Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
Like it happens with current salaries. The problem is not universal income but an economic system that rewards rent seeking.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
How is Elon Musk a relevant opinion on this matter? Even worse, he is well known for astroturfing his own assets.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
If that is the case it shows how much investment money is running wild around. They spend 2.6 million in something that is not so important. It could also be a publicity stunt, but they look quite bad right now.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> what is considered "luxury" has become more and more accessible/affordable or is not a status symbol any more This seems to be the reality for many HN users. But not being able to buy a home or even pay rent seems quite
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by Hokusai 5y ago
But that is what the industry is selling (even that it's obviously not legally true). "NFT stands for non-fungible token, which basically means that it’s a one-of-a-kind digital asset that belongs to you and you only." https
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> stupidity and creativity are often neighbors That seems to be true in movies, but in the real world new advancements are created by experts that know the basics. Serendipity is part of that, but you need to have the basic knowledge. I
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> The sad part of this situation is the initial people that broke into the containers on the trains are long gone with their loot, now the marginalized people are getting caught digging through the discarded items that were not valuable
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by Hokusai 5y ago
40% is not largely but the opposite. It means that it's largely not genetic.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
The USA has death penalty and the highest rate of incarceration in the world. It's it the safest, thou?
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Seems that you don't care for poor people as far as your stuff is safe, and that violence is your solution to complex problems.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> less intelligence correlates to higher violence and poverty. Poverty and violence causes mental and physical health problems. Fix poverty if you want educated and intelligent citizens.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> It is not as if it is hard to get a job right now after all? What makes you think that poor people does not have jobs? Search the term "the working poor".
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Being poor is not an excuse for criminality. Nor being rich.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> recruited people living on the street to ransack the containers. This is what happens when the richest country in the world has some of the poorest populations in the world. Poor people are neither violent nor thieves. But they can be
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Cleopatra has been similarly dismissed, but in her case as just a beautiful face. It's wonderful to see a more serious approach to history that judges people from their acts instead of personal expectations.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> both public and private TV channels are at the service of the government I have a different take. Private channels support parties that align with their interests. But private channels will criticize there government non-stop if they d
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Are not that funds created so taxpayers are there ones in control of party finances instead of corporations? The USA seems a good example of what happens when politicians are fully dependent on corporations if they want to be elected, and i
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by Hokusai 5y ago
The ground will not spend your money, future civilizations can find it. On the other hand PayPal...
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I think that 'Fika' is an interesting one. In Spanish, or at least in Spain, 'to go for a coffee' implies the same things that 'fika' does. Nobody expects to buy coffee to drink at the office, or at home, as to
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> I love in France Freudian slip.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
But people being at home and able to distance themselves of the situation makes them realize how bad it is. When you are in the middle of the chaos, the day to day survival, the oppressive environment, to see others suffering the same that
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Normal behavior in many countries in Asia. I wash my hands several times a day, as, I have done since I was a kid. Are you expecting nature to adapt to your first world expectations on comfort?
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Less goods were produced during the pandemic, the ones available are sold at higher prices. Even worse, tech products, that used to be cheaper by the year and drive down inflation, are now in high demand as employees work from home driving
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by Hokusai 5y ago
It would be fixed because the car industry does not have anymore power to stop the improvements. Now, it's tech companies the ones that have the money to create a bad for humans landscape. Will the USA repeat the same mistake and let t
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Yes. I was just joking. Mobile is a big crazy market, and I can understand that everybody wants a chunk of it.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
GTA developers need to know how Zynga fucked up their golden eggs goose to avoid the same fate for GTA itself. My guess is that Zynga does not know what happened, as anybody that knew what was going on got frustrated and left a long ago.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
In Spain for self employed workers there is also a minimum. If you do not want to pay it you need to unregister. This does not apply for employees. It's just for self employed workers as it's more of a fee for the paperwork that y
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Yes. I think that it is cultural. There are cultures were work that earns money is more important that your own time or even your own family. That puts some very important things in the 'not important' classification.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> It's just that no one at the decision making table was secure enough to raise the problem. 'The five dysfunctions of a team' is a good book about this topic. You need trust to have an efficient team. Collaboration does
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by Hokusai 5y ago
What is the difference? To not buy branded Chinese phones seems just protectionism and has little to do with security. I have nothing against wanting to protect and industry, but it should not be done with misconceptions.

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