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by buzzert 3y ago
Right, but I'm asking if Portland is secretly run by conservatives, why does it have a different outcome? i.e., why doesn't Portland discourage folks from sticking around?
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by buzzert 3y ago
In my house, guests are required to remove their shoes before entering. Also coasters must be used for beverages.
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by buzzert 3y ago
I'm curious why you think there are much fewer homeless in conservative cities (like Provo, Jacksonville, even Orange County)? Is it because everything is backwards? The progressive cities are actually conservative, and the conservativ
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by buzzert 3y ago
I don't understand, why is it not enough to just... use free software? Why must the government be involved at all?
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by buzzert 3y ago
> Americans don't get it. We Scandinavians are not built on a cultural foundation which circles around creating our own safety nets. Worth noting that Sweden has a worse homelessness rate than the US, at 36/10k compared to 17.5
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by buzzert 3y ago
They got banned in Italy pretty quickly.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Since the Affordable Healthcare Act, it is also illegal to be uninsured in the US, and illegal for insurance companies to refuse coverage (pre-existing condition).
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by buzzert 3y ago
I suspect he drives to work. Or is driven to work.
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by buzzert 3y ago
This bigoted, and frankly deranged misconception about small towns perfectly explains why someone would rather live in squalor and complain rather than move to a small town.
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by buzzert 3y ago
A politician was responsible for that? I thought vaccines (in the US at least) are procured by the pharmacies and paid for by the recipients.
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by buzzert 3y ago
> (thanks Doug Ford, you incompetent buffoon) I don't understand, why are you blaming a politician for a virus?
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by buzzert 3y ago
> strongmen, religious leaders, little feudal lords to impose their views on the less powerful Can you explain how this is different than a government?
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by buzzert 3y ago
It’s flow state. It’s the same feeling we get when programming.
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by buzzert 3y ago
I believe it's because "universal healthcare" is so non-political, it's basically meaningless in the context of this conversation. Universal healthcare just means "everyone has access to healthcare". Well, 92.1
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by buzzert 3y ago
> But overall, religion is about control (for the religious leadership, and politicians who use religion to gain power), and about belonging and feeling less lost and alone (for practicioners) in an uncertain world. Can I ask an earnest
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by buzzert 3y ago
> many many AI researchers (such as Joshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton) who don't stand to gain monetarily have expressed these same concerns I respect these researchers, but I believe they are doing it to build their own brand, whet
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by buzzert 3y ago
Both New Mexico and Arizona also have a lot of neo-Mediterranean stucco houses. In fact, in Arizona they're probably a majority.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Isn't "small government" the definition of political conservatism? I think if people like big government, and they use this big government to crush housing projects for NIMBY goals, they are most certainly progressive.
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by buzzert 3y ago
He’s both stealing from his employees and paying them at the exact same time?
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by buzzert 3y ago
If it’s so easy, why aren’t there 100’s of viable competitors?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Yes, exactly. With a margin of <0, either someone is working for free or the company is running off of some kind of VC/angel investment, neither of which is sustainable.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Not to defend Bandcamp in this particular scenario, but I feel there's something people often miss when psychoanalyzing why companies behave this way that I think explains quite a lot. Web properties, just like any property even in the
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by buzzert 3y ago
Respectfully, those aren't startups. They built their products in person.
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by buzzert 3y ago
What’s a recent successful startup that’s totally WFH? I’ve been hearing a lot about OpenAI, Anthropic, etc., but they’re all in-person.
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by buzzert 3y ago
60.08% of Stanford students come from out of state, and 12.26% come from out of the country. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/stanford-university/...
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by buzzert 3y ago
We have very similar tastes! CFTBL is my #1 favorite.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Different pinball machines, like video games, all have varying levels of replay value. Almost all games made after 1990 will have some "wizard mode" (like a boss level) that's incredibly hard to get to. That's the value
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by buzzert 3y ago
They move somewhere else?
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by buzzert 3y ago
I assume it’s for access and expertise into the “Sinosphere” of knowledge. Wherein the other side of the coin is the Anglosphere in the west.
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by buzzert 3y ago
> a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of social corporatism, and a commitment to private ownership within a market-based mixed economy. What part of this sounds like Socia

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