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The biggest problem with the EU is that it is built for bureaucrats and as such it is geared towards irreversible "blob" decisions.

Brexit should have been a near no-op. But it was a huge pain. They hadn't even planned for it or thought about it.

EU should have a pre-memeber clearing state that countries stay in and then vote every year or n years to be "in" or "out" of the EU. But part of being in the EU should be to maintain non-in versions of all policies so that members can actually negotiate and easily leave without having huge bureaucratic cost.

This would make the EU stronger and better. Currently, there are many terrible undemocratic institutions that are being used to ruin countries.
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Ok, but if you look into physical products. There were many successful car manufacturers since decades, still new companies like Tesla or Chinese ones enter the market... And seemingly there is money to buy these products.
This is not a scientific argument (correlation is not causation), but it's an argument supported by numbers, not just words.

If we look at scientific studies, they also confirm the
some effectiveness of masks in reducing the risk of influenza or COVID-19 infection and mortality.

One study on mice, I saw, showed that antiviral-coated masks increase the likelihood of developing immunity to infection BEFORE the infection, because fragments of dead viruses enter the lungs and trigger an immune reaction.
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Maybe, but depends on what each person considers cranks

This is one topic where the establishment view is mostly wrong and people broadly engaging in censorship are on the wrong side of history, period
> Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates

Clearly the author is ignorant. Canadians are sick of immigration. Young Canadians doubly so. Racism is becoming more acceptable by the day.
This is an interesting read. After years of conversations with folks in SV all over the socioeconomic ladder I've concluded they're 2 types of thinking:

- type 1 "employee thinking": focused on status, TC, consumption, vacation time, free time for hobbies

- type 2 "founder thinking": it's about how much value you create for other people

We (almost) all grow up and are formatted in type 1 - we look for a good "role" that brings wealth and status. The problem is when you have access to type 2 but are trapped in type 1, which seems to be the case here (the frame is about gaining money and status).

The funny thing is you can be incredibly rich, and a founder, and still think like an "employee" without ever being able to get out of it. Conversely you can be poor but think like a "founder" it's not so much about the money. In type 2, as you get richer, the scale of your impact grows and the value you can create gets bigger beyond your personal circumstances. Type 1 is not necessarily negative at all, but also can be a trap.
I believe one of the founders of Booking.com has had some similar experience (source: "De Machine", the book about Booking.com) and after 4 years of travelings & yoga etc. he sneaked back in into the company. Most of his coworkers do not know he's a founder. He's been fixing Perl bugs, writing scripts and coding some features at least for some years (maybe he's moved on already, don't know, the book is a couple of years old).
Tesla wasn't paying as much as the big tech companies, which meant he didn't have access to that top 1%. By opening the door to more H-1B visas, he could ideally flood the market with international candidates and attract higher skills at a lower cost.

While this approach is self-serving, it makes sense. He could acquire that top talent today if he was willing to pay for it—people would leave their current jobs for a pay upgrade. But he's not willing to do that. So, he needs more candidates.
> when I question them or try to understand them by comparin

You didn’t do that in good faith, though. Just entirely handwaving his support for far-right parties in Europe can’t really lead to any productive discussion? Can it?
My mom worked for Shamrock Foods and was at a restaurant supply show and ended up meeting, of all people, Vic Firth, selling pepper grinders. She knew I owned Vic Firth sticks and he generously signed a pack of sticks for her to give to me. Said he was absolutely delightful. (This was probably ~15 or so years ago.)
> Check out what happens to lottery winners

I have looked into this and found out that lottery winners are fine, that the viral meme about two thirds of them going bankrupt is not true.

https://www.nefe.org/news/2018/01/research-statistic-on-fina...

Most of the claims about lottery winners going bankrupt are uncited and unsourced. A few claims I was able to find pointed at this paper: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~cle/laborlunch/hoekstra.pdf

This paper shows people winning less than $150k having bankruptcy rates drop for the first 2 years, and then return to normal 3-5 years later. Like, duh, a small amount of money will run out. This paper has been widely and wildly mis-quoted as bankruptcy rates going up after a few years, but everyone seems to leave out the part where bankruptcy rates went down first.

The percent of people in this study who had declared bankruptcy after 5 years was slightly over 5%, which is the same bankruptcy rate as the study cohort had 2 years before winning money. 95% of lottery winners did not go bankrupt, and no multi-million dollar jackpot winners are involved in this study.
I hear this all the time from the exercise deniers and it makes me laugh, it's such a drop in the ocean compared to everything else that you will get by simply moving a bit more.
I discounted 10x to 2x, or 20% of the effect.
Feedback welcome!

It's finally the beta release for this project. We want to validate the idea and if it's actually working for soccer before scaling to other major US sports (basketball, american football, baseball)
That is not an excuse to give in to the cloudflare's agenda of centralizing everything. Bad things have happened, is happening and will continue to happen if one entity has this much control over the internet traffic
This is hard to grasp. Do I understand correctly that some web pages may display a coupon code for a discount on some possible future sale. And the Honey extension detects this coupon code and replaces it with a different coupon with less discount? This all seems so absurd, making money by skimming hypothetical discounts.
> “Cars will buy the necessary car parts themselves in car stores and pay at gas stations.”

Gas? It doesn’t really make sense to build the next decades technology for the previous decades energy transfer/storage medium.

EVs can already pay for themselves when charging. It’s not a “web” thing though. It’s a distinct technology standard. It doesn’t make sense to lump these things together.
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Doom 4 (2016) was a amazing entry in the series, Doom 5 (Eternal, 2020) even more so.
I move around a lot and travel light, upgrading the small screen isn't really an option. I definitely agree there are probably countless ways I could further optimize my system, but switching to a more feature-rich shell app is a clear productivity upgrade, since it only took me a few minutes to setup the features I need (security concerns aside).
If Canada joined the EU, they would have a TON of immediate immigrants, ranging from manual labor (e.g. plumbers, builders, cleaners, factory workers, ...) up to knowledge workers (e.g. software engineers, doctors, nurses, ...).

Not sure what that would do with Canadian economy. IMO it would be even more desirable target for emigration than the UK when it was in the EU. I know I would certainly consider it, being a software engineer.
Given that you mention 996, I guess that means you're in China. What are living conditions like currently? How did Evergrande and the emergence of so-called AI affect the job market over there?
> they just delayed the inevitable.

We did, and the inevitable was 99% double vaccination, very few serious (hospitalisation) cases, very few deaths, at the cost of business as usual within the state and goods being quarentine 'airlocked' in and out across the border.
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Remember when it was forbidden to take off your mask on a plane... unless you were eating? Somehow food killed the virus. There was a lot of stupidity.

But I'm also hearing from people who are convinced of a vast conspiracy and believe we knew day one that the lockdowns were a bad idea(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration). But we didn't know. It's tempting to cherry-pick the well reasoned opinions of a minority of experts especially when it backs up your worldview but I'm not having it.
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>But the new AI training methods are currently, at least imho, not a violation of copyright - not any more than a human eye viewing it (which you've implicitly given permission to do so, by putting it up on the internet).

I don't understand how that matters. I thought that the whole idea of copyright and licences was that the holder of the rights can decide what is ok to do with the content and what is not. If the holder of the rights does not agree to a certain kind of use, what else is there to discuss?

It sure does not matter if I think that downloading a torrent is not any more pirating than borrowing a media from my friend.
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Why aren’t you suggesting angel investing?
yes, as they were in 2021 as well.

my main observation is that it was too long for most of the population and your standard has no limit.

most places did not improve their hospital capacity and infrastructure. some conjecture about the virus was answered but thats it.
Scale makes all the difference in the world.
A guy in Texas did that with the Forbidden City: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbidden-gardens
There is no excuse for inadequately provisioning the backend. They know what their customers want to consume. It isn't 99% text anymore.

If I download 1TB from 1000 servers should the ISP have any claim to charge them a toll? If I download 1TB from a single server do they now get to impose a toll?
Some therapists work as a cry napkin without even trying to solve or detect any underlying problem.
A human can learn from just a few examples of chairs what a chair is. Machine learning requires way more training than that. So there does seem to be a difference in how human intelligence works.
I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't know what to do.

There is diarrhea on my building, trash in the street, people needing medical help in the alley, and potholes in the street.

Just walk out your front door and start doing things.

My recent triumph was getting a building owner on my street to finally repair the hole in front of their building. Imagine what I could do with a backhoe.

Start small, think big. Help people who deserve it in real, honest (typically not through the computer) ways.

I'd much rather be less wealthy in that way to be rich in this way.
The danger with this kind of opinion is that you start out doing some healthy critical thinking, and research. You form an opinion, based on good intentions. Then you spend all your time on explaining your conclusion to others. At that time, people who have the same opinion flock to you, and you don't have time to do more research.

This is the problem with experts and politicians. You can make money on either position, but once you have started stating your opinion, it's unlikely you'll do active research to disprove your opinion, as many have already concluded [1].

I'm happy that Simon only sees this as a hobby.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
I would recommend using FlareSolverr as a proxy in your browser to bypass the clownflare's captcha
"Arguments about Netflix using too much bandwidth on an ISPs network are exactly the kind of thing I'd expect FCC personnel to be sympathetic with"

I don't quite understand that line of reasoning. I'm paying my ISP in order to access Netflix. Netflix is not using that bandwidth, I'm using the bandwidth in order to access Netflix.
Yea but you know what's even better than a tax? Not being able to release those products onto the market. I really doubt products whose "value-add" is lock-in would be able to survive black-market dynamics. But Apple, Google, Microsoft, John Deere, what have you can totally afford extra taxes, and they probably even have the market power to just foist those increases on their customer base and not lose them because they're effectively a captive market in the current regulatory regime, and that's also the kind of market power that makes it so that you don't have to compete on price. I consistently can get cheaper laptops by seeking out ones that don't include windows licenses, but this clearly hasn't affected the laptop market much

Also, let's say I'm gonna undercut someone on price for electronic devices. Unless I'm starting from a place of great personal wealth and don't take any capital at all, this needs investment, which means that an obvious solution to any scenario in which I'm meaningfully harming the bottom line of one of these incumbents could just be buy it out from under me, which is indeed how this generally plays out in the real world

If we are serious about regulating monopolies, we have to understand that remedies that rely on raising operating costs are simply always going to be ineffective
People care about quality, but it’s about perceived value. Is it worth the time or money investment?
European nations still have plenty of overseas colonies.. err.. territories. As somebody from an ethnic minority that was eradicated through educational and cultural policies that sounds like a good idea even without the former.
I did the same as OP. Quit my job then started distancing from everyone and removing responsibility in the pursuit of freedom to do what I want. But all I did was wallow and stay alone. Not sure what the answer is but your insights were very powerful to read.
To be honest, this video was quite cringe, 50min of repeating the same thing over and over, repeating her opinion, saying ridiculous unsubstantiated things such as: “musk bought twitter because he was annoyed people were saying he was not a physicist “.
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So did all of their startups fail?
I started to self host my own personal website last year and found it relatively easy. I may have been somewhat lucky with my ISP and that I was already paying for a static IP but the hardest part was setting up cloudflare to mask my IP (and learning how to setup a Linux VM from scratch).
The classic rich guy to Himalayas pipeline. He went to the poorest country in Asia and was dragged up island peak and lobuche east by people making $1000/yr while he has $60m in his pocket and can't come up with anything worthwhile to do with his time or money beyond aspiring to be Elon. He can't even spell rappel correctly. What a coward
Super cringe. Read a book.
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100%, the amount of legitimate comments, including mine, being flagged or removed without a trace is just astonishing, also getting "you are posting to fast" notices is just another prove for the ongoing censorship.

EDIT: the thread went from Nr. 2 to Nr. 115, lol.
I am afraid to be judgemental.

> The article author hasn’t figured out that he got to where he is because he was lucky, not because he was special in some way.

It seems like a lot to assume that suggests the author is not a fast technical learner and builder.

> Hey author if you are reading this, try doing something positive like help people. Volunteer. Everything you have tried so far has been self-centered.

That sounds like good advice for me, but not to the author. I sometimes follow orders from random people for fun, but I infer that the author does not.

The author traveled off the paved path. Reality gave him with wealth and time, but unsatisfaction instead of satisfaction. His role is now to figure out a path back to satisfaction, perhaps it will be a short path or a long path, a common one or a one the world hasn't seen before.
It's unfortunate that this is a good cautionary tale for women who choose to play the "unconditionally loving wife" role for boyfriends.
Something similar happened to me. i wanted to learn guitar, so my sister’s friend lent me his fairly cheap Stratocaster IIRC, and after some months we were going to move pretty far away. we tried contacting the friend to give him back the guitar but could never connect. it’s been 18 years and i still have it. heh.
This is an EU role restricted to EU citizens with some financial help to relocate? They’re not confined, but no one said that
No, not really? If others can get my stuff for free, then that means that whoever sells it for money must have done something to make it worth money. So they've earned it.
During Covid, I had many lively debates with my peers about remote jobs. They kept insisting that the "world has changed" and that remote jobs are the future. My anxious self struggled to understand that. I'm good at my job, but I'm not naive. I know I live in a high cost of living market that not everyone wants to be in, so the competition isn't too threatening.

But take that away, and as I mentioned, you’re now competing against the entire world. I've worked with talented people in Eastern Europe and Asia who could easily do my job for a quarter of the pay. I really don’t want to compete against that.

All the friends who moved their families to farms in Iowa to be near family and enjoy the low cost of living? I’d be terrified that if I ever lost my job, I’d have to search far and wide for one of those scarce remote positions, and there’s no way I’d get my Bay Area salary now.

Plus, now that my kids are in local schools in Iowa and my wife is deeply connected with the local extended family, there's no way I could move back to the Bay unscathed.
Makes me wonder. If it's illegal to deploy bot protection on unsubscribe links, and there are massive lists of leaked email addresses available, surely someone has tried to mass-unsubscribe tons of email addresses from tons of mailing lists?
Lab leak matters when studying viral transmission (and general characteristics of the virus), especially if it's been enhanced via gain of function research

It also matters when the basic doctor-patient relationship is interfered with
I don’t disagree with you. My only point is, once you’ve crimped a connector, do not add solder. It will make the reliability worse, not better.
> why would a terminal emulator need my location

Because that's the only way Apple allows apps to stay open in the background on iOS so your SSH connection doesn't disconnect after 10 minutes. And the Mac app is a universal app with iPhone/iPad so it has the same permissions. If you never enable the "Connection Keeper" feature it never requests the permission.
I have a separate section in my blog that’s outside of the RSS feed to house links. I’ve adopted an even simpler approach:

- Each year gets a new page to list links, activities I’ve done, books I’ve read, and talks I’ve grokked [^1]

- The pages are listed under the feed section [^2]

For me, the idea isn’t about who reads them or not, but rather to have a chronological record of some of my online activities. Reviewing them at the end of the year gives me a sense of accomplishment that I love. It’s outside RSS and doesn’t clutter the front page of the site. So no spamming there.

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[^2]: https://rednafi.com/feed/
I really depends on the masks. The cloth masks with a couple of layers aren't very effective because Covid is airborne in the sense the particles of liquid it persists in are typically 1-5nm in size and hang on the air and it survives for hours like that depending on the conditions. We know that N95/99/FFp2/3 standards block this very well and a number of studies done in places like a hospital in Cambridge showed they were extremely effective, maybe 100% effective at avoiding infections. The challenge is with these masks is they require a bit of knowledge on fitting and testing they fit correctly. Just drop shipping them into a random village didn't work and people have a tendency to do dumb things like breaking the seal to scratch their nose or taking it down to talk.

But when worn and used correctly they are extremely effective, the physics and engineering on which they are based has never been in doubt.
I am sure the charity founders lives will change a lot when they buy a bigger yacht
A huge short term influx of free capital can shape that longterm business reality. Of course both in positive and negative ways
Looks nice.
What did you use for the frontend?

But if I have to be nitpicky, just check on the responsiveness, make sure it fully responsive and adapts well on various screen sizes. For example, it looks a bit funky on the mobile. Your call to action is a bit left of center.

Hope it helps.
Who could possibly doubt The Bellend Curve?
I can’t even decipher it tbh