seiko988

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by seiko988 7y ago
I've had very good results with cliqz as far as European search engines go. https://beta.cliqz.com/
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by seiko988 7y ago
I've always been more interested in who the high status women go for; British actors/musicians seem to be a top choice.
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by seiko988 7y ago
A key insight is that knowledge loses value over time. An article a few years old might be a tip to buy a stock, a prediction of the outcome of an election or a technology stack that has since been superseded.
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by seiko988 7y ago
Considering time in the day and human walking speed, it turns out that if people cannot walk to their destination within 10 minutes, they will opt to drive. So if you are looking for a place to live in the city, be aware of your walking ra
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by seiko988 7y ago
The solution to people not having enough children is to have more children, you could enlist people from abroad to help with the effort, but you could also try to raise the birthrate using the existing population.
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by seiko988 7y ago
Yet China is a global superpower and shut off from immigration
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by seiko988 7y ago
You can learn the principles of good city design / urbanism in about an hour, which could inform your next housing selection.
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by seiko988 7y ago
VICE had did a show called 'Africa's cowboy capitalists' which highlighted how hard it is to move things (vehicles for the UN in this case) across Africa due to poor roads and corruption. An airship would have saved them a l
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by seiko988 7y ago
I had this idea two days ago, but to do it with Douay-Rheims. Then I fiddled around and came to the conclusion that my laptop is too bright for heavy reading even with white text on black background. Maybe an OLED laptop would alleviate ey
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by seiko988 7y ago
A quick glance at the voat entry will convince you that whatever comes next must withstand a banking blockade, DDOS, bitcoin dust attack, DNS denial and possibly no one will host your domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by seiko988 7y ago
Carol Quigley points out in "Evolution of Civilizations" that institutions over time tend to do the opposite of their initial stated purpose with football being one example: A game called football was invented about 1870 to provid
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by seiko988 7y ago
Reminds me of the Muji CD player which has just on/off, eject. No skip tracks / rewind
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by seiko988 7y ago
Total agreement. College is largely about trading money for status. I have a comp sci degree from a good school, don't see what the big deal is, if I had to do it over again I would have skipped it and just hustled my way into a prog
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by seiko988 7y ago
Employ or feign total ignorance of operations so no one can expect a raise, because the boss/manager doesn't even know what you do here. Assume loyalty only from those whom you have directly hired; remove all those who predate you
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by seiko988 7y ago
Same as: 'You're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic'
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by seiko988 7y ago
>>additional theft is ultimately put on the honest customers. That's true up until a certain point, but eventually the business is no longer profitable. I think this explains many 'food deserts' in low income areas
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by seiko988 7y ago
There's a few articles floating around that say shoplifting is greater at self checkouts[1], but apparently its not enough to keep these jobs around without regulatory distortion. One way of thinking about it is that the store shifts r
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by seiko988 7y ago
Homeless camps are unsanitary which leads to horrible diseases; Drew Pinsky is trying to get action by screaming about typhoid fever and the plague. Its not simply a matter of compassion for the homeless, there is also a public health angl
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by seiko988 7y ago
Its also a big problem in LA, but I'm not sure about other cities
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by seiko988 7y ago
>>places to feel safe that are not guarded by private security Its a failure of our society for certain, but at the same time that failure seems to be trending up, there's no needles on the street / homeless camps in malls.