vandreas2

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by vandreas2 3y ago
On the other hand, very few jobs these days in the West are about survival anymore. It's true to some extent that you need to pay for your mortgage but at the same time the amount of bullshit jobs is staggering. People work for work fo
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Ask HN: What is the level of trust in your current organization?
5 points by vandreas2 4y ago|1 comments
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Not really Italian lira suffered from inflation, a lot of people push this narrative that somehow Italy was forced to join the Euro against her will. From Wikipedia: Lira pesante Due to the lira's low value after the war economic calcu
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by vandreas2 4y ago
There's no 'just' in flattening a terrain or nuking.
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Soft agree with you about the secular ideologies, I keep wondering if the alternative was actually better. Pre globalization with hard borders, little travel, suspicious of your neighbours, long distance travel reserved for the rich. Is the
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by vandreas2 4y ago
> Notably, we have seen a massive failure in the EU to not only protect itself, 100% dependent on US military defence, even in 2020 - but one of the 'root problems' was the EU powerhouse, Germany, abdicating it's defence r
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by vandreas2 4y ago
I hate to use the word 'privilege' but it applies the other way as well. Like someone is probably in a privileged position to demand immediate refund and a handsome EU compensation on top of that, many people in more unprivileged
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Exactly this. Not sure how much of the scientific messaging reaches the lower socioeconomic subsets of society either, I don't think kids' obesity is because they 've tried everything to lose weight and can't help themse
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Has worked for me. I find the UK food labels on most products quite informative as a rule of thumb. I remember initially being very surprised at some food contains when I started paying attention and how very small things like Mars bars can
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by vandreas2 4y ago
I live in Europe. For employment that demands physical stamina it makes sense that fat people would not be favoured at the extreme level of obesity. My healthcare provider differentiates between overweight and obese and you can't treat
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by vandreas2 4y ago
The "you are beautiful no matter how you look" social campaign probably doesn't help here. There are literally visual cues that you 're doing something in excess and your doctor tells you to lose weight but Instagram say
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by vandreas2 4y ago
I guess you could always go the Romania way, starve the population until debt is zero. The profit extractors were the government but at least it was "our" thieves not some foreign companies. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Perhaps the disastrous outcomes were not a result of central planning per se, but the skewed incentives that central planning mandated. Not sure if central planning can work differently though, probably it's first goal is self preserva
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by vandreas2 4y ago
There is significant development in ex Soviet states https://tradingeconomics.com/romania/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com/estonia/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Feels like the early days of the internet when the computer savvy knew how to find what they were looking for (possibly even using early google) and everyone else was condemned to sifting through trash to get something useful. These days I
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Probably people people who don't fit a certain profile, in the extreme people like kids, old people, billionaires, most politicians, priests, disabled people. Sure kids could grow to become terrorists but I doubt there are any 2 year o
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by vandreas2 4y ago
But it would be even funnier if the advice was something like "to start working don't start working", although I can see how this advice can be very attractive if you 're into counter intuitive zen aphorisms that make yo
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by vandreas2 4y ago
Play and exploration are not mutually exclusive, in fact they seem intertwined. Children discover by playing. Exploration and staying in your comfort zone do seem mutually exclusive however, I wouldn't think playing prevents you from l
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by vandreas2 4y ago
I would think that people care more about things that directly affect them rather abstract financial crime and high level wrong doing. Low level administrative corruption like government officials "fast tracking" applications if y
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by vandreas2 4y ago
OK I think I got what you're saying, is that memorizing means that it will perform only on data it has seen in training that is exactly identical to the current one, and it will fail on even slight variations. My question then beco
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by vandreas2 4y ago
What is the difference between memorization and learning? Could you please elaborate on this? It always seemed to me that a lot of learning is in fact memorization otherwise you wouldn't need a large dataset of cars photos from every a
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Middle-age spread isn't down to metabolism(newscientist.com)
2 points by vandreas2 5y ago|0 comments
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by vandreas2 5y ago
It would cripple them too. Being rich is only relative.
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by vandreas2 5y ago
Depends on the chances of pyrrhic victories in general. You score no points for predicting the most probable outcome. To reverse this, would you be right if you said that Russia won and Russian media agreed?
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by vandreas2 5y ago
Putin has to be seen to threaten and others have to be seen to threaten to meet him. Otherwise why stop at Ukraine when he can keep threatening?
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by vandreas2 5y ago
Or so he says. There is be no point in bombing your own territory though.
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by vandreas2 5y ago
He has to threaten it, it doesn't cost him anything.
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by vandreas2 5y ago
Russia has not taken on any power it can defeat nor does it have the economy, allies or even approval of it's populace. The neighbours that has been invading lately don't really count for "powers" and it's already s
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by vandreas2 5y ago
His close circle of oligarchs and military chiefs are not Putin groupies they 're just getting massively greased. When the tide changes the calculations change. They signed up for a kleptocracy not to get sanctioned and their assets se
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by vandreas2 5y ago
> His only play is to act (?) even crazier. If only playing crazy could get you anything you wanted life would be so easy for good actors. He could pretend he won, pack and go home. If his propaganda machine is so strong people will eat

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