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by sershe 5y ago
Sadly it could actually be the reverse. The rest of the country is much poorer, so they consume less imported products... there's less to lose. Also many (from my experience at least) generally just have lower expectations... the joke
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by sershe 5y ago
Interestingly upward mobility in Russia (I moved out in 2008 but visited almost every year since, I guess not anymore) may be easier in a certain way, because education is free if you can pass exams, or otherwise cheap. Now on one hand, tha
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by sershe 5y ago
As I always do, I have to leave my 2c for many people who moved to America from a very dense city, and disagree... I tried to live in dense places in Canada and the USA (dt Vancouver BC, SoMa in SF, etc.), use transit, walk for a long time,
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by sershe 5y ago
So the only time in my life I would have actually wanted a union was when I grew bored on a project I was on for a few years and coasted for 3-4 months doing minimum acceptable amount of work, before deciding I'm going to rot there and
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by sershe 5y ago
Many don't feel like profit seeking motive generally has issues. Profit seeking is pretty much the thing that created the modern world. It just so happens that intent doesn't matter, results matter, and "ethical" intenti
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by sershe 5y ago
Why do costs of these services rise so rapidly compared to food, as mentioned? Or computers, or cars, etc.? Do these other industries not have "pursuit of profit of investors and owners"?
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by sershe 5y ago
I have divorced parents due to father's alcoholism, and grew up in poverty by American standards (lower middle class by Russian standards I guess - we always had food, a flat and basic clothing, but no car nor any fancy stuff like cell
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by sershe 5y ago
The real problem with jails is that they (1) destroy your life outside and, (2) have you spend time surrounded by other criminals. So, they make it more likely that you will become/remain a criminal once you come out, even after a shor
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by sershe 5y ago
This is probably an opinion that I have that is the furthest away from the overton window, but while I wholeheartedly agree (and think drugs should be legalized FWIW), I draw a very different conclusion. Jails definitely don't work as
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by sershe 5y ago
So, it looks like their revenue went down a tiny bit in inflation-adjusted dollars, and their margins are basically flat - 3% is noise; historically, too - the recent increase was due to a prior COVID drop [1] That doesn't look like mo
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, would you tell me here if you did? This friend of mine is a very reliable guy, I trust him as much as I trust myself.
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650K individuals' SSNs and other info stolen from WA licensing database(seattlepi.com)
4 points by sershe 5y ago|1 comments
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by sershe 5y ago
The worst part about Skylines is that cars don't need parking lots/garages, they just magically disappear at the end of (many? all?) trips. You can create car-free city with a single mod, the one that allows you to restrict the tr
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by sershe 5y ago
Personally I obviously have never ever done this, but this friend of mine and his friends, throughout the aughts, have had to give trivial bribes to cops a few times. It's like real-life microtransactions. Usually with something like s
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by sershe 5y ago
Almost nothing special, actually - although the average developer in FAANG/etc. in my experience is considerably better than an average developer outside, that is in part because "the outside" is much larger. I think the bes
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by sershe 5y ago
I would gladly pay for GMail as long as it includes an actual contract, where I would know my paid-for service is not going to be arbitrarily terminated for a random AI reason (or any reason, short of a legal requirement).
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by sershe 5y ago
>It will not be eradicated while capital rules societies because it depends on it. Historically, the rule of capital has been the greatest reducer of poverty across centuries and countries. The rule of anything other than capital has bee
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by sershe 5y ago
There's data for that; it's basically flat in constant dollars: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_211.50.a... Interestingly, private school teachers are paid even less: https
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by sershe 5y ago
The mandates are not that though. The mandates are government forcing the business to demand the card, and shutting them down (with police) if they don't feel inclined to enforce it.
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by sershe 5y ago
Cutting money from education? Education funding has expanded massively over the decades [1][2]. With, arguably, nothing to show for it. [1] https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html#ch...
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by sershe 5y ago
That is in context of an arrest. In Russia, legally it's like a country-wide stop and frisk (stop and ID) with no requirement of suspicion or anything. Usually people who look like immigrants or some sort of "less-desirable"
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by sershe 5y ago
That really depends on what you look like. I used to have long hair and wear leather jackets and band t-shirts and I was stopped about once every 2-3 months... then I got a job, cut my hair, etc. and I was stopped a couple times in 4 years.
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by sershe 5y ago
People in Soviet Union (and in Russia, still) have to carry an internal passport (distinct from the regular passport, that is called smth like "foreign-travel passport" in Russian). The cops can legally stop you on the street and
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The Flawed Claims About Bias in Facial Recognition(lawfareblog.com)
3 points by sershe 5y ago|0 comments
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by sershe 5y ago
> "I am confident that somehow they can find new jobs in the boonies that will pay the same, or at least be no-worse versus other expenses, because... reasons." The variability of housing prices is much higher than the variabil
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by sershe 5y ago
I would like to second saying "yes" ... however, the intuition for saying "yes" is that you should become /more open/ to experiences by lowering a threshold of openness a bit. That's a valid and more comfo
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by sershe 5y ago
I think it's a GREAT one; if the company engages in practices that are borderline illegal and immoral (considered so even by their supposed beneficiaries [1], and rejected by one of the most left-wing states [2]), it's probably a
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by sershe 5y ago
The worst part about this in my view is that the fair pushback against this (the vaccine efficiency is low compared to these other vaccines, and the danger to children from COVID is non-existent) will be co-opted against other vaccines that
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by sershe 5y ago
One reason is people changing jobs more ;) On large, old codebases, it basically results in lava flow development. The difference with the regular code rot that could be prevented/reversed with refactoring, more time spent on code qual
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by sershe 5y ago
Monopolistic organizations of all kinds tend to be bad. The corporate monopolies are frowned upon and at least in theory, and sometimes in practice, curbed by the government. Union monopolies are actively protected by the government. If the

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