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by James_K 2y ago
Outside of his silly comments about marginalised people, it does genuinely seem a little strange that maintainers of the project view themselves as some sort of punisher-style police force.
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by James_K 2y ago
Most countries that are the recipients of skilled migrants won't allow entrance without a university degree. Education is a precondition for this migration. That's why it's called "brain drain". If people aren'
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by James_K 2y ago
I did not read this; I do not care.
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by James_K 2y ago
The international financial system makes it very hard to "run away" from a loan. Unless you are genuinely willing to become a wanted fugitive, you will end up having to pay.
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by James_K 2y ago
> you claim that something being repeatedly posted is a useful signal to determine if it's true No I don't, you dolt. Learn which way the implication goes. "It is repeated because it's true" means something very
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by James_K 2y ago
And how do you make your country not crap? Well, it starts with educating people. But when you educate them, they leave. You've effectively been forced to subsidise the skilled workforce of another country and your own country is worse
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by James_K 2y ago
By "similar system", I am mainly considering one by which the debt doesn't actually have to be paid back by the individual. Generally my idea is that the debt is paid back by the country the person pays taxes in, though obvio
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by James_K 2y ago
To have a country worth staying in, you need an educated population. Can't get money if you don't have money. And it's especially hard if all the money you invest goes down the toilet from other countries freeloading off your
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by James_K 2y ago
The fact that lies can be repeated has no relevance on my position that this sentiment is repeated because it's true. If you want to argue with the statement, produce an argument instead of an unrelated sarcastic comment.
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by James_K 2y ago
Why not? Student loans are a good protection against brain drain. If you offer free university, there's a likelihood that people will take you up on it then move out of the country, thus wasting the money invested in educating that per
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by James_K 2y ago
Have you ever considered that something is stated frequently because it is true?
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by James_K 2y ago
Not really. The idea of the constitution is that the US government is elected and therefore can't be tyrannical. The purpose of the 2nd amendment is almost certainly to maintain a force for the defence of the country against invasion.
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by James_K 2y ago
Most people consider anything they don't like to be a waste of public funds. After all, they pay for the government through taxes, so it should serve only their needs. People in America do not view the government as a source for public
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by James_K 2y ago
It's really interesting to see America doing the same stuff as Weimar Germany. The institute for sexology was destroyed in 1933, so by my counting you've got about a year until you get your Führer.
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by James_K 2y ago
YouTube is such a horribly designed site. The best feature they've added in ages is the queue option, bet even that is busted as hell. Half the time an "add to queue" button appears on the thumbnail of the video, but the othe
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by James_K 2y ago
The last bit is just stuff I wanted to whine about. I obviously know it is faster, you don't need to explain that concept. I have just never had need of any significant internet speed on my phone. I don't download things, and only
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by James_K 2y ago
I got a 5G capable phone a few months back, and I can't say I've noticed a difference from my old one. (Aside from the new phone being more expensive, worse UI, slower, heavier, unwieldy, filled with ads, and constantly prompting
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by James_K 2y ago
No, you just need to vote for the corruption to stop. This has worked in many places before.
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by James_K 2y ago
The same thing that stops them from doing whatever they want to the interest rate. The people managing the economy would not be politicians. Not every activity of the government is undertaken by politicians directly. In fact it would be ent
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by James_K 2y ago
There is a thing called "electing", which in democratic countries allows you to put trustworthy people in positions of power. Additionally, there is no real reason for a head of state to be personally managing a national bank, and
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by James_K 2y ago
Your original premise here was that 90% of these investments fail. You need to invest in the ones that fail to get the good ones. You can appreciate this dynamic when the funds are privately managed.
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by James_K 2y ago
If you don't think the economy benefits from investment, why do people do it?
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by James_K 2y ago
You assume loans need to be profitable. In a situation where the government is issuing loans, it also reaps the rewards of increased tax revenues from high performing businesses. The objective of the loan is to stimulate the economy, not to
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by James_K 2y ago
Well in that case, the way you get a 50 char summary is by iterating grapheme clusters, then counting up to 50 points and discarding the broken cluster. It's quite trivial if the language exposes an interface for iterating both cluster
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by James_K 2y ago
Suppose instead of loaning to a single company, you loan to many different companies to balance out the risk and return. Just a thought. Additionally, it would make sense to randomly give out larger loans for the sake of potential innovatio
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by James_K 2y ago
Not true at all! Extended grapheme clusters are defined by Unicode for a reason and include relevant combining marks following a letter[1]. The point more generally is that a programming language shouldn't preferentially choose one cha
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by James_K 2y ago
The typical answer is finance. As a socialist myself, I think all finance should be done through loans instead of selling off parts of the company. That way it stays employee owned.
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by James_K 2y ago
A character could be 1 byte long, in which case the language cannot properly handle unicode; it could be 4 bytes long in which care there is lot of wasted space storing text and it cannot properly handle extended grapheme clusters; or a cha
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by James_K 2y ago
> Strings are just vectors of characters I hope not.
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by James_K 2y ago
My guess is that they've taken the 0.1% silliest sounding things out of some endowment for the arts program with many thousands of recipients. It would only actually be propaganda if such a program specifically excluded political opini

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