rayiner

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by rayiner 2mo ago
Modern art is older than me.
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Modern art sucks, and displaced art that is beautiful. Huge net loss for humanity.
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If "unskilled work and a gigantic natural resource bas was the basis for wealth [in] the 19th century" then China and India would have been the U.S. 200 years ago.
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> What does she dislike about DSA, immigration, etc.? She thought the future would be Bangladeshis acting like British people instead of Bangladeshis acting like Bangladeshis in Britain. > What does she think of the rhetoric coming fr
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It made it into the street level advocacy, which was my point above.
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> only works if you have the process for developing unnaturally skillfull talent, which is just not going to happen once the smart people stop moving to the US So how did America become a world power before H1B? The U.S. was the world’s
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Those two things are strongly overlapping. People are socialized into the institutions and culture that other countries find difficult to replicate.
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I think it’s a matter of perceptions catching up to reality. 15 years ago China was definitely still ripping off american products down to the english silk screening.
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No she watches CNN in a loop. But she left an unstable third world country and viscerally dislikes what’s going on with DSA, immigration, etc. That said she also hates Trump’s Queens immigrant affect, unpredictability, populism, etc. She lo
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I got through a trial using a document manager I vibe coded in two days. No crashes, no runaway memory usage with several gigs of PDFs. All my depo transcripts, expert reports, etc, indexed, with a terminal window integrated so i can ask Gr
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I replaced my todo list tracker with a vibe coded one, while waiting for things to happen in the middle of a trial. We're living in the future.
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> NIMBY blocks some nursing homes, but another barrier is that 34 states require a Certificate of Need just to add nursing home beds. You need state approval to build supply. Sixteen states go further with outright construction moratoria
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Help me logic through it. Why would I want to mislead people into thinking I support sclerotic mid-20th century european socialism?
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> Yeah, I can see how someone from one of those countries might project onto US politics things that are not commonly done here Yes, that was my point. Someone asked me why my mom lumped Obama in with “radicals” and I tried to explain th
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I don’t think Obama is a radical. But he had radical people in his orbit from his “community organizer” days.
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He’s the elder statesmen of the party. In my mom’s part of the world he’d still be de jure in charge of the party. Then if he wasn’t replaced by another man of similar stature, control of the party might pass to Michelle (like happened at l
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Democrats had almost an 80 House seat majority and 57 Senate seats when Obamacare was enacted.
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The U.S. isn’t an outlier in granting “more rights to corporations than other countries.” We just have less restrictive speech laws across the board. Countries that impose limits on speech through corporations also have much stronger limits
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So it's "dishonest" to refer to Sweden's "Nordic tax structure" because it's only from "the last few decades?" When people think of the "Nordic model, they mean the combination of free marke
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My mom grew up as a woman in a socialist muslim country in the 1960s. I grew up in a comfortable virginia suburb. What wisdom do I have to impart onto her, lol?
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Sweden relies heavily on regressive consumption taxes. Moreover, the top 20% accounts for 60% of personal consumer spending. (And that’s not artificially inflated because it’s not like Jeff Bezos spends a million times more on consumer good
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You’re confusing party rhetoric with actual voter ideology. Look at the Senate map from 2006 and tell me there hasn’t been a reshuffling: www.electionresources.org/us/maps/senators.php?election=2006 U.S. elections are a dynam
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That's like saying Clinton mind-controlled a bunch of Dukakis voters into suddenly wanting to cut the size of government. It's an underlying political realignment and reshuffling of voters.
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I love taxes! I'm grateful as an immigrant to be able to give back to the country by paying high taxes. Here is my 7 years ago saying you should raise taxes on me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412077 "
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Nobody likes free trade. Democrats can only get away with it because they are so much better on healthcare. They can cobble together a coalition of big businesses and service workers whose jobs can’t easily be shipped to China. But healthca
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My mom watches CNN and liked Obama as President. But my parsing of her comment—I haven’t talked to her about it, just saw it pop up when my aunt responded “me too, sister”—is that she views Obama as the patriarch so the buck stops with him
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It's not "proven." At the 10,000-foot view, the magical market theory folks implemented their ideas about free trade since Reagan. And who is happy with the result? Tariffs were a core policy of the United States from Alexand
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My Bangladeshi immigrant mom and her sister are complaining on Facebook that they were "good Democrats" until "Obama, AOC, and Bernie" brought their "radicalism." Democrats wave away this stuff as "perform
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I find it hilarious that Claude is still a piece of shit web app. Claude can just make apps! Why not release native ones? At least the TUI is pretty good.
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People in blue areas of Oregon are like that too. (My wife is from there and people do stare.) That part of the country is just antisocial and not used to seeing brown people.

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