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by plankers 4y ago
>So I don't think it's really that we're in a "digital age," it's just that we have a lot more explanations for things than the classicists did. s/explanations/rationalizations
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by plankers 4y ago
is it expected of skilled immigrants to be able to speak Japanese? getting people to learn the global lingua franca is a much easier sell. reading and writing Japanese at a fluent level takes quite a while and oodles of memorization.
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by plankers 4y ago
I'll probably be downvoted because this is stupid but I was wondering the other day whether Japan will be the first country to start factory breeding of humans, Brave New World style. If there was ever a candidate for it, Japan is cert
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Gov. Newsom launches review of San Francisco’s housing approval process(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by plankers 4y ago|0 comments
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by plankers 4y ago
well it's not discussed much because it's handled at a strictly local level. you don't get a national or even state-level conversation about what goes on in town hall public planning meetings. the article advocates for bringi
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by plankers 4y ago
damn wish that got published, i know some people who would love it.
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by plankers 4y ago
it all started going wrong once those damned horseless carriages started hitting the streets
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by plankers 4y ago
you can bet your bottom dollar there are some nerds in Sri Lanka who are very happy to own bitcoin right now. they'll be able to spend it as soon as the electricity comes back up.
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by plankers 4y ago
sure, but one of the authors works for the bank
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by plankers 4y ago
from the introduction: >The development of the Lightning Network may have consequences for welfare. First, as Bitcoin becomes a more efficient payments system, users are better off. Their transactions settle more quickly and more cheaply
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by plankers 4y ago
>Honestly starting to question how much hope there is for mars to happen at all. i spat out my drink reading this
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by plankers 4y ago
nobody here is talking about freight vehicles
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by plankers 4y ago
played it on the gameboy advance, same experience. i can still remember a few of the hand-drawn scenes and (for a child) inscrutable puzzles. something about a runaway floor buffer.
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by plankers 4y ago
I think the game looks fun :) I hope it gets a linux release, unlike every other Monkey Island game.
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by plankers 4y ago
you're both acting like people drive less when they get things delivered to their home. this is not true and i'm pretty sure you know it.
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by plankers 4y ago
they also provide an experience with far larger externalities (e.g. a massive fleet of vans wandering around and polluting all day) that the customer isn't paying for. i wonder why they're so popular
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by plankers 4y ago
can confirm, a former coworker had just come from Tesla 5 years ago and he had serious ethical problems with his work over there. Tesla is killing people through negligence and greed, it's pretty disgusting, but par for the course
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by plankers 4y ago
uh yeah, kinda. the following is from 2011. >In recent years, ETIM has set up bases outside China to train terrorists and has dispatched its members to China to plot and execute terrorist acts including bombing buses, cinemas, department
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New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent(curbed.com)
71 points by plankers 4y ago|29 comments
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by plankers 4y ago
presumably those smaller companies would be beholden to the jurisdictions they're located in, where the laws are drafted by people who are democratically elected. so, i guess democracy would have been achieved. or at least a relative i
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by plankers 5y ago
People literally died fighting for the 40-hour workweek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
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by plankers 5y ago
if we force the rich use the same system the poor use, wait times will plummet.
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by plankers 5y ago
even when you keep making new accounts and "losing" the packages!
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by plankers 5y ago
bitcoin developers have taken a crack at it: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-003...
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by plankers 5y ago
not to rain on the parade, but this has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234444 ah screw it. these guys suck, keep ripping on 'em.
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by plankers 5y ago
we make fun of him _because_ he's a billionaire, you rube
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by plankers 5y ago
loving how the central idiom of this piece was coined because its physically impossible. this author missed something along the way, i think. https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-p...
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by plankers 5y ago
>I lived in an illegal rental to save up for a home, then decided to buy out-of-state properties and drive up the rent. I'm aware of how this will be perceived, but I want to feel good about myself despite knowing how what I'm
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by plankers 5y ago
funny, i solved this problem by not using google
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by plankers 5y ago
So you're refusing to take seriously a post that accuses you of not being serious? The irony is nearly overwhelming. P.S. He linked to a twitter thread that proffered all of Blinken's remarks on Tapper's program.

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