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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I think that rent figure is a key insight. IIRC in Berlin, one of the cooler cities in the world, even six years ago one could find a nice apartment to share for 400 Euros a month. Several acquaintances basically worked 3-6 months per year
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I strongly agree. My ideal for user interfaces would be something where the user can skin everything to look like they want it. For example, imagine the web browser version of winamp... a page has text, images, links, and that's it- th
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
From what I've heard, there are a tremendous amount of first time buyers. Any sort of firearm for defense is pretty much gone, along with all ammunition. The shortage is severe enough that the ammunition manufacturers are supposedly sw
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Because they have inordinate influence, same as with all the movie studios that are now heavily reliant on China for money. Most countries don't do great stuff constantly, but China is definitely outdoing itself the last few years: - H
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
That's a tautology. If I support freedom of expression, and believe it is in the say, national interest, then by definition I am against those who oppose freedom of expression. Where the line ends is when they stop merely saying "
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Count me in. I refuse to buy into the Apple ecosystem anymore after "courage" and the last few years of laptops, and I develop in linux anyway, so I'm extremely interested. Perhaps I just need to make the plunge?
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
An alternative to a meltdown is what's been happening since 2008- the poor start killing themselves and maybe they vote for the wrong guy, but the trend doesn't stop. Given that the market says 30% of the workers don't really
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
We're definitely there already. At least on the west coast, in each major city, we have thousands of people living in tents, if not tens of thousands. Seattle has over 10k now officially (and speaking with food bank workers 20 years ag
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
If the cost of living wasn't so high, I suspect the smartest would choose to do other things. For example, looking at JPL engineering salaries on glassdoor, the median seems to be around $100k. That's just not enough if you want t