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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Well you could have government-run cryptographically signed tokens. They're already in the business of holding ID data (i.e. they don't need to collect it and this wouldn't increase the attack surface). But assuming it has t
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
I wish the UK looked this good.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Let's be honest, even being an MM theorist is a form of self selection that enables another kind of discussion. Neoliberal disagreement with MMT is categorically different from e.g. its disagreements with neocons or socdems in general
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
London is worse _overall_ for traffic than NYC, so I don't think it's that. I like America and Americans, but it's a fact that they don't travel much. JFK is not just bad for drop-off, it's chaos and run-down in g
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Right, to distinguish it from regular capitalism. Specifically to denote it as not-really-capitalism. _Crony_ is really the operative term.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
You understand that e.g. in Chinese cities they restrict car ownership and you have to enter a lottery/bidding system to get valid plates. Cars are a luxury. European cities have their own restrictions and discouragements. Rationing
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Baggage claim being run by a charity, obviously.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
And what's your experience of other world airports? Have you been to Heathrow? What about somewhere like Changi? It's not just the dropoff that sucks at JFK. Public realm is almost universally terrible in America because Americ
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
JFK is pure hell compared to Heathrow, never mind to an actually well-run airport. I'll stick to paying for my externalities.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Sort of and to varying degrees. Neoliberal is a funny one because it's used as a thoughtless pejorative by both the left and right. I've heard people say housing policy has failed because it's too neoliberal meaning too free
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Yes, although the US is genuinely one of the least racist places in the world, that's more about how bad the rest of the world is. In China the CCTV view just tags you up as Han/Uyghur/African/whatever. Nobody would eve
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
You think people don't want to drop off at the airport? There's literally a multi storey full of short term parking at every Heathrow terminal. They wouldn't fit in the drop off area at all. You are charged to be at the bag
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Right, but what do you think the alternative is? There is limited space close to the entrance of the terminal, it has to be rationed somehow. Also what happens in practice is people take advantage. A trust-based 30s wouldn't work.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
> What does skin color have to do with this? It affects their perception of how risky you are, obviously. Accurate or not. In fact, security tech in China will openly classify you by race/ethnicity.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Technically, Venn Diagrams don't show _degree_ of overlap :) Although re your actual point: the current admin only gifts things like this to a chosen few; a small subset of those with extreme capital. So it seems much more appropriate
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Aren't all country-scale (economic, governance, etc.) systems also 'systems of power'? It's not like the most powerful people of the USSR didn't leverage that system. Whatever the rules are, people end up adapting
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Possibly the police will come bother you, but you're not being convicted.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Arguably people still do this with 'socialism'. Calling everything communism is now a bit _too_ cliche.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
They've claimed this is the result of or at the behest of 'ultra capitalism'. I don't even mind hyperbole--call it fascism if you want--but at least use the dimensionally-correct terms. This is like when people call ev
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Generally speaking, threats and calls to violence are legal. Only a subset are illegal.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Capitalism is when bad things happen. And the more badder they are the more capitalism it is!
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
> Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Will this happen though? There's still a lot of work to be done, but principally I wonder if AI hype hasn't actually reduced the top of the funnel sig
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Well yes, that is how many things work, but it being common isn't a great argument for it being good. With banking, for example, I'd much prefer a low-touch technological solution. You could argue fingerprinting _is_ a low-touch
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
That the capabilities of its technology are greatly exaggerated.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
Yeah, but that's the government doing the sensitive parts, typically.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
From my other reply: > I mean vulnerable in the sense that fungible labor is vulnerable to the whims of the employer. In this case it might be for a good cause but in general the more leverage you give Uber over its employees, presumably
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
I mean vulnerable in the sense that fungible labor is vulnerable to the whims of the employer. In this case it might be for a good cause but in general the more leverage you give Uber over its employees, presumably the worse. Whether they
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
I'm more concerned that Uber gets to farm fingerprints, than drivers are 'forced' to accept it, I suppose. Although I can't identify a clear harm or form of exploitation that would arise from Uber collecting prints, I w
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
This is... just not my experience at all. Passengers and transit workers alike ignore assaults. Even cops sometimes.
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
What were you surprised about though? My expectation was always that it would be better, for various reasons.

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