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by yhavr 3y ago
It's not migrants who created fiscal and bureaucratic hell that disincentivizes people to open companies and employ citizens / become self-employed. It's government that was democratically elected by citizens itself. Foreigne
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by yhavr 3y ago
A democratic nation with powerful economy and complex social rules. Parents push kids to study hard in school. Kids learn a lot, so they pass exams, create smarphones, robots, yet unable to create an environment where people would be motiva
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by yhavr 3y ago
> great benefits You mean health insurance or pension plans? :-) > and make 2+ times as much as tech workers in the EU do. Phew, what is the purpose of this 2x salary, if you don't have time or energy to use it. To raise another
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by yhavr 3y ago
> significantly lags the US and China as a tech power. > US and China Notoriously famous for their awesome work culture. No, thank you. Another useless tech doesn't worth my mental health. Especially with the ability of working
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by yhavr 3y ago
Yes, and empty shelves in the shops, and absence of salaries, joblessness. Maybe in the beginning some people really believed in the changes, but they quickly got disillusioned. The thing is, under commies people were brainwashed that they
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by yhavr 3y ago
Not 70 years, not oppression. Oppressed Ukraine had cossacks who even managed to make their own short-lived state in the middle ages. Oppressed Baltics joined EU after the USSR fell. The problem is, russian nation never had a (stable) democ
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by yhavr 3y ago
The system wasn't even close to the Western one. On the opposite, it was raise of lawlessness and crime. Yes, people had connections, connections with mafia. Either for paying racket, or even participating in their business. It was ext
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by yhavr 3y ago
> during the 90s > one of the most hopeful/optimistic periods in human history I first thought that you were American, but then I read more carefully > and lived in Russia Sorry, but how can you combine "90s" and &qu
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by yhavr 3y ago
This is I wrote precisely. No, being lazy can improve your situation (However I agree it's not a universal pill). It's also called "via negativa", when you achieve "success" eliminating possessions and actions
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by yhavr 3y ago
The idea of romantic love is pretty new. Knowing how lame humanity is, I'm not surprised that no culture has found or integrated yet the replicable way to find and properly develop the relationship with a "soulmate". It doesn
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by yhavr 3y ago
For example, have a network of friends who follow the same path? Self-isolation in suburbs is a particular American bug. There are cultures where people actively socialise until death. Somebody should invite these lay-flatters to Southern E
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by yhavr 3y ago
> Being lazy isn’t an alternative path to working hard It's exactly is. It's funny that people don't see the double standards of capitalist economy. When you're a business, you strive to achieve more goods or money by
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by yhavr 3y ago
> lower living standards Not lower but different living standards. Also, please mind the context. Lying flatism is originated in China, that is famous for the absurd work-life balance. You know, work 6 days/week, 9am to 9pm or even
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by yhavr 3y ago
> next 50 years? it's strange to see this question in the gpt era. well, how about a jinn that is able to construct a seed of a self-replicated spaceships with a warp drive while you're drinking your coffee? ;-)
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by yhavr 3y ago
> I've found that studying others is a reliable way to discover truth and beauty But you can't look in somebody's head, to see the whole context of their behaviour. There is multiple official cognitive flaws related to thi
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by yhavr 3y ago
> Few truths are useful. Philosophy is generally impractical. Modern philosophy is impractical. The Greek/Roman philosophy is great, for example. It should be a huge shame for "humanity" to drop this approach in favor of h
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by yhavr 4y ago
Thank you, will quote this article as another great illustration why I don't want to have kids, or to be precise, don't want to expose them to the homo "civilization". It's another example that "sapiens" a
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by yhavr 4y ago
It will work unless some other party releases the same AI, but without a watermark.
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by yhavr 4y ago
What do you mean "by do I show him ChatGPT?". He'll eventually find about it by himself.
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by yhavr 4y ago
For the most time of year, there is uncomfortable weather/darkness that doesn't motivate to go out and meet others.
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by yhavr 4y ago
These articles are kinda funny. The last article of that kind I was reading while walking Spanish streets full of people of all ages sitting around tables and talking for hours. When I first arrived there I felt how people are in general co
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by yhavr 4y ago
Obviously. What's the beauty of being an office... ahm, worker wasting your life to repay loans/mortgages and raise the next generation of office workers? It'd be great to research and promote alternative adult lifestyles, wh
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by yhavr 5y ago
Lived for Estonia for a long time, so I totally feel you pain. The country is designed for the specific mindset. I mean if you like cold weather, hate interacting with people and prefer to stay at home in general. Otherwise, yeah, it's
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by yhavr 5y ago
We reached the level of socio-technological development when a single person can happily live without a safety network, such as (extended) family or a community. Why should one stay in the society, though? Was it ever intrinsically good? I
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by yhavr 5y ago
- Painless refactoring. I change field "foo.bar" into "foo.quux" and the same field changes everywhere else in the (huge) codebase. Or I change the field name in the type declaration and immediately see what's brok
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by yhavr 5y ago
No way going back to office. - You can choose to work from the place you like, regardless of the local IT market. - Commute. Nuff said. - Having your own schedule is magic. Waking up early in morning and doing all important work till noon&#
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by yhavr 5y ago
> "They give up their own happiness for the sake of their children" This sentence makes total sense for North Korean parents who work super-hard to afford smuggling their kids out of the country. But not for the richest region
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by yhavr 5y ago
What's the main point of the article? Does the modern world have more fancy stuff that the world before? Yes, without any doubt. I think the "capitalist" discourse revolves around the price society pays to get "stuff&quo
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by yhavr 5y ago
What do you mean by "lower quality stuff"? (edit:typo)
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by yhavr 5y ago
The person should get what the market process decides. If a person lives in a "poor" country, it changes nothing. They can spend less? Sure, but peeping in other's pocket under capitalism is a huge communist red flag :-) Mayb

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