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by achenet 8d ago
Thanks for your reply ^^ > the effects of negative social media are on par with these things. Political violence, violence against minorities and specific genders, and worse. I hate to break it to you, "humans hurting each other ove
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by achenet 8d ago
> if the matter really were so clear, then why, over the last ~200 years, did every country introduce a prohibition-based stance, and why has no country switched to tax-and-regulate? First off, you do have countries switching over to ta
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by achenet 8d ago
> For example, in order to maximise aggregate wellbeing, it would be necessary to hurt individuals. Executing people who are burdensome to society. [citation needed] With all due respect, I think this statement is false. If you live in a
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by achenet 8d ago
Moore's law still holds I reckon. Even it's $10,000 to run today (FWIW, the featured article cites the M5 Mac Studio with 256GB unified memory going for $9,500 as "good enough to host something scary"), in a couple years
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by achenet 8d ago
no, it's not a perfect system, but better. Look at the alcohol market in the U.S. Or even the tightly controlled Systembolaget [0] in Sweden, compared to the modern markets for cannabis and cocaine. Tax and regulate lowers violence and
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by achenet 8d ago
things that directly harm other taxpayers - murder, physical violence, theft, false slander/reputational attacks... prohibiting things that harm the individual should not be the role of government, IMO. Government, in the liberal/
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by achenet 8d ago
Please don't start randomly prohibiting things because you dis-approve of those things. We have, at this point, over a 100 years of evidence showing that prohibition of psychoactive substances (alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, etc) doesn&#x
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by achenet 11d ago
The featured article/podcast has the person presenting define "ultra-processed foods" as industrial hyper-palatable foods. However, it focuses more about how the foods were marketed , and in particular, that the same marketi
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by achenet 13d ago
Location: Lyon, France Willing to Relocate: Yes, to Barcelona, Roma, Hamburg, Koln, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm or Switzerland. Full Remote: Yes. I offer a discount for full-remote work, because it saves me the hassle of reloc
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by achenet 15d ago
If I'm not mistaken there is a tax on secondary residences in France. I am not an accountant, but my understanding is there is a "taxe d'habitation" from which primary residences are exempt, but which must be paid on sec
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by achenet 20d ago
Not the person you're answering to but the way I interpret their statement is "my ancestors came here as immigrants in search of a better life 300 years ago. I honor that by helping those doing the same today." Being American
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by achenet 20d ago
With all due respect 1) not all minorities have their own countries. Examples today would include the Tamagzight people in North Africa and the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey. Other examples could include Christians in the Middle East (Lebannon c
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by achenet 20d ago
> A lot of US tech exists because of skilled foreign workers. I'm not sure what would be the tech industry without them. Relevant historical footnotes: The Manhattan Project [0], where an international team of scientists and enginee
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by achenet 20d ago
I disagree that no 20 year old thinks that much about money. If you're lucky enough to have had rich enough parents to not have to worry about money too much, yes, you'll probably optimize for doing things you enjoy, but people
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by achenet 20d ago
I think that in general, expecting a 'career for life' with one company, as was common in the 1950s, is a bit naive today. Companies change, needs change, people change, just because you like the job now doesn't mean you will
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by achenet 22d ago
It seems logical in this case. Intel were x86, Apple Silicon is ARM-based. ARM-based chips are more power-efficient. Also, it's built on a much smaller process. 3nm, if I'm not mistaken, older Intel was something bigger than 10nm.
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by achenet 1mo ago
To be fair to the news organizations, ads are very probably their primary source of revenue. The "get a bunch of people looking at something interesting and then show them ads" business model has under-pinned newspapers, televisio
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by achenet 1mo ago
that's true, being lucky enough to have one's basic food and shelter needs covered does really help one refuse employments that might be unpleasant, and it's very true that many people are not lucky enough to have that freedo
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by achenet 1mo ago
Yes, strongly agree with this. The goal when interviewing is not "get the job", it's "am I a good fit for this role". If the company is some weird dysfunctional hierarchy run by socio-paths, I'll be happier els
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by achenet 1mo ago
Location: Lyon, France Willing to Relocate: Yes, to Barcelona, Roma, Hamburg, Koln, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm or Switzerland. Full Remote: Yes. I offer a discount for full-remote work, because it saves me the hassle of reloc
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by achenet 2mo ago
agree. Do you engineer software? Congrats, you're officially a software engineer :) Start doing it for money, and you're officially a professional software engineer. Make software that genuinely improves peoples lives (like the
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by achenet 2mo ago
look on the bright side, at least you still have internet! (and here would be a great time for Murphy's Law to kick in and your router to decide to stop working all of a sudden)
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by achenet 2mo ago
Frenchman here, I Google Translated that and it says "We at WC Duck recommend WC Duck"... I'm left scratching my head, if you'd care to spell out what the saying means for non-Dutch I'd appreciate it :)
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by achenet 2mo ago
I generally agree with you (I'm typing this on a laptop running Void Linux), but I do still keep a Windows laptop for gaming and music production - I've tried running Bitwig Studio on Linux, and it's easier on Windows. While
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by achenet 2mo ago
A habit that I've taken up which makes me quite happy and I think solidly helps my focus is working offline. Some days, I'll set a timer for two hours, and then just work offline for those two hours. I have most of the documentati
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by achenet 2mo ago
from TFA: > Em dashes can be used instead of brackets in a sentence — like this one for example — and you can just type your shit and keep going. Brackets are for people who raise their hand in meetings and say: “this might be a stupid q
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by achenet 2mo ago
Forgive the uninformed question, but doesn't Saudi Arabia also have significant armed forces? Given that Iran has closed the Straights of Hormuz and attacked several other Arab states, and has conducted strikes in Saudia Arabia itself,
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by achenet 2mo ago
if your sole goal is making money, yes, because Microsoft have actually done a pretty good job of making money, even if that's generally at the cost of the well-being of people using their software.
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by achenet 2mo ago
I'd argue that generally speaking, the problematic social media tend to be ad-supported websites that focus on user-generated content. so Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit are all social-media, because all are ad-supported, and a
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The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs(andrewchen.com)
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