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Stallman is huge. Practically you cannot appoint someone to his position. FSF is meaningless without him. If you could, this would have happened when they fired him.

Yeah, because these incentives matter for the fertility :)

Marriage is only worse, but having kids without marriage comes with most of the same risks and inequalities. Like what are the chances that the father gets custody?

* (policy) - If things don't work out, your wife will divorce you, take half of what you have and enslave you to pay her support for the next 15 years. Actually, she might do that just because she needs more passion while you are hard at work.

It's not a problem for the universe, only for you in your old age ;)

Am I the only one who actually thinks that a SPA is simpler than server rendered UI? I always go for a SPA when I can sacrifice indexability and never seem to regret it.

Most laymen would not and do not pay for lasting buildings.

This. Besides, there is only one measure that has been proven to reliably increase business climate and thus GDP - lower taxes and bureaucratic weight. And Europe is heading in exactly the opposite direction.

My experience with Copilot is the other way around. I spend time writing my types/data structures, my functions, then Copilot tends to easily spit several variations of the test by just me giving it the name of the test.

I am the opposite. With time I have grown to be rather neutral and maybe slightly negative on the topic of programming and CS, but I love solving real-world problems and producing working solutions. I am content with having to program in order to do that, but would definitely skip the programming step if I could.

We need them to starve just a little bit and the world will start becoming a much better place. Most of our (EU's) problems are literally caused by Germany's double standards over the past 20 years.

Never... ever... get emotionally attached to your work. You wrote some curly braces, you got paid. That's it. Move on.

And so what?

This fascination with "being remembered" is strange. We shouldn't optimize for being remembered (or being easy to reconstruct archaeologically). We should try to not vanish. If we do vanish, why do we care about being remembered?

I didn't say "similar" games, just games that are better suited for humans than computers.

I'd love to watch robot football (the European variety) where robots beat humans. If they can do that, it's probably singularity time (or robot apocalypse).

I agree that puzzles are fun, but cheating will be a problem for the competitive part. And I think it will degrade the appeal to watch/follow.

Well, cycling is plagued with lots of similar problems (doping, people hiding electric motors in their bikes etc.), so yeah, I would argue the same there. On the other hand the very act of cycling improves health, so it's much more suitable as a sport for humans. Chess may have some arguable benefits, but it's very hard to detect so.

Of course, everything depends on "the market" - if people want to watch human chess tournaments (or cycling tournaments), they will... but I suspect with time it will either have to become a hilarious, anti-cheat porn or it will die out. I'm rooting for the latter :-D. I'm sure we can invent much better competitive games that are not that prone to these problems.

Isn't it time to just abandon chess as a competitive sport? It's (mostly) a solved game for f* sake, move on. I will probably be downvoted to oblivion, but I'm absolutely serious and would love constructive commentary.

What's the big appeal of chess? We (as humans) can't beat computers. It's probably useful for further research, but I see absolutely no value in (human) competitions.

What? So the iPhone is unusable in countries that have no esims offered? Or will this force operators in such countries to start offering esims?

A more suitable comparison would be whether the US's (or Germany's) healthcare system is more or less regulated compared to 50 years ago. Now also look at the pricing.

Did you miss the part where exactly these things suffer the most from regulation? How long until we mostly cannot afford healthcare for the middle class? Aren't we already somewhat there?

I think that if you are obsolete (and that's a big if), it's not because of languages you don't know, but because of jobs you can't/won't do. For me personally, that was writing (web) UIs. Learning JS/TS + React was the best thing that ever happened to me. The best decision I ever made. It basically enabled me to crush all such thoughts (about being obsolete) that I had. I no more have to rely on someone else in order to "talk to the world" (express my ideas with software/UI). Now I can market my ideas on a whole different level, even when they are backend/systems ideas. And I was astonished by how much "real programming" there is on the frontend.

Before reading this, I thought I am sort of proficient in English. Not any more... Haven't looked up so many words in years

Yeah, it can hurt the price (as the implosion of LUNA/UST did). Of course. Will it obliterate it? I really doubt it. The main case (to resist the government) will even be strengthened if such a thing happens.

When you see cryptobros reeing, it's a great opportunity to buy a little, so that you don't drool on the sides during the next run.

They can't block your crypto account/wallet like they did with bank accounts in Greece, Cyprus, Iceland etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_controls_in_Greece

Even only this is enough, but there are many more ways this insurance works.

Bitcoin is worth something exactly because of people like Lagarde. It is our insurance against them.

Do you have a good study on the topic? In the fitness group I am a member, we do regular bloodwork and they have never seen such a thing in their 10 years of experience. On the contrary, most of the micronutrients/vitamins readings become (a lot) better after several months of the initial "uniform" diet. It includes all the veggies you can eat, though it's somewhat uniform and based on the season and market availability/price. Actually, in my first months being a member, I calculated that I received many thousands times more vitamins/minerals from food, compared to my previous years.

For example, I can eat more than half a kilo of kale in a day, over many days. This is like 20x the daily dose of vit K, 2.5x the daily dose of vit C, 1x the daily dose of vit A, etc. Then I'll rotate to kohlrabi for some time, then to cabbage, etc, etc.

Compared to my former pizza diet, this is insane. Indeed, thousands of times more micronutrients.

Did you miss that I explicitly stated "for several months" and not "forever"? It's enough to get you kickstarted and then you can begin varying (and also you will learn a lot about yourself during that time)

I am in my second year of controlling my weight. Down ~30kg and I am in the healthy range now for more than 6 months. So far it seems to be sustainable. I am in a paid fitness (online) group and I have learned a lot, though it's still up to me to find ways to fit into the requirements... Here are some random observations that seem to work for ME (might be different for you).

- Nothing "extreme" works for me, as it's not sustainable for periods longer than a few months. I did keto... works for some time, then a total rebound. In the end it seems that a "balanced diet" works. For me (and my training regimen) this means 150g protein, 180g carbs and 50g fat per day.

- While you are cutting, you have to weigh everything you eat. There is no good way around this as you cannot control what you don't know and you can't know how much you eat unless you measure it.

- It's perfectly fine to eat completely uniform food every day for some months. For the first months, for me it was chicken breast, raw cabbage, peaches, cheese and the occasional high-protein pudding. This puts the dopamine under control, as you (or at least me) get trained to not expect anything "special", ever. After some months I was able to start varying a bit, while still staying 100% within my macros (no more and no less of each macronutrient). After some time I stopped weighing the veggies I eat and now I eat all of them (like broccoli, kale, turnips, tomatoes, cucumbers, salads etc.). I eat all kinds of meat and seafood. Mostly never eat any vegetable oil, as meat and cheese provides the needed quantities.

- Yeah, what I described above is almost exactly the same as your described "quitting food", just it's "healthy", as you consume enough fibre. Yeah, do supplement with some multivitamins.

- You have to cook, no way around it. But it's not as frightening as it sounds. Once you accept bland (and uniform) food... it's easy. Buy an Instant Pot and start prepping the meat there. 2 kilos of chicken breast under pressure for 10 minutes will last you a week.

- Always have your "correct" food handy, so that you don't need to eat something else, or think what to eat. (yeah, buy the instant pot).

- Throw away all the "junk" food you own and never buy any.

- If you are out and you are not able to eat your "right" food, just fast and eat at home whenever that is. Yeah, I get it it might not be possible for everyone, but it's possible for me.

- Don't do this initially (the first months), but later... everything is allowed if you do not exceed your macros. French fries? Alright, you can have that now and then. Pizza? Sure thing, I am having a slice or two almost every week. But never exceed macros.

- Artificial sweeteners are your friend when you are in a crisis. (Ab)use them as much as you want and you are still better than being fat (or having bad lab readings as you mentioned).

- If you are still hungry, always have cabbage/kale/etc. handy. You can eat as much as you want in raw form (and in several months you will start to like it, I promise).

- Fasting is mostly not a great idea as it doesn't help you learn how/what to eat and how to control your cravings. After lots of experimentation with it, I arrived at 3 meals a day with carbs early in the day. Breakfast in the morning, then lunch, then a light dinner around 4 and no food afterwards. Yeah, if you are a social person it will suck. But I guess you can find your own thing... but don't be afraid to experiment and don't have prejudices. I always thought that having breakfast is not my thing (or a good idea) despite the overwhelming evidence for the contrary. Yeah, there are actually studies that show that it's beneficiary to eat early in the day, opposed to late. But if your body is broken you will need time to arrive to this.

- Despite the previous point, initially do whatever works. At least for several months. Then what works will change. Do not be afraid to follow along.