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by d1zzy 6y ago
As someone that grew up in Europe and immigrated to the US I can tell that at least from what I see this is largely true (that economic mobility is much smaller in Europe vs US). I do not know if that's the case statistically but simpl
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> As one of the people WFH with simply reduced expenses, all I ever hear on the news are about the people who have been adversely affected, other than obvious winners like Zoom. Of course, "average savings rate is up" may not e
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by d1zzy 6y ago
That may be a factor but I think it's pretty easy to see why banning him now (instead of earlier) could be done without the reasons you invoked: 1. His tweets didn't incite angry mobs to assault federal buildings before 2. Some ti
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by d1zzy 6y ago
It's a bit easier to understand when you factor the fact that: 1. average US houshold income is very high 2. cars are a must (both for cultural and practical reasons), not a luxury Yes, in times of job loss and other economic strain co
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Which made car shopping quite a hassle for me because I wanted something that isn't very common (non-sport trim with highest spec options and manual gear) but which wouldn't have been any problem at all for the manufacturer (since
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1% yearly income dues... which for a highly payed Alphabet engineer amounts to some significant money.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> However, the real losers from that will be property owners in SV not programmers. Those aren't necessarily exclusive categories.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Easy solution: allow for more immigration :)
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by d1zzy 6y ago
How many Americans today are aware they (well, their ancestors but that does carry responsibilities to younger generations) are guilty of mass murder and ethnic cleansing? And how much of that genocide was preceded of much hate speech? (how
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Like you listed above there are lots of options still available, that's not really the limiting factor here. I believe a more subtle and harder barrier to overcome for posting controversial Internet content is going to be the credit ca
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by d1zzy 6y ago
We'll see if that attitude changes once the US has a one or two ethnic/cultural genocides that was preceded by a lot of hate speech against said ethnic/cultural groups. That is to say, the US attitude towards free speech is n
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by d1zzy 6y ago
It does follow if you think that most people that voted for Trump didn't actually think that Trump means most of the things he says. Which matches up with what Trump supporters say in interviews regarding Trump's stance on topics
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When I worked at an ISP years back, if we had a DDOS attack against a customer the way we handled that was to drop all traffic incoming towards that customer's IP at our external peer level (meaning the bigger ISP we were getting most
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I don't know how the battery situation will play out but in Europe Tesla sales have already flattened (while other manufacturer EVs are picking up) which is not a good sign.
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If heart disease was an airborne infectious diseases for which we have vaccines already being deployed, then by all means let's shutdown everything! (since the death rate like you pointed out is even bigger there)
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by d1zzy 6y ago
The problem with airborne infectious diseases is that in order to protect that "minority" that has a high risk of death you have to ensure the spread doesn't use the "majority" that doesn't have the high risk t
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by d1zzy 6y ago
If "cancer" was this new disease that appeared in 2020 and it was highly contagious I'm pretty sure similar measures would have been taken. Or in other words, lockdown doesn't help combat the spread of cancer but it help
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Is it more often than when it leads on the right path? Is there a study around this?
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> Hopefully the same time they remove everything BLM, who were far more violent and caustic this summer. Posts that are asking to violate curfew and go into the streets to protest should be removed at the time these calls would violate
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I grew up in a communist country, everything was state owned, everything was crappy (I mean quality wise) and generally out of stock but hey, it had amazing price (dictated by the state of course), theoretically anyone could afford it. That
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So that means it should be safer to rely on GCP (or in general on services where Google is not dominant) than something like Maps where it is dominant.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
While I love FEAR AI it was very much specialized for interiors. It wouldn't work in open world. Old school good open world AIs think of Far Cry and STALKER. Especially the STALKER AI is pretty much one of the main reasons I keep repla
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Yes, that is the country we live in, where someone like Trump can actually get that many people to vote for him. It's mind blowing to me and very shameful.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
And so have we proposed laws to regulate newspapers on what they should be and what they shouldn't be allowed to decline for publishing?
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So solutions should be focused on lowering the power of Youtube by making it easy to have competition to it but instead it seems to me the opposite is being proposed: with every new regulation that companies like Youtube have to follow, the
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I would argue that the right of business to not do business with anyone they don't want to is very much American (regardless if it's right or wrong).
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by d1zzy 6y ago
If this year's summer becomes the norm I think it may be a bit too hot for places like Sacramento. And all the places I lived in SV so far have had A/C so that hasn't been an issue. But what's great about being near the
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Is this effect stronger with California residents relocating in particular or it will happen with any other residents relocating from different educational/social/political/economic background?
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Or watch Ad Vitam (it's on Netflix).
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That's a bold assertion, care to back that up?

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