Arainach

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by Arainach 1y ago
> A surprising number of people from these and other groups support conservative causes too. Plenty of people (including the vast majority of Republican voters) vote against their interests, yes. Whether it's single issue voting, m
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Uncle Bob's general principles of balancing terseness/efficiency with ergonomics and readability (in most, but not all, cases). Have you read Uncle Bob? There's no need to strawman: Bob's examples in Clean Code are
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by Arainach 1y ago
If anyone thought the Trump Administration had any credibility after their first four years, all of their actions in the last 8 months - most recently firing a non-partisan budget analyst over releasing accurate job numbers instead of ones
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by Arainach 1y ago
>I remember that "Defund the Police" is the general mantra of one side of the isle. And I remember that that was about focusing police on policing and spending more on having specialists provide social support and the kind of
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by Arainach 1y ago
There is no undermining, as everyone living in the cities realizes. In Seattle I'm sick of people who think the whole city burned down in 2020 or that you can't go downtown without a homeless person stabbing you with a needle. Pe
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by Arainach 1y ago
Medical debt is one of the most common kinds of debt in America. Debt and poverty are absolutely correlated to crime rates. So is anxiety over bills. Untreated mental or physical health issues can come into play as well.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>will raise some interesting questions about why things have been so bad for for long. Crime in DC is near a 30 year low. If you think they've been "so bad for so long" then go spend some time in the city instead of watch
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by Arainach 1y ago
Inflation isn't the problem. Corporate consolidation, collusion, price fixing, and market capture are the problems. In nearly every field where there used to be 10-20 competitors there are 2-4 and they're not doing much "comp
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by Arainach 1y ago
Over what timespan? This analysis isn't elaborated at all. Does it count the impact of companies being able to pay lower wages and paying more taxes? Does it account for the future generations? Etc.
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by Arainach 1y ago
The pie has nothing to do with it. The tide is rising and most ships are sinking. Productivity in the last 40 years has skyrocketed. The gains have overwhelmingly gone to a tiny minority while everyone else has seen rent, food, education, a
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by Arainach 1y ago
The complaining about fertility rates, mostly done by the chunk of the population hoarding more and more of the wealth, will continue until people's ability to afford rent and children improves.
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by Arainach 1y ago
You generally have to disassemble far more annoying things to get to the antenna than to remove the head unit.
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by Arainach 1y ago
A workshop full of tools is worthless if you never use them. Modern phones and web browsers are full of weaponized distractions with billions of dollars in forces fighting to steal your attention. To actually be productive, many (most?) pe
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by Arainach 1y ago
It hasn't been possible until very recently. The Epic case has still been going through the courts, so there's been no reason for Meta to show their hand before that's final. They HAVE been finding every loophole, crack in th
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by Arainach 1y ago
I don't see the relevance of this question. Neither what I do nor whether I own a desktop/laptop impact the overwhelming trends of how society interacts with technology.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>freedom to use your phone however you want would necessarily compromise security and privacy for everyone. For a large enough definition of "everyone", it would. "Everyone" has a Meta app installed. We've seen
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by Arainach 1y ago
>The lengthened times for showing up at the airport mean that it no longer even makes sense for many people to take shorter flights Shorter flights should generally be rail anyway. The math on "no longer makes sense" isn't
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by Arainach 1y ago
The absence of laws and regulations enables exploitation, not freedom. We've seen that over and over. Libertarianism gives us the "freedom" to have monopolies price gouging, locking the fire exits to ensure we don't le
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Direct democracy mitigates these issues. Influence must be exerted through broad, public persuasion. This forces special interests to operate in the open, creating a higher and more transparent barrier to subverting the public will. Hav
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by Arainach 1y ago
This doesn't work in practice. Look at how Senate Republicans have weaponized the filibuster in the last 20 years. A 40% veto is conceptually similar to your repeal process and it results in gridlock and nothing getting done. It is har
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by Arainach 1y ago
It's impossible for people to know about every topic. That was true in Plato's day and is dramatically more true now. People defer to what someone on TV or Tiktok told them and have no time to look into facts or primary sources.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>72% of developers spend 17+ hours/week on security; ....what? Does anyone believe this? These are numbers parroted from bullshit studies (or a definition of "security" work so broad as to be worthless)
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by Arainach 1y ago
It's hard enough to get the cops to come out to a robbery - I know of nowhere in America where they're bored enough to come look at someone with poor landscaping. Unless you're a decamillionaire (or a cop), the cops in Americ
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by Arainach 1y ago
These don't work because suburbs are a ponzi scheme that is collapsing. People are grudgingly willing to pay to put in a brand new sewer once. No one wants to fund maintenance or pay millions to replace it in 60 years and cities are l
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by Arainach 1y ago
They didn't pay themselves to golf or charge the government millions to house the secret service. It's among the most blatant bits of corruption.
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by Arainach 1y ago
The issue is that it's hard to agree on where the line is and (without a HOA) impossible to enforce. Wildflowers? Generally good. Tall grass that allows rats to thrive and spread into adjacent yards? Bad. Most people don't want
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by Arainach 1y ago
Property taxes basically never pay for privately owned things, be that landscaping in common spaces, maintenance of private neighborhood roads, etc.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Citation very much needed. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
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With how profitable these businesses are, they're clearly worth it. What, should all the money just go to the 1% owning class?
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Money is tight ...say the businesses pulling in record revenue and profit numbers. Do the people who say things like "money is tight" think most of the rest of us are stupid? Based on how many people parrot those lines despit

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