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by vkk8 5y ago
I guess the answer to these problems depends a lot on the job. I don't know why we would expect all sorts of different jobs to nicely fit into the same 9-to-5 5-days-a-week model anyway? For sure there are jobs where that works just fi
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by vkk8 5y ago
Depends on why those unproductive hours are unproductive. My hypothesis is that human brain is just incapable of doing the sort of forced, focused work that modern work requires for more than a small number of hours. I.e. the hours worked a
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by vkk8 5y ago
The need for having Cloudflare is itself, to some extent, result of too much centralization. The massive DDoS attacks, which Cloudflare protects you from, require some amount of resources or at least risk taking, and are worth it only for b
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by vkk8 5y ago
I guess they could tie it to Amazon Prime (like they did with Prime video) and just let Prime cutomers download any game on the platform without paying extra.
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by vkk8 5y ago
1) Such smart person might not even exist 2) If she exists, and is as smart as she should be, she will realize quite quickly that her power can be used for personal gain and she will become corrupted. Power corrupts, etc. and you can't
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by vkk8 5y ago
Apparently it's not. I live in Finland and I've never had my internet connection cut off in a supermarket (or any other large building). This has happened to me sometimes in Southern Europe, though. I don't know if they boost
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by vkk8 5y ago
Can't say about your particular situation, but I think that, in general, our view of what is "normal weight" is very distorted due to the fact that most people around us are kinda fat. The same goes for exercising habits; peo
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by vkk8 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
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by vkk8 5y ago
I'm also puzzled by the fact that EU is funding this. Usually states and state-like entities are exactly the ones who don't want people to use decentralized technologies, because they often make laws difficult or impossible to enf
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by vkk8 5y ago
What if you plateau on squats?
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by vkk8 5y ago
Depends on how you do it, I guess. Squatting low weights or just body weight indeed doesn't involve stabilisers very much. But try squatting 2x your bodyweight on the bar and you find that it takes everything you've got to keep th
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by vkk8 5y ago
Indeed. And I'd wager that what works on them is not even constant, but varies with time, experience, body composition, etc. If you start from zero, doing anything a little bit improves your body, but it's also very easy to overdo
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by vkk8 5y ago
Same. I went from yoga to Mark Rippetoe and, while I had difficulties for a long time due to trying to learn the lifts on my own, in the end the squats and deadlifts have benefited my body much more than yoga.
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by vkk8 5y ago
I've had similar thoughts on this. In sports, most people accept that genetics plays a huge role (if you want to play in the NBA, having tall genes certainly helps a lot). Why wouldn't they also matter for intellectual pursuits? I
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by vkk8 5y ago
Combined with "A phone designed for the long run" that reads like a joke. 3 years is the "long run"? My Raspberry Pi's uptime is probably longer than that. For comparison, Ubuntu LTS releases have 5 year support.
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by vkk8 5y ago
I was wondering about this too. The article also says that the maggots can be killed by suffocating them in a paper bag. Wouldn't the gut also suffocate them? I desperately need to know this, because if I ever travel to Sardinia I will
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by vkk8 5y ago
Isn't it what it's supposed to be? I mean, their purpose is to persuade me do something that I otherwise wouldn't want to do (usually, to buy some product). How is this not hostile to begin with?
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by vkk8 5y ago
I see the same at my workplace. Hell, I think I'm slowly becoming one of those underpaid and underperforming people myself. The reason for this is that if there is no chance of a meaningful improvement in your salary or other benefits,
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by vkk8 5y ago
In more user-centric (as opposed to content-centric) forums this problem is solved by banning users who repeatedly make low quality posts. One crappy comment here and there is something anyone might make, but the same person posting pointle
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by vkk8 5y ago
The author of the dickbutt (if he/she can be found) might easily sell the rights to their creation to a copyright troll for one million dollars after which my scenario could take place.
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by vkk8 5y ago
I'm not personally a software professional, but to me it seems that the problem is economical. Centralization and walled gardens happen because they are a way to couple the internet platforms to the economic system. I think that if don
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by vkk8 5y ago
Slashdot indeed exists, but its comment section is complete garbage and the news are less and less about science and technology and more and more about politics and nerd tabloid style journalism ("You wouldn't believe what Linus T
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by vkk8 5y ago
Indeed. I find it extremely ironic how people here - of all places - are sympathetic to this sort of stuff.
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by vkk8 5y ago
Additional properties it should have: * Basic HTML only, no Javascript * No user interaction (comments, etc.) * Gets updated occasionally but not all the time, perhaps a few times a year
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by vkk8 5y ago
Memes will be killed by some entrepreneuring copyright troll at some point. In many jurisdictions, memes would either break the copyright laws or at least be in the grey zone. It's only a matter of time before someone exploits this. Af
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by vkk8 5y ago
The beauty of the old internet was that there was no need for filtering, because it was done by the users by choosing which platforms to participate. Instead of many fragmented, special interest platforms we now have a few generic mega-plat
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by vkk8 5y ago
I think that most of the filtering happened because different communities operated on different platforms rather than a single huge one like Reddit or Facebook. A small, old time discussion forum for a specific interest in my (rather small)
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by vkk8 5y ago
I actually found HN quite late (a few years ago) and was pleasantly surprised how well the spirit of the old Reddit and Slashdot lives on here.
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by vkk8 5y ago
Not all. While commercialization of the creator culture undoubtedly has some benefits, it also kills some of its original "soul". Someone making funny videos on the internet on their free time without any kind of expectation to ma
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by vkk8 5y ago
> Some years ago there was an NPR story on women in academia and how one decided to get together 50 top female academics in their fields and update Wikipedia in their subject matter that they hold PHD's in and work at Universities t

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