boelboel

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by boelboel 5d ago
Lmao this guy thinks people ever decided who/what/how much things should be surveilled.
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by boelboel 5d ago
Many people argue computers were bad for chess till this day and there's good arguments for it.
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by boelboel 7d ago
There's no a market for the vision pro it had extremely poor sale numbers and there won't be a vision pro 2 as far as I know.
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by boelboel 8d ago
For maps there's quite a few, just anything that doesn't have the amount of ads beats it. For Streetview apple lookaround is a better experience if it's mapped well in your area. I believe Google has been trying to improve th
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by boelboel 8d ago
Google Streetview/maps isn't even the best mapping/'streetview' tool at this point. Filled with ads and bugs, some major bugs have been there for 10+ years.
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by boelboel 9d ago
Well you can say this about dozens of products. People basically only care about price and perceived status for some products. Repairability, privacy, sustainability ... are not important for 90% of people, when government tries to they get
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by boelboel 9d ago
The bottom of the line TVs are basically commoditized and are sold at a loss. There's few tv manufacturers and they mostly compete on price, only the top of the line models have pricing power and only for 6-24 months for new models. A
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by boelboel 10d ago
Making services better isn't the goal of the company, I'm sure they could make it better in a month if they wanted to but they'd lose money (which is what's important).
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by boelboel 11d ago
The two are related, bad health makes it difficult to have meaningful relations and lack of meaningful relations fucks up your health. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is worse for life expectancy than loneliness.
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by boelboel 12d ago
Old lines which have some more riders on other stops I imagine. You only need to maintain the rail which has been laid 150+ years ago.
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by boelboel 13d ago
It's not about moving hundreds of people, it's about moving 30-100 people. Many places don't have the demand or physical possibility for a railway. If this wasn't the case there wouldn't be so many short distance fl
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by boelboel 23d ago
Chinese first tier cities aren't accessible, you can't even live there as a country bumpkin.
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by boelboel 23d ago
software is actually one of the sectors most vulnerable to politics as it's a lot more difficult to measure how much value employees add compared to other sectors. Marketing, sales, manufacturing ... are relatively simple to track.
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by boelboel 23d ago
That's what thiefs say
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by boelboel 23d ago
I don't think everyone wants a meritocracy, I sure as hell don't want it. Having some sort of disability in a meritocracy would be even worse than now for example. When people try to get to meritocracy it can also impose serious c
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by boelboel 1mo ago
Tiny bit of truth? I think for many it would happen almost instantaneously, genuinely where else would people put those 3+ hours now spent on the computer/phone/tv. It would also make it easier as more family oriented businesses w
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by boelboel 1mo ago
I'd imagine a great portion of the people buying these high end phones are just duped into paying for an overpriced subscription model. They're not really buying phones at store prices.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
Many people with long hair and lengthy (body) skincare routines take showers which take half an hour daily. Probably depends on what you include in the shower time.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
If they had experience at good companies I think the odds are better than the student getting into a good university after fucking up some classes.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
There's been many countries who've reversed declining birthrates to some extent. Almost all European countries and the US did so after WW2, the US had a birthrate below replacement in the 30s. Many cities in the western world had
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by boelboel 1mo ago
Sometimes I wonder where all these HNers work. The majority of "slightly below top companies" seem to consist of mediocre workers, which is fine. Employees are just doing their job and if they fuck up, even badly, it's not to
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by boelboel 1mo ago
They don't just add more hours of driving they replace a small amount of risky hours for a lot of hours of low risk if they change location/job.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
This is mentioned in the article as well.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
I could imagine taxi drivers have fewer fatal/grave road accidents than the average person or at most slightly more. They tend to drive in cities, are more trained, can't drink or do drugs on the job. For London only 1 taxi driver
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by boelboel 1mo ago
In some countries classics are still widely taught in middle school/high school (as in about 10% of the population taking up Latin). Where I was brought up (Flanders) I'd guess over 50% of people with an advanced degree took up La
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by boelboel 1mo ago
It's like the hydration revolution, wealthy Americans (or those who aspire to be) are very conscious about their health/career/investments/childcare/looks. Many of them seem quite neurotic, maybe it's a consequ
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by boelboel 1mo ago
Leave the department*, the parts where people get on/off trains are closed off from the seats. There's also some gangway connections which have doors between the wagons.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
It's considered rude in Belgium, at least when I commuted there by train. People would leave the wagon to take a call. Maybe it's changed in the past few years. There were also signs that it's prohibited to call in the trains
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by boelboel 1mo ago
I was thinking about more than just scams when I thought of the comment. But I'm probably looking with rose coloured glasses at the early internet.
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by boelboel 1mo ago
Closer to every 5-6 years these days and with ram prices going up it will be even longer. Especially with the low/mid range phones, which are most phones outside some developed countries, people will keep their phones as long as they c

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