bedobi

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by bedobi 5y ago
Yeah, it really adds to the pleasantness of everything when everything is not covered in cars and infrastructure for cars. The whole notion of street parking is bizarre. No one would tolerate if you used public space in the middle of a busy
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by bedobi 5y ago
Making cars electric doesn't solve any of the problems with cars though. Cars, no matter the technology, are the problem. I'd much rather get rid of more or less all cars, permanently, period.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Add it to the long list of popular misconceptions about Sweden in general, most of which are held by the Swedes themselves, lol.
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by bedobi 5y ago
I grew up in Stockholm and it too sadly is very, very car centric compared to Tokyo. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Paris and others are much better... I wish all cities everywhere was more like them! (and Tokyo)
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by bedobi 5y ago
As others have pointed out, you probably don't want to be working for businesses that are run in the Japanese way, but there are plenty of both expat and native run businesses that aren't. The pay will be low but Tokyo is incredib
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by bedobi 5y ago
Having lived in Tokyo for years, the elephant in the room is "cars". The whole city is full of pleasant mixed use neighborhoods that are more or less car-free, and centered around public transport hubs that have everything you nee
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by bedobi 5y ago
> you're arguing for removing the ability of those whose opinions you dislike to have their opinions represented as I said elsewhere, I think the cost for voting for minority extremist parties and policies should be higher, not lowe
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by bedobi 5y ago
Me too! I know it probably sounds like my comment belittles everyone with those titles, but I'm not. I guess what I am saying, in my experience, Good Product Managers are extremely, extremely rare, and ones that peddle bullshit are ext
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by bedobi 5y ago
A common counter to this is something along the lines of "<bureaucrats with title t> are necessary because someone has to think about <something> blabla" where something is usually strategy, business, concept, product,
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by bedobi 5y ago
Trump has far more to do with the electoral college and other quirks of the US system than FPTP
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Who determines what is extremist we're not talking about some ambiguous grey zone stuff here * proposed a drastic reduction in immigration with particular reference to immigrants from Asia. * stated that African immigrants were br
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by bedobi 5y ago
Yeah, I posted one elsewhere in the thread > It also makes it easier for people to vote for trash parties like One Nation. In other countries people would think twice before voting for small, extremist parties like that lest they waste t
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by bedobi 5y ago
Economists are universally in favor of things like carbon pricing, healthcare for all etc etc, don't be so quick to judge
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by bedobi 5y ago
Well, you have to be aware of the potential quirks in the system, and Australians are not, they uncritically know their system is infallible and the best.
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by bedobi 5y ago
the point is, Australians in particular are very very quick to hype their system and they have a fairly good understanding of the alleged benefits of their system and they get told this over and over throughout their schooling and by the el
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by bedobi 5y ago
Just because you think the cost of voting for small extremist parties should be high doesn't mean you're in favor of absolutist majority rule? + liberal democracies have (at least in theory) unalienable basic rights that can'
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by bedobi 5y ago
I think the cost for voting for minority extremist parties and policies should be higher, not lower, yes.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Yes! I don't think liberal democracies should tolerate parties and policies that dismantle them. In many European countries people like Pauline Hanson would have been put jail (where she belongs) for hate speech (and probably any numbe
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Ultimately political systems are judged by the quality of their policies thanks for putting into words exactly what I thought without really being able to explain it "fair" voting systems feel good but from what I've see
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by bedobi 5y ago
It also makes it easier for people to vote for trash parties like One Nation. In other countries people would think twice before voting for small, extremist parties like that lest they waste their vote if the party doesn't make it past
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by bedobi 5y ago
Try the online demo they made at https://www.economist.com/interactives/2021/12/18/quadratic-... it's cool but tbh I would rather have infinite points to spend, at which point you might as well have
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Arrow's impossibility theorem Ah, that's it, thanks, I was looking for it but forgot what it was called. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox (and any number of other ones th
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by bedobi 5y ago
Australians love to hype their voting system, not knowing or caring to know it too is fraught with problems, just like this proposed one probably is. That's not to say the US or UK or what have you systems are better or worse. All voti
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by bedobi 5y ago
I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the crayon eater comment. Hilarious and I'm sure in many cases it's not inaccurate. That said, I personally question whether all gigs have to be prestigious and cutting edge and super int
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by bedobi 5y ago
The softwareization of cars has so much potential, but is terrifyingly poorly implemented. It should arguably be developed using, and be subject to, the same extreme rigor as aircraft autopilot, but it seems like it's the wild west.
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by bedobi 5y ago
I don't like how "Georgism" and any number of other literally hundreds of years old economic ideas are presented as some underdog, unknown thing. Just no. Economists know about these things, and they're pretty much unive
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by bedobi 5y ago
this site is FULL of people who make wildly unqualified, unsourced, incorrect claims and passing them off as fact but you have to have a dig at the one guy who clearly and openly admits they don't know anything before continuing with &
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by bedobi 5y ago
While it goes without saying that wishes not to be hugged should be respected, and cultural norms differ, and the Western way of doing things is not the "correct" way that should be forced unto others in the case of hugging I can&
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by bedobi 5y ago
Not the author of the comment, but I dance socially and from what I've seen and experienced it varies wildly depending on the dancers, style of dance, context etc etc. Eg Sensual Bachata and Urban Kiz are embracing in a intimate way th

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