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I assume most people who use XP (which by default means non-hobbyists) are using it to run some software that was made to run only on it and the people who made said software never…

You can always count on someone coming along and defending the multi-trillion dollar corporation that just so happens to take a screenshot of your screen every few seconds (among m…

More like surveillance state

I'm not American either

Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7? If so, why even target the poor guy? What change …

People "back then" didn't have access to an industrial quantity of honey Regardless, most people in the westen world dont eat like you. Most of their calories come from ultraproces…

Then at least you tried whatever it may have been you wanted to succeed at. You may fail, but at least you won't wonder what could've been "if only I had tried"

Long-term planning on a colossal scale (like nation-state-level) (or even on a not-so-colossal scale - think of how many plans YOU have made and how they turned out) is pointless b…

Life without work is meaningless. Over the millennia we have done nothing but work. We were made to work. I don't know if you've experienced not working without having to worry abo…

Using the wayback machine can work if you have the exact video link, but it's not guaranteed that they'll have it You can occasionally find a torrent out there of some channels ent…

AI fakes, and AI in general, will push more and more people to interact with each other in real life. I, for one, can't wait for that. Sometimes, the more things change, the more t…

Thanks. I'll check it out

What kind of a book is it, genre-wise? Was it interesting? I'm deciding if I should read it someday or not

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf

>Cromwell ravaged through and tried to cleanse them I don't think you realize just how weak central states were back in the day. To even call them states in the same vein as how we…

>I read Stephen Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature I don't think you realize just how funny of a source that is I will just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bet…

>The world also tended to be far more violent in the past than it is now. Do you think people just dropped dead? Humans are not that fragile. The reason the average Roman age was r…

I am a wild beast I am not in the 5-7 year old territory

I read that too and I was surprised, but then the first thing that popped into my mind was that this is probably a case of survivorship bias

>in the year 1200 the average person would likely not have considered the people living 800 years before them to be all that different from them How do you know this? And does the …

This is great! Thank you for sharing!

The overwhelming majority of "knowledge produced"* is nothing more than noise. Do not for a second think you're missing out on anything valuable or substantial. Do not be (or, rema…

No. But I never claimed to be self-consistent or rational, did I now?

I know that wearing hand me downs was common in history. I've worn plenty of hand me down clothes when I was a baby/growing up. But currently, where circumstances aren't pressing, …

I think you will enjoy reading about mediocristan and extremistan, mentioned in the Black Swan by Taleb. Great book all around really (as well as the entire book series too)