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by axlee 4y ago
Also unique in that the public debt is mostly held by citizens or local corporations (92%). For reference, that figure is ~75% for the US, and between ~75 and 50% for most EU countries. Fun fact, the largest foreign debt holder of the US is
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It makes BI work an absolute hellscape as well. Tradeoffs.
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like a real estate agent?
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Your best bet is a less dense but affluent area. The general level of income near thrift shops is probably the best proxy to whether or not good deals will be there across the board.
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Terrible take. How old were they when they died? Of course, if you are 95+, you are very likely to die soon, but you you are still part of a 2% percentile of longevity, and that's with western actuarial tables that don't reflect a
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> To the author that talked about writing yourself a bunch of IOUs and claiming it gives you wealth, that's essentially what the US Government does, but at a different scale. They write debt denominated in their own currency. This i
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by axlee 4y ago
So...from the government? Great work at decentralizing.
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How about when every single company rewrote their frontend stack in React after angular.js was done, circa 2015? Or when everyone moved to k8s within 2 years around 2017-2019? Hell, now even companies that definitely wouldn't benefit f
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by axlee 4y ago
You mean as hard as when Git obliterated every other VCS within the span of a few years? If products are better, they get adopted. How do you think every single company in the world started to develop for iOS between 2008 and 2010? When the
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Any company working on this at the moment? If it's bound to happen, I assume the research has already started.
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I didn't really read it as arrogant, more as annoyed about a mischaracterization that was disparaging their product.
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It's so standard in web frameworks and CMSes that you must see it in action every single day without realizing it, as long as the sites are using the built-in i18n capabilities - which in almost all cases they are. And in Apache&#x2F
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That's how it works.
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Shareholders to eat the costs and own up to their mistake. Employees shouldn't be the ones always getting the short end of the stick.
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Whether they run in docker or not has very little impact on the memory usage, especially on Linux where the overhead is tiny. In VMs, YMMV.
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Not Docker, webpack. Your run-of-the-mill webpack dev server will happily gulp gigabytes of RAM, and pray that your frontend dev stack only runs one of them. Your IDE will probably use a few more gigabytes on top of that for static analysis
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by axlee 4y ago
> Ask them if they'd like to get rid of corruption though: I would guess that most people would like to get rid of that from where they live, and you're more likely to remove it under democratic regimes. Yes. In the above poll,
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by axlee 4y ago
Remember that this list is from the PoV of the anglo world. Them classifying France, Italy, Belgium or Spain as a flawed democracy while the UK would be "full" is hilarious. Strange, they're all latin countries. The Economist
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by axlee 4y ago
> And they dont have democracy. They cant french revolution on their CCP thing. Im no expert but this is mostly due to surveillance right? Dont say culture please, nobody prefer autocracy to democracy but the autocrate. Of course culture
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> The first is non-sense and the second is more a function of size and power than efficiency. Efficiency is about benefit per dollar, and governments are really really bad a that, typically making up for how bad they are by simply throwi
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You end up paying the transaction fees, which are insane. On top of the interest.
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> As businesses cut costs, those are opportunities for products and services which enable efficiency. This is key. Innovation aside, if you can simply provide comparable services at a lower price point, the downturn just increased your c
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by axlee 4y ago
In subscription-based video games, bots are absolutely monetized (and some people use it as an argument to explain why editors might seem slow at suspending them). In its current iteration, bots are not monetizable on Twitter, but we can im
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Elon himself was ranting for months about Bots and "real ID" on Twitter, and he did not bother to include due diligence before manipulating the market with a bogus offer?
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Then why would you comment in a thread about a stock sale if you're obviously uninterested about the market?
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The reason so many are forced to rent is because they cannot buy. At the end of the day, the population is mostly housed, but only a very small percentage benefit enormously from it because they own all the property.
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You can have a disproportionate demand while still avoiding capital concentration and rent extraction. I don't see those two issues as the same, at all. People who can pay more will get the properties that are most in demand, but it do
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In Paris, 3.5% of households own 50% of apartments on the rental market. Add institutional investors, you are probably looking at 70%+. I'm sure it is the same in every large city. In the whole country, 24% of people control 68% of the
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The question should be "where are the missing teeth?, and why?
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I can guarantee you that if the UK was supplying weapons to a country that was using them against its own allies, there would be an incident, and at the very least they would stop supplying them. There is no hypcrisy - yet.

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