc.), windows fit much better and are better insulated
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by sershe 4y ago
I like tipping (high almost regardless of service quality, as long as it's not aggressively bad) to support the workers specifically. I think service workers/low-level contractor crew workers/etc. have one of the highest &quo
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by sershe 4y ago
My point is, if you end a practice harmful to mental health (and based on personal anecdotes from people really shocked by vestiges of it, to the point of not taking a job, people must think it's exceptionally harmful), you'd expe
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by sershe 4y ago
Is there any evidence for it being "harmful" (specifically institutional punishment, not random poor parenting)? If anything, constant reported decline in kids' (and adults') mental health as schools and parents get more
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by sershe 4y ago
"I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. ... I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow student
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by sershe 4y ago
Lol, I tried to "report a product issue" and the submit button is greyed out. Reviews are limited to verified purchases due to "unusual activity". What the actual fuck?

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