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by sershe 6y ago
I have a end-of-fiscal-year crunch at my now WFH job and arranging outdoor activities is harder with all the restrictions, and finding partners is harder when I'm not doing them with my wife. And, with not as many things to do and more
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by sershe 6y ago
Can you just rejoin the organization again? They (used to?) say that the fastest way to get promoted in Microsoft, for example, is to leave for a competitor and then rejoin in 2 years.
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by sershe 6y ago
The last version of CS worth playing was 1.2 (or 1.3? or 1.4? I don't recall), where strafe jumping was still possible, so you could pretend it's Quake and annoy the hell out of the more covert people.
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by sershe 6y ago
As mentioned in other comments this is not a mainstream position, but suppose it were true. What do you do? Think about how one behaves as a nerd in high school. There are a bunch of people running around doing stupid crap: their motivation
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by sershe 6y ago
Alas, looks like a PR move to cobble something together from existing components by consultants for EUR1.5m a year (from the article, unless I misread what that is for). I've been developing backend distributed systems for a while, and
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by sershe 6y ago
Sure, if you donate to your church so that it could put in cushier pillows on the benches or host a seminar about the bible, instead of donating to some effective cause that say saves lives, it's selfish to a significant degree. My mai
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by sershe 6y ago
How is East Palo Alto doing? Serious question, when I was still in SFBA I think the houses there were 2 times cheaper than across the highway and the joke was the weather forecast goes "Palo Alto sunny, East Palo Alto sunny, stray bull
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by sershe 6y ago
That might have been a poor choice of words. I said across 2 posts separated by the response "Couldn't one adopt and have the same experience?" ... "Doesn't that mean that having children is basically selfish?"
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by sershe 6y ago
There are a bunch of AAA-ish? RPGs and strategies on Unity, like Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, Endless Legend, Endless Space. They may not have the player numbers of Heartstone but they are basically what top notch equivalents like like
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by sershe 6y ago
There's no such thing as selfish in absolute sense, it would still be relative to some threshold. It's the only metric that matters in this case - you have a choice to have your own kid or adopt, you have your own kid. Your motiva
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by sershe 6y ago
Evolution by this rather simplistic understanding also would drive (and does drive) people to usurp maximum resources for themselves and their progeny - so, to do everything from hoarding to nepotism, self-dealing and corruption - basically
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by sershe 6y ago
This analogy is false, it's nothing like that at all. Giving or not giving up earnings is a massive change in your life. Having an adopted child or your own child is no change whatsoever other than some hormonal high for yourself; for
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, most might indeed be, but for some, 3 factors I can think of are that... 1) the QoL/unhappy people I notice are mostly due to financial situation - if your friends are all in tech it won't apply; or the fact that one of the
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by sershe 6y ago
Doesn't that mean that having children is basically selfish?
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by sershe 6y ago
Having kids in the first world is probably the most selfish act one can do. All other obvious arguments aside (w.r.t. impact on society, the planet, etc. compared to the alternatives), if your motivation was not basically selfish you'd
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by sershe 6y ago
Couldn't one adopt and have the same experience?
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by sershe 6y ago
Interesting, 26 year old me was willing to have children some day, 31 year old me was contemplating maybe having kids some day when he gets bored with life, 36 year old me never wants children, is married to someone who never wants children
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by sershe 6y ago
How about making the id voluntary to get, but required to get benefits. Want to get the guvmint out of your life? Sure, then don't ask for unemployment benefits.
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by sershe 6y ago
You are getting downvoted but this is absolutely true. In Russia, college is/used to be free and easy to get in to (I think they are limiting that now at least to some extent). As a result, 1) Most students coast. From my CS class ove
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by sershe 6y ago
WA reopened outdoor spaces for the first time this week (to be fair, that also coincided with hot weather). The situation at the trailheads was insane. There were cars lined up along the road half a mile from the parking lot in places (some
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by sershe 6y ago
I think the GP means steam "ecosystem". Over the last 10 years and 1000+ of hours of gaming, I've literally never used a single "feature" or had a single positive interaction with steam other than downloading the ga
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by sershe 6y ago
Or maybe they will? https://time.com/5834087/shanghai-disneyland-sellout/
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by sershe 6y ago
The point is that I was trying to make is that while you may not, I'm going to go out and order that coffee (I'm in the same WFH techie demographic); so will many others if the overcrowding of the trails and park in violation of t
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by sershe 6y ago
That only applies to a small subset, like WFHing techies who are not significantly affected. Economically, regardless of the moral implications of this, people who are impacted are much more likely to go back to work (to take an extreme exa
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by sershe 6y ago
Heh, when I learned to drive in the USA I got a Honda Fit (I'm 6'4"). The plan was to drive it for a year and switch to a car more appropriate for a high-flying' techie, like a BMW X5. I found out after test driving BMWs
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by sershe 6y ago
Just make sure you don't subtly poison yourself if you take magnesium and such: https://www.gwern.net/nootropics/Magnesium
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by sershe 6y ago
I'd start with combating the paranoia with numbers and stories that would compare realistic risks. You can even start before the acute pandemic ends, by comparing pandemic-time and post-pandemic numbers for swine flu (yes, even if it&#
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by sershe 6y ago
You are forgetting about international trade, tourism and migrant work. The only country I'm aware of that was a "green zone" pre-COVID is North Korea; it didn't exactly prosper.
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by sershe 6y ago
Isn't R0 for COVID supposed to be much higher than flu? That was one of the major parts of the arguments for lockdown that I've seen.
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by sershe 6y ago
Update: I double counted the probability in 3b, it should be guaranteed death if we are talking full amount of money. I'd still definitely take dying at 73 while starting with even ~$500-700k over average-job-income-expectancy life (a

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