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  • Nicotine is an awesome drug. Increases your focus and provides a mild euphoric effect. Of course it's not good for you, and if you've got to do it, it's better to get it in some other way than to smoke cigarettes.

    Edit: lots of people are suggesting that you don't get any benefit once you're addicted, except satisfying the cravings. That's not true. Nicotine feels good even after you've been using it for a long time.

  • Warms my heart to see somebody concerned, though I imagine I'll have to figure it out myself. I'm in Seattle and used to work in management/IT consulting. I've got a weird background though, cause I've got a PhD in philosophy and spent the ten years before that teaching a bunch of logic. It's a pretty tough combination to find a job with.

  • Yeah definitely. In the span of a month my wife suddenly left me to date women, my job laid me off, and my dog got sick and needed surgery. Everything I'd relied on for ten years just fell apart real fast and without a whole lot of warning. It's been quite the year trying to recover from all that. Dog survived, divorce finalized, still no job.

  • Any socialist society needs to be democratic first, socialist second. Many more democracies have gotten closer to socialism than socialist societies have gotten close to democracy.

  • What a profound indictment of the spirit of calitalism. That someone could have limitless money, look around the world and see all its misery, and yet have no idea what to spend money on. That cold evil is hard for anyone with a beating heart to imagine.

  • In my experience it doesn't work well when you have more than a couple people editing the file. My company had a group of ten modifying the same file in live time; it led to huge desync problems.

  • It's pretty easy to come up with some things billionaires have done that are good. Bill Gates funding cures and prevention of diseases in the third world is one that comes to mind.

    Now, if we're talking about finding an example of a billionaire whose life is on balance a good thing for humanity...that's pretty much impossible.