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Sounds more like a crank really.

After the knee wealth is not the major factor in happiness, other factors take over like friends, relationships, weak tie relationships, etc etc etc. If you want to be happy optimi…

Not if you life in a first world country that provides universal healthcare.

Wealth is objectively a poor measure of a good life, past a threshold. Scientific studies have shown that yes, up to a level of wealth (e.g. being able to not worry about food, she…

I've always assumed "win" means being economically and culturally dominant. It necessarily involves being a trade leader and having a lot of soft power. I also don't want totalitar…

The only thing I agree with you about is that I'd have preferred Apple to not have approved your app because of the nag. I don't care if it's a screen or just a constant message. I…

Honestly, reviews are pretty standard and straight forward. Advocating to silence voices you don't like is just shit. Sure, there will always be some people super angry and somethi…

The one star nag review is accurate to me. As a potential user, I know not to buy the app. I despise ads and nag screens are in the same boat. Just because you don't like the value…

That's my read. Both reviews seem fair to me. E.g. if translation is important to that user then maybe it's better to take a note of it rather than be angry. Also, being upset abou…

No, I don't, I live in Canada. I don't support any country annexing any other country, but in terms of direct threat to my quality of life and freedom, currently the US is the bigg…

As someone who isn't American, I'm amused when someone from the US talks about the terrors of China or some other nation having more power than them as being bad for the world. The…

I never cleaned mine. Rain does enough. It's still plenty valuable without minmaxing them.

100% agree. Everyone is susceptible to ads, even if few believe it. The ad pushers know it. It's a form of information warfare, not simply business. If I'm looking for a product an…

> Not everyone want to pay for news. People want things for free. Too bad. Nothing is really free. Either you pay for it, have ads, or have your taxes pay for it as part of public …

I like to make less money and pay more taxes for higher quality of life reasons. Sure I could go to America and have more many in my pocket by eating mcdonalds every day, but I'd r…

My M1 Max is still great. I was considering upgrading before prices went up but decided to just wait. I will admit though, a tiny voice in my head is telling me prices will never c…

This isn't terribly surprising. I'm sure the Canadian military has a great many contracts with US military and intelligence companies. Palantir has been around a long time doing mi…

Putting aside reliable rule of law, as others have pointed out, it seems unwise to keep your data in a country that has repeated threatened to annex or invade yours.

No. AI is not doing science. And also no, science is not being held back by "pearl clutching" and "unwillingness to let brilliant non-science geniuses in." While there are a lot of…

I'm pretty sure the days of any government signing any NPT with the US are very over. The trust is broken. I'd rather my government stockpile all the weapons of every sort at this …

I don't think it has anything to do with echo chambers. It's simply that weak tie relationships are different than close ties, and very valuable. This narrative that we somehow are…

Being honest about the limitations of AI is not being anti-AI. What a strange opinion. To address your claim, that shipping speed is more important than code quality, that could be…

If you have a good dr they'll just ask you to stop taking it for two weeks, then do a blood test.

Except many many many decades of research has not shown any of that to be true.

I think people often overestimate the effects of these things. It absolutely works for muscle growth but it's not like a steroid or something. Similarly there is enough evidence to…