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by pxmpxm 2y ago
I am fairly sure the people behind Gnome don't actually really know what they're doing when it comes to HID and Ux. Gnome terminal for example will offset the right click contextual menu with a new line of bin/hex/oct re
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
You grew up in the states or similarly well-off place, right? The first point is actually huge - soviet russia was the textbook example of the tragedy of the commons. If you're in system where your get paid the same token amount of mon
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Oh weird, they're not talking about covid
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Need to in group signal, especially if you're a normie. I wonder if this actually is a meta-art project of upmarketing a high-net-worth lifestyle (look at me, I live on a boat!) to a far left wing audience. Just need a vague manifesto
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Plan9 is the ycN equivalent of https://xkcd.com/739/
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
> Letting people build things When the real solution is obvious and the proposals are nowhere near it, the game at play isn't to solve the problem: Remarket collectivist expropriation with some gen-z friendly word salad and backfil
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Rent controls is universally considered a stupid idea, the only reason why it continues to exist for the benfits of the political class that leverage votes out of it. Handing out subsidy checks for the same amount accomplishes the same th
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
> 1. Eliminate the Mortgage Interest TAx Deduction. It's giving money to the wealthy; That's literally the most popular deduction in USA; with home ownership rate of ~ 66%t by construction this covers more than half of the inco
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
I would venture a guess you've never owned a property to conflate "empty second home" with that "free housing for homeless" insinuation, as if those two concepts are in any way related. Pretty sure that housing isn&
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
And you suppose this will solve, what, exactly - besides destryong the rental market and new construction?
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
> surprised Not even the slightest bit, the odds of the parent's sole life experience being "car infested suburbia" is ~1.0 Chalk it up to narrow context us centric hip view myopia.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
> unpopular opinion here Amusingly the unpopularity is almost universally originating from the same young white upper middle class suburb childhood people. Something pathological about rejecting their parents lifestyle rather than anythi
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Huh, why would reciprocal sqrt and fpmul be faster than regular sqrt?
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Seconded, or any appliance for that matter.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
But people want those? This product exist for a very special niche - to be able to physically broadcast your performative victimhood/lack of agency without inconveniencing yourself with the actual, non-performative solution.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Golf clap for that one
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Why is this a video?
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Feigning being a victim and having no agency is trendy in certain circles.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Pick your favourite country in "the west" and you will end up with the same conclusion, since you're like 2 orders of magnitude off.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Just to add some numbers for context, in 1980 the US poverty line family income was ~ $8k year. In the USSR the MEDIAN family income was ~1200 rubles a year, which is around $400/year using the real exchange change. People in the wes
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Being poor in a capitalist country still puts you in the very top of the ladder in any communist place. Everyone was poor there, and way poorer than you, myself included.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
No watermellons, or ketchup this summer, soz. My entire family to this day is compelled to load up on whatever discounted-because-of-oversupply items when shopping, on the premise that they will not be available in the future due to asinine
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Same formative experience here and exact same sentiment. It's always rich kids that benefited from capitalism their entire life that seem to fetishize communism the way that video does.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
but if that's true, how i can sell that thinly veiled capitalism=bad narrative
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
I think you're missing the fact that USA, as a very rich country, tends to subsidize drugs for everyone. Your cost is artificially lower as ours is artificially higher. The only way to make it cheaper in the US is to make your pay more
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Touché, current gramps.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
No, that is wrong - if the outcome of this regulation is coal export with the same end use + co2 for transit + no sulfur scrubbing because emerging markets coal plants have lesser env standards, it doesn't make sense.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
Exactly what I was thinking - it's virtually guaranteed they've spent the effort to build a software emulation solution.
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by pxmpxm 2y ago
I thought the universal consensus is that it's net benefit for the currently employed, where the product, company/shareholders and employment bears the cost. Zero sum game, with negative externalities. In particular, flexible empl
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by pxmpxm 3y ago
Far more overwrought prose in my opinio; like a Baroque cheateu, all the beauty is lost in the noise of the embellishments.

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