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by kspacewalk2 7mo ago
That is a much bigger deal than international arrivals.
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by kspacewalk2 7mo ago
Most US tourism is domestic, the effect of a 12% drop in international tourism arrivals is a rounding error even for the US tourism industry as a whole, much less the US economy overall (tourism is 3% of total, compared to ~10% in other maj
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by kspacewalk2 7mo ago
The vast majority of tourism in the US (around 90%) is domestic. The total drop of inbound international tourism is about 12%. The effect is noise-level compared to larger economic forces at play. The US is just not an international tourism
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
There are quite a few countries which consistently score higher than the US on democracy, overall freedom and press freedom indices, despite not having these absolutist freedom of speech provisions in their constitutions (if they even have
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Ditto for Alphabet with scammy and malicious Youtube ads.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
What's the difference? Efficacy in preventing lies from being aired?
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
The number of kids born in 2025 in Uzbekistan (population 38 million) is about the same as the number of kids born in 2025 in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
In Central/Eastern Europe, the problem is increasingly one of demographics. You can sometimes find somewhat cheap labour due to shitty (geo)politics, stagnant economies and poorly trained workers, but big-picture-like, the age of labou
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
The trade-off to safety and caring about people and the environment is very often cost. Caring about the environment is not a binary concept, it is a matter of where your break-even point is between caring about the environment and absorbin
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Not sure what the name of your complex is, maybe groveling deference to legalese? Whatever it is, I'm sure I would have applied it to your entire country of origin if I knew where you're from, and if I were developmentally around
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
No, the point of building things the hard way, things that you'll be proud to show HN if it works out, is to acquire a valuable learning experience.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
It's not a hazing ritual, it's a valuable learning experience. Yes, it's nice to have the option of foregoing it, but it's a tradeoff.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Is it in fact illegal to sell a zero day exploit of an open source application or library to whoever I want?
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You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief(theregister.com)
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
The fact that Russia's leadership has the same kind of borderline delusional take on Ukraine and its army is, ironically, a significant reason why Russia's army has been so hilariously bad on the battlefield against Ukrainians, co
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
His focus has also involved generous amounts of simping for Russian fascists, excusing their colonialist wars, etc. Not an anti-imperialist, just anti-US.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Because a corporation doesn't have trading partners, it has a mission to sell to customers. If customers are disproportionately in the US, which happens quite often, then you can entirely rationally decide that pissing them off with a
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Tariffs can be paid by the seller/exporter. If a very significant part of a company's business is done in the US, and the tariff is sufficiently high, they will lose market share if the customer eats the entire cost of the tarif
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
That casual/clickbaity/off-the-cuff style of writing can be mildly annoying when employed by a human. Turned up to the max by LLM, it's downright infuriating. Not sure why, maybe I should ask Claude to introspect this for me.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
Feelings have nothing to do with it (anymore?). Just a different logic for a different world. Canada is doing the normal things countries do in a multipolar world in which none of the big players (other than maybe the EU if they become a bi
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
>Chinese imperialism. Tibet, Xinjiang, invading Vietnam. >Or soviet imperialism You're joking, right? The quintessential imperialist power of the Cold War. Post-WW2 subjugation of eastern Europe. Occupation of the Baltic states.
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
You can do this in multiple steps. Start with a credit card usable only with Canadian merchants, which will cover a great majority of transactions of a great majority of Canadians. I'll have an MC for travel and the ordering from non-C
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
I mean, not to descend too deeply into the stereotype of nerds and comic books, but you'd probably be a lot more distraught and critical of Professor X making terrible, self-interested and decidedly unfriendly choices than you would be
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
I'm from Ukraine and I'm very curious about this "East Slavic civilization" you mention. What is it? Are my cousins who are fighting to defend their homes, relatives and neighbours from Russian fascists part of this civi
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by kspacewalk2 8mo ago
In my experience, a very significant proportion of self-reported "anti-fascists" and "anti-imperialists" turn out, upon closer scrutiny, to actually be anti-US-fascism and anti-US-imperialism. They ignore, downplay, deny
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by kspacewalk2 9mo ago
Something along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywxENdhYoXw
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by kspacewalk2 9mo ago
Let me fire up Claude code.
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by kspacewalk2 9mo ago
Russia firmly in that second tier along with better behaved peers that have brighter demographic futures and an actual economy, like India, Indonesia and Brazil.
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by kspacewalk2 9mo ago
The fundamental question that needs answering is: should we actually prevent minors below the age of X from accessing social media site Y? Is the harm done significant enough to warrant providing parents with a technical solution for giving
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by kspacewalk2 9mo ago
Um no. Along with the diary, tax records, cellphone and family photos were stolen from someone's home, then sold for $40,000 to a far-right activist / centrist paragon of journalism James O'Keefe (whichever you prefer). Said

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