sleepysysadmin

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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>I was again, arguing about work on reddit. Someone said that even animals "work" to survive. I found that the comparison was not really good. Seems like a good comparison to me. Society is not post-scarcity. People in society
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Never criticize. It will never work or be beneficial at all. No point even going to your manager. It's not your problem and you haven't been asked to help. Furthermore, it's your manager's job to fix this and they too ar
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Putin doesn't want to lose power. All these propaganda, military moves are to give poor people something to take their eyes and minds off the reality - him robbing the country for 30 years. If you have absolute power for long time
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_and_Comprehensive_Free_Tr... This is what this is all about. It's not so much the money but also militaristic strategic assets. Moldova and Georgia doesnt have Russian war to dea
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>It's fascinating to me that Donald Trump's message was horrifying, but when biden's message is just the same, we're totally ready to ignore this because it's just the flu and the economy is more important than o
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Pleasure seeking increases, sure, I just don't agree that violence is the prime focus or end goal of any majority of the participants or viewers of any of the things you brought up. no, not prime focus yet. If hockey is a fresh ple
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Out of the hockey fans I know, only the really casual watchers are interested in fights and checking at all. The big fans are way more interested in the strategy and statistics and many of them are annoyed when a big fight breaks out an
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Pleasure is fleeting. It must be or else you'd still be glowing from your first orgasm. Inevitably the search for pleasure will require variety and inevitably that variety brings you to inflicting pain on others. We do it publicly. The
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>For me it was the masks. The masks were my tipping point. Before covid we knew masks were effective. Doctors obviously wear them during surgery. masks are important when dealing with HIV and such. So when Fauci and others came out and s
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>1. It was statistically extremely likely a virus like COVID would come along soon, and models have predicted such viruses arising naturally for a long time. Yes, been seeing these predictions for a long time. >It is at the same time
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>In conclusion, one can theorize that falling interest rates can be indicative of tight monetary conditions in the economy in the sense that demand for credit is falling (due to explanation one) and/or access to debt funding/fi
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Caffeine is in so many things. Even more interesting is that it's a stimulant that is unique. Every other stimulant is controlled if not illegal. Amphetamines or cocaine for example. The problem is that it has a long history and govern
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Tangentially, I recently moved to Canada and was surprised by the lack of quality healthcare.. This is very complex and absolutely hilarious when American democrats think of Canada as a better solution. >Literally could not believe s
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Are you me? Same here. Fully vax and picked up omicron. 2 days bed. Every single flu I've ever had was worse than this covid. >Already contracted Covid, have 2 vaccines, I'm down to get a booster every year or two, at my own le
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>The maxime of capitalism is to maximize ones own profit. Not sure I necessarily agree with this. I can understand how 1 might come to see it this way. Capitalism is about measuring ones contribution to society. >What happens in pract
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
So Goodyear has kind of proven they are viable. The problem is that helium scarcity is an issue: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2020060... If we suddenly built thousands of new helium blimps.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Applause for Purdue eh. I am excited to see how this plays out for them but I support this position. Universities are a place of learning. If someone is misunderstood in their worldview or something else. That's the place to learn wher
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>The more content I discover, the tinier and irrelevant I feel. This is called knowledge. This is a good thing, keep going. >I go down a rabbit hole of brilliant relevations of one person after the other, and I come out tired and disc
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>There is a way out of this conundrum and it is absolutely not to double down on traditional gender role In my comment I touched on traditional gender roles vs egalitarianism. I too agree that we should absolutely not revert the changes.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
I've worked with healthcare in many different roles. I can tell you conclusively that doctors and nurses are absolutely googling the issue. Though often not actually google but something equivalent.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>How is not catcalling a problem? Let me requote the article. A catcall isn’t just a catcall, it’s a symbol for the entire social structure around the power exchange of sex. It is no longer a compliment – an acknowledgement of the desira
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
I enjoyed reading. >A catcall isn’t just a catcall, it’s a symbol for the entire social structure around the power exchange of sex. The traditional gender roles were well balanced. throughout recorded history there were differing culture
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Parler et al. had the problem that their initial userbases were actively offputting to their ability to grow because the content is offputting to most people who aren't involved, so it comes off as culty instead of interesting. Thi
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Work/life balance should never be difficult. Significant research has gone into evaluation actual productivity. Sure people tend to go into the office for 40 hours but the amount of time where they actually work is more like 15 hours o
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>I've been thinking of this and spaces start to feel like an old-school gathering of snake oil salesmen: The primary interest starts to be either attracting upvotes/avoiding downvotes or 'presenting' oneself rather th
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
I recommend you build a Java-based logging utility that is secure.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Never downvote. If a comment was just racial slurs or something, others will downvote. Otherwise, never downvote an idea regardless of 'provocativeness' or otherwise. In fact the provocative approach can often be what breaks cogni
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>And if we accidentally make the planet nicer for everyone by cleaning up This is for sure happening. The huge push to electric cars for example is because we must get off oil. Not because of climate change but rather practicality. We ha
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Biden quit demonizing BLM. That's a huge step in calming things instead of being the strong man who dismisses their beliefs and calls them sons of bitches. Like I dont mind Biden's position on the left wing riots. BLM or antif
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
You're not allowed to question climate change like this on HN. >generally, I agree with world is warming. Is that bad? I’m actually unsure. The eemian period was around 115,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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