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by kredd 3y ago
I agree with the general goals, but I think it would be fighting hard against the current culture trends. I'm not gonna comment how I feel about them, but depended on age groups, people have different wants and needs. For example, I ca
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by kredd 3y ago
This is a wild read cause I was discussing this just last night with some people at a bar! We had a never-ending conversation of "if we have kinda non-profit Wikipedia for information democratization, we should have non-profit for dati
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by kredd 3y ago
I was on board with your reasoning, but the end tail is just gatekeeping happiness. People have been satisfied with “simple pleasures” that made them happy throughout centuries. It’s close to saying “you’re not listening to the right kind o
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by kredd 3y ago
The problem is, unless the government forcefully does it, the people sue the hell out of the city. “Bus lane lawsuits nyc” google search will result in bunch of results. Also doesn’t help how it would be a political suicide for anyone to be
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by kredd 3y ago
I don’t like being a defeatist, but being anti-public transit, infrastructure investments, and inability to build public infrastructure is very well ingrained into American culture at this point. Countries like China and India call pull it
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by kredd 3y ago
I keep hearing this argument, and still not sure which countries people are referring to. Maybe rural areas of US/Canada or other large countries? Just curious about the real affected number of people.
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by kredd 3y ago
Yeah, you’re actually right. I’m travelling around Taiwan now and it does get a bit crowded to the point you can’t really figure out what is what. And by the time you can unlock your phone you gotta move to make space for people coming from
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by kredd 3y ago
Oh, totally! However when I was travelling around Japan, especially in smaller towns, restaurants and shops were very accommodating as I took my time to use Google Translate. Very lovely people!
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by kredd 3y ago
I mean, yeah? Every country uses (if they can) their natural resources to prop up everything. Some better than others (e.g. Norwegian generational fund), some invest basically into every possible thing imaginable (Saudi and Aramco), and Can
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by kredd 3y ago
As a person who has very close familial ties to other countries (US and Europe), and been around a decent bit, I still think life in Canada is better than in other places (for me). Sure we have problems, some of them are getting even worse
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by kredd 3y ago
Yeah, small data point, but everyone in my circles who tried "remote life" realized why they're not fond of it, moved back into cities. It's not for everyone, and it's definitely not for me. Giving up walkability, b
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by kredd 3y ago
So, it's bad in both of the cities? I read the above comment as bringing awareness to the fact that not all "% is employed" stats is good. It might be super-privileged and entitled position of mine, but at this day and age, c
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by kredd 3y ago
You really can’t apply that to a payment feature. Unfortunately everything that touches money needs constant attention, even if you “just use Stripe”.
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by kredd 3y ago
Basically every big corp implemented their own cloud storage, so they had to compete by adding extra features I would guess? I’m still happy customer for personal needs since I’ve had it for ages and too lazy to switch. But when it comes to
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by kredd 3y ago
Users who don’t want ads aren’t exactly the same as users who are willing to pay. Prime example — myself. What I’m getting at, companies have calculated that in most of scenarios having paid model isn’t worth it. There will always be except
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by kredd 3y ago
If supporting paid model costs more than what they make from paid users, why would a company implement it? Me, you, and most of engineers are in extreme minority for our willingness to pay for stuff to avoid ads. So you’ll get a very tiny p
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by kredd 3y ago
Who is telling young men those? Like I genuinely have never heard that outside of Twitter, extremely-online communities and your usual podcasts that are extremes on both sides.
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by kredd 3y ago
Not everything in the world is there to “get you”. Men who have friend girls tend to have much easier time finding “mates” in my circles. Again no citations, just observations. And it kinda passes the smell test, as it’s so much easier to t
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by kredd 3y ago
Totally fair, I guess I should not be making such generalized comments. Probably a lot of self-selection bias happening in my bubble too.
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by kredd 3y ago
Ha, that’s actually great to hear! I genuinely enjoy hearing stories like that, making our tiny theory a bit more believable. Regarding the jealousy of others’ partners — it is always a problem! According to my girl friends, we (guys in our
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by kredd 3y ago
I don’t buy that given I went to middle/high school in very backward-ass region, but we all managed to be friends. It’s something that needs to be cultivated from the early childhood. I agree that it is much harder to reinforce it late
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by kredd 3y ago
I should’ve added growing up part. Like I grew up with friends who are girls and guys, and always had positive reassurance from my surroundings that it’s the correct way of doing things. But I agree, it’s like a skill in general — as I gr
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by kredd 3y ago
My friend and I have a theory that a significant chunk of the problems mentioned in the article could be solved if every guy had a genuine platonic friend who is a girl. No data point other than every guy that I know who has close friend gi
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by kredd 3y ago
It’s not like we learned it for fun, we had to in order to pass. I don’t think I (nor anyone in my class) would ever learn strictly school related subjects (calc, chem and etc.) just for fun. And I went to an extremely competitive public sc
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by kredd 3y ago
I feel exactly the same way. There’s a huge amount of common sense that’s being missed, and I can’t understand why our government is trying to get there before anyone else.
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by kredd 3y ago
When it costs absolute bullocks to actually build/revamp any sort of infrastructure, I’d say it’s kinda hard to level up the quality to other cities’ levels.
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by kredd 3y ago
Opt-in experiments carry a huge bias, which is hard to extrapolate to the general user base. As annoying as changes Spotify can be, at least it’s highly unlikely to be used for “important stuff” like emails or general business stuff. Easier
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by kredd 3y ago
Property gets assessed by government, a sticker price is put, and then the homeowner has to pay % of it as tax over here, as far as I know. Rinse and repeat every year.
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by kredd 3y ago
Fair, makes sense. We have extremely low tax rate up here (0.28% in my province), so it’s hard to see how that can be a problem for super majority of the population. And if your asset keeps inflating above the tax rate, you’re technically d
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by kredd 3y ago
We have this problem in Canada as well, and it’s a hot discussion topic among younger generation. But I’m having a hard time convincing myself government would ever intervene since majority of people actually own their homes. Why would that

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