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by yboris 4y ago
It seems like if our society had UBI (Universal Basic Income) we wouldn't have to worry so much over cases like this - people would be able to get by, it wouldn't be a crisis for so many individuals.
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Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - Browse, search, and organize your videos (Win, Mac, Linux). I sell it for $5.00 but $3.50 goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation . I recommend more peop
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by yboris 4y ago
TL;DR summary: Problem : cabin would inevitably vibrate at some point and astronaut's chairs would too, making displays impossible to read. Soution : put a sensor on the chair and synchronize the displays to only pulse their light wh
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by yboris 4y ago
Created Video Hub App (that will be 5 years old next month). I sell it for $5 and $3.50 of each purchase goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation (See GiveWell.org for details). It was averaging around 100 purch
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by yboris 4y ago
Are you the kind of person who ignores the moral arguments against eating meat by saying "others aren't going to do it"? I don't understand the criticism. This is an argument in practical ethics; it doesn't matter h
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For all their talk about "high resolution" there is nothing in the FAQ (or anywhere else I've found) to what that means. How many pixels do you get per square meter on the ground? That's the only meaningful measure, an
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I'd like you to also consider the variation of "end all sentient existence instantly, preventing it from ever restarting" One concern is wild animal suffering - https://wildanimalsuffering.org/
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by yboris 4y ago
Related: Better to Never Have Been by David Benatar It's a position of antinatalism . Antinatalist philosophy roughly claims that sentient beings are harmed when they are brought into existence, and it is therefore wrong to procreat
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by yboris 4y ago
I had BS in Math, MA in Education, 2 years of Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, and I was a math teacher for about 5 years. Around 31 years old I became a "full stack web dev" and have been happy ever since. I did have background
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+1 for your sentiment. Thank you for articulating it. Feels like so many people in the US has taken the Adam Smith self interest sentiment to the extreme, to the point that people seem to forget we are living in a society - a very interde
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by yboris 4y ago
Seems related: Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years/dp/... The concept of "debt" has a long history that is surprising and illuminating.
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I asked about 20% pay cut and they don't do it. There's a cookie-cutter full time position, and nothing else. I suspect part of it could be stupid laws around America's insane healthcare bullshit, but I don't know.
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Many of us need a 4DWW - Four Day Work Week . I am consistently frustrated that I don't have enough energy after work to spend time on my personal projects, so I wait for the weekend, at which point I just want to rest. Two-day we
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Solid State Active Cooling Could Revolutionize Thermals [video](youtube.com)
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The attention to detail is almost surely the reason the frequency of new videos is low. Meanwhile, I'm getting my machining fix with Inheritance Machining https://www.youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining
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My favorite YouTube restoration channel is My Mechanics - restoring metal objects with tremendous attention to detail and care (creating new parts as needed). I suspect many people who like the watch restorations will like this: https:&#
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I hope you've seen this then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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This is why I super appreciate and love the book Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer -- a classic that started modern-day vegetarianism. The author, my favorite philosopher, uses industry booklets and instruction manuals as example
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You are going by your personal experience which is very dangerous . As far as I understand statistics (taken across the US), If I remember right, at least 97% of all meat comes from factory farms (depends on animal, this may not be aggrega
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It's because they are close together in the factory farm. I don't think you need to consult what veterinarians say - seeing photos of how animals are treated should be enough for you to just stop consuming meat (if you "think
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I found the first book in the trilogy to have more character and history stuff per unit of science fiction than I'd like. I felt like 50% could be removed without losing too much importance. But I'm so glad I stuck through, the fo
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by yboris 4y ago
I absolutely LOVED Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth collection of short stories. One of my favorite Sci-Fi books. Surprised no one else mentioned it here yet.
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Haven't heard of sixel until you. Direct link to a (related?) project https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/
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Looks really great! I love tools that work in the terminal. I used asciichart in my mortgage-and-investments script for the terminal (shows a nice graph). https://github.com/whyboris/mortgage-and-investments <--
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I didn't touch the wiring; just made sure to use the same exact amperage (though I bought all new breakers just in case, and upgraded one to an AFCI - Michigan doesn't require AFCI on everything as the rest of the country seems
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Last time I had an electrician who was going to be doing work requiring disconnecting the meter - so I called, and it seemed like the easiest thing was for us to just cut the seal and someday later the electric company would come by to repl
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Unrelated, but sharing just in case: I don't have electricity training, but last month I replaced my electric panel (upgrading to 30 circuits, keeping 100 amps) and it was easy: turn off every breaker (hiding face behind metal panel as
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by yboris 4y ago
I suspect 4DWW - Four Day Work Week - would tremendously help in achieving a better work life balance. Having worked many weeks that way made a tremendous difference in my life and happiness.
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by yboris 4y ago
Another discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307921
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I've been enjoying home improvement stuff so much! Replaced an electrical panel recently; replaced rotting wood and added a new window in my shed; added drywall in the space going into the basement. I have very little experience with a

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