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> Meanwhile the written language has almost no correlation with the spoken language.

Oh, just like English!

/s sorry I'm only half-joking but written English makes no sense

Would you say I was antagonizing him with my response? Because he was an in-house recruiter (and not a headhunter) and I got along with him pretty well.

I've used what I consider the golden guide of salary negotiation for a software engineer that has been linked on HackerNews[1].

I've applied these guidelines in my own negotiations and it worked very well for me. I would've undersold myself by at least 15% if I went ahead and answered the salary question first. I declined politely to give a number first—even saying "it's not in my interest to answer that first, as you most likely understand".

Those guidelines work for all jobs that have high added value, I would say.

[1]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

We wouldn't even need these services if instant payments were the norm. I guess we have to thank the Visa and MasterCard lobbies for this to happen at least 10 years too late.

What about GNU Taler[1]? If we're doing that to have yet another monopoly, I don't see the point. Even if it's European.

[1]: https://www.taler.net/en/

Do they use it as a source of truth or do they import that data in a spreadsheet to let the user make their own calculations?

Not the person you responded to but I'm genuinely curious.

Because modern websites are unusable on mobile; it's a feature and not a bug.

yt-dlp is great if on desktop.

I used to have dermatophagia up until 2021. Every time my skin grew again I would rip it off in a never-ending cycle.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I was in WFH and wore cotton gloves while working. I caught myself gnawing at the gloves and after a few days I lost the habit and my fingers were fully healed.

I always suspected I would lose the habit if my fingers were healed.

It certainly wasn't the worse case of dermatophagia compared to some on the Internet but it was noticeable and made me feel bad.

You can do it!!

Don't we start the equations after observing a phenomenon? It wouldn't make sense to try to explain something before observing it..

For example, after observing black holes we understood that Newton's was not enough to explain them. Thus we had to find another theory that explained our observations. Now with quantum computing we know that Einstein's theory is insufficient, too (not very knowledgeable on quantum physics myself, though)

> Pretty sure that's wrong. The way it works is: we have this equation. It predicts where we expect such stuff to be in X seconds. In X seconds, we check it's indeed there. It's there: actual confirmation, not confirmation bias.

Exactly. My point is that since Einstein's theory, we know that Newton's Law is incomplete. Therefore proving that it was confirmation bias (i.e. that our equations just confirmed what we observed). Since we observed black holes, we knew that Newton's was incomplete as it couldn't fully explain their behaviors.

Oh, I see what you mean.

I agree with what you say regarding confirmation bias but then how do you separate that from what is considered the scientific consensus? What I mean is that Newton's Law is not scientifically accurate anymore (it's good enough, though) but the fact that it validated what we observed (i.e. gravity) is also confirmation bias.

What I'm getting at is that there is a fine line between confirmation bias and scientific theory. I hope I made sense, lol

> but basing your social interactions and how you see others and yourself on this stuff might not be the best thing to do!

Why not? Just knowing that there is such different ways of thinking is useful especially when interacting with people.

I was a guesser until maybe 2 of 3 years ago until I talked about it with friends and family and I learned just today that it was called "asker" and "guesser".

If you spend time with people from different cultures, there clearly is a stark divide in behavior. Even inside said culture there might be situations in which someone becomes an asker.

Therefore this framework is good to understand how people think socially and have a better understanding towards one another. Some people may think you are rude to ask–or an idiot not to–and you will probably lose relationships if you don't realize it.

I'm born Guesser but evolved into an Asker. However, it depended on whether I was the requester or not; if I wanted to invite someone, I would try to avoid putting them in a position where they had to say "no". However, I didn't mind saying "no" myself.

I would argue with other people that it's impolite to put them in such a position as they may not like to decline.

After discussing it openly with friends and family, I realized that it was okay to say no and people wouldn't mind. This changed me into an asker.

What's funny is that my parents were askers. I guess being introverted made me more of a guesser initially.

If I have the equivalent of $100B in shares and keep them for a very long time, the $100B exchanged hands about 0 times. Therefore, the vast majority of the wealth did not move one bit (literally).

I don't know how you imagine that billionaires use their money but I think we have very different ideas.

Most Europeans wouldn't want to live in the USA even if given twice the salary.

Exactly. And guess what would happen if 1 million was divided between 100'000 people ? This would mean 10k per person and it's fair to say that at least half would spend (some of) it. Therefore, the velocity has increased.

A person having 200 billion is not spending a big percentage of their wealth nor using it. Yes it's not cash but it doesn't mean it's unusable.

I'm not against the ability to be rich; I'm against the ability to be that rich. The system isn't made to have such wealthy people. My country is one of the rare ones that has wealth tax and you just have to see where the progressive tax rate stops to see what I mean.

This would probably get me sent to an American prison.

I've been thinking about digital glasses that would correct your vision digitally (i.e. with pixels). Similar to your idea I would say!

Not that I would choose them over regular glasses but now that I have the idea in my head I can't help but think about it.

I'm not in the field at all, though.

Just as reading books all day will [1].

Seems like the researchers are not interested in telling you that, however.

Children spend most of their time indoor—would you want something to happen to them outdoor? Surely not, right?! But surely it must be those pesky screens.

If that's not clickbait, then that's a hugely sensationalist title to something that is at best ignorant and at worst misinformation; I don't usually flag posts but I'm flagging this one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia#Environmental_factors

> Invested money is efficiently and quickly converted into paychecks for ordinary people.

It absolutely is not. Can you elaborate?

If by investment you mean funding rounds, then yes I guess. However, they don't use a noticeable of their personal wealth for that purpose at all.

Happy to be proven wrong, though.

I perfectly understand that they don't have a swimming pool of coins and bills. However, that doesn't make them less rich by any means.

Being illiquid doesn't mean they can't use that wealth.

Velocity would be much higher if the same amount of money was in the hands of millions more people.

Corruption of politics would be much harder, too.

Just because it's good doesn't mean it's addicting.

Were they addicting and correlated with a spike in mental illnesses? Genuinely asking.

Because I can hardly imagine 70% of people in a train reading comic books. Guess what 70% are doing in the train in 2026?

If you are outside the USA, then you absolutely do. Returns are denominated in the base currency but it doesn't paint the whole picture.

He could've been lurking before that. Just as I did. Could be a second account, too.

Proton complies with the law. In Switzerland, that means they may give your (encrypted) data to law enforcement.

In Switzerland, law enforcement can't just ask for data without a court order. And companies don't give it willingly, either.

From what I understood—but I think it's been added more recently—declining all optional cookies must be as easy as accepting all cookies.

It's hard to put my thoughts into words. Those who are tired of social media are those that are not addicted to the never-ending dopamine injections (i.e. doomscrolling).

I don't have kids yet but I hope "social" media will be banned until at least 18 years old before they're born.

The human brain is wired to be lazy; it's much easier to doomscroll and get your dopamine than spend 40 hours reading a book. We want to be fit but we don't take the time to exercise; we want the candy but don't tolerate any effort to get it whatsoever.

It's always been the case during history but our ancestors didn't have access to those kinds of addicting tools.

It's an anecdote but I have long hair and there's a period where you cannot get a good haircut (too long to have a "short" haircut and too short to have a "long" haircut); I know some people who couldn't put up with the few months it takes to grow into a good-looking style and cut their hair back to short. Life is not Instagram, you cannot change something instantly. Everything that is worth the "candy" takes time. A hell of a lot of time. Of which we're losing track.

Very badly worded but maybe it resonated with some of you.

The main difference in my view is the personalized algorithm that determines what to feed you next.

HackerNews has an algorithm but it's not personalized—i.e. everyone sees the same thing.