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by sershe 5y ago
I am of course comparing to the USSR, not modern Russia. Pretty much the entire "progressive" wing of the party, with its anti-capitalism and fostering massive welfare state dependency, as well as the recent focus on "oppress
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by sershe 5y ago
Not really... somebody posted here recently, I cannot find a comment; supposedly posting CDU (German center-right party) policies into the recent NYT poll gets you lumped with trumpist wing of GOP. Many policies that are considered right-wi
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by sershe 5y ago
The way I see it, one party has gone dumb, and the other party is obviously going evil (I am from Russia so you can guess what I think of leftism). The question is whether you prefer your government dumb or evil; I think dumb is... the less
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by sershe 5y ago
There are companies in Russia that specialize in providing shell companies to businesses. You can get a "reused" local company, an unique one, a company represented by a real person (no idea if that person is literally a fall guy,
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by sershe 5y ago
Hmm, when I played TA blobbing was name of the game. The L1 missile vehicles shoot thru each other just fine, and for defense people used to start with infinite lines of missile towers, before adding other stuff. In fact I remember my first
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting... after reading a bunch of all kinds of philosophy, my outlook in life ended up being roughly, eh, 45% Camus, 25% Rand, 15% Epictetus and 15% Stirner. The best thing about reading the philosophy for me was precisely that I lost
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by sershe 5y ago
The interstate highway system is actually an interesting example, because US did have a bunch of private rail and trams, before the govt built the highways, subsidized suburbs and made it all much less relevant. Apparently building the citi
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by sershe 5y ago
You make it sound like some sort of a gotcha. The maximum employees agree to pay for the work one is capable and willing to do, what's the problem with that? It applies within tech too. E.g. I had a referral from a former coworker for
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by sershe 5y ago
I am currently learning that platform work in most places means nothing if you cannot point at an actual metric that management at appropriate level cares about, changing in a very tangible way; or unless your users are your peers, and you
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Do we? I don't think we do anything cheaper than an SRO. At the very least, tents in public areas (or on private land!) are not the answer. In any case, we have these campground solutions already. They are called "campgrounds&quo
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No jobs? The salary differential in entry level jobs is much smaller than in high paying jobs between Detroit in NY, and rent differential is vast. If you take many of the homeless who cannot take any realistic job, the difference in salari
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Relatively close to Woodland park, for an example. It's not as bad there but it's still basically taken over, with e.g. sporting events canceled due to safety concerns. I just don't want to wait until it spreads.
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Blight and crime. And as I mentioned in the other fork, I grew up in Russia during the 90ies collapse, so my standards for lack of blight and crime are relatively low ;)
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By stuff going on 15 blocks away I don't mean an odd car window smashed. I mean e.g. giant homeless camps (to the point where e.g. running events in the local park are canceled due to safety concerns), people shoplifting on industrial
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Housing is cheap in much of the country though, and really cheap in some areas. Also, there are warm states that are not CA that don't have the problem (relatively speaking), and there are far colder states like NY or WA that do (ditto
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, if the mouthpiece of the Soviet state tells me who the friend and the enemy is, it's pretty likely it's the other way around :D
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To be fair, the misadventure was in nation building. I don't support either (ok, I kinda-but-not-really support the Chinese case because I'm hyper anti-communist, but even I'm not sure the human cost is worth it), but if US c
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by sershe 5y ago
The quintessential feel of SF, cherry-picked to be outside of known bad areas, is the sound that is produced when, on a quiet street of Inner Richmond at 1am, nearly weekly, people (I use the term loosely) too incompetent to hold a rectangu
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by sershe 5y ago
How do you reconcile "national shortage of housing" being the cause with California being the most expensive state with the most homeless? Shouldn't a national problem cause people to migrate AWAY from the expensive housing?
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The only reason I don't laugh quite out loud is that I have a misfortune of living in Seattle and my wife refuses to move until something "actually happens" to us, as opposed to stuff going on 15 blocks away. California is no
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That is actually one thing I refuse to compromise, and I think the current state of tech gives most developers this luxury, possibly if you are willing to trade off some compensation. Even if that changes, this would be the last thing to go
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Well if it's pet theory time, mine is that it's all the sauces, dressings, ketchups, breadcrumbs, and other additions, and indirectly salt and spices. My exhibit #1 are 800-calories salads at Cheesecake Factory. My exhibit #2 is a
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The distinction I was trying to make is that most people take a gradual approach to this contract, even if they don't articulate it, i.e. they say "you robbed a gas station, [so you are 15% "pond scum" and 85% not, so we
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I used to work on a massively distributed system called Cosmos in Microsoft (there are some public slides and blog posts about it), so I was surprised to hear this, but apparently "Cosmos DB" has nothing to do with Cosmos, it&#x27
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If the rights are construed as an (implied) social contract of negative rights, this is easy to resolve. If you uphold the social contract towards others, you are implicitly agreeing to be bound by it, and others who likewise agree owe you
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But is it really so, or do you expect the thinking to go in a particular direction? Let's say they are libertarian-adjacent, and think that e.g. ad manipulation is morally neutral. The first stage of that is not giving a crap. I was li
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The point is, why would you specifically single out sex work? Why should the people "still be able to work a 40 hour job and pay for food and rent" without getting involved in sex work in particular? I.e. jobs with far less dignit
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by sershe 5y ago
Sure, how about they can send me a bill for my share of roads and educated workforce (granted, this could be provided much cheaper via selective immigration while the US still has the leverage of being attractive to immigrants)? I'd li
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I had an interesting experience with FTB... I returned to WA without changing jobs, after working in CA and getting some ISOs. The way it works is that you separate the income from the ISOs that don't meet holding reqs proportionally b
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> do not show that there are negative and positive contributors, only isolated incidents any person can choose between, and whether or not this sums to a positive or negative person in relation to eg. their tax contributions How is &quot

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