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I'd say you're auditioning to be my new mom anyway.

True. It's bad that these books are usually read by only young people. I remember reading Steppenwolf for the first time since teens and only then I realized how funny it was all a…

It meant an upper middle class urban citizen, while "Kleinbürger" was their lower middle class counterpart. Buddenbrooks was all about Bürgers, their history and lifestyle. Mann wa…

In every organization mature enough busywork will surpass real work for two reasons. First: it cannot fail an so is not a career risk to anyone involved. Secondly: because it doesn…

We are all waiting for plot twist that these actually work better than human made ads and the weirder they get the worse humans can compete with them.

By always talking only about non specified "problems" and getting people not to expect any further information it is easier to hide when it's a suicide.

See them discuss about how much someone of them gets paid or taxed, if he has medical help if needed or if he can afford to live where he's living now.

He referred to the Thirty Years War where instead of doomscrolling the peasant especially living in southwestern Germany would get his war news by getting killed or starved and his…

All of this is very easy to filter out while browsing the internet. Not when you are speaking with actual persons. Believe or not, there are still people who watch television and b…

Probably there not enough content. Just the same repackaged in human or machine produced slop. People are addicted to YouTube but I think the key to the healthy watching habits wou…

Generating stuff is very cheap compared to building and training the model. When you have your model done you're incentivized to use it as much as possible. Maybe even considering …

Dostoevsky's Memoirs from the House of Dead is a good companion to Gulag Archipelago to show how things got worse into the full medieval sadism in less than a hundred years. Beside…

You should always read only books you enjoy. Even if you think they're shallow you will realize the deeper stuff in that made you be interested in them you later. Your subconscious…

A couple of says ago there was an excellent comment here on Hacker News about that you shouldn't read only in bed but allocate proper not tired time for reading. Otherwise you lear…

The sudden all encompassing popularity of smoking is one of the most astonishing things in modern history. I can think nothing that would show better the power of advertising. Ever…

And when everything is a text file you have (optimally) a human readable single source of truth on things... Very important when things get complicated and layered. In GUI stuff yo…

And machine readable. You can parse csv file more or less easily but try the same with some forgotten software specific binary.

The most important thing is not to have a purpose. Machines will always outdo you in optimizing for a goal function. Don't follow rules and if you really need to, make your own and…

Your command and understanding of the grammar of your native language puts a hard limit to how well you can learn other languages. This has not been stressed enough and schools hav…

How many pages of search engine results you need to reach the correct definition of "c"? I mean the "blue wobbly thing with mermaids in it".

- AI, find me a monastery to buy! - OK, I suppose you want one in US. How many monks do you want? - Well, ten would do. - I found this one. It looks good but has only five monks. -…

I've never understood what is so special about Starbucks. Visited once, the one near the Canary Wharf underground station. I saw it as pretty much an ordinary cafeteria. Maybe it i…

I don't like naming things after other things. Names should be self explanatory or random codes.

The solutions requiring constant internet connection are pushed by states and companies because they help cutting costs and gathering information. However, the users are often more…

One more reason to resist the fragile lifestyle that requires constant internet access. Even if you don't live in a totalitarian country where shutting down the net would be easy a…