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by pasabagi 5y ago
Very. I skimmed about halfway through and I guess the closest thing to eroticism that far in was a bit of blushing and some racy ankle descriptions.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My gut feeling is that even if you did remove distortions, the problem would persist. If the price for a commodity ultimately stabilizes at material cost + labour, I think rent ultimately stabilizes at 'everything you can afford to pay
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> If making it available is such a no brainer, why did they sell the building? Rent is incidental to the real profit that you make from owning a building - asset value appreciation. Often developers do cut out the middleman. It's al
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My main argument is that when you have a limited quantity of something, like radio spectrum, it's normal to have a public conversation about how this should be divided - and ultimately, it's a democratic decision about who gets wh
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> The person who owns the land makes it available by deciding to rent to people. No, the state makes it possible for the landlord to charge money for the land, by preventing squatting. The land is already available. It is the ownership t
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by pasabagi 5y ago
1. I own a 4 unit building on a decent sized lot in a big city. 2. I make housing available to 3 other families This is the point - the second sentence does not actually follow from the first. The person who built the building, either the a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
This is crazy. Everybody expects to lose money in natural catastrophes - except, for some reason, if you're in the least productive and most predatory sector of our economy (the landlord), you're entitled to a bailout, for what pu
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The USSR and China aren't really comparable. At its height, the USSR had an economy about 60% of the size of the US's. The idea of the USSR as a threat to the USA (or even core US allies) was basically american paranoia in the pos
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Hey, I just downloaded 3.0 and, wow, the performance is really fantastic! It's a really welcome change - I was starting to dread making complex models because I'd have to make them with another program, at which point I would be c
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by pasabagi 5y ago
What is a 'controlled opposition asset'?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
International diplomacy is like that, but every now and then some random soldiers in one of your backwater armies get drunk in some podunk border posting, murder some of the other side's soldiers, then suddenly you have to explain to y
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. That said, as an aside, I find it a bit worrying sometimes that the basic facts of our public conversation are provided without sources, or even in many cases, particular care or diligence.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> It’s the Economist; if you need a source, they’re available on Google Scholar. For the record, I don't know what Economist you've been reading, but the Economist I know is about as factually accurate as most media publication
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm personally very sympathetic to China, and have a great deal of time for revisionism towards the world order, and like xtian, I take a pretty dim view on the way Xinjiang has been weaponized by western media in order to provide an e
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think even if you are a paid troll, you should probably branch out in your interests. There's no real coherent thread or sense of personality coming out in your commentary - it's just 'argument winners', factoids and
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My spelling (not a classicist, also not great at spelling).
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The thing I find weird is that they essentially paid money to degrade the user experience to the extent that large parts of previously OK functionality don't work anymore, and subreddit mods typically advise people to use the 'o
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by pasabagi 5y ago
In terms of productivity per worker, Germany does pretty well. My guess is that because there are all sorts of limits on how much people can work (there are lots of holidays here) so the industries that tend to survive are those that are hi
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Germany kinda does have its own Baidu - just in sectors it actually has competence in. Retail, heavy industry, etc is full of German brands. The problem with software is it's simply a bad fit for German culture, which is generally slow
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The costs are already socialized - it's our data that gets stolen in hacks. The problem is, the megacorps who lose it must only pay a negligible reputational penalty. If you could claim compensation for data lost, if businesses had to
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> "side hustle", has been repurposed by young people as something supposedly respectable I think it's more redefined as something necessary, as the number of good jobs for young people have been on a continuous downward tr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The solution to your confusion is geopolitics. Everybody knows if it was a lab leak, we'll never know, because the CCP would never admit it. What's more, even if it's proven to not be a lab leak, it should still absolutely
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Huh, no I can't. The point is, any human can be a romantic partner to any other. Therefore, his argument should be that no pair of humans should work together ever for risk of romantic entanglements. Except it doesn't work th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I can see the point though: it's hard to do history about oral traditions, doubly so for oral traditions where most of the people in the tradition have been displaced or killed. Also, politicians tend to see history as a sort of '
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Doesn't Australia have just as long a history as anywhere else though? It seems to me people just aren't all that interested in pre-settlement history. The same goes for a lot of settler-colonial nations.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess for me the thing that's really crappy about this quote is that it shows his underlying attitude - that women are basically always potential romantic partners. If he was into men, and he said he didn't want men in the lab b
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think your point is actually a good one. You do need deep proficiency to be able to use data structures creatively. I think your tone is just giving me an aneurysm. My objection is that somebody who had been working with a narrow intensit
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm not really proposing a new law - just the application of existing laws about manslaughter to people who, historically, do a lot of it. Just because there are a lot of prime ministers that have fallen well short of any reasonable st
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think there is a certain lack of imagination you show when you say that having a good, immediately reference able working knowledge of general data structures is a prerequisite of being a good programmer. I'm not a particularly good
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by pasabagi 5y ago
There's a difference between policies that have unintended consequences, and simple incompetence, carelessness, or malice. I actually think heads of state should take a great deal more care when declaring wars, and Generals should take

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