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by vik0 2y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll probably finish it
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by vik0 2y ago
>I'll go against the common advice and say, stick to it, finish the degree because it will give you good social mobility (when trying to travel for work to any country in the world, you'll either need to be a specialist in your
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by vik0 2y ago
>Its not nearly as free to market as you seem to think it is. Soil conservation efforts where the government subsidizes you to not grow anything have been a thing in the past, to raise the price on certain goods, and there is always the
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by vik0 2y ago
There are no robots in agriculture, there are machines. Sorry for being pedantic.
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by vik0 2y ago
>I don't know if by "getting into agriculture" you mean running a farm itself, or if the farmers would be your customers, and I don't know if the situation is different in Europe, but in the US, running a farm is almo
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by vik0 2y ago
A cure to Alzheimer's
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by vik0 2y ago
Give Taleb a read
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Ask HN: Is there a point in me getting a CS degree anymore?
16 points by vik0 2y ago|38 comments
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by vik0 2y ago
>Unorthodox suggestion - look at the documentaries and lit on mob tactics. You got any documentaries and books/articles to recommend?
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by vik0 2y ago
>open source company A huge misconception. Telegram was never, is not currently, and will never be entirely open source You're either (entirely) open source, or you're not. Telegram is not
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by vik0 2y ago
Lol okay; have a nice day as well
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by vik0 2y ago
The onus falls on the one making the first claim to explain how the government could possibly have no free speech rights in the first place. But fine: The government - all three branches of it (judicial, legislative, executive) - is not som
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by vik0 2y ago
I suppose i was a bit overly harsh with calling 3d guns what I did > Certainly wasn't to the German Kurd 'Jstark' who invented it and indeed concealed it on German soil. Okay, I don't know much about him aside from ju
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by vik0 2y ago
>Rights are 'god given.' I'm not religious anymore, but wasn't it Paul who made the argument that we should respect temporal authority and their temporal laws, because it was God Himself who allowed them to become an
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by vik0 2y ago
I almost thought you were going to present an argument as to how the government could possibly have no speech "rights" in the first place
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by vik0 2y ago
Do you dislike sports or fitness as a broad category that includes sports?
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by vik0 2y ago
I have a very cheap TV package that includes something like a dozen, maybe two dozen sports channels. That's where I mostly watch soccer, but very rarely these days. I watch no other sport, and I pay for all of those channels because t
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by vik0 2y ago
Yes I know that's a potential problem (along with using things like digital wallets), but I don't use banking apps (nor digital wallets)
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by vik0 2y ago
I've had friends take their phones in for a battery replacement, and let's say the results were not better than before they took their phones in. As with buying a battery from ebay, it's still not gonna be an OEM battery (or
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by vik0 2y ago
>I never heard of someone who bought a new phone _solely_ for a new battery I did. I had a Samsung Galaxy s10e, and I have an s23 now, which I got on its launch. The only reason I got a new phone is because they don't have legit bat
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by vik0 2y ago
Coding and AI aren't mutually exclusive domains
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by vik0 2y ago
May he rest in peace
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by vik0 2y ago
Why do so many people online report having poor relationships with their parents? Is this real? I don't know anyone in real life who talks like this about their parents. Am I in a bubble or what?
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by vik0 2y ago
Thanks, I guess
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by vik0 2y ago
I really hope the US doesn't become like Europe (Europe in general, as I know it's not an actual untied enough polity at the moment) when it comes to free speech, and, come to think of it, in many, many other aspects as well. It m
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by vik0 2y ago
>I think the most surprising thing I've realized as I've gotten older is the way in which these cultural and legalistic norms, even 100 years+ bygone, still have considerable influence on modern cultures. Oh yeah, definitely. I
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by vik0 2y ago
By all accounts, this looks to me like it's nothing else but a politically motivated decision - and it gives ever more credence to my take that there is no freedom of speech in Europe As a side note, this is somewhat reminiscent of how
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by vik0 2y ago
I never thought someone would compare polymaths (let's call it, intellectual or mental power) to people with great athletic ability (let's call it, physical power) Although thinking about it a bit more right now, I don't see
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by vik0 2y ago
I find it extremely depressing that people here wish for more experts (i.e. specialists). The greatest minds that have thus far graced this planet were not specialists, they exceeded in a wide pool of areas. They were, as the saying doesn&#
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by vik0 2y ago
>Focusing not on what happened, but on why it happened You might want to check out Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism, and just Popper's other works in general.

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