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Comment · 1 year ago
One will have a strong tendency to leave the easily challanged out.
Comment · 1 year ago
I like it, the legal system might be more suitable for putting the "truth" on trial than its current application.

It will cost a bunch of money but we get something out of it.

Comment · 1 year ago
You can have entirely seperate governing entities complete with their own taxes and elections. The most interesting part imho is that people not even bother voting if the entity does its job properly.
Comment · 1 year ago
On the other hand, the most interesting discussions to be had are the ones where the opponent disagees with you.

As this is hard for many people i learn to completely ignore any part that is not of interest.

The funniest instance was an infuriated coworker calling me names, ready to fight me. He must have raged on fir 10 whole minutes while i calmly looked at him without expession. After his rage my conclusion was that he was right and calmly told him he was, next shift we will do it the way you've described. If he was wrong i would just say NO.

Made a good friend that day :)

Comment · 1 year ago
There is a whole spectrum from trying to reach ultimate form to trying not to die and everyone in between.

I measure my heart rate one time for fun. It was insanely high at rest. I felt perfect, full of energy but it was completely obvious i needed to introduce rest days. I conviscated the heart rate monitor and everything was back to normal 3 days later.

Comment · 1 year ago
If i had a more interested audience my posts would be more interesting.
Comment · 1 year ago
If it fits in a watch a lot of nondiabetics will also buy it. It can be much cheaper that way.
Comment · 1 year ago
Twice i read something from someone monitoring and adjusting the indoor air that came to the (expensive) conclusion that nothing beats opening all the windows.

I would add that heated clothing is fantastic. You cant heat the house to 30C and if it gets to warm you cant easily lower the temperature.

Comment · 1 year ago
I use to live next to a trucker restaurant that opened at 4am. It was a great place to go after a party or a night out.
Comment · 1 year ago
Its to easy to join and to hard to have dialog or ban users on reddit. It has kind of one single standard while with forums it depends a lot what the topic is. If people are building something together you need to be a productive participant before you can make fart jokes or complaint about your hangover. Accademic forums often had zero tolerance for bullshiting in serious topics. If your reply gives away you didnt read the article you deserve a warning.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can be as dishonest or helpful as you want. Back when google did organic ranking a lot of communities thrived on forum signatures. If you have thousands of helpful posts others know your level of expertise.
Comment · 1 year ago
Which part? The hosts often got the better end of the deal.

Today i would much enjoy a monthly elaborate dinner with my girl in exchange for 1x using a bed in a spare room i never use. Renting it out for a day for $ to a stranger is not going to happen but if it did it wouldnt cover the cost for professional cleaning plus a private cook.

I also had friends who never cook and ones who barely clean. I did whole office buildings, vacuuming a livingroom is not going to impress me.

Comment · 1 year ago
Its dead now but i one time (by hand) build an opml with feeds from pressreleases from the fortune 500. It seemed stupid but turns out no one is looking to crank out shitty pressreleases just for attention. Something has to be noteworthy to the company which turns out to be boring less than 90% of the time. At the very least 99% talks about something that was very expensive.
Comment · 1 year ago
I also thought it was funny, because it is if you have enough self confidence.

I had an agenda with 2-3 weeks worth of planning to stay with friends and aquaintances. I would never stay at the same place for more than 1 night. The friends would tollerate it for 2 weeks or 2 months but if i limit the visit to 1 day per week, 2 weeks or a month their patience would never run out. The deal was this: you pay for shopping i clean the kitchen entirely, i Cook an elaborate meal, clean the kitchen again, sleep and leave at 8 am.

The funniest were the ones who chose to abuse the deal and turned their kitchen into a giant mess. They pretty much didnt do anything for 14 days. I vaguely knew them, we didnt get along so well but i was excited to see the mess. This looks very welcomming! I joked. Some also ordered elaborate fancy 3 course meals that took some doing. They would enjoy the elaborate candle light dinner together after a day of hard work while i slaved away in their kitchen. Fucking hilarious.

Comment · 1 year ago
My prediction was that we would create a cpu with a slow and limited opcode set for humans to write on line numbers. Something that is easy to work with with a good static module system with certified sniplets of code. Anything written for it would still run cirkels around higher languages despite slow clock speed. It didnt happen but still could.

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