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by brainwad 11mo ago
Shortening copyright terms would reduce the power of any given media company; but I think it might disadvantage creators of new works overall. Right now each company has a smaller back-catalogue than they would under a shorter term regime,
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by brainwad 11mo ago
Pay day loans are generally good _for the borrower_ - they aren't just window breaking. The consequences of missing an important payment can be way worse than the high interest on the pay day loan, e.g. if you don't pay for a cour
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by brainwad 11mo ago
Eastman Kodak tried your implied proposed strategy, of ignoring technological developments that undermine their core product. It didn't go so well. Naturally technology companies have learned from this and other past mistakes.
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by brainwad 11mo ago
Alphabet at least returns capital via huge buybacks that effectively act as dividends, but with more tax efficiency.
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by brainwad 11mo ago
As an Aussie: * some kind of proportional representation in lower houses or parliament (see e.g. New Zealand for a Westminster-compatible solution, or Switzerland for something more radical while still working with seats allocated by state
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by brainwad 11mo ago
That's far from obvious. The UK is 3x the population of Australia, which manages fine without deep economic integrations. The problem of Brexit is not that it is impossible to go it alone as a middle power; it's just an unnecessar
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by brainwad 1y ago
They know the density of holeless cheese, and can compare to the sample. If it's underweight it probably has holes?
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by brainwad 1y ago
> The instability of Rust would not affect users in any way. Sure it would. Suppose a rust-based package has a security bug. Upstream has fixed it, but that fix depends on some new rust language feature that the frozen version of rust in
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by brainwad 1y ago
They can't go twice as far if the ride is up a defined climb. One you do the distance, that's it, you reached the pass, you can now only coast back down to the base. In my experience, those on e-bikes are older and less fit in gen
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by brainwad 1y ago
I don't think this is really true in general. When you climb a pass, the distance and elevation are fixed; the ebike riders buzzing by at twice your speed are not doing more work than you - they are avoiding some of the work inherent i
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by brainwad 1y ago
Plenty of Australian suburbs have no footpaths either. The footpath appearing and disappearing thing also happens.
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by brainwad 1y ago
No, on average people in 1600s England (who were overwhelmingly peasants) worked almost all daylight hours, 6 days a week - perhaps 3000 hours a year. It's simply not possible for the hours worked to have increased a further 80% from t
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by brainwad 1y ago
Well there were also barely any men in the formal labour market. Most people were peasants working their family farm + sharecropping on estates of the landed gentry. But that doesn't mean they weren't working hard - both sexes wo
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by brainwad 1y ago
You win some, you lose some. When you say they made a rational choice, that implies they knew there was a chance of this outcome and they thought the gamble was worth it. We can't bail out every losing gambler, without banning gambling
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by brainwad 1y ago
It's because the marginal value of idiomatic human translations, over robotic and partially bad machine translations, is not actually that high. Especially not for B2B where people can accept poor prose from a trading partner.
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by brainwad 1y ago
75% even: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percent-of-the-Labor-For... . And higher figures were seen in ancient civilisations.
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by brainwad 1y ago
Most people are not doing "information" work. They provide interpersonal services, such as health/aged/childcare or retail/hospitality/leisure. Techies are angsty because they are the small minority who will be
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by brainwad 1y ago
Average hours worked is more or less monotonically decreasing since the start of the industrial revolution, so in the long run we are slowly freeing ourselves. But in the short run, people keep working because a) machines usually are comple
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by brainwad 1y ago
Also there will be tons of loads that are natively server side and don't make sense to use a local model for (or where using server side models retains more control).
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by brainwad 1y ago
That's not the American date format, either - which would be Oct 13 2025.
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by brainwad 1y ago
It's a technical diagram - it's really not supposed to be that comprehensible, but more of a reference. The passenger-facing publications use regular timetable layouts.
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by brainwad 1y ago
Switzerland doesn't have property taxes, so it's better to think of the imputed rental tax as a more progressive implementation of a property tax. Low earners pay less tax on a home of the same value than high earners. And the tax
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by brainwad 1y ago
Not much. They are moving from a regime where owner-occupier mortgage interest is deductible but you have to pay income tax on the imputed rental value of your owner-occupied home, to one where you don't pay the tax but also can't
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by brainwad 1y ago
How do you think Google Calendar or Google Sheets or Google Keep are making you sick?
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by brainwad 1y ago
They still had to pay at least the basis charge, which was 30 or 60k per head depending on how long they were here for. That alone should have more than covered the cost of providing civic services to them.
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If that would have been the actual response, it wouldn't have made sense to proceed with the reform. The goal of treasury should be to maximise social welfare, not lose tax money just to dunk on the ultrarich.
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by brainwad 1y ago
The part I found relevant for Israel was the bit about how war is a catalyst that lets the leaders justify anything on the basis of necessity, including things they wanted all along for ideological reasons. > Once the war began, the gove
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by brainwad 1y ago
Why? Because we are a small fraction of the population and economy of the planet. How? Most of the population in the southern hemisphere is in ex-colonies from the north; our cultures are thus full of concepts that don't really work bu
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by brainwad 1y ago
Everyone in this thread is reading this in relation to the current US government. But some other interesting parallels are the current Israeli government, and more speculatively, A(G)I.
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by brainwad 1y ago
This is a different incident (RUTF is not milk powder, it's enhanced peanut butter basically). Both sides are bad, and both should do more to alleviate the suffering of civilians in areas they occupy.

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