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by ponker 6y ago
One thing about the world cities is that you find that they remain the world cities through thousands of years of civilization. London has been a city for 2000 years, Damascus 4000... San Francisco had appeal before the tech industry was he
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by ponker 6y ago
Most visible in restaurants. They came in and made a dangerous neighborhood a trendy hotspot and then got booted out because VC and law firms outbid them on rent.
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by ponker 6y ago
Part of the problem is the rich people don’t use the city services the way they do in New York. City services serve the underclass and the professional class uses private vendors.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is why Apple makes the cheapest smartphones, as long as you avoid dropping them.
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s certainly an aspect of its marketing, we can see that the reality is quite different. Individual X “agreed” to forfeit the wallet: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by ponker 6y ago
It would be great if these wiped out the people who operate these torture factories but then didn't spread beyond there.
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by ponker 6y ago
To me, privacy is an essential component of freedom, and the government and banking system knowing everything about my transactions is not as bad as everyone knowing something about my transactions.
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by ponker 6y ago
I can’t get over the idea that the HODL gang thinks that cryptocurrency=freedom when everyone can see the global transaction log.
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by ponker 6y ago
Microsoft is an enterprise software company that suckles at the teat of government invoicing to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, they are nothing like Apple in this regard.
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by ponker 6y ago
Buy a container load of heroin, place it with the local kingpin.
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by ponker 6y ago
Lol! I bought a Brother laser printer for $100. Prints automatic full duplex. Joins to my WiFi and hardwired Ethernet. Plugged it in and every computer in the house printed to it immediately. My PHONE prints to it flawlessly. GTFO printer c
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by ponker 6y ago
“Natives” meaning they’re born there, but their parents or grandparents are usually immigrants. The “native born” statistic is a tremendous argument for stricter immigration controls, as the cultural influence towards terrorism is so high t
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s never gone below substantial because the UK would need to change a ton of things, which are politically, legally, and practically impossible to change, for the threat level to go below substantial.
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by ponker 6y ago
You don’t have to be an uncivilized subhuman to be incompatible with Western liberal democracy.
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by ponker 6y ago
Lot of disagreement with my hypothesis. Anyone care to offer alternative explanations?
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by ponker 6y ago
Europe gave the world Enlightenment values and then performed a scientific experiment on itself to see what happens when you take those values to an extreme. Thank you, Europe, for everything you gave to civilization and the concept of a ri
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by ponker 6y ago
Not at all, it’s based on the immigration policies of the European Union over the last 20+ years.
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by ponker 6y ago
Hm.....
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by ponker 6y ago
When people ascribe a motive to an organization nobody thinks that every single person in the organization has that motive. Rather what it means is that the organization's structure and members cause the organization to act in accordan
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by ponker 6y ago
How is the syntax here working? Is that an assignment operator?
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by ponker 6y ago
They didn't even spin something 350 times before launching it out of the solar system?
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by ponker 6y ago
Agree - the title grabs the wrong kind of attention. It's sad to see the deeply technical realm co-opted by the same kind of clickbait attention-seeking that powers celebrities/social media/etc.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well look at the Sacklers. Kill 500,000 people and you pay a $225 million fine out of the $8 billion you made from their deaths. Kill 10 people and they give you a lethal injection.
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by ponker 6y ago
Depends on what happens with crime and “quality of life.” People will step in human turd to get to a job that pays them $400K. They won’t do that to have access to great coffee shops. You’ll at best get the marginally employed bohemians if
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by ponker 6y ago
Well pre-2016 there was the assumption that the American electorate basically is capable of self-governing. This assumption has been invalidated so while the polling industry hasn’t gone away it’s now more like the sports forecasting indust
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by ponker 6y ago
Of course that line item is massively larger in the US than in Switzerland because it has to line the pockets of union bosses, lawyers, negotiators, administrators, and health insurance companies.
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by ponker 6y ago
Microsoft is much wealthier than the “entire music industry” but this still might not be a hill they want to die on.
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by ponker 6y ago
Would you say the same about code that, for example, is designed to fail when used in a missile? E.g. navigation code that deliberately pilots into the ocean if onboard something going faster than Mach 3?
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by ponker 6y ago
Buildings back then probably collapsed much more frequently.
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by ponker 6y ago
uh no, please don't do that. Individual decisions that seem harmless can be incredibly destructive in the aggregate, and this is one of them.

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