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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Is HackerNews accessible from mainland China? There’s been a lot of discussion here recently about Google working with the CCP’s censorship regime, kidnapped dissidents, and the interment of Muslims in Xinjiang. What impact will this move h
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It’s about 40% for Gen X and Boomers: https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/01/29/guess-how-many-ge...
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Or they have trust funds, inheritances, profited from dead parents home sales, etc.
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Most Millennials are not on track when it comes to saving for retirement(money.cnn.com)
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>Also, you can game with these laptops now thanks to USB-C external graphics enclosures, giving you a work machine on the go, and a gaming machine at home. What setup do you use with your X1?
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It does seem to be the paperclip maximizer of ideologies.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted. History from the 1990s onwards seemed to demonstrate that past a certain point, democracy becomes an obstacle which Capitalism has to overcome or devolve into crisis. If anything, the US is hemming more t
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Actually, lots of people have that conviction. Over a thousand people inside Google signed on against the company’s collaboration with the military, there was all kinds of internal outcry and contention at internal forums, they pushed stron
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It’s deeply atypical of the US labor movement because the Taft-Hartley act was specifically designed to curb union power and, correspondingly, class consciousness and class solidarity. This combined with the vicious (not to mention deeply a
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It speaks more to your disposition than anything else that being troubled by other’s suicides is “emotional manipulation.” And I don’t have “beefs” with fictional boogie man cooked up by Uber, however bought in you are to that narrative. I
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I don’t know how far, but possibly beyond glib dismissals of people’s suicides as a “real tear-jerker.”
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
They’re similar to all the government support(subsidized mortgages, education) given to white people post WWII that allowed them to build the generational wealth and greater proportion of middle class standing they enjoy today.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Rent controlled or rent stabilized? Because those are two very different things and I can find no evidence of the former being true.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Conflating a very real and common concern (fragmentation in the android market) with “toxicity” seems a bit excessive.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Is there a community site that outlines recommended builds? I haven’t looked at Hackintosh stuff since the Snow Leopard days, but am reconsidering now that all my macs are getting up there in age (and none of Apple’s new offerings are appea
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>The good news is that, eventually, automation will reduce living costs. I’m not sure even this is true because of the degree of hyper-financialization and rent-seeking in areas like housing and healthcare. For example, with housing, eve
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
No it wasn't. They specifically tried to misrepresent what the project was, minimize the scope of their involvement with it, as well as Google's plans to expand it further. From the article I linked, which is an interview with a G
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>Yeah, high-ish salaries Judging from the conditions in their warehouses, I doubt this would be true for all the other labor needed to run the city...
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
They said the same thing about their participation in the drone program, until an internal revolt forced them to reveal their true hand (they were actually doing it and hoping to do more of it), and subsequent internal backlash put a stop t
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>It feels like a happy family of devices all working together for a more scientific future. With this philosophy, I’d suggest you’d avoid paying attention to the trajectory of Chinese society, perhaps even more so now that Google plans t
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I think the parent might be arguing that this should all be government-run/funded, like in European social democracies. Tech has been increasingly moving into middleman spaces like health insurance, which only exacerbates the problem.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Link to underlying research/paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3226574
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
This is honestly the most horrifying post in this thread.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Out of curiosity - was this because of their homophobia or something else? I’ve read they’ve been terrible about data security.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>the US was upholding a fledgling government in the South, in that context it's pretty hard to label the US as 'aggressor'. The fledgling government was only “fledgling” because the CIA installed and then helped destabiliz
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Absolutely. The USSR was an imperialist State Capitalist regime.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I would argue the opposite. US backing of Japan has allowed them to maintain an insular chauvinism relative to their neighbors that has put them in weak diplomatic and economic position when faced with China. If they had instead become more
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
This is just shifting goalposts to justify the horror of the US war machine, whose interventions since Vietnam have followed the same disastrous pattern. And quite the minimizing elision to call this “poor judgement.” Staging coups and kill
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
The country devolved into civil war after the US deposed and had executed the country’s leader, who they had previously corruptly installed, but I guess found insufficiently compliant. If it’s not “imperialism” to fix elections, then overth
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Yes, a small cadre of extremists did this, after they were kicked out of the Japanese Communist Party for being violent nut jobs. They were by no means exemplary of the movement. At the same time, the right-wing in Japan (who was composed o

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