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by 988747 5y ago
Depends on the country I guess. In Poland poor people usually own cars, just very old and cheap ones, like 15 years old VW Golf with resale value of $500. There are very few people here who can't afford any car at all. If ICE cars are
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by 988747 5y ago
Actually, I think that the system with "first-past-the-post" voting, tied with small voting districts is much better for representative democracy. Yes, the one visible result is that you get only two political parties (because bei
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There's a twisted version of this "myth" that I encoutered: The demand for software developers grows much faster than the supply, so there is a temptation to hire wildly incompetent people, hoping that they still be able to d
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by 988747 5y ago
> In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well e.g. they generalize and work in production. No one understands why. How about the resulting weights? If most of them are close to 0, then that
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by 988747 5y ago
Yes, because generating infinite amount of debt is fashionable now. All that Republicans try to do is to stop the US from following Venezuela's footsteps. Unfortunately, it might already be too late for that.
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isn't that somewhat against the whole idea of PoW? It is supposed to make cheating expensive, because you have to waste a lot of computing power to do it. If that power is not wasted, but instead used for something useful (outside of c
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by 988747 5y ago
The article you linked says "The manner of Brackett's death is now ruled as a homicide."
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by 988747 5y ago
Except hot-dogs contain almost no meat :)
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by 988747 5y ago
Salaries are always considered the cost of doing business, so I'm not sure what your point is here. What is important is that many people can't wrap their head around the fact that this additonal 1200 PLN which is labeled as &quo
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by 988747 5y ago
The amount of time worked has nothing to do with it - contractors in other industries typically work long hours. The reasoning is that contractors should retain some level of independence, like choosing their rides, and setting their own pr
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by 988747 5y ago
> "We know that the vast majority of drivers would like to remain independent," said Maurits Schonfeld, general manager of Uber in Northern Europe That's funny, because the court's reasoning was that drivers in their
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by 988747 5y ago
It's just a matter of how their vocal cords are built. Basically birds vs primates divide is like this: being able to imitate sounds without understanding vs understanding but being unable to speak, and using sign language instead.
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by 988747 5y ago
The major change, at least in my country, is that healthcare is so focused on COVID that they are neglecting patients with other diseases. So the excess deaths are mostly effect of that.
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by 988747 5y ago
> And the family moved in from somewhere else, leaving you with three spots in that some other place plus two spots in the new place, so you have 5 places for students regardless. Not sure why you think this changes something. Because th
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by 988747 5y ago
Property investors are not "hoarding" houses. They buy them and then rent them out, thus increasing the supply. It is actually better for students this way: an investor that does not live in their property can rent out it whole. I
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by 988747 5y ago
Right, because that’s what every family dreams about: having a stranger living in their house. Also, if there was enough space in dorms for everyone there wouldn’t be those students camping in tents, as OP wrote.
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by 988747 5y ago
Do you guys have direct flights to US? I was thinking about Croatia for the same reason, but all flights from there to US seem to require layover in London or Paris, which makes them useless (even few hours at EU or UK airport is enough to
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by 988747 5y ago
Yes, rates were not inflation-adjusted. But in our country it is the opposite: in times when savings account paid 7% we had maybe 1.5% inflation. Now, when the rates are near zero we have 5% inflation. So keeping money in the bank means los
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by 988747 5y ago
It is actually not. Basic laws of economy are much like the laws of physics: they work the same whether you believe in them or not. Trying to circumvent them with legislation such as rent control leads to various second order effects. For r
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by 988747 5y ago
I think this is about interest rate on savings side. Ten years ago in Poland you could get saving account paying 7% interests. 5 years ago you could get one that pays 3%. Right now interest rates are almost at 0, and saving accounts pay rid
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by 988747 5y ago
But the landlords are all greedy capitalists who do not deserve that money anyway /s For the group of aspiring startup founders HN community has a very high percentage of Marxists in it :)
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by 988747 5y ago
Rent control is not working because it cannot work - it is directly contradicting the laws of nature, such as supply and demand. Housing gets build in order to extract profit from it. If you disallow profit, you are disincentivizing new hou
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by 988747 5y ago
Higher rent for the newcomers, of course. And shortages, since very few new apartments get built (mostly the luxury ones). And slow degradation of existing apartments since no sane landlord would invest in any improvements if they cannot ma
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by 988747 5y ago
Any sufficiently advanced vim config would contain ad-hoc, poorly specified, bug-ridden implementation of a half of Intellij IDEA :)
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by 988747 5y ago
The point of income tax isn't revenue - that comes from printing money, or from corporate taxes. Income tax is basically a surveillance tool - it forces you to declare all your income sources, and a large part of spending (if you want
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Medications in streams are good right? At least fish will be healthy. /s
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by 988747 5y ago
It would help if Tesla was fined $1B for false advertising then... Even naming the whole thing "Autopilot" qualifies as punishable offence, in my opinion.
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by 988747 5y ago
And if anyone still needed proof that Biden is indeed an idiot then his today's address should be enough.
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The author of the article clearly doesn't get it. They say "8- to 12-year-old children evaluate harms more severely when they are directed toward more attractive animals." and then tries to explain that with "beauty is p
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by 988747 5y ago
Deciding factor in the outcome of the conflict was this demented [1] idiot Biden being elected the President of the United States. Everything else is just a logical consequence of that. [1] https://newsthump.com/2020/05

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