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by buzzert 2y ago
"then pricing housing out of reach for all but the luckiest" You're saying this as if the price of housing is decided by some guy/group of guys.
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by buzzert 2y ago
> They've also been trying to extract as much personal info as possible for profit. Because regulators in the USA are hamstrung, they are used to being able to basically doing stuff that would be illegal if it were in physical store
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by buzzert 2y ago
I'm curious if you could expand—what exactly are these fields that rich old people only care about? Looking at a broad picture of the economy, I'm really not sure this tracks. Lots of capital is being invested into software and AI
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by buzzert 2y ago
Right, because public transit cleanliness beats Taxis, Ubers, and Waymos.
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by buzzert 2y ago
What if European citizens want this feature? Do they not get a choice?
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The Most Futuristic Train(buzzert.net)
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by buzzert 2y ago
I don’t see the government as being very different than a huge corporation. I haven’t seen very much evidence to the contrary, and this isn’t just a US perspective.
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by buzzert 2y ago
> any more than trusting the government to outlaw murder is empowering it to murder That is precisely what happens in practice though. Referencing the thousands of people killed by police in the US every year, with little to no accountab
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by buzzert 2y ago
Do you really think this is the world we live in today? The whole point of this article is about crony capitalism.
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by buzzert 2y ago
How do you disarm corporations from having this power without giving it to the government?
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by buzzert 2y ago
I take it that you're very pleased with the direction that Europe is going, and disagree with most of what the author of the post says then?
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by buzzert 2y ago
That's because Japan doesn't have any racial minorities to "oppress".
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by buzzert 2y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but of that 8% (26 million), I would posit that most of those people are uninsured by choice. e.g., probably mostly young, maybe part-time workers without chronic illnesses.
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by buzzert 2y ago
The median American would not have to pay out of pocket, as nearly every American has health insurance (since the ACA, it is actually illegal not to have insurance).
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by buzzert 2y ago
It's illegal to deny care in an emergency setting. Patient abandonment is also illegal (breach of duty).
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by buzzert 2y ago
That's true, but as it turns out there's a lot of examples out there!
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by buzzert 2y ago
My favorite thing about Vala personally is the wide range of native libraries you have access to because of its compatibility with GObjects. There's a great documentation website that has everything located in one place also, which mak
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by buzzert 2y ago
Why not just AWS EC2? That's probably where most of these commercial VPNs are hosted anyway, just with an additional cost on top.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Any other addictive drugs you could recommend?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Definitely disagree. The language where this really shines is Swift, where type inference is used really heavily. It's really great for stuff like passing enums as function arguments. You can write `context.setColor(.red)` instead of `
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by buzzert 3y ago
Why would powerful people want to prevent lawyers from being replaced by AI? Wouldn't they rather not pay for expensive lawyers too? Or are you saying they somehow like paying for lawyers?
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by buzzert 3y ago
So, you're saying we're hopeless without the help of billionaires?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Capital punishment is not in the constitution, and it is regularly challenged legally. Many states are continuing to abolish it.
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by buzzert 3y ago
> so many Americans have been convinced that they're actually business owners In many cases, this is true. Tesla, for example, paid their early factory workers with stock in the company. As a result, many of the factory workers who
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by buzzert 3y ago
Was there any other big event that happened in the eastern bloc in, say, the early 1990's?
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by buzzert 3y ago
The US Constitution maintains that rights defined in the Bill of Rights pre-exist government ("inalienable"). The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights defines rights granted to the people by the government. This is a subtle
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by buzzert 3y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking, but feudalism pre-dated capitalism. And socialism is not "applying rules to capitalism", it's the government siezing the means of production from free enterprise.
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by buzzert 3y ago
In your opinion then, what is the biggest problem France faces today?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Somebody used Claude to attempt to un-redact the missing text, and the result it generated is scarily convincing: https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1765238754615181531
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by buzzert 3y ago
Of course, that's always how it works!

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