RestlessMind

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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
https://archive.is/PPhqe
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How Europe regulated itself into American vassalage(economist.com)
4 points by RestlessMind 5mo ago|3 comments
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by RestlessMind 6mo ago
(non-chinese) asian equivalent of whatsapp is still whatsapp, it completely dominates in some of the biggest asian countries like india, indonesia or pakistan along with a bunch of other smaller places
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How and Why $150 NJ Transit World Cup Train Tickets Became Reality(forbes.com)
3 points by RestlessMind 6mo ago|0 comments
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by RestlessMind 6mo ago
https://archive.is/nGEKn
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VC Money and Israel Outrage Derailed a Hot Hollywood Startup(wsj.com)
4 points by RestlessMind 6mo ago|1 comments
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Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events(nytimes.com)
361 points by RestlessMind 6mo ago|843 comments
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A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans(nytimes.com)
5 points by RestlessMind 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away(wsj.com)
16 points by RestlessMind 7mo ago|1 comments
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China's Birthrate Sinks to Record Low(wsj.com)
8 points by RestlessMind 9mo ago|2 comments
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by RestlessMind 11mo ago
Reality doesn't match your claim, for example when one looks at European countries who have all of that.
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by RestlessMind 11mo ago
TIL about karoshi, or “death from overwork”. With that kind of culture, no wonder Japanese population is in decline. Why have kids if you are expected to work 12, 14, 16 hours a day? Who is going to nurture those kids?
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Japan's Leader Started a Meeting at 3 A.M. Then Came the Backlash(nytimes.com)
3 points by RestlessMind 11mo ago|2 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
But most of the people live in countries with death penalties. All the top 6 countries by population have death penalty and only 4 out of biggest 17 countries do not have death penalty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Mid-2000's were the pinnacle of the Western power in general and the American power in particular. First Iraq war, then the GFC punctured the halo from the 90's. After that, the soil was fertile for the rise of populism. Bungled p
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> but as a builder you can do it yourself One who can both build and sell is indeed a rare specimen (unicorn?). I know many builders and less than 10% of them can sell.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
A lot of people complain about American FPTP system. But it seems that the French system, with a final round of top 2 in case no one gets clear majority, isn't any better. I am also familiar with the Indian system which gives rise to c
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> by providing a non-essential service like salesmen... Sorry to break this to you but if you think Sales is non-essential, you don't know anything about startups.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> but look what is happening As of now, a federal court has ruled 7-4 against it. Proves the GP point
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
The difference is that people are protesting against ICE, writing op-eds openly across various forms of media and a prominent governor is trolling Federal govt's actions in public. Good luck trying to do any of that in China. US and ot
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> as long as your grass is not too tall or your house has approved color by HOA apparatchiks. Freedom of speech, and overall first amendment, is about freedom from government restrictions. Doesn't apply to private organizations modu
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The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe's Free-Speech Problem(theatlantic.com)
14 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|20 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Why doesn't Europe embrace AC, which is widely adopted in the US? After all, there were "only" 1714 deaths in the US in 2022 due to heat related causes per https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-di
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Heatwave deaths in Europe >= Gun deaths in the US?
3 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|3 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> Me and 80% of the people on the plane can’t stand the selfishness neither can I. But most of the people also understand that when a kid is crying, it is not out of parents' selfishness but rather helplessness. > But if there we
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
Sometimes you simply cannot control a screaming child easily and the only way is to let them be for a while. If you don't understand it, you are really immature and need to learn some basics about human society.
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
It doesn't have to be either-or. I think there are a bunch of factors all contributing to the current state of developer job market: 1. Rise of remote work: sure, it was there in some form. But prior to 2020, state of the remote work t
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
> But today's technology has made being there in person superfluous and inefficient. Hard disagree. Lots of otherwise talented people still have problems with written communication or other norms of remote work. They thrive in an of
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Sorry, Billionaires–There's No Escape(wsj.com)
9 points by RestlessMind 1y ago|2 comments
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by RestlessMind 1y ago
I can understand your sentiment in the first two paragraphs, even though I think remote work was bound to fail for most of the companies simply because it is hard to update the culture. Broadcom mandated in-office work even during COVID as

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