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by vladms 3mo ago
While I agree with the general sentiment (people not putting effort is a bad signal), I also think people are sometimes being too harsh. Everybody has limited time and resources and knowledge. Making something (a business, a book, a website
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by vladms 3mo ago
Possible and available without any specific configuration on my side (except creating the user) are different things. I know I managed it many years ago with some effort, but nowadays it was just available. You are correct that it should no
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by vladms 3mo ago
I do not know since when (I am using it for couple of years), but in Arch, it is very simple to have two X sessions (by using "log out" > "switch user") for two different accounts, so switching it's just a Contro
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by vladms 3mo ago
My opinions is that an idiotic government will use whatever data it can find, and we should be more worried that one appears than imagine that because they do not have some data they will not do some idiocy. I am not for collecting all data
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by vladms 3mo ago
I think that the financialization of wealth is a problem of education not of the political system. People just do not understand how that is a problem and how it affects them. For me the best thing in a democracy is the fact that is suppose
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by vladms 3mo ago
For better their lives as well as the locals' life I think it is most of them. For feeling rewarded or fulfilled for doing that, I think depends on both the person and the country, but probably quite rare. I tried two countries so far
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by vladms 3mo ago
I think that for the physical store example the overhead is already included in the object price, and probably a significant part of it. > If you want me to pay for your overhead of continued development My recollection with the status o
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by vladms 3mo ago
> it not only seems to be mostly written not by a regular users, but by people who contribute to CoMaps How did you evaluate that? I use CoMaps, I am not a contributor to it, but in the comments I read I do not remember seeing many peopl
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by vladms 3mo ago
Depends though what you pay for the one-time price. You can pay an offline version of the application (no extra costs afterwards), or a limited period of SaaS application updates (let's say 3 years). I agree that paying a one time pric
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by vladms 3mo ago
Don't you think there is a difference from "knowing how it works" and "reproducing every aspect of it at the level of the state of the art" ? Also, your example seems flawed if you restrict to a certain product. Can
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by vladms 3mo ago
I have similar experience with the poster, and the way I read it is, "from the things I build here are some examples". I did learn about advanced physics topics that enable transistors, and even did some experiments, but for funda
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by vladms 3mo ago
I would add though that the opinion is not entirely irrational. For many people the state is inefficient, illogical, evil and goes after them without any reason (ex: think COVID restrictions). Then why do you care about another way to label
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by vladms 4mo ago
Sorry to hear about the moment of social anxiety (I assume it happens with humans occasionally). But can't wonder don't you have also moments of joy because of job well done, an appreciative colleague or something similar? I don&#
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by vladms 4mo ago
Many forums have/had policies about not doing cross posting (in different categories). I find this similar. Yes, maybe from the "plagiarism" angle is not very relevant, but I would prefer not to have a system in which people
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by vladms 4mo ago
> Notice the utter absurdity of asking the bottom 99% of humanity to take responsibility for what they have absolutely no control over. I notice the absurdity of you suggesting you have no responsibility. It is a matter of how you choose
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by vladms 4mo ago
Wealth distribution is an issue, but lots of "wealth" is due to stuff that is owned by some and used by many. Take a landlord as an example: he might have 100 houses and own 99% of the wealth in a village, but if the houses are in
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by vladms 4mo ago
> They're not, it's systemic with industry being the main culprit and the rich being the ones who benefit from that socialization of pollution costs. You two might agree if we consider that when you say "rich" you mig
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by vladms 4mo ago
30 years ago there were many with the idea "runaway population increase is the biggest issues". It would be wise to have some pro-natality policies here and there, but look at China what happens if you go all "existential thr
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by vladms 4mo ago
Slovenia joined EU rather fast (2003), so that might also have contributed to the prosperity. Joining EU is not exactly "breaking up", is more like "joining". Currently, the rest of ex-Yugoslavia countries don't see
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by vladms 4mo ago
> We really don't need to import any kind of engineers from outside I was involved in a startup in the Netherlands. We tried to recruit Dutch people, all wanted safe 9-5 jobs where they would know what they would do in 1-2 years. A
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by vladms 4mo ago
Probably the solutions mentioned (sex/robots) are not the only ones. Many complain loudly about what might be a minority of the workers, so just knowing more people would have improved their opinion. Others do not have anything better
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by vladms 4mo ago
From what I see, there are many people that don't want to be "bored" more than the people that don't want to be "tired". Of course there are many that want to be neither (so we get social media that gives you &
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by vladms 4mo ago
While I agree with "it's more complex than it seems", some simple things are not done because of FUD and politicians. There are countries (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#Bo.
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by vladms 4mo ago
In my childless group of friends the ratio of happy to unhappy seems similar. What if it is not about the children but about the people? Each has its preferences, and damn I have seen a lot that have no clue what they like and continue doin
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by vladms 4mo ago
I doubt anybody wants to produce more and more people. Most predictions for total population size I have seen are rather asymptotic. We should discuss and reason about population size (where we are, where should we be, what should we do), b
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by vladms 4mo ago
Funny enough I know lots of millennials without children with horrible sleep patterns and habits. But you might be up to something: people are too stressed/anxious/depressed (without children) that adding children seems to them li
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by vladms 5mo ago
Anti-competitive practices that you describe ("all car manufacturers can just agree") is definitely not a capitalistic thing (market competition being an important part of capitalism), and indeed regulation can improve the bad out
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by vladms 5mo ago
In medicine, placebo was proven to have a positive effect. Maybe we will learn about similar effects about other things. Now, if only we would convince everybody that those supernatural beings don't work through representatives that ev
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by vladms 5mo ago
Just because you enjoy a thing at a certain time in your life, doesn't mean necessarily that you would or could have enjoyed a similar thing earlier. Besides, social interactions are one of those things that don't depend exclusive
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by vladms 5mo ago
Do you imply that last 30 years lacked significant science progress? Even if I ignore the tech ones (simpler to associate with the US), there were quite some impressive progress I heard of in other fields (in which US was significantly invo

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