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by sershe 5y ago
I am not sure that is true. As far as I understand, the communities in most places were small, everyone knew everyone, and people were vary of strangers. You couldn't come to a random village and start farming... and as far as I can te
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by sershe 5y ago
The people get services that were unimaginable (or expensive and inferior, e.g. dedicated GPS navigators) for free, money-wise. If Google/Facebook/Amazon/... weren't providing value, they wouldn't be making so much
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by sershe 5y ago
The GP calls genetics "luck" in the context of dichotomy between being self made and luck... if genetics is luck, then what is left for "self"? Ability to work hard is also the product of genetics, upbringing and circums
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by sershe 5y ago
If genetics is luck, then what is left for "self"? Willpower/grit/etc. is also environment or genetics, there's no self outside of that.
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by sershe 5y ago
Tangential to the balance of luck and work needed for success, whether genetics/... counts as luck or "self-" in self-made, etc. 1) Belief in luck and futility of hard work is a useless, in fact harmful belief. I can say this
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by sershe 5y ago
1) Where do you derive the data about "largely good opportunities at home"? Also, what does caste have to do with anything? The actual economic opportunity, quality of education, etc. is what should be compared. 2) Even in the les
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by sershe 5y ago
But that would contradict the premise, wouldn't it? If an immigrant can "self select" from much worse conditions, why didn't an average poor American? And if it's smth like ability, then how is it not well deserved?
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by sershe 5y ago
Chase bank banking. What an unbelievable bloated animated JavaScript monstrosity... I do my bills once a month, so I open chase side by side with all the other tabs, and it's like - click a button in chase, pay one entire credit card&
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by sershe 5y ago
I'd think this site would be full of nerds ;) Think about the experience of being a nerd in HS. If pop culture is to be believed, I only got the extra-lite version of that in Russia compared to the US; on the other hand, I grew up surr
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by sershe 5y ago
Heh, for a similar Soviet car, Zaporozhets, the joke was that you can drive it on the autobahn as long as you first roll it down a big mountain, to get to the requisite speed.
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by sershe 5y ago
Would you apply the same standard to self defense, which is an "armed attempt to intervene in crime"? Think of mercenaries in this case like Uber drivers, people "below the API". If I shoot a robber in my house it's
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by sershe 5y ago
I don't think the author ever claimed there's no value in real police. It actually, ironically, matches the recent left-wing demands to defund. Let the police with their armored cars and helicopters handle real crime, like when yo
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, is re-education better for society than removal? It's expensive and unreliable, whereas if you only consider the society of people whom we owe the respect of their negative rights (based on reciprocity), incarceration is cheaper
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by sershe 5y ago
Disclaimer, I haven't played soccer in 15 years, but I've played some and watched a lot :) It is actually pretty hard to miss the box on the penalty kick if you are aiming at the box, as opposed to e.g. aiming for the bottom left
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by sershe 5y ago
I'd argue it's a minor component. Especially with something like a tick, that will go on to bite someone else. I am morally indifferent between life imprisonment and death, but life imprisonment costs more and can fail. On the oth
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by sershe 5y ago
So, if a single person is killed by a government-mandated airbag, we should throw away all the safety trade-offs (the numbers of people killed and saved by airbags) and remove the airbags? Emotional slogans should be abolished, end of discu
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by sershe 5y ago
Why would there need to be appearance of re-education? The society doesn't owe anyone a re-education. It's not really about punishment either... If someone doesn't respect others' life and property, why would theirs be r
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by sershe 5y ago
Why would one expect following their dream would correlate in any way to success in life? If anything, given that people think (and dream) alike, it would lead to supply glut in specific fields. That is probably a part of the explanation of
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by sershe 5y ago
Did S3 really become that much faster over the years? I was optimizing a cache that worked on top of HDFS and cloud FSes at some point few years ago, and I remember making slides to present the improvements. For HDFS I had this complex slid
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by sershe 5y ago
That really depends on how much I make full time and - very importantly - how it is taxed. As of today, I'd work 1.5 days for 30% of my salary (and I suppose 30% health insurance coverage? :)). Maybe even 1 day, tight but still doable.
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting, why does profit seeking work for other necessities, like food (or pretty much anything really) but not in these 3 in particular (I would argue it also works fine in housing, if you take a median house). And how much housing do
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by sershe 5y ago
Isn't the issue with trees is that they release the carbon back after they die and decompose? You have to actually sequester carbon somehow. No idea how easy it is to do with trees (presumably you'd have to cut them and put them s
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by sershe 5y ago
This really makes me wonder; kid suicides and the pressure in school as a causal factor is something I have heard of from multiple trustworthy sources in the US, including teachers. When I was growing up most teachers ranged from strict&#x2
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by sershe 6y ago
Ok, apparently for this situation to be livable you not only have to be healthy AND the weather has to be good (you don't go on a walk with kids every day when it's 100 degrees out or when it's blizzard of rain), you also hav
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by sershe 6y ago
Most people would prefer not to walk 25 extra minutes (1km two ways of standard 5kph ped speed) every day just to buy food, even in good weather. When it's raining, snowing, etc., or when they are old, have children with them, are not
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by sershe 6y ago
1km or especially 2km is not in any way a reasonable walk. It is just barely reasonable for a healthy adult in good weather, and still tedious. I personally find that mid-density is the worst of both worlds, and not just in this regard... I
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by sershe 6y ago
Per capita cases/deaths in the USA are not worse than many major European countries, so I am not sure why you singled out the USA. Moreover, I am not sure the strictness of lockdowns really correlated with outcomes - Sweden is a famous
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by sershe 6y ago
Two parts of your comment contradict each other... How is it that nobody was enforcing/following the lockdowns (so the economy could presumably function), yet pandemic ruined the economy and not lockdowns (implying lack of demand due t
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by sershe 6y ago
I remember Perl being distinctly painful to maintain. My favorite example was when I made a little blog engine in college, that had a calendar component that showed the old posts but had various neat features (in addition to actually handli
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by sershe 6y ago
I can understand the words, I just have very vague (or no) idea of what they're talking about :)

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