Yeah, Doom is probably the biggest. There are communities for Prince of Persia, Commander Keen. Transport Tycoon is mostly around OpenTTD, Civilization is I think FreeCiv.
There is actually quite big community of modders of DOS games and nostr:nprofile1qqsre6jgq6c7r2vzn5cdtju20qq36sn3cer5avc4x8kfru5pzrlr7sqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6f0qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnsd3jkyum5wghxxmmd9us9zd4y is working on Nostr friendly solution for those 😊
All those are a stupid reasons for NGU. I would honestly not mind if the price stayed lower for longer.
I'd prefer Freedom Go Up.
Maybe it's the time to try Nostr. You can't get banned on Nostr. There are now hundreds of apps that you can choose from and you are in charge of the experience you get...
There are scammers on Nostr in DMs, but they always stop talking to me after a while 😥
Jellyfin running on a server and native Jellyfin app installed on the TV. Experience like Netflix for your library of movies...
Watching the pod with nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs heard them talking about NOSTR and decided this is where I need to be.
Welcome 🫂
We do offer this with our nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg integration, which enables a merchant to create a list of items with corresponding prices. I showed it to ~10 vendors and not a single one was interested. They don't want to put in the effort to set it up. And then if they ever change prices/products, even more work. We recently started getting some more traction using our POS Keypad which allows the merchant to generate bolt11s with the amount built-in. Still an uphill battle though. Pura vida.
Yeah, that makes sense and I see it from the vendors perspective that they don't care about this and it just adds annoyance. The POS in the app solves the problem but it adds a bit more work for the seller during every purchase (and it happens synchronously, so it slows down the overal experience).
Is there some other way to do it if we think outside of the box? A person in the morning goes around the feria and collects the items they sell and inputs them in the POS QR somehow? The seller takes a picture of their "menu" (e.g. the coffee place in this example has printed and laminated menu they use every time) and the app could OCR it and provide the options? 😉 That's probably too much work for a single market, but on a bigger scale it may be interesting...
And leetcode for software engineers because we suck at sports... 😄
Humans are not chimps, and human progress comes from cooperation, not from domination.
Here is a lovely article on the topic, https://freemansperspective.com/i-like-jordan-peterson-but-hes-wrong/
"The dominance strategies of animals generate animal results.
The cooperative strategies of humans generate human and humane results."
Where do you want humanity to go from here?
I agree with the push for cooperation & collaboration. We are on the same page there.
And on the note, Peterson, especially the recent version, is drunk on symbolism, saying stupid points with his "lecturing" voice and generally close to impossible to listen to. The initial lectures were really good though, made some good points that I have not heard before.
I have not studied any of these.
If we were all ants dying for the glory of the ant queen, perhaps we would not feel misery and be eternally happy, but I'd rather be free with a small side dish of misery 😉
Collaboration and cooperation is beautiful and I think I'm the least competitive person I know, I'm not at all good and competitive sports, because I'm happy for the other team to win. I always try helping others, often work with companies in the bitcoin space, etc. I think we should push towards collaboration as much as possible, create communities with shared interests and help each other.
What I tried to say in my reply is that I believe it's useful, especially for young males, to have a place to compete, to compare themselves in a hierarchy - for example being the best in sports. Or trying to be the best in building the best product. Or becoming the expert on some topic. Or helping the most people. Or speaking the fastest (😉)…
As part trying to be the best they learn to overcome hardships and they get better at that skill. They get a goal to aim at. Also if you know you are good at something, it gives you confidence and peace (at least for me).
In all of this women and men are really similar with only small differences in the average women vs average men. Based on the quick "research" I did today there is some evidence that on average the competition may be more useful for men than women, but that's of course only talking averages. Different people are different. Some men will hate social comparison, it will make them depressed, miserable, etc and some women will love it and grow thanks to it. I do not see competition as a zerosum game. There is a huge value gain on the way.
In other replies you also brought up the global situation, presumably around wars, competition of countries, dictators, etc. All those are horrible things, but that's imo a separate topic, not caused by hierarchy/social comparison. I don't think if we would completely eliminate hierarchy and social comparison it would eliminate wars, dictators, etc.
Oh this one is also interesting specifically about competition difference between men and women: https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/0002828041301821
"The results confirm the initial conjecture: competition
enhances the performance of males, but not
females."
I think this is the most direct evidence for your question I could find.
I don't have a great soundbite evidence, but I can roll out the argument through indirect evidence:
- Hierarchy has direct effect on health (cardiovascular system, cortisone levels)
- Hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor
- Male and female hierarchies are different - male are more strict structure (shown in mice and some studies on primates/humans)
- Social comparison has worse effects for women
- Countries pushing for gender equality resulted in more psychological differences between men and women.
This psychology journal explored hierarchy from different directions, but especially the effects on health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/33/suppl/C
The results (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X19300946 ) show that the people on top of hierarchy end up being healthier, less stressed, etc. Fairly believable imo, matches my personal experience.
Further, hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor (shown in
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5494206/#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20the%20organization%20of%20social,and%20labor%20among%20group%20members. with further evidence)
There is way more research in mice and monkeys, but not sure how much you believe that translates into humans, e.g. showing differences between male and female hierarchies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43747-w#:~:text=Female%20mouse%20hierarchies%20exhibit%20several,directional%20consistency%20than%20male%20hierarchies.
Now to the point, this shows one example where social comparison is notably worse for women compared to men: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2024.2390939#references-Section
And just to highlight, if the countries/nations push more towards gender equality (in some dimension, like work), it actually ends up in causing larger psychological difference in personality, values, and emotions between men and women (as shown in https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-07951-011 ), which presumably would make the social comparison effects more pronounced.
When I was "researching" this I tried my best to ask neutral questions, like "effects of social comparison on different gender", to make sure I don't just find the results that support my view.
I don't have a great soundbite evidence, but I can roll out the argument through indirect evidence:
- Hierarchy has direct effect on health (cardiovascular system, cortisone levels)
- Hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor
- Male and female hierarchies are different - male are more strict structure (shown in mice and some studies on primates/humans)
- Social comparison has worse effects for women
- Countries pushing for gender equality resulted in more psychological differences between men and women.
This psychology journal explored hierarchy from different directions, but especially the effects on health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/33/suppl/C
The results (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X19300946 ) show that the people on top of hierarchy end up being healthier, less stressed, etc. Fairly believable imo, matches my personal experience.
Further, hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor (shown in
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5494206/#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20the%20organization%20of%20social,and%20labor%20among%20group%20members. with further evidence)
There is way more research in mice and monkeys, but not sure how much you believe that translates into humans, e.g. showing differences between male and female hierarchies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43747-w#:~:text=Female%20mouse%20hierarchies%20exhibit%20several,directional%20consistency%20than%20male%20hierarchies.
Now to the point, this shows one example where social comparison is notably worse for women compared to men: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2024.2390939#references-Section
And just to highlight, if the countries/nations push more towards gender equality (in some dimension, like work), it actually ends up in causing larger psychological difference in personality, values, and emotions between men and women (as shown in https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-07951-011 ), which presumably would make the social comparison effects more pronounced.
Now in terms of experience improvements - while this is time efficient when I make the payment in parallel to them making the coffee, I find paying to lightning address QR annoying. The main annoyance is that I need to put down the total amount in my app.
Imo a better experience would be if the QR opens a page that either allows me to select from the list of products (e.g. Latte: 2000CRC, Espresso:1000CRC...), I just select those, tap pay and that opens my lightning wallet of choice. Even better would be if the website somehow magically knows exactly what I ordered (this would require coordination with some seller POS, so this more applies to restaurants, not ferias).
The website could show something like 
nostr:nprofile1qqs2n79n72kpnnqx65v5m5dvjv2dgaq6p9mhg3ycv4feymv3v5vpv3cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszyrhwden5te0dehjuum5wghxxu30qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsfvyehu nostr:nprofile1qqs254dy0xkkjdxsl4u08k7cs52u689q67s3pqfwwyfcp4va7avcjdgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy8hwumn8ghj7mn09eehgu3wvdeqld6ps4 - just some ideas 💡 😉
I don't know him at all or what he says. I think I have seen him in a picture, but that's it. So no idea 😄
Yes, agreed that this is a dominant pattern.
The reality is that tech schools and the culture in India are quite optimized to produce people that work well in the middle to top management (and for some reason they also produce a lot of BE devs that can stomach enterprise Java).
I'm interested to see if this will continue to be the case into the future, as India tech sector is growing very fast now.
About the immigration question - I'm not convinced either way whether this is good or bad.
I just don't know. I have seen countries with strict anti immigration and they ended up stuck and behind...
Especially when they don't encourage entrepreneurship, where startup or owning a company is an offense.
Here are some examples:
nostr:npub1farleyjgt90e2sr8nlneuwg7vcx0yjq3uc3ksya7902eteulzfkqyx670r - more eloquent than me
nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl - more polymathier and humane than me
nostr:npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n - more gentlemanly than me
nostr:npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku - both more esoteric and practical than me
nostr:npub1ng8zqsa04gzk5y4ch0nh43xrrpwqu27ydvf24s2cdzg5gv3upc7qycqjc0 - funnier than me
Curate your inputs/environment so that you are surrounded by better people.
Beneficial comparison will follow!
I like this - try surrounding yourself with the people that are better than you!
Men need some hierarchy to be able to compete/fight to get to the "top". Especially when young. And in many ways that can be a good thing.
Well, at least that's my take based on a life of observing life 😅
I'm trying to decode what you are saying - is your expectations that these workers from India end up growing & owning companies in the US and they end up as the ruling class in the US?