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It's pointless because of the hedonic treadmill. Any feel good feeling is neurochemical in nature, and any moment of feeling good will be counterbalanced at one point or another.

A contrarian caution on exercise worship: Everything that makes us feel good is neurochemical in nature, including exercise. Exercise can lead to a withdrawal period of feeling shi…

Where I live in Atlantic Canada you can rent the same for $550 USD, or just buy a brand new modern home for $180k USD. People here work remotely for companies like Google. The gove…

The ultimate technomurder mastermind was Charles Babbage. Rest in shame.

Shh... No one tell them what operating systems the army uses.

“Remember when we looked forward to every advance?” No. Humans have always been afraid of change and skeptical of technology. Books and the printing press were considered destructi…

“Stop living in a bubble. Don’t be afraid to attend job interviews. Job interviews have nothing to do with job seeking.” Huh? He is advocating to blatantly waste the time of employ…

Encouragement is not a bad idea, and there’s nothing stopping doctors from doing that today. But the idea of “prescribing” an activity that is meant to be intrinsically motivated s…

While gold has a much later stage "shared illusion of value" that comes from its brand and emotional associations, I'd argue that Bitcoin is extremely similar, just much earlier st…

We value 3 swimming pools of an arbitrary substance at 7 trillion dollars. Any utility for it is irrelevant at this valuation - it does not produce dividends. Gold is a brand, and …

Have you ever heard of gold?

Well, the gold bubble has yet to "permanently" pop, and has been through multiple phases of mania - an arbitrary substance worth trillions of dollars which our entire supply of fit…

I bet if you measured contentment levels then and now you would not find much of a difference! In fact you might find people are less content now than shitting in a ditch 2000 year…

Some Buddhist wisdom: In life, we will always find “shining cities” to chase. The perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect romantic partner, the perfect software team. But, like…

The concept of “the library” is one that holds deep emotional attachment for many people. The nostalgia of book smells, the exhibitionism of reading “cool” physical books in public…

I’m not sure it matters too much. A user can only have an absolute maximum of 5000 friends and most people don’t ever reach that, including famous people. Networks like Twitter and…

How can an open source company so blatantly rip off Gitlab? Total madness.

It's complete crap. The saddest part is that they do have some amazing technical minds behind the scenes. They give their stage to sleazy marketing and salespeople who have no idea…

IBM is an embarrassing company. They are not culling based on age, they are culling based on severe lack of skills and dated values. IBM is saturated with tech people who threw in …

IBM is an embarrassing company. They are not culling based on age, they are culling based on severe lack of skills and dated values. IBM is saturated with tech people who threw in …

100% agree. Some of the questions are ambiguously worded but the results are displayed through the lens of sexism.