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by jltsiren 2y ago
Your question is a perfect example of identity politics. Most political parties want mostly the same things. They have differences in priorities, and they may oppose the specific means other parties propose, but they are rarely opposed to t
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Finland has had a few of those. Wide coalitions can work if people focus on getting things done, or they can fail if they focus on identity politics.
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It would be amusing if they changed the name to Iberia. Which was, after all, the traditional name of the country in Europe.
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Usually the third field is philosophy. Sociologists have to go out, meet people, and observe things, while philosophers can simply think alone in a closet.
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Those two are not mutually exclusive. Every country needs programs that bring in foreign talent. And there are always people who try to abuse such programs. The longer a program exist in the same form, the more successful the abusers become
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Getting an employment-based green card normally takes a few years. That has increased by a year or two due to staffing shortages and backlogs caused by covid-era policies. But the real issue for immigrants from India (and to a lesser extent
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Making the process itself harder can be counterproductive. Every system will be gamed. The ones gaming the system often stand to gain more than those the system is intended for. A visa program for skilled/talented individuals is suppos
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Georgians don't seem to like either if you call their country Gruzia. And Greeks didn't like it when their neighbors wanted to be Macedonians. Names often have historical baggage, and using them may send a different message than w
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The debris will likely miss due to the evasive maneuvers both the missile and the target did, and due to the lack of thrust after the destruction of the missile. Plus the standard practice seems to be pointing the main engine (with exhaust
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Legitimacy is fundamentally about trust. Trust that the elections were fair, even if you don't like the outcome. If your candidate won, your opinion on the legitimacy doesn't matter much. If your candidate lost, your opinion matte
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Legitimacy is not determined by majority vote. It's determined by the people who don't like the results for whatever reason. If the vast majority of them accept that the elections were legitimate, they were legitimate. If a substa
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The point is that in the future, TikTok / Google / whatever will have to be more careful with political ads, because they can be bad for business. Whatever your opinion on the candidates is, it's a fact that many people didn&
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Right now, TikTok is under EU level investigation, which will take much longer than a few days. If found guilty, it can face a fine up to 6% of worldwide revenues.
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The exact numbers in the books are often inconsistent. In Persepolis Rising, the forces that surround the Tempest form a bubble almost three light seconds across. And railgun rounds take less than a minute to reach the center. My overall im
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You are missing two things. First, the elections will be rerun. If people think the annulment was unfair, the opposition candidate may get even more votes due to organic publicity. Second, you can't just buy ads. You must also find som
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I don't think anyone is getting disqualified. The elections will be rerun with the same candidates, because the authorities were unable to do it properly the first time. If you pay a small amount of money for some political ads, nobody
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Incumbents losing elections is what is supposed to happen. It's a sign of normal times, not of a crisis. One of the key principles of a republic – both ancient and modern – is that personal power is bad for the society. Leaders are a n
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Space combat in The Expanse kind of makes sense, assuming that you have magic engines that can accelerate you to something like 5% or 10% of light speed before running out of propellant. The thing is that space is big. Hundreds of thousands
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Housing costs are paid from disposable income under the OECD definitions. Larger households lead to larger reported incomes, because the total household income is divided by the square root of household size. If income is $50k/person a
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The median income on that page is the median disposable household income, divided by the square root of household size. Because American households are large for developed countries, measures like that overestimate the income of the median
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This is the common expat mistake. Your cost of living can grow very high, if you try to replicate your old lifestyle in a country that doesn't support it. With the same approach, you can also find that living in the US is 2x to 3x more
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American houses are large and unaffordable. The usual term for a situation like that is inefficiency. Price per square foot is not a very useful metric, because neither utility nor construction costs scale directly with the size of a house.
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I find your choice of words interesting. "Students are given opportunities" sounds pretty much the way things were done in the USSR. The Western way is (or at least used to be) treating students as adults who have the independence
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Many countries already solved this problem with their ccTLDs decades ago. It only required taking the established practices and applying them to a new class of names. There are always some edge cases, but domain name assignment is pretty mu
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And there are also businesses with identical names. But the basic idea was already established long before the internet. If you have a legitimate claim to a name, you have a legitimate claim to that name. There may be multiple entities with
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It's not a particularly hard problem. Most countries have rules on what you can use as a business name or register as a trademark. Domain names are just more of the same. And you don't really own your domain. You are just renting
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I'm also from a culture where tipping doesn't happen. I've been living in the US for a number of years, and I rarely go to a restaurant here, because the experience is too awkward. On the other hand, I find delivery services
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That's only true for Markov chains with an (effectively) infinite state space. If the state space is finite, such as with an LLM with a finite set of tokens and a finite context length, it's trivial to tell the difference between
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Russia is an oligarchic republic. It's neither a dictatorship nor a liberal democracy. And regardless of the power he has, Putin is still a product of the system. His eventual successor will quite likely be another similar leader.
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Wealth tax is a long-established practice in Germanic Europe. The list of countries that collected it in 1965 is kind of interesting: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Most of them eventually

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