mantas

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by mantas 3y ago
Another problem is how people define civil rights. We're past the point when „civil rights“ or „human rights“ had an universal meaning. You want democracy? Good. You want to limit corporations to make sure small businesses stand a fair
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by mantas 3y ago
Historically far left loves to take away civil rights just like any other extremists.
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by mantas 3y ago
I bought a half-built house right after the kid was born. Yes, using power tools while kid is napping is no-go. But after few months kid is not napping that much. And there’re many relatively silent jobs. It’s easy to silicon a window sill
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by mantas 3y ago
After dealing with custom builders... Ikea is not high in terms of time either. You're likely to drive to Ikea in the morning and have a shelf/cabinet/couch/whatever ready same evening. Now dealing with custom builders i
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by mantas 3y ago
On top of that, would you earn your usual rate for that time? I wouldn't work saturday afternoon anyway because my head is already useless for programming. So I do need to change line-of-work somehow. I can either go for a walk and lea
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by mantas 3y ago
What about following counter-example. There're many tiny apps that are next-to-required. E.g. mass transit tickets, paying for parking, banking apps. With the walled garden, they've to stick to at least some standards. Now if we o
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by mantas 3y ago
Soviets did absorb plenty of buffer countries fully into USSR. Along with massacring a lot of people and/or sending them to gulags. You’re thinking about USSR of 1980s when political repression and some hair cutting was the main issue.
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by mantas 3y ago
There are plenty of tankies and just naive leftist who wish to believe that USSR was good.
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by mantas 3y ago
Talking about WW2, a lot of people still think Soviets were the good guys. Forgetting how nazis and soviets split eastern europe. And later soviets forgot to leave.
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by mantas 3y ago
Consumption is not just buying things. And even in buying things, many so-called minimalists still buy a lot, maybe less in tonnage, but GDP-wise they still spend a lot of money. Of course, there are zen style minimalists. But many seem t
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by mantas 3y ago
Usually airbnb is working around zoning laws. The essence of airbnb is to rent out regular apartments in regular apartment buildings. Which are not designed to be hotel-like short term rentals.
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by mantas 3y ago
The thing is that few bad actors, who maybe don't even live in a given community, can ruin it for the community. What are the options for the community to prevent this? Or does community have no rights to preserve itself, given someone
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by mantas 3y ago
If you already have a PC that isn't working for you, sell it and/or exchange parts as needed. You may want to check PC prices and how pretty poor countries are doing. It's no longer such a luxury as it was 20 years ago. Also,
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by mantas 3y ago
No, it's not. You can easily build a cheap PC. You may be thinking about 1337 gamerz gang. When you're going cheap, there're lots and lots of ways to save. E.g. you can get a fancy box or you can re-use a two decades cheap bo
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by mantas 3y ago
It's still a thing. It will die off in few years. But it's going strong for now and I'm happily hackintoshing. I saw reports that upcoming MacOS Sonoma beta version is already running on a hack. I wouldn't build a fresh
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by mantas 3y ago
Before M1, Hackintosh was giving top-tier performance for 3-4x less money. With a day's worth of research. And then an hour here or there when doing yearly upgrade.
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by mantas 3y ago
It's easy to build a PC with known-to-work parts. And then it does work fine. Those parts are not particularly expensive either. I'm writing this from my 2nd Hackintosh. And hackintosh is my daily driver since 2013. Including for
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by mantas 3y ago
Hackintosh plus few generations old iphone is not expensive.
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by mantas 3y ago
Legal immigrants and illegal migrants have to live somewhere too. Even if they don't have $$$, they still put pressure on the system from the bottom. And it bubbles up throughout the real estate pyramid.
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by mantas 3y ago
There's no significant drinking water source in Crimea. And this was the dam directing water to Crimean water channel. Not sure what other credible source you may want.
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by mantas 3y ago
UN can go fuck themselves. Corrupted fuckers, sometimes literally (e.g. blue helmets). Silly forum, run mostly by dictators nowadays. Once somebody's „human rights“ has to be provided by someone else and is someone else's work...
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by mantas 3y ago
However, most UBI theories rely on taking all welfare funds and redistributing them evenly. If you take unemployment welfare only, you're looking into massive tax increases or UBI that won't provide even very basic living.
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by mantas 3y ago
Is it a human right to be fed & sheltered by others? Without giving anything in return? What about human rights of those at the other side of a stick? Is it a human right to demand something from another human being? Is it a human right
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by mantas 3y ago
I'd word it slightly differently. I agree there may shrinking pool of economically viable jobs and it's likely to shrink considerably in coming decades. However, there's lots and lots of stuff that needs to be done for societ
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by mantas 3y ago
In reality, it's more likely that UBI-happy people would move to cheap backcountry while working people would move to more productive areas. Resulting in ghettos with little interaction between both groups. I wouldn't be surprised
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by mantas 3y ago
Humans are not rational economic units. There's much more at play. My issue with UBI (and too lax welfare in general) is cultural issues. Once you get multiple generations of people who never worked.. It's not good. Personally I t
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by mantas 3y ago
And people don't work at minimum wage if welfare is close enough to it. In my country it is rather popular to sit on welfare in countryside. Grow few berries to sell in local market for cash. Maybe help neighbour in a farm or construct
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by mantas 3y ago
People would still pay taxes ;) UBI is essentially a negative tax. If you make nothing - you get some money. If you make some - there's a breaking point somewhere where you pay more taxes than is UBI. If UBI was a cushy amount covering
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by mantas 3y ago
They ain't desirable. But who wants to pay them do nothing? Many people ain't happy to cover existing welfare. Increase welfare and even more people would feel it's unfair.
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by mantas 3y ago
Universal income covering the very basic would still keep people making beyond minimum wage vulnerable. Paying meaningful money would be too expensive at scale. Then few jobs could pay meaningfully more than the universal income. Why work i

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