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ike77 commented on Toddlers are harsh judges of moral character   digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12... · Posted by u/rustoo
zpeti · 4 years ago
1. This isn't just the adults deciding. Children are attracted to certain types of stories too.

2. It doesn't stop. And it's why CNN and Fox are successful. But it is how we as humans want to see the world. Suprisingly to some, neither democrats or republicans are actually evil, they just have different perspectives on the world, and probably have more in common than in disagreement.

ike77 · 4 years ago
Maybe for a lot of people the media they consume actually shape their preferences?

But I would steer clear of generalizing, I think a lot of people have a strong preference for stories where the lines between what's moral and not are much more blurry and where you have reversal of preferences for various characters and where the main character is somehow sketchy. I think at the acclaimed Parasite for instance.

It's relatively easy to elicit a strong emotion, but that doesn't make a story, just a news.

ike77 commented on Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation   axios.com/wages-inflation... · Posted by u/paulpauper
tootie · 4 years ago
Is it not a problem? Wages rose substantially in the years between WWII and the 1970s but isn't that the actual aberration?
ike77 · 4 years ago
When people are exploited systemically, they tend not to turn against their exploiters (which are often hard to identify) but against each other.

I think part of the promise of increasing the quality of life of everyone after WWII wasn't only out of the goodness of the heart, but also to avoid reaching the level of generalized hate that made it possible in the first place.

ike77 commented on Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan
ike77 · 4 years ago
The major issue with this paper and this protocol is that it is not reproducible.

As the protocol is not accessible / published, we cannot determine how the difference in the set of measures between participants were determined and as such no researcher can independently replicate this study.

This is why those licensed diet / lifestyle change are never science: by definition. Even if they actually produce the desired outcome, all the research is produced either by the creator or by researchers that entered a license agreement and thus have conflicting interests and bias.

ike77 commented on Hackers leaked her photos then she was charged for breaking anti-porn laws   restofworld.org/2021/wome... · Posted by u/rogerram
ike77 · 4 years ago
Maybe you should also stop being nude at home since an image of you could be captured by a satellite or a drone. It's also probably better to use aluminum shower curtain as those cameras could be equipped with thermal imaging.

Your phone is your home. We tech savvy people know it's unfortunately not really the case so we act defensively, but it doesn't mean that we should tolerate this state of affair.

ike77 commented on It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law   wired.com/story/hard-cont... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
ike77 · 4 years ago
But it's impossible without a law.
ike77 commented on WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them   businessinsider.in/tech/n... · Posted by u/sidcool
ike77 · 5 years ago
I wonder if Business Insider was paid by Facebook to report a news so absolutely obvious and benign, and package it as if it was part of the serious privacy requests formulated by the public and security/privacy NGOs, in order to discredit those.
ike77 commented on The Ancient Persian way to keep cool   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/nelox
rkachowski · 5 years ago
I believe these kind of passive systems only really work when the air is hot and dry (like in a desert). In hot and humid areas like South East Asia this system just doesn't work, sweating (evaporative cooling) isn't as effective when the air is already saturated with moisture.
ike77 · 5 years ago
You're right of the goal is to lower the temperature of the structure lower than the ambient temperature.

If the goal is simply to lower the temperature of the building to that of the wind, simple radiators such as those is perfectly fine.

Knowing that cities temperature is often a few degrees higher than that of the surrounding air, that would work in contemporary settings as well. But trees could play the same role more efficiently and with additional health and environmental benefits.

ike77 commented on Early Retirement (2006)   philip.greenspun.com/mate... · Posted by u/gmays
2sk21 · 5 years ago
I retired early recently - I am in my mid 50s. It's not anywhere as hard as people seem to think. With a disciplined approach to investing, I think that it's very much possible to reach financial independence with a typical tech salary in the US. I achieved FI without an extraordinarily high salary, stock grants or participating in an IPO.

There is a treasure trove of information in the Bogleheads wiki: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

ike77 · 5 years ago
What if a stagflation of 15 years starts now?

Will you have to work again?

ike77 commented on Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B   reuters.com/business/inte... · Posted by u/hi5eyes
phkahler · 5 years ago
I would hope this is blocked simply due to the reduction in competition. Number one player should not be buying anyone.

OTOH my impression was that GloFo stopped short of EUV due to the cost, not that they couldn't do it. Intel might be able to fix that, but I think they're probably going the way of IBM.

ike77 · 5 years ago
But not having any of the players able to stand up to TSMC is also not good for competition.

Allowing smaller market participants to consolidate to face the behemoth is not necessarily going to be perceived as anti-competitive.

u/ike77

KarmaCake day96September 17, 2020View Original