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by dgb23 2y ago
American households go into massive debt in order to consume/buy way over what they can afford, while real wages are close to stagnant since half a century. Same for the government, astronomical debt but you still cut taxes. The US&#x2
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> Actually enforcing immigrations laws Your last administration and congress tried to get a tighter grip on immigration, but it got blocked. The "concessions" from Canada and Mexico that they made in order to avoid the tariffs
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If the issue were actual waste and balancing the budget, they'll go after the _actual waste_ like the military budget, or Trump's golf outings. They wouldn't decrease taxes, especially not at the top. Also trust is earned. Do
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Except that is inaccurate. With the exception of the Biden admin, Republicans have been increasing the national debt at a _much_ higher rate. Both private and public dept have been rising rapidly since the 70/80's and the introduc
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The goal is to collect rent. Find arbitrary reasons to justify squeezing customers on a regular basis. Customers are treated as assets. Often, but not exclusively, via software based subscriptions.
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You're assuming that these practices are actually beneficial in any way on the market. That's a fallacy. Just because a company is making money, doesn't mean they are making good products.
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Beautiful creatures! It’s interesting that they converged towards that rugged but still very dog-ish appearance.
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In many cases I can't tell anymore. For example on Twitter/X it has become obvious in an aggregate sense, but it's hard to tell which individuals are bots. On Reddit it depends on the sub. Niche communities feel the same as e
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I would assume this type of pushback is one of the main reasons a project like Linux is trustworthy in the first place.
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To add: If you want to do CRUD but without the headaches of U and D you can do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_modeling It may seem scary at first and requires more thought, but the benefits are very rea
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I like this rebuttal. It disentangles data from interpretation and knowledge. This distinction helps us to solve problems associated with data and is a core tenet of science and problem solving. Increasing the amount of generated data and n
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Euphemisms are often used to disguise classist arrogance with clean language.
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I'm only starting to learn about these things. From the data I've seen and read it seems like low interest rates are (politically) alluring, because of short term metrics, but will bite back via inflation and bubbles bursting very
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I don’t care about Lua specifically nor Roblox. And yes, Factorio is great.
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It's not kids or Roblox specifically, it's gamers and platforms/games with "micro-transactions" etc. When I was younger and still played online games regularly, I was initially stoked about cosmetic micro-transactio
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I don't understand why the :pageid needs to be prefixed with anything here.
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Thank you! This might be a viable licensing scheme for Swiss government contractors now. The federal government requires open source licenses for all software projects as of last year or so. (A)GPL+CLA might be a good way to ensure the inte
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I thought the point of copyleft was mainly to protect the freedoms of users. But apparently it’s also used as a filter of who can interact and benefit from it. But I don’t really understand all of it. One thing I always wondered about selli
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Advertisement obviously works. But the premise or mechanism is not as clean and simple as you laid out. Marketing, whether they are external firms or internal teams, have their own incentives, just like anyone else. But… Personally I like g
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I like the idea of collaborative curation of quality web sources. I think it's a fundamentally hard problem, but my hunch is that many people do this anyway in some form or another.
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Google works very well as an alternative to knowing the exact link to something you already know exists and know how it's named. But it has become very bad at _discovering_ valuable information.
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I've become a paranoid link hoarder because of this. I'm Pretty Sure these things are true in comparison to the past: - There is much more high quality content on the web than was ever before. - The signal to noise ratio is _much_
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This project looks very useful at a glance. Create native applications that use the widely popular HTML/CSS paradigm for layout, but leave out much of the heavyweight stuff that a full JS/DOM/browser API implies. This looks l
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Since not all of them fail, one should maybe look at those who don't and try to understand why. The article mentions corruption (in softer words) and lack of expertise on the government side. But there is little talk about the quality
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Point 1 (which is specifically mentioned in the article as well) and point 3 seem to be rooted in the same issue: The responsible public servants aren't competitively paid and vetted or that they lack expertise. I'm sure governmen
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My guess is you wouldn't use negation.
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It seems the "micro" implies that services are separated by high level business terms, like "payment" or "inventory" with each having their own databases instead of computational terms like "storage",
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I'm not American so I don't know whether the last paragraph is sarcastic or not. But from the tone I guess it is. Public education where I live is not perfect, but it works well and teachers are compensated fairly. I consider it
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I generally agree with this take. But it's not easy to draw that line. There are obvious cases and many non-obvious ones. To make an exaggerated point: Medical research is not too far off from throwing things at the wall and seeing wha
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How would you categorize the asymmetry of power and lack of real choice? When I buy indoor plants or VOD subscriptions, I'm participating in a market. I can choose to not buy these things at all. When I buy healthcare (via insurance or

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