jollybean

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by jollybean 4y ago
If those areas were not bombed, those businesses would have just located somewhere else. 'Productivity / Square Km' is a nonsense metric. It means nothing. It doesn't matter what the causality of high density rent is, wh
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by jollybean 4y ago
That is just design evolution not 'lack of personality'. I prefer 'modern' except for the fact that there's a lack of borders and groupings, and designers try to get too smart.
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by jollybean 4y ago
False on both counts. First, it's 100% the right of communities to establish - and change - zoning laws. Those can change after a property is acquired. More importantly - this issue is not about people having zoning changed from under
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by jollybean 4y ago
Because it's their home, and they literally own the land. Irrespective of the legalities, you do realize zoning is an almost universal concept? You do realize that you can't just waltz into some neighbourhood, and screw everyone o
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by jollybean 4y ago
The anti-NIMBY antagonizing is much more bizarre. If citizens moved into a community because it was 'spacious and quiet' then it's 100% their right to keep it that way, and utterly bizarre that outsider should think they have
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by jollybean 4y ago
What could replace SAP is maybe a different paradigm of software dev. Where it's truly east to store data, create business units and UI interfaces and pro 'implementers' can do it quickly. Then you have a company automated sy
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yes, there are question marks though that the Queen theoretically fulfills. Otherwise, we might need a 'Supreme Parliamentary Council' to basically enact those duties, and if any members of Parliament didn't agree on the outc
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by jollybean 4y ago
? A prosperous Hyderabad for citizens would be considerably more ideal then moving them to some culturally secular place where their history is lost. Imagine kids in Hyderabad having the stability, economic opportunity, 'decent governm
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by jollybean 4y ago
"There is no 'massive' failure in the EU to protect itself as it has no such objective nor a mandate to protect itself." First - change EU to Europe and the point is more clear: 'Europe' failed to defend itself
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yeah, not sure about that. If QE1 was any better, it wasn't because of her gender, it was the constraints placed on her because of her gender back in the day. And we are into 'constitutional monarchies' now, not the absolutis
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by jollybean 4y ago
The power of the Monarch is kind of real actually, particularly because of the way Parliaments are created and dissolved etc.. There is no clear '4 years to election' as they have in the US. In my home country, Canada, it gets dic
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by jollybean 4y ago
'Long period of stability' since WW1? WW2? The Cold War? Maybe you're young, but this 'feeling of stability' really has only happened since 1991. I remember before that, and it was very scary living with the Soviet
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's a life of 'Duty' not a life of 'Arbitrary Wealth'. It's not exactly poverty, but the 'classist' arguments, to the extent they are rooted in 'wealth distribution' are ridiculous and naiv
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by jollybean 4y ago
The Queen is dead, long live the King!
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by jollybean 4y ago
The Queen is not a 'ruler' though, she's a figurehead. Which is fully appropriate where it exists. I would be 100% against the US having a 'Constitutional Monarch' but I'm 100% in support of the UK Constitution
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by jollybean 4y ago
This article would have nothing to do with that thesis. We're supposedly heading into a downturn, investors want to hear about 'efficiency'. Sundar is playing the game. And possibly the occasion to make a few cuts maybe he&#x
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by jollybean 4y ago
Are they life saving features or do they just appear to be such? I'm wary of the actual math on these things. I think it's an honest attempt either way, but aside from a few anecdotes of 'it working as intended' I really
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yes, but no. It feels like magic because it really does get some things right. But I find that in most cases, because it's often wrong, you have to deal with wrong suggestions, and be very careful about what you accept. I feel that f
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by jollybean 4y ago
Raising rates usually cause a bubble to pop. The bubble has already been popped in some stocks, but it will definitely still happen in order to bring inflation down. So they're trying to suck 'easy money' out of the economy,
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by jollybean 4y ago
People vastly overstate the implications from one-sided anecdotes. Not only are these firms 'different at every office' even within the same office it varies a lot.
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by jollybean 4y ago
? I can't believe there are still people who don't grasp that he's right. The free market has 'train crashes' just like the highway has 'car crashes'. Most things of value are created by regulated markets.
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by jollybean 4y ago
They would never admit being that! Nor would they be fired for being a sociopath. And the book already exists: "The Art of the Deal"
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by jollybean 4y ago
Hell no, I want my files back now. Not on my desktop, but in a place I can find and organize them. Not some magical mystery place that Apple wants to put them.
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by jollybean 4y ago
That's the best 'company culture hack' ever. Join out creative gaming company! (But really we're going to sell SaaS against Microsoft, I'm just not honest with myself yet!)
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by jollybean 4y ago
Then he started another game company which became Slack!
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by jollybean 4y ago
Be a smidge more tolerant and don't worry about it. Unless someone is actively trying to get you to join something ... From an atheist perspective religion is just another form of ideology and there is plenty of that going around. &#x2
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by jollybean 4y ago
The term 'market cap' has utterly no meaning in the context of crypto, it's made up noise to justify the meme.
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by jollybean 4y ago
This is the mostly thoughtfully written review I've seen in a while, thanks. I fight against the purists all of the time, and creators should be able to make whatever they want, that said, it stink when they just make something 'g
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by jollybean 4y ago
Ok change it back to 'don't care' then ...
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yes, but it's like the capitalist version of saying 'Xi' is cool because 'I'm not Uyghur or Tibetan'. Or I like US Healthcare 'because I have coverage'. I mean, I get it, at the same time, you could v

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