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Human contact is more scarce than ever, it's not fungible with podcasts or audiobooks, and most people are starving. I've backpacked/hitchiked through Ireland few years back. It wa…

I've looked at the stats, and it's: - 45 flights per recon consumer quadcopter drone before it's lost - 69 flights per heavy bomber drone before it's lost They switch the batteries…

Also you really don't need 1000s of cycles in military drones, so maybe some more "crazy" chemistries can be used. If the drone can fly 10 times it's probably good enough.

The funny thing is that when you have one big customer (a country) - you get good prices. When you have 30 insurance companies, 10000 companies buying insurance policies and millio…

I am a narcissist. I haven't been diagnosed (yet), but I certainly recognize the traits and patterns, and I'm in therapy for it. > People with NPD don’t go and get help, they just …

Narcissism is a spectrum; everybody's a little narcissistic, and it changes over time. All kids are VERY narcissistic early on, most grow out of it as they experience unconditional…

You don't usually realize that's why you're the way you are until much later. At first it might feel like "these people don't like me cause of how much better I am than them", or "…

I always wanted to program games. I programmed games as a hobby. When I graduated university there were no gamedev jobs in my region, so I went to work at Boring B2B java company. …

There was an article on hackernews a few years back (before LLMs took over) about jobs that could be replaced by a sign saying "$default_result" 99% of the time. Like being a cance…

IQ is just CPU power. There's no CPU that can't be wasted by bad code.

Significant part of what separates 99.9th (or even 90th) from 99.999th percentile is ego management. In particular IQ is not associated with better life outcomes after you have "en…

There's no lesson. It's hard. Your brain will search for the silver bullet to skip the boring self-improvement work and feel good NOW. It'll likely detach your current self from yo…

This syndrome is called "eternal child" (puer aeternus) in psychology. You were destined to great things. You were exceptional as a child, you learnt to associate your great potent…

I kinda heard lots of whispers when I was very young (like 6-7) and now I'm 40 and haven't had any such problems. I blamed it on the drugs I got prescripted for sleeping (I had bad…

They also colonized Finns, Balts, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, etc.

I think presenting the philosophy you disagree with as leading to murdering innocent people is bad writing.

This is a long discussion, if you want to have it I have LOTS of thoughts about it. But short answer is - Russians absolutely have separation between colonizers and colonized. To t…

Piłsudski said in early 20th century that "in Russia even anarchists are imperialists" and he was basically right. And remains so to this day. Russia managed to somehow do imperial…

Well the problem from my POV is that that exact empire he defended was persecuting millions of people, banning their languages, sending their people to forced labour camps, extermi…

Slavery was banned first in 1807 by British Empire.

Western philosophy at the time ended slavery, serfdom and challanged religion and god-given right to rule. All of which Dostoyevsky tried to defend. Don't get me wrong - early west…

Crime and Punishment, obviously. But he was a russian empire/orthodoxy apologist through and through, except for a brief period early on (which earned him the gulag).

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It's not diet. It's genes and stress.

It's pretty obvious to me that asthma and colitis ulcerosa are stress-related. I had asthma for as long as I remember. I'm allergic to pollen and dust, but one of the triggers is h…