wishpishh

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by wishpishh 3y ago
> I wrote : '"degrowth" is just demanding that people in developing countries not be permitted to improve their quality of life, that Westerners race to an arbitrary bottom to worsen theirs, and put lives at risk.' &g
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by wishpishh 3y ago
1. No, you claimed that any degrowth strategy is equivalent to banning quality of life improvement across all economic strata, which is clearly not the case as one strategy that you yourself quote offers an alternative that clearly does not
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by wishpishh 3y ago
The quote doesn't even support your claim. Clearly, alternative (B) does not ban economic growth across _all economic strata_. Unrealistic as though it might be, still. Also, you're equating "quality of life improvements&quot
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by wishpishh 3y ago
The sense of self-entitlement in this thread makes me depressed. Intelligent, educated adults react like children when you tell them they can't have all the toys. > But I like living in this kind of excess! Sure, and I'm sure
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by wishpishh 3y ago
I'm simply stating the fact that just because food production happens outside of cities doesn't mean that most people in rural areas live there for that particular reason. It's a very common counter-argument, that cities need
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by wishpishh 3y ago
A very small percentage of people living in rural areas are actually in food production.
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by wishpishh 3y ago
If you are willing to spend your younger, healthier years grinding just to (potentially, there are so many things that are outside of your control that can go wrong no matter your work ethic) get a few more years of retirement at the end of
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by wishpishh 3y ago
I don't see how that is "punishment". A team is a group of people helping each other to achieve a common goal. Sometimes other team members will screw up and you will step in and do what you can to help the team overcome this
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by wishpishh 3y ago
TLDR: YAGNI
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by wishpishh 11y ago
Does that really add up? If the people who rely on public transportation are not the ones who will be able to afford the new services, how would the new services move money out of public transportation? Are you talking about the people who
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by wishpishh 11y ago
I find the exact opposite. Sure, in a very small town you'll constantly recognize people and be constantly recognized. But you don't have a choice. There's little chance you'll find anyone who shares your interests, and
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by wishpishh 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Regarding reading, I find there's simply too much to read to just leave it to chance what to read. I want to strike a balance between reading the best stuff on the fundamentals while at the same time keeping u
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Ask HN: Strategy to become the best programmer possible?
2 points by wishpishh 12y ago|3 comments
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by wishpishh 13y ago
You know that posting irrelevant information or bias just to be controversial in order to raise attention is called "trolling", right?
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by wishpishh 13y ago
These studies just show that there is a difference. It doesn't say it's mainly caused by innate biological differences between the sexes. These differences could for all we know be the effect of the different social conditioning t
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by wishpishh 13y ago
It's strange that she criticizes the research basis for the 10x claim, and yet she's basing her claims about burnout and even alcoholism and drugs on a couple of tweets she received? What happened to source criticism?
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On the discussion on sexism in the tech industry(hannesjohansson.se)
3 points by wishpishh 14y ago|0 comments