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I'm not sure I share your optimism. If kids don't trust institutions, who do they trust? The answer is friends and celebrities (=influencers). Maybe they don't trust Big Tech companies per se, but you still need them to facilitate the content of whichever parties they find trustworthy. Decaying trust in institutions is just more ground for a total fantasyland where everybody can justify whatever they believe in. If the NYTs and gov't agencies of the world aren't deemed more reputable than the Andrew Tates of the world, we're on a path to a worse society.

>Lots of FAANGs with deep pockets started to invest in their own hardware, and it got good enough to start beating Nvidia.

It's not just hardware though: you can't run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware, which in my understanding is a major moat for Nvidia. I'd love to hear rebuttals on this though, because GPU programming is something I've only dabbled with.

I'm a native Finn and went to a public school here in Finland in the 00s. My overall experience was good, though of course I didn't always enjoy it. I liked some teachers more than others. I learned a lot and was bored a lot. I was subjected to the occasional bullying (who wasn't?) but I never felt truly unsafe. I also got along well with most people most of the time. I had to overcome my shyness to give presentations to my classmates. I got to know people from different socio-economic backgrounds. While navigating through childhood and puberty I made a lot of mistakes, as did all other kids, but ultimately it was a good childhood, and in hindsight I am really glad I wasn't homeschooled (not that it's common here anyway). Without the social connections I made and social skills I learned, I undoubtedly would've had a very different kind of life, and not in a better way I think.

I think Russians hinted at something like that being in the works over there. Might not be a bad idea for a rapidly aging country to do something like that.

This kinda reminds me of the anime Silver Fang (Ginga Nagareboshi Gin), which is hugely popular in Finland (well, at least among the millenials), but apparently quite unknown anywhere else, even in Japan where it originated from.

Greece cheated their way into EUR. They didn't meet the requirements, so they cooked the numbers with the help of GS. This later on blew up into everybody's faces (well, everyone except GS's).

I absolutely hate having to say stuff in between the lines or trying to interpret veiled intentions. There's def no need to be pointlessly rude when giving criticism, but to me, beating around the bush is exhausting and often frustratingly ineffective.

It's not guaranteed that you get more money back from an index fund (unless you've found an arbitrage, but that's a corner case). Even the bigger and stabler indexes like the S&P500 have their ups and downs, both on a daily level but also over longer time spans. The long-term trend has been positive for these types of indexes, but remember that past performance doesn't guarantee future profits :)

Could it be that the body adapts to an active lifestyle over time, and that's why _intense_ exercise acts as a shock that burns calories (it won't be intense anymore after you're used to it)?

Hey Peter, I have two questions: 1. How bad is the H1B situation now? I've read there are companies that flood the system with duplicate requests, which decrease the probability for the others. 2. Is it possible to get a visa and work permit for a partner without being married to them?

Doesn't seem to work on iOS 17.6.1 (can't hear anything when I press a key).

I'm sure there's a sensible middleground between never using big words vs. using them only to add complexity.

Maybe no form of _non-fiction_ writing benefits from it, but that's not the only type of writing there is. Let me link a clip from Dead Poets Society regarding this: https://youtu.be/WfZu-Um9PV0?feature=shared

I agree with you, but just wanted to point out that the author is (from what I gather) a teenager, so perhaps a degree of naivete is expected in his writing.

I mean, recreational programming and creating a side project for fun is nice and all, but a peach pie is something you can consume and is thus of interest to anyone who likes peach pies, whereas software that does nothing differently or better than the existing (well-known) solutions is just, well, not interesting to anybody else than the person who wrote it. Kudos to you for writing a generic TODO app, but why should anyone else be excited about it? I'm not sure why we even need to compare baking pies to writing software, it's apples to oranges.

Video games with characters looking this good would be amazing.

I think it's called a toast because it (usually) appears by jumping from one of the edges, like a piece of toast jumps from the toaster.

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Marcel Proust is the famous writer.

But yes, it would be interesting to learn about the origin of this phrase.

Yep, and also takes up a lot of area, requires a lot of water, and produces CO2 (the ruminants, that is). In other words, it's not sustainable after a certain point. But you probably knew this already and wanted to give a provocative take in the vein of: "eww, mommmm, that thing is yucky I don't want it where are my nuggets??"

No, it's the mozzarella cheese made with Italian buffalo milk.

Yep, this is called Jevons paradox. When technology increases the efficiency with which a resource (be it energy, computational power, or programmer's time) is used, the demand increases too.

I loved this book when I read it the first time, really touching. The theme most personal to me was that the brainier you are, the lonelier you get.

Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? The Japanese way to pronounce it could actually be a lot easier for many non-English speakers (I'd anyway argue it's a common enough word that people are familiar enough with it to pronounce it in a way that's comfortable to them).

I found the original Fallout games 15 years ago or so, and got interested in post-apocalyptic worlds and wanted to watch a movie about one. Threads was the first movie I saw, and after watching it I didn't want to watch another one.

I've always hated the social porn aspect of altruism. On one hand, you're doing a good thing by giving something of your own to someone in need, but on the other hand, you're using the publicity to boost your public image. I understand why people say the good side trumps the negatives, but to me it's just off. Watch Drake's music video for the song "God's Plan" and ask yourself if it's heartwarmingly nice, or social porn in the name of making Drake look good.

Well, there is Tree That Owns Itself, and Son of the Tree That Owns Itself. See the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself

>Technology is one of the best indicators of power, progress, societal dynamism and hope for the future.

Do you think people in Europe don't get to use American technology, and vice versa? In a globalized world, it doesn't matter much where something is invented. Very few things are banned for export (mainly weapons and other military things).

>there isn't a war in the US and the US didn't lose a member like europe did with brexit.

Way to contradict yourself. First you imply that a country is in Europe if it's there geographically speaking, but the very next moment you imply that a country isn't part of Europe if it leaves the EU. Which one is it? Ukraine and Russia have never been in the EU, and the UK is still in Europe geographically.

>Is that what we are talking about? Trading stocks internationally?

What are you exactly talking about then? You seem to imply that American tech companies are only serving the interest of the US.

>Man, there are quite a few people here really hoping europe stays weak and stagnant - especially technology-wise. Wonder why.

Let me tell you why you might think that: Europe and the US are very different in many aspects. Sure, the collective wealth and might the US have is more than that of Europe, but the quality of life on average is arguably better in Europe. While nobody in Europe hopes that Europe "stays weak and stagnant", it is true that not many in Europe want to live in a country like the US, where legislation is pro-corporation at the expense of the people; the national budget is spent on military to protect the country's super power status while people don't have access to universal health care nor high quality public education; and where the government is in a constant grid lock due to radical polarization. It's a trade off most people are happy to make.

A toilet is a place where people go take a shit or piss.

Not a comprehensive magazine/paper, but I really like Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter; mentioning it in case you haven't checked it out yet.

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