AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 15d ago
Almost. I would still want a location sharing app on my kids phones, a navigation app, maybe a sport tracking app. That would be a locked down smartphone with a few apps I would install and no browser access.
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by AdrianB1 1mo ago
I checked the comments to see if anyone pointed to this: I can imagine so many memes with this line :)
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by AdrianB1 2mo ago
I don't think that most competent IT people are pushing for digital-only systems. The people that I see pushing for digitalization are either clueless politicians or corrupt or incompetent IT people selling snake oil. The sad part is t
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by AdrianB1 2mo ago
It is not corruption. Or not just corruption. A close relative, government employee, was in charge of building a new application. They have nobody in that entire organization of several thousands people that know how to write specifications
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
I mean that higher end jobs don't want to be in an area where they don't enjoy. They are the higher tax payers and they want to enjoy their lives far from the kind of people that live in rent controlled housing - there are differe
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
And it is also a matter of age and stage in life. I enjoyed living in a big city (Bucharest) for the parties and socializing (in my 20), dancing (Casa de Tango) in my 30-40, with schools nearby. Now I sometimes work from a house in the moun
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
This is a very bold and subjective statement. I don't disagree it is the best city in US for some people, but the objective best - I doubt it.
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
> New York is a city that people all around the world want to live in I don't know anyone that wants to live in NY. I would not move there for a 7 figure salary. I think some opinions in this discussion are based on old realities fr
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
I guess many jobs don't want to be in the places where very cheap housing exists. What is the point of earning SV money and live in a bad neighbourhood?
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
That is the point: as a citizen in a city, you are part of that city and any contract the city is part of. Otherwise, what/who is a city?
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
That is just a bad deflection, not an answer to the point.
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
> just being a resident of a city doesn’t give you standing to sue over any decision that has a tenuous adverse effect on you Why not? If you are impacted, why not? When do you have a standing then? Visitors out of town have less standin
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
If it is a park, does it mean anyone living in the city has standing because their entire city lost the park?
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
How about we make taxation as a fix amount per citizen and then nobody needs to declare their income OR land? And it is equal and fair, as in "pay your fair share", and that's it: you are a citizen, then you pay $X as your co
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
Yes. Most of the people I see are on the extremes of either hating LLMs or fanatically loving it, but I am somewhere in the middle ground, I think, where I see it as a tool that sometimes helps to some extent. I don't depend on it, it
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
What does the percentage has to do with anything? Do they have more percentage in voting? Or in the spending of the money they pay as taxes? I don't know how people have the guts to pretend equality, but not in taxation. One human, one
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
At least in the newest headset Sennheiser announced user replaceable battery, without announcing the price or if it is a standard format that you can buy everywhere or a very pricey gold-pressed latinum custom audiophile one.
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
First you are deflecting and going in discussions about points that were never made, then you keep preaching a system where you don't have property rights under the nice "think of the children" pretext that it is a "pro-
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
You bought the land, so it is yours, right? Yes, I am fine with taxes, but not with any type of tax, not property taxes (it is bought with money already taxed) and not with taxes as punishment or taxes as political games. I am opposed to ta
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
That is basically removing property rights, when the land is not yours but you just rent it ... you will own nothing and be happy.
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
I also think UBI is necessary, but I don't have a political agenda on how to force people funding it. Maybe it's me growing in a communist country and hating it to death (communism, socialism and all the variants that treat people
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by AdrianB1 3mo ago
I see the point, but I don't see what is wrong with that, and I am relatively poor person. I see calls for equality all over the place, but nobody wants to be equal, especially not in taxation - a fix amount (not percent of something)
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
I don't understand how some people write hundreds of text/chat messages per day. I am communicating by talking to people almost 100% of non-work, most of the discussions are face to face, I write or receive a handful of texts or c
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
I heard that lie about "sensible restrictions" so many times, now I am waiting for "sensible violence", "sensible beating to death" and so on. It is a false argument that "there will be restrictions so all
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
Yes. Not often, but yes, it happens: when I am working on something where it takes me a few hours of deep focus to complete and I get interrupted, it can derail me for days. What disappears most of the time is engagement, I tend to postpone
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
Lacking not just courage, but also character. Wasting company money on buzzwords and dubious outcomes is lack of character.
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
I am paying taxes in US for over 20 years, don't hold a green card, not interested in ever getting one and not complaining that I don't have the right to vote. How are these things related?
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
What I did not see in the article or comments is the fact that people dictate how things evolve. People vote with their wallets (or via local councils) in ways that directly or indirectly influence the outcome. The title can also be, and st
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
A false flag to fight for. A wrong purpose in life.
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by AdrianB1 4mo ago
In my part of Europe doctors are paid extremely well. Construction workers also earn quite well given the lack of qualification required, a highway worker earns more than a junior developer and even more than many mid-level developers. The

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