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by vladms 2y ago
> about this thing that professionals dedicate their whole lives to mastering After doing some healthcare work I ended up understanding that some topics are not well known even by the professionals dedicating their whole lives to that be
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by vladms 2y ago
Not sure what is "no true" from my comment as you were not specific, but at least to the suggestion of installing heat-pumps in Paris, this will be a much bigger investment than putting "some A/C". I don't thin
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by vladms 2y ago
I would claim there is no 100%. At least in engineering my professors were saying (paraphrasing) that it's all about trade-offs and most of the times there is not "one answer". I think many education systems (up to graduate a
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by vladms 2y ago
I have heard enough discussions about the Paris Olympics budget that I would consider that A/C was not provided for purely cost reasons. I do agree myself that A/C is a luxury in most cases (at least in Paris) and many other thing
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by vladms 2y ago
CO2 emissions in excess compared to recent time (what seems to be happening) "harm" the natural equilibrium with the result that some (many) things on the planet (humans but not only) can't adapt fast enough. If you consider
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by vladms 2y ago
I think taking decisions based on different risk models is not a hallucination. To the extreme: if during covid someone would live completely off grid (no contact with anyone) would have greatly reduced infection risk, but I would have foun
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by vladms 2y ago
This directly implies that all the people that did useful stuff (improving cancer survivability, new vaccines, renewable energy, and others) are all "below" the "greatest minds of our generation". Not to mention it also
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by vladms 2y ago
Depends on the field what you risk. Many white collar jobs will not risk their lives or injury, plus nowadays regulations should reduce these extreme risks. Saying "owner simply has less money" can have many implications on their
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by vladms 2y ago
Is endurance to be desired? If we would make a parallel with biological systems, it seems that death allows evolution, so I think it's good that nowadays companies don't last that long. Given the state of the world I think there a
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by vladms 2y ago
Different times, different solutions. Backup cameras were not a solution in 1970's Netherlands otherwise maybe it would have been considered. Idea was that things are not set into stone and change faster than we realize. And there will
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by vladms 2y ago
The standard of living is something very dynamic though. It's more about perception than anything. It's normal that people want "better" than what their parents had, question is what is "better". If lots of peo
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by vladms 2y ago
> But the idea that individual developers should care about what happens to the business after they leave is just preposterous. It's not about caring after you leave. It's while you stay caring enough to do useful things for th
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by vladms 2y ago
I am always amazed when interacting with some people how much it "helps" them to ask a (couple of) questions to LLM rather than (just) using google. I (am many IT friends) never need that. But there are many "low skilled work
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by vladms 2y ago
Reference? This tells a quite different story: https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours And talking about benefits, would you claim that life 50 years ago was the same for the average citizen as today? Because if not, to me
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by vladms 2y ago
Some ideas were in fact already tried, but whomever does not history might suffer reliving it. For example check: https://www.familistere.com/uploads/media/5a9c4bd061fce/fami... To quote: "the associatio
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by vladms 2y ago
What is mystical to follow a procedure? And even breaking a big nut with a stone is an "action that we could never do with our biological bodies". Currently it is more esoteric on how a baby (human but not only) is formed than how
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by vladms 2y ago
I do not think "amateurs" is a good description about the people writing the code - most will be highly technical people with lots of experience. And "loosely coordinated" can be applied to many "corporations"
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by vladms 2y ago
Sometimes rules/ideas are useful for specific stages or projects, but people tend to forget to be critical and decide for each project in particular the set of rules they want, and not to make out of them "axioms". Related to
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by vladms 2y ago
I find the probability of someone on the internet being able to give you sound advice, without knowing your situation and personality extremely small. For me personally it is most of the time about the balance between what you can afford, w
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by vladms 2y ago
I find it a bit strange that the article (and also a lot of the discussion here) does not discuss the size of these houses (in square meters per person), or alternatively the distribution of the sizes/areas. I grew up in a 20 square me
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by vladms 2y ago
The thing is he planned an invasion for a long time, and failed quite badly at it - the first weeks there was barely any aid to Ukraine and still Ukrainians managed to push the Russians back. This is not that much about US or Russia interes
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by vladms 2y ago
> Western countries don't give a shit People talk too easily about countries as if they are a person. I have lived in the east, I have lived in the west: every actual person has problems, everybody thinks their problems should come
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by vladms 2y ago
Might be cultural, but I would prefer a neutral tone. The friendly tone gives some expectation of good result of the inquiry or of implication, which makes it worse when the problem is not solvable or not in the power of agent to solve - wh
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by vladms 2y ago
I would not generalize. Different countries have different police forces. It's true that police will reflect some of the problems of their society (either violence, racism or others), but even that might be more or less strong tendency
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by vladms 2y ago
Revolutions are much easier to spot afterwards. Maybe Starlink will be a revolution, but maybe more and more people will get better wired access (so new subscriptions will slow). I don't think it's that evident now how it will go
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by vladms 2y ago
Many species went extinct during Earth's history. Evolution requires quite aggressive competition. The way the habitat got destroyed by humans is stupid because it might put us in danger. You can call me "speciesist" but I do
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by vladms 3y ago
I wonder if 20 years ago same guy was suggestion to give up electric cars because they are too expensive. The discussion of what is the best way to deal with plastics should be done with data, formulas and graphs not with opinions. And on t
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by vladms 3y ago
> We need to raise them to an appropriate level I do not know what most people would find an appropriate level (I for one would prefer the current level, you would prefer a raised level). Somehow I feel the same about all the privacy di
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by vladms 3y ago
The border check is different from the airline check. Border checks are imposed by the states. Gate checks are imposed by airlines also to prevent for examples people buying tickets in advance and reselling them at higher prices to other pe
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by vladms 3y ago
Did not know this about Sweeden but in most other cities I flown they did a quick look at the id as well (ok, sometimes they did not pay attention but the intention was there).

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