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by maeil 2y ago
At least for Korea, both exist. Tuition debt is almost a non-factor though. Medical debt can be, but of course nothing like the US On the contrary, debts from failed businesses (as used in the series) are incredibly common here - probably t
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by maeil 2y ago
Wouldn't a Macbook be the better platform to mimic as its hardware is so much more standardized? Considering techniques like Canvas fingerprinting.
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by maeil 2y ago
To be fair, in my case it wasn't in the US. > It had integrated wait lists, so you could just sign up and hope someone else drops if needed This just moves the scripting point to "signing up for the waiting list". I guess
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by maeil 2y ago
Surely the Alps have feasible locations, Switzerland opened a plant pretty recently.
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Staying alive isn't enough - plenty of kids with dads (or moms) who are alive but still grow up without them.
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by maeil 2y ago
Done this with a similar service, worked fine. Of course YMMV and not everyone is open to it.
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by maeil 2y ago
Plenty of tofu dishes in Korea and part of China. Almost never vegan, but often vegetarian.
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by maeil 2y ago
As mentioned, the subsidies are the biggest player. What you mentioned does probably play a role as well, with much more $/revenue being spent on marketing for non-animal milk than cow milk. None of the big milk players are trying to p
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by maeil 2y ago
This completely ignores second order effects, which lead to the opposite conclusion. If milk is a byproduct of producing meat that can be sold for money, this means milk subsidizes the price of meat. Even if the effect is small, this is alm
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by maeil 2y ago
Just to be clear, the answer to this doesn't impact the point I was making, so it doesn't matter for the topic at hand. But entertaining the question: Who says there haven't been new flaws introduced since? Note how I mention
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by maeil 2y ago
Again very well put - do you have a Bluesky or anything to follow?
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by maeil 2y ago
You should post this higher up . It's the most succinct way I've seen anyone put it across the many threads on here with hundreds of comments, most of which I read.
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by maeil 2y ago
This doesn't take away from your point, but what defines violence? I recently asked this to someone here but unfortunately did not get an answer [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566862
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by maeil 2y ago
Thank you, going on my reading list! Definitely not the best example then. Nevertheless, the person I was replying to has 100% voted for murderers assuming they live in the US, unless they never voted for anyone who won. They consume produc
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by maeil 2y ago
The assumption here I'm seeing by some of the naysayers that US Law in 2025 is a good arbiter of ethics, morality or justness is something I'd like to touch on. I wonder if those people also believe this to have been the case befo
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by maeil 2y ago
Were you actively telling everyone you thought the murder of Bin Laden was wrong when it happened? I definitely don't remember seeing a single person doing so in the West.
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by maeil 2y ago
No problem with destroying lives and indirectly causing many deaths for pure personal gain, as long as under some definition of 2025 US law, it can be argued to be legal. Much better than breaking the law by going 10 mph over the limit! For
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by maeil 2y ago
I reckon most HNers in such a situation have made the same script, I know I did.
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by maeil 2y ago
I can't believe this is real. A US corporation that everyone knows making a video about their trademark and it's not corporate slop but well made, somewhat making fun of themselves even not shying away from "coarse" lang
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by maeil 2y ago
This extends to the mainstream social networks. Bytedance, Meta, X. Google is barely better, since they're an ad company, working for them is working for the ad industry. I'm sure many a reader here working at the named places wil
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by maeil 2y ago
I swear Microsoft is half the market for this. I can't remember the last time I saw them for an image which did not give off that exact vibe in over a decade. It's pure slop, of the non-AI kind.
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by maeil 2y ago
If only this had to do with AI. This has been going on for many years, long before LLMs. These are simple scammers. Many a good article has been written about the way these scams work. With or without AI, their claims are entirely bogus, th
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by maeil 2y ago
Unless they're compensating the entirety of the Youtuber's lost revenue, this is worth as much as a granny tech support scammer claiming they were really planning to help out granny fix her computer. Pure evil.
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by maeil 2y ago
Because even HN, by nature, is still an incredibly US-centric place. And has historically been a very capital-focused place where the stock market and GDP are taken as the only serious indicators by which to measure whether a country is doi
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by maeil 2y ago
Easy? You've lived in each of those places for more than a year around 2015 and around now? Physically impossible. My second homebase is in one of the countries you named. I can tell you that not even 10% of the population would agree
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by maeil 2y ago
Can you name a similarly wealthy country that is actually better today than it was on the date he started as a PM? I can't. Seems like something else has been going on. Potentially you could name Ireland, by becoming a tax haven, screw
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by maeil 2y ago
> My understanding is that while glass is reusable/recyclable, nobody is really willing to do it. Plenty of people have been buying glass over plastic exactly when possible for this reason. Those people show that it's a conciou
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by maeil 2y ago
In the same vein, no one hates them unless they didn't grow up with them. If you'd have grown up with glass straws, you'd love glass straws, especially if you'd been brought up being taught about the harms of single use
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by maeil 2y ago
> Even just water pumping shifts energy into storage Could potentially reuse elevated water tanks? Guess the cost of the pumps might make the savings on the structure very small, and no idea if the amount of energy would be significant t
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by maeil 2y ago
Yes, China is the poster child and even more extreme of a case, but less good of an example for how things could be in a Western country. An EU country today can't become like China, but they can become like Korea, or at least somethin

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