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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, stability is not well defined. I guess I'd define it as a period of time without wars or non-peaceful transfers of governmental power. Your knowledge of Chinese history seems pretty good to me! By the invasion I didn't mean t
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well, how do you see that China has been stable? In the 20th century it's been conquered in an invasion, then went through a communist revolution and fought a civil war that split itself in two. The governments have been replaced repea
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by repolfx 7y ago
Worker protection isn't standardised. The countries with the lowest unemployment rates have relatively dynamic labour markets. Try France: 8.7%, was 10% as recently as 2015. Italy: 10.2% Of course, unemployment is much worse for young
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by repolfx 7y ago
I agree there's a long way between the USA and China for the reasons you mention. Still, something nags at me. The USA has all those things in some less government-oriented sense, not organised by a totalitarian party but by a vaguel
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by repolfx 7y ago
taking a big step back I don't know if democracy is a more stable system than others. Or even better in terms of long-term results I wonder what sort of education you've had? I can easily and quickly think of dictatorships that
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by repolfx 7y ago
Which democracy are you thinking of that 'became worse after switching'? I can't think of any, though I can think of a few countries that mostly botched the switch and ended up in a sort of pseudo-democracy.
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Everything except securities? Been a bull market for a long time now - that money is going somewhere!
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Stablecoins aren't supposed to float freely, they're pegged. So I assume it doesn't mean that.
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The fact that so much advertising barely works is the basis of Google's entire business model. The idea that adverts are all made by masters of psychological manipulation is laughable - most of it is considered successful of it just ma
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That would require in-app purchases, no?
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I suspect you're defining horrible comments as, "comments expressing views I don't like and wish didn't exist". Germany has particularly extreme and unusual policies regarding migrants/asylum seekers/refug
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Doesn't work if the newspaper publishes total nonsense and smarter or better informed comments point that out, which is 50% of the value of comments. I'm pretty sure a big part of the reason the Guardian stopped opening comments o
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by repolfx 7y ago
Politicians have been talking up what they call evidence-based policymaking for years. That'd be the equivalent of citing empirical data for policymaking inputs. Unfortunately it's not that easy, as the endless edit wars and fight
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Major consequence of what? If we accept for a moment the extremely questionable proposition that HN and Reddit posters are some sort of intellectual elite, yet "there are still plenty of staggeringly oblivious views in both places&qu
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by repolfx 7y ago
What is it you like about cube farms so much? Individual offices I understand completely. Cubes? Seems like a very cheapskate version of a real office. I've never worked in one though, so I guess I can't quite understand it.
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by repolfx 7y ago
He hasn't addressed these scandals because there's nothing to address - the "scandals" are entirely artificial, whipped up by the same frenzied political climate that convinced half of America Trump is a Russian spy. Let
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by repolfx 7y ago
Since when do Apple IDs require 3-D cameras to log in to? Mine only needs a password. I don't think my MacBook even does 3D face recognition.
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's a huge claim. I've encountered lots of people who have been erased from social media over time and invariably they haven't harmed anyone - not unless you consider "saying things other people dislike" to be
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I think by any fair standard, Microsoft can be considered to have a monopoly in the desktop market How? Lots of people I know use Macs, and developers/techie types frequently use Linux. Windows is the most popular for some types of
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by repolfx 7y ago
You just shifted the goalposts on a massive scale. You weren't talking about "abusive jerks" were you? You were talking about actual British citizens who ran for election, which makes them politicians. Whether you like them o
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by repolfx 7y ago
Those politicians disagree! This seems a rather tortuous definition of "interfere" regardless. Censorship is ok, speech isn't ok?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Absurd but also predicted, no? I am sure I recall people joking here on HN about how de-"biased" dating sites would surely arrive at some point soon, and here we are. Bear in mind this comes from the same school of thought that br
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by repolfx 7y ago
OK, I'm yelling freedom. I'm also a straight white man, which is a demographic I've seen be demonised pretty regularly on all major social networks and many major newspapers. Plenty of example of such hatred on Twitter; just
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So American firms are guilty of foreign interference in elections now, are they? Oh the irony.
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That seems like a rather fragile distinction to draw. Tor isn't just a software stack and protocol. It's also a service made up of many hundreds of volunteers who agree to relay traffic, blindly, anywhere, despite (a) knowing what
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by repolfx 7y ago
Sounds like actually a team size issue. Two guys in their spare time can't create a codebase big enough to have severe agility or maintenance issues. But the moment you ask for a feature they can't handle in that very limited fund
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Thrift RPC is basically a clone of Stubby. Lots of sharded MySQL (not so much at Google anymore but the whole time I was there, the ads db was a giant sharded MySQL DB). Small number of large monorepos. Etc.
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Abandoned by mainstream politicians yes, that's the definition of populism (politicians who position themselves against a general 'elite'). Left behind by the global economy, no, there's no evidence of that. It's a
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I used to be at Google, years ago. I don't know if any of this is still relevant. The design process at Google started with a design document. There was a template that I think was available online a long time ago but (ironically) I ca
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by repolfx 7y ago
Facebook's culture is basically a younger brother of Google's, or at least used to be. There's a reason their tech stacks are so similar - FB went through a phase where it poached a lot of Googlers. A tech firm is most easily

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