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by vik0 3y ago
>During the Yugoslav period, there was a minority group of Bulgarian migrants in one region of Yugoslavia. Like most linguistic groups they adopted the national language and believed themselves to be Yugoslav. However their group was som
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by vik0 3y ago
It's not just a Russian name, it's the Slavic name for Constantinople. It's used in all Slavic-speaking countries when teaching Byzantine history, of course, written with slight distortions depending on the Slavic language in
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by vik0 3y ago
>Wow. We are so simple that even a computer understands. You are wildly underestimating how truly complex we truly are We don't understand (computers too, if they "understand") how caenorhabditis elegans work, let alone hu
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by vik0 3y ago
>Am I missing something? Other than (potentially) creating a(n) (unhealthy) parasocial relationship, no
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by vik0 3y ago
I think you're reading too much into it lol I think a more likely interpretation is that a lot of people here are Musk fans, and don't like it when he gets criticized, thus downvoting your comment I'm neither an ultra fanboy
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by vik0 3y ago
>but rather putting the surplus cash in low cost index funds will net you a far greater ROI. Google "problem of induction"
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by vik0 3y ago
Thanks, I'll make sure to never use it to access Microsoft's Facebook
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by vik0 3y ago
I wouldn't say I "research," but I do learn. I do that by reading books I don't read *that* much (for reference: I read 24 books last year; this year 5, so far). Every month I have a goal of how many pages I want to read
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by vik0 3y ago
Why are you surprised? Is base64 hard for chatgpt, or am I missing something?
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by vik0 3y ago
>This isn't hard. Don't pretend it is. Funny. What is a thoughtful regulation that would satisfy 50%+1 (democracy, yay!) of the 350 million Americans that the (or, any) government supposedly represents - or however many foolish
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by vik0 3y ago
I knew I would get the replies that I got. It reminds me of this meme: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/647/Scr...
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by vik0 3y ago
>to make social media itself inhospitable I see nothing wrong with that. Social media has done nothing but harm its users, and people that know its users (or: everybody)
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by vik0 3y ago
What is thoughtful to you is likely not to be thoughtful to somebody else What is generally accepted as thoughtful in one world region, will likely not be considered to be generally thoughtful in another world region Furthermore, the concep
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by vik0 3y ago
There are user flairs on old reddit too. You can see the persons karma if you hover over their username. But even if that wasn't the case, Reddit (99.98% of the time) sucks, regardless of what UI you use.
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by vik0 3y ago
>I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day. Really? Do you think this company exists today?
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by vik0 3y ago
https://based.cooking/ But it probably doesn't have as many recipes as the other sites linked here do
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by vik0 3y ago
God, I hope this technology never catches on. It's scary to even think how the world (or, at least, the industrialized world) will be changed to become (even more) socially inept, and as a side effect, people becoming more and more dep
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by vik0 3y ago
But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Same with most people in the world who practice medicine or law Or did you mean to convey that people who go to boot camps think it
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by vik0 3y ago
I'm glad someone mentioned him. I found his channel a while ago and I really enjoy his stuff!
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by vik0 3y ago
So you won't watch the interview? It doesn't interest you whatsoever (even though you know he'll lie - politicians, amirite?)? I don't use X, but I will be watching the interview. I'm just interested, it has my atte
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by vik0 3y ago
You would voluntarily subject your kids to short-form media consumerism?
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by vik0 3y ago
I feel like we're so deep in the thread - where after people have time and time again disproven the original comments message about how being 12 years old is some magic cut-off point to language learning - there are now people who just
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by vik0 3y ago
On a side note, I read the book last year, and even though I thought it was a nice book, the amount of examples he gives in each part is oftentimes superfluous. I think if he only gave one example at most per part, the book could have been
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by vik0 3y ago
I don't believe the person you replied to meant to convey that such a change will be positive or negative for him, but merely that the status quo will likely change in the coming decades
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by vik0 3y ago
https://nitter.net/nntaleb/status/1743935809877671957#m :)
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by vik0 3y ago
The stock market isn't representative of how real world actors are doing at any given moment. I'd recommend reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb. But I'm glad you made money
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by vik0 3y ago
>The journey to Mars is similar in relative technical requirements and time-on-ship to the early European colonization of the Americas. I dunno, this seems a bit doubtful. Water vs no air type of deal. I think going to Mars is a tiiiiiny
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by vik0 3y ago
Alright, thanks
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Can you link your source/s?
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by vik0 3y ago
Why do you think it takes that much land to feed an entire (average[1]) family? Besides plants, you could have animals, and get milk and meat from them. Chickens for eggs and meat too. It doesn't take too much land for it in my opinion

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