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by thejackgoode 3y ago
It may be unusual or surprising even but I don't think it matters who has popular support in Russia - Russians have lost the minimum agency they had in the mid 90s. There was a failed attempt to regain it in 2011 but it was crushed.
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Well, not if you worked on a MacBook using an ungrounded socket in Europe, for example. Forearms are not that strongly insulated
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Google says we can have 1-4 days of warning for this kind of thing. Is there any approach to circuit breaking that can help appliances against such an event?
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
I'd pay Youtube if they would stop tracking me in return, but I simply cannot believe it will happen at any point
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
at this point, older of two evils is a factor as well
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
.. and what upsets me the most about this and similar systems is that such status quo is not reformable without a huge crisis or a catastrophe. This may be naive, but I feel like humanity could experiment more with some artificial way of br
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
For anyone interested, there's an interesting fact that adenosine build-up due to sleep deprivation improves depression briefly, in many cases [1]. It's not a treatment, obviously, personally I have used it as an immediate relief
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Of course they are necessary. They have to be used responsibly and not as a job perk, that's my point. Light signals are usually enough. I also live in 1.5 mil city and I haven't got used to how many there are after moving here al
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Also, sirens are noisy and nobody even talks about regulating them adequately
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
>given all the videos online of kids beating up teachers and getting away with it I don't think I heard of a single such story in my life. Is it a thing?
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Interesting question, I'd say both. The harder it is to stay in the middle class (by arbitrary standard of living) or "ascend" by incorporating in Ireland, the more hesitant people are regarding children. F.e. if middle clas
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
>the richer you are, the fewer children you have Not entirely true, there is a reverse-parabolic correlation [1] After certain income level, number of children per family increases. Middle class is shooting itself in the foot economicall
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Turning on reader view to read medium.com. How the turntables have ...
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
"no-ego ego" strikes again
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
GPT explains things in a personalised way, it's in no way in the same league as manuals. It's each user's native language.
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
I have a lot of technical discussions and arguments and usually do the following: 1. State the disagreement clearly and politely 2. Show the willingness to engage in as-objective-as-possible argument (in a smaller group, if feasible) 3. Alw
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Somehow it seems to me Twitter will just die and nothing will “overtake” it. People might randomly disperse to multiple new places, as they did from Google+, for example. Twitter had a good decade, little point now to try to reproduce the e
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Doesn't matter how good it will be (same as Chrome), I am never touching it
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Since we are talking about education, there is no such thing as "third world", for 32 years at least.
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
on the flip side (if you're not), the talk is much more interesting and memorable
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Imagine summiting the highest mountain, while being physically carried, as being socially acceptable and widespread. is it to a benefit or to a harm for the idea of summiting? Corruption is unnecessary dimensions added to the thing, which d
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Using sherpas is cheating yourself out of reality. Normalising using sherpas is a display of deep corruption.
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Well, I change laptops every ~four years at work, and the problem goes away by itself
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Explains some things about Hungary though
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
With HN, medium is the message as well
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Glassdoor is one good candidate for "disruption". Anyone knows a competing alternative for a global workplace review website?
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
I think they also had problems before with the opposite issue. Once OpenAI introduced paid subscription, they didn't implement "back to basic" account conversion after the billing expiration, I think I used it for more than t
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Even without US specifics, prison systems seem to not have adapted to the declined birth rate. Maybe the luxury of measuring the system by recidivism rate is more affordable for societies now.
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
When a person's impact is x100, it takes x99 less villain-ness to be a bigger villain
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by thejackgoode 3y ago
Well, that's about to change for the midterm perspective, but that's also not good news for everyone, if you know what I mean

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