CreamCat

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  1. I resonate with this in terms of my experiences with building a software system. You got to fail a few thousand times to build a mostly working software system. So, what's your general advice for authenticity? Should I just express myself and be authentic in any situation regardless of whether I want to attract a girl? Who I am often conflicts with survival of other human beings. Conflicts of interest are inevitable.
  2. If you don't want to fight the war, you will want to run away and become a homeless refugee. If you want to fight the war, you will proactively join the war. it's that simple.
  3. In my country, tax payers are obliged to pay for the public plan. So, healthy tax payers are going to pay for the public plan anyway. If they could just quit paying for it, it is not a single-payer medicare. If you earn salaries, your employer has to pay for your public plan even before giving you your salary. Lots of healthy people pay for it. The end result is that most or many healthy people pay for the cheap private plans that cover little on top of the cheap public plan. I don't see much room for manipulation. In my perspective, private plans are minor details that are worth experimenting with in the presence of single-payer medicare. Perhaps, my country's single-payer medicare hasn't been stressed as US medicare has been because USA has a lot more fat people. USA also sends a lot of soldiers to foreign war zones. My country's public medicare is not perfect. Here, surgeons make basic mistakes because they work too many hours to keep the prices low. My cousin became a vegetable after a surgeon performed a wrong surgery on him. He died a while ago.
  4. What's wrong with taking care of sickest people? As far as I know, my country has single-payer medicare along with private plans. It's nowhere as broken as american medicare. At least, I haven't heard my people complain about medicare as a major pain point. My country is not even nearly as rich as USA. In my country, priavte plans are add-ons to single-payer medicare, and most people pay for a mixture of the public medicare and private plans. Both public and private plans are reasonably cheap. I think it already works. USA can do it, too. In any case, the existence of single-payer medicare will drive down the costs significantly. Also, what will happen when private plans are not allowed? They will offload all of their patients to the public plan. So, they are going to offload either most or all patients. Whether or not private plans are allowed, sickest people will be taken care of by the public plan.
  5. A good universal healthcare plan teaches private insurances a lesson by competing with them harshly. A good universal healthcare plan squeezes inefficient private insurances out of the market through competition. If the government provides a good healthcare plan for all, private insurances will have to adapt. When US government funded various scientific researches aggressively after world war 2, private companies had to compete with the government in the job market. Private companies had to treat researchers well lest they transfer to government jobs. The government can maneuver private companies through competition.
  6. My answer // if you are in doubt, don't.
  7. Religious institutions are not giving psychedelics for free. In a sense, selling psychedelics is allowed.
  8. Realistically speaking, syria can be split into several countries or be eaten by other countries. The identity of syria is falling apart.
  9. I don't have theoretical framework to understand this.
  10. Yet, imaginations are real in the sense that they exist.
  11. Is it going to be ok? Usually, microwave just heats up water molecules. At low levels, it wouldn't do much to our body or our brain.
  12. I've suffered loud speaker noise from a nearby bistro at night and dawn for months. I couldn't sleep well. They keep it open from 5PM to 6AM. I called the police hundreds of times. The bistro owners stop the noise for the day or a few hours. But, they keep it up everyday. They simply ignore nearby citizens' sleep cycles. I am currently summoning city government officers to place more pressure on them. The officer responsible for controlling noise told me that the owners do not care about nearby citizens at all. The laws with regard to noise are weak here. I asked other officers to inspect interior and food hygiene. Bad food hygiene can result in closing the store for a month in the worst case. It seems cracking them down through repeated food inspection is the better way. At this point, I do not feel any qualm in closing the store for a month or for good. How can I better respond to environmental noise? In the long term, I should move to a place where there is no store nearby that can disrupt my sleep. But, I will move to a new quieter place in 3 years. For the next 3 years, I want to find effective ways to silence them. Sometimes, people do need to be silenced. The lesson is that you should not move to a place where there are nearby stores. Some of them will make noise at night and dawn until they are stopped. You need to keep some distance from environmental noise if you ever want to sleep well. Your sleeping place should keep some distance from commercial activity. In the longer term, I will make sure to make a lot of money so that I won't be stuck in noisy places.
  13. What if Leo was forced to take a break because of jury duty?
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
  15. As soon as I stop limiting myself to ego and a human life, I feel liberation. I feel infinite potential waiting inside me.
  16. I've recently visited a quiet neighborhood. Houses there cost about the same price as my house's price. After experiencing environmental noise, it's difficult to understand why people don't value silence more. Perhaps, most people in my area don't value sleep much. The lesson is that one should not live near intense commercial activities.
  17. I think you are attacking straw man.
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
  19. Combining surface pro or iPad with a small bluetooth/USB keyboard is also a good choice. You might want to buy a small bluetooth/USB keyboard and a pouch so that you can put it in a backpack safely. But, file management on iPad is not great. You could just use a touch keyboard on iPad, too if your iPad is big enough.
  20. I think you are distracted with finding a laptop for a commonplace book. Any good general-purpose laptop is good for a commonplace book. I suggest a few options A laptop with a replaceable keyboard A laptop with a decent keyboard You also want to buy a good USB or bluetooth keyboard because a laptop's keyboard cannot endure nearly as much use as a good external keyboard. Use a laptop keyboard only when you have to if you really want to get the most longevity out of it. If you move with your laptop a lot, you could purchase a small tenkeyless bluetooth keyboard. A mechanical keyboard or an electrocapacitive keyboard is going to last long.