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New comment by lukas099 in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

lukas099 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:07:29 +0000

> If you want, I can show you this one WEIRD TRICK doctors HATE!

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:35:54 +0000

FIRE types are exactly the people who do the things I said. And no, you won't suddenly have millions but you will eventually have millions.

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:14:38 +0000

Being clueless can be admirable, I think. These are the people you work with who put in the work even when it won't lead to a fatter paycheck for themselves. The essay makes them out to all be useless middle managers, but the actual top contributers to a team also fit most closely with this category.

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:12:04 +0000

The Clueless is the person who actually believes his work makes a difference and wants to do a good job. Not necessarily a terrible way to live, although it should be acknowledged that the Loser frees up time and energy to devote to other things, notably family.

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:07:01 +0000

On the contrary, the frugal option is quite often the cooler, more fulfilling one:

- riding a bike instead of driving (makes you fitter, hotter, increases mating potential)

- cooking food (impressive to friends and potential mates, makes you and your family healthier)

- building furniture, tech stuff, whatever (your stuff is customized to your own tastes and situation)

- playing music in a band (get paid for a Saturday night out instead of paying for it)

- helping friends and asking friends for help in return (builds social ties)

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:01:23 +0000

They said "many things", not "everything".

New comment by lukas099 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lukas099 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:59:32 +0000

How so?

New comment by lukas099 in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

lukas099 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:47:42 +0000

Ok but we were talking about marginal differences in potty training methods, not neglecting kids and feeding them garbage.

New comment by lukas099 in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

lukas099 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:39:43 +0000

Exclusive breastfeeding (not bottle feeding breastmilk) is less labor than formula. The problem is potential discomfort, and inability for both parents to split the labor more equally.

New comment by lukas099 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

lukas099 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:26:53 +0000

This is why politicians are usually expected to choose their words carefully. Most of them know that what they say matters and has effects on the real world.

New comment by lukas099 in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

lukas099 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:25:48 +0000

I think that interventions in the region of interest, the middle east, are more relevant data points than Venezuela.

New comment by lukas099 in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

lukas099 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:22:31 +0000

Do you believe that those goals will be achieved? Given the historical track record of these kinds of interventions, I do not.

New comment by lukas099 in "Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers"

lukas099 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:06:37 +0000

Water retention plantings like bioswales could help with the thermal impacts too if the wastewater can be treated there right?

New comment by lukas099 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

lukas099 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:29:17 +0000

Japan was already in China weren’t they?

New comment by lukas099 in "Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory"

lukas099 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:33:09 +0000

What I said doesn’t mean that every aspect of their society is stable.

New comment by lukas099 in "Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory"

lukas099 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:34:48 +0000

Sounds like they've reached an evolutionarily stable equilibrium and the conditions that sustain it are stable too.

New comment by lukas099 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

lukas099 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:05:50 +0000

If you’ve driven 10mph over the speed limit you’ve committed a worse crime than crossing a border without authorization.

New comment by lukas099 in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

lukas099 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:40:03 +0000

Where do you even get that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

New comment by lukas099 in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

lukas099 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:30:16 +0000

Whom did he get backlash from and what was their stated reason?

New comment by lukas099 in "Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory"

lukas099 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:15:26 +0000

If the hundred dollar bill was in an accessible place and the fact of its existence had been transmitted to interested parties worldwide, then yeah, the economist would probably be right.