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by demosito666 1y ago
What difference would it make? Salaried position in EU would pay max 2x that and will end up in higher tax bracket, so net income will increase maybe 1.5x. This is leagues behind US. Europe is only for those high-skilled workers who don’t v
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by demosito666 1y ago
Most likely they will not be spent, rather they will be put into some fund with the only observable effect of further increasing financialization.
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by demosito666 1y ago
But this money won’t probably be spent further in any ”productive” way, they will be locked in some financial tools that will only help extracting funds from the real sector, which is what one probably really cares about when they say that
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by demosito666 1y ago
Good. The the sooner this idioticy ends the better.
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by demosito666 2y ago
I think the most significant distinction is exactly that: Authoritarian - leaves people alone in general as long as they stay out of politics. Examples: 90% of regimes throughout human history. Almost all post-soviet countries, almost all o
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by demosito666 2y ago
Interestingly, I believe that the reality is exactly the opposite: on the political regimes' spectrum of democratic -> authoritarian -> totalitarian only the middle one doesn't require people's participation. Both democ
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by demosito666 2y ago
Although you're replying to a weird question indeed, your comment makes a lot of claims that doesn't correlate with my observations. Do you have some stats to support this? > EVs are already cheaper than ICE cars when it comes
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by demosito666 2y ago
> we can't get random MRI scans done because they're very expensive. How come then that outside of Western Europe and US it costs $100-200? Or is it because the MRI machines were amortized in EU/US first?
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by demosito666 3y ago
This doesn't work with ChatGPT3.5 at least.
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by demosito666 3y ago
Russia gets its money from selling oil and gas. Crypto is like 0.000000001% of the money that fund the war so no, it does not keep Russia going.
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by demosito666 3y ago
Buying a gun is a very rare transaction happening 100% in the physical world and leaving no traces per se. Receiving/spending money here is digital in 99% of cases and is recorded forever.
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by demosito666 3y ago
From what I could quickly google, there is this report from The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs [1] which says that at least for students the number is 50% lower than EU average (p. 28). [1] https://www
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by demosito666 3y ago
And again the same question: I have a friend who had to physically go to the restaurant to get a confirmation that he in fact had paid about $250 for dinner for six people and they then swished him back. How will you explain hundreds of tra
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by demosito666 3y ago
Yes, but I mean it should presumably be very hard to even spend the money for the sellers here, let alone to launder them, which will be needed if you're selling all the time.
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by demosito666 3y ago
What baffles me about this "gang-related" cases of violence is that it's presumably over drug money. And Sweden has rather low drug consumption level and is essentially cashless, so any transaction larger than shopping for gr
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by demosito666 5y ago
Well, yeah, this is an imaginable scenario, because it's impossible to "ban" such things because of Streisand effect. I would oppose anything like this in the real world.
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by demosito666 5y ago
As a wannabe libertarian, I believe in freedom of speech and information. But if I had to choose a single topic of all that has to banned, it would be this. Due to several cognitive biases human perception tends to lean towards black &
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by demosito666 5y ago
One could argue that the initial trigram-based google search is essentially "grep for the web" in terms of the results it provides.
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by demosito666 5y ago
Yep, every time I'm linked to twitter (I don't have mobile app) I feel myself so old, because for the love of god I can't figure why anyone would use this for communication. Maybe the fact that I don't use it from mobile
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by demosito666 5y ago
> in the future, 100% of the code that you write will be business logic The present reality of Lambda is quite different though. Even though the code of the function itself is more or less "business logic" (although this is a r
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by demosito666 5y ago
So this would imply that myopia must be much more widespread in northern countries than in Asia, which I believe is not the case.
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by demosito666 5y ago
While this is 100% correct that Surveillance-resistant systems or other technical means are not he answer to authoritarianism, this statement has at least two problems. 1. A technical solution may not in itself be the way to counter authori
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by demosito666 5y ago
This matches my experience perfectly. I used to smoke weed about once a month when when I was a teenager, and I noticed that I could observe mild cognitive impairments for about a week after smoking. They were fading gradually during those
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by demosito666 5y ago
Sorry for the flood, just a remark. As a devops engineer from Eastern Europe (with "senior" formal title) in a large international consultancy, these numbers sound like they are from another planet to me. $250k+/year to me so
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by demosito666 5y ago
I never understood the utility of history substitution (I think this is what it's called). Why not just ctrl-r to see the actual command? Also, `sudo !!` thingy that is (was?) persistent in the internets for some reason, is probably th
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by demosito666 5y ago
The real challenge is it to get people to use. I believe that there are no insurmountable technical or organizational problems in scaling a messaging service.
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by demosito666 5y ago
Or any other substance for that matter.
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by demosito666 5y ago
They aren't though, unless you start adding specifically tailored constraints like the run should happen in a very hot place. A trained horse can cover 100+ miles per day with a rider, a husky can run 100+ miles in a sledge, and they w
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by demosito666 5y ago
I was also getting 500 error in GCP console
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by demosito666 5y ago
Is the actual content behind a paywall/subscription, or those short seven paragraphs are all there is? In the latter case, this is just a statement without any proof or reasoning behind it.

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