ajuc

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by ajuc 5d ago
Cleaning my house is hopeless because it will get dirty again. Maintenance of democracy takes effort, yes. We knew that from the start.
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by ajuc 5d ago
> See most retail workers, and anyone behind a cash register. Why would people behind cash register have to stand?
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by ajuc 7d ago
1. they shouldn't even have to work, they should be on a paid leave 2. if they want to work - they should have preferential treatment 3. even if they are not pregnant - their bathroom breaks or the ability to sit down shouldn't be
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by ajuc 7d ago
In any poor Eastern European country they would go for months-long paid leave long before the birth and then for months-long paid maternity leave. If they decided to work during pregnancy they would get preferential treatment. How are Ameri
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by ajuc 1mo ago
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(09)00525-7/fulltex... > The article by Himmelstein et al1 in this issue of the The American Journal of Medicine documents that health care expenses were the most common
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by ajuc 1mo ago
If it happens much more in US than in other countries - it contributes. There's about 500 000 medical bankrupcies in US per year. That's huge. Also - medical debt (not even bankrupcy necessarily) contributes significantly to homel
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by ajuc 1mo ago
Medical bankrupcy would make you homeless and cause you to abuse drugs and commit crimes at higher rate for one example. Badly controlled medical system with bad incentives caused opioid crisis. Bad incentives (government and healthcare sys
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by ajuc 1mo ago
If you pay much more and get worse results that's objectively not OK. It means the system is inefficient and could be easily improved saving lives and money. > Bad life expectancy is concentrated in the poorest Americans. Which is n
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by ajuc 1mo ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/home-owne... Also my bad, it's 65.7% for US and 87.3% for Poland
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by ajuc 1mo ago
US life expectancy is 79.76 years. That's 62nd in the world, lover than EU average, lower than many less wealthy countries. It's objectively not "working OK" for most Americans, especially when you consider how much you
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by ajuc 1mo ago
87% of Poles own a house in comparison to 67% in US.
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by ajuc 1mo ago
Doesn't matter which kind of GDP you use - it won't tell you how wealthy a country or its people are. That's because GDP measures how much you did in one year, and wealth is accumulated over centuries. Using GDP to measure we
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by ajuc 2mo ago
Make the floor transparent.
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by ajuc 2mo ago
False accusations and lies are evil. It's not a debatable statement. Trying to spin it into a positive is not going to work.
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by ajuc 2mo ago
They will do that anyway. No amount of pandering will change their minds.
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by ajuc 2mo ago
The time for this debate was 100 years ago. Now only people who can't be convinced aren't convinced, so there's no point convincing. So why not make fun of them? There's no downside.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Strength of fibers scales with crossection area, mass scales with volume.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
I really liked Stanisław Lem's take on this in the short story "The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon". https://www.oocities.org/stanislaw_lem/opowiadania/opowiadan... A solution for a milit
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by ajuc 3mo ago
There's a pretty cool article about trying to understand electronics and fix a radio the way we try to understand biology. https://mappingignorance.org/2014/07/02/biologists-cant-unde... So now instead o
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Unpopular opionion - Dostoyevsky is just russian Kipling. Empire apologist who pretended to write about deep stuff but in the end always got the convenient result.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
People in Europe tow stuff with 120 HP sedans or combis all the time. Driving a vehicle that you can't park, that's unsafe for pedestrians and burns 50% more every day just so you can tow something marginally easier on these 2 occ
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by ajuc 3mo ago
What's more comfortable about SUV or a truck than a minivan or combi? How is a tall hood increasing your family comfort? It only increases your ego.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Id we wanted to do sth similar for SUVs and Trucks it would be a special driving licence required, with additional requirements and more expansive insurance.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Going from 90% to 95% efficiency you're halving the thermal loses, thus reducing the need for cooling by half. It's a big deal. Same with going from 99% to 99.5% efficiency. It still reduces the cooling needed by half.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
> Now it becomes way more expensive for small studios to come out with games that have online features. Good riddance. Online features suck. Make your game multiplayer or make it singleplayer. Don't add pointless online features. PS
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Commit messages are usually more useful than code comments. For one thing they change when the code changes, so they are much less likely to lie.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
If you need to search for a variable named i - you should have named it something else (and no, jj is NOT an improvement in that case). One letter variables are supposed to be used in scopes that fit on the screen completely. You might as w
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by ajuc 4mo ago
1. there's a trade-off between graphics/sound quality and story complexity. The better quality your voiced dialogue is - the more you have to pay for every additional line - so you tend to shorten it. Same with graphics - it'
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by ajuc 4mo ago
No mention of the Witcher? The whole franchise is based on moral dilemmas like that.
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by ajuc 4mo ago
Yeah I started walking a lot since 2021 (before I walked but just a few km to/from work, and sometimes I'd take a bus), since 2020 I worked remotely and I realized how much I need these walks, started walking around 7km daily on a

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