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Being poor means that you can't delegate a task like wealthier person would do. When you are poor you are often forced to become your own mechanic/doctor/accountant/lawyer (with re…

I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. lev…

Are shoes really a requirement to partecipate in society?

I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentu…

Make the rules arbitrary and impossible to follow, then selectively enforce them. Oldest trick in the book, works like a charm.

HTML, and the web stack by extension, have their faults, but the advent of the web should've been a humbling experience for Alan Kay. I deeply respect Alan Kay for his achievements…

Oh well, I must be so controversial.

Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium…

>Ever since I have been ill, I have longed and longed for some palpable disease, no matter how conventionally dreadful a label it might have, but I was always driven back to stagge…

A high IQ seems a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be intellectually successful. If we take the extreme case of Nobel Prizes we see that most of them have IQs 3SD above …

As I see it there are a lot of advantages and few disadvantages in WFH. Advantages: - No need for commuting. This is maybe the lowest hanging fruit if you want to reduce CO2 emissi…

A couple of interesting articles that may be related to what you are saying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22189514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20676785/

>Just to be a little realistic: is there some "school activity" that makes using closed-software mandatory because there isn't an open-source alternative? Closed source software ma…

> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs. But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that …

People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very …

I should've said "outside the richer parts of the western world and maybe some other countries", you are right. People in the "richer parts of the western world" take pride in achi…