readyman

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by readyman 3y ago
> So your theory is that China is investing unprecedented amounts into EV production to improve air quality in coastal California thereby propping up land values? China has the necessary political organization and willpower to meaningfu
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by readyman 3y ago
"Even though the file API handles all those concerns, but it doesn't expose them to you. A narrow interface handling a large number of concerns - that makes the unix file API a "deep" module." Both sentences here
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by readyman 3y ago
That's irrelevant. EVs are necessary to preserve land values in Socal, which is why Cali real estate funded Cali politicians to use all of their weight to win fed funding for the Tesla project in the first place. Everybody knows (wheth
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by readyman 3y ago
That would cost a pretty penny in Socal! As long as the Hyde Amendment is in play, this is not a civil right imo.
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by readyman 3y ago
Exactly right imo. It's frustrating to see people treat these few surviving cultures as if they are the only ones worth preserving, as if all the others are a waste of time. I think this results in a lot of resentment.
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by readyman 3y ago
I split an FT subscription with a circle of Marxist friends. We couldn't care less about WSJ.
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> California is run as a real estate cartel Literally the political power that got Tesla off the ground (with fed funding) to save real estate prices in the San Bernadino Valley, LA, etc.
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by readyman 3y ago
Gotta keep the wages down somehow! Now if we could only find a way to keep people from losing their homes due to laziness!
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by readyman 3y ago
> It's culture is perpetually endangered. Iceland is it's own island. How could a culture be any less endangered than that? Every culture is at least as inherently endangered as Iceland's.
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> being able to communicate near-instantly across large distances was possibly the single biggest limiting factor for the size of empires in agrarian societies Seemingly, yes, but this hasn't been proven quite yet. The American emp
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by readyman 3y ago
Big if true. That was definitely not in the AWS cert I took lol.
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by readyman 3y ago
Another of seemingly infinite reasons why trains > planes.
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It's curious how the same stupidly simple market theories never apply in the inverse. Why is it that mass immigration doesn't increase rents across the rental market?
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Both impossible and stupid.
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How would this benefit consumers?
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> Competition is fierce in the academia, because many people find academic research inherently interesting Why do we keep telling ourselves that profit is the only way to motivate competition? It is a lie. > there is only money to em
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by readyman 3y ago
UBI is an obvious scam. It's always better to decrease labor time evenly across all workers while paying the same or higher wages.
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Both can be true, but the structural forces (described by snowwrestler) predominate the influence of parliamentary expertise. Parliamentarianism is a game in itself, and it's only effective insofar as actual politics are being done, wh
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A fine structural analysis
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Facebook is used to keep in touch with loved ones. Tik Tok is not. This is a very significant factor in sentiment for one vs the other.
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But that manager worked so hard to be the person who gets to decide who to blame!