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Amazon is attractive to consumers. Workers... have to go with that.

"All: could you please not take this thread into Bitcoinland?"

Is that what all are saying? Or is it an instruction to us all?

Scientists are made, not born. They need space to study. If we make them share rooms when they are children, or share houses when they move out, then their potential is squandered.

I had to share a room growing up, so half my time was spent watching TV in the living room. My parents wouldn't let me turn the TV off, as they were watching it or listening to it. Mind-numbing.

I had to share a house at university. My housemates wanted to drink and play games and listen to loud music all day. Also not good.

DragonBall Z fanfic: Honor Trip

Cell changes allegiance. Kind of a rationalist fic that I rarely see anyone else talking about.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4746383/1/Honor-Trip

(Like most fanfics, it is unfinished, but at least the first saga, as in, the main storyline, got finished.)

The Game Boy came out around the same time as the Atari Lynx, which was much more advanced graphically but had a terrible battery life. Advances in battery tech are very important for handhelds.

Is it perhaps that the Asian parents can use physical discipline against their kids, whereas e.g. White parents wouldn't get away with that so easily?

What if the person being listened to in condition #1 was a trusted employee at the company who is interested in hiring you?

Not everyone has a doctor.

How is the common man supposed to know that there isn't anything strange in the vaccine? Governments have forcibly sterilised segments of their population before.

* If I don't have a large house with garage,

* If I don't have a car,

* If I have harsh restrictions on when or how much electricity I can use,

* If I can't move around at night for fear of disturbing housemates or neighbours,

it can be difficult to start certain kinds of ventures.

Getting rich or starting a successful business is really what I'm living for. If I had to be a wage slave forever I'd off myself right now so that my corporate paymasters would no longer benefit from my labour.

Is having as many people existing as possible, really what we want to optimise for? What about optimising for freedom or quality of life?

It is not healthy to sit in a chair staring at a screen all day. Consider early retirement or a change of career, if you can.

Well we could have more people with less consumeristic lifestyle and smaller houses, but is that really what we want?

I don't want to live in a tiny apartment. I want to live in a big house with a garage so I can start companies like Jeff Bezos.

Well in the UK, housing prices have certainly gone up. It's a small country and we have net immigration of about 210,000 annually. Houses may be cheaper to build, but there is much competition for them.

Well it must include your IP address too, and they know the time and date is was received. And then it gets bundled with the rest of the data they collected.

I don't even want them knowing when I'm using my computer.

“What gets measured gets managed.”

That's why I use Apple mobile devices only -- They don't let apps demand permissions they don't need. Most people I know are the same way.