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by sershe 6y ago
This is a position that can be taken only from a place of comfort. Have you ever thought why the heaven of most religions is basically doing nothing, forever? Because that is the dream life most people imagined when faced with their actual
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by sershe 6y ago
NZ has a population of less than ~5mil, with 1/3rd being on one city, and no land borders with anyone (people claiming "border is just as good as being an island" don't realize that, before we even get to illegal crossin
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by sershe 6y ago
While the author calls for regulation (which I would support for oligopolistic corporations), his main, repeated complaints throughout the article are about "tendency to see far-left and far-right activists as the same". Support
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by sershe 6y ago
I think they like it for a reason that Banks himself would have disapproved of, and that the author misses completely. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Banks didn't describe the origins and how-to of creating Culture is that he
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by sershe 6y ago
How does it compare to the demand for these degree holders? On the pie chart, engineering is 6% and social sciences is 8%. Engineering is barely bigger than communications, or than performing arts... and frankly I wonder what %%ge of busine
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by sershe 6y ago
The narrative that you expect to live better than your parents (controlling for the benefits of technological progress like better medicines or cars), is historically aberrant, especially in the USA given the relative state of the US and wo
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by sershe 6y ago
As someone who grew up in very low trust country, I have to point out in response to several other comments that trust is also not natural. Trust needs to be fostered and guarded, and one sure-fire way in which it erodes in people is if the
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by sershe 6y ago
The problem with this is that they it will be difficult for someone to figure out what hex they are in (some houses may be split in half; apartment buildings too; etc.), and would also seem completely arbitrary and ridiculous for people who
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by sershe 6y ago
Choosing geographic boundaries can be done very arbitrarily. I wonder if the best solution to prevent gaming the system is to use natural boundaries, but use ALL of them - every stream, every road, etc. possible, to create tons of tiny dist
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by sershe 6y ago
The lockdowns in the USA were generally lighter/shorter in most states; I am pretty sure in some states indoor dining never stopped. In all the states that I'm aware of, the enforcement was non-existent for individuals. For exampl
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by sershe 6y ago
Where, exactly, are we today? With per-capita deaths in the ballpark (or lower) than developed countries with more strict, and far better enforced, lockdowns, and at times severe travel restrictions (UK, Italy, Spain, France) [1][2]? Where
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by sershe 6y ago
It seems like media around the world is really preoccupied with the USA and the mess we have over here with COVID. At the same time, your situation sounds like an actual nightmare to me (also being an introverted person), and the accounts o
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by sershe 6y ago
There's a concept of "visible productivity", where you do good work but also make it visible. I learned pretty early in my career that merely doing good work is not enough; it's not that someone else will take credit, it
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by sershe 6y ago
I believe that is also not true. Case Shiller is up barely ~x3 since 1990 including the recent large bump [1]; SP500 appears to be ~x12 since 1990. Inflation-adjusted, according to Wikipedia, Case Shiller National index is up ~25% since 200
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by sershe 6y ago
WA residents get all of these things with 0% state tax, and only a bit more in property taxes. What Californians get for the extra taxes (and Washingtonians too, for that matter, for a large fraction of theirs) is a jobs program for incompe
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by sershe 6y ago
You can diversify in the stock market (in fact for most people investing in funds it's the default), you cannot diversify in your housing investment.
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by sershe 6y ago
Answering my own question... CDC page has better information - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-... this is basically at the point of departure, so the airline won't let you bo
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by sershe 6y ago
I'm pretty sure what GP is saying is that they think it should work differently (to note, I disagree, although my position is that moderation for platforms like Facebook/Twitter, where visibility is off-by-default, should ideally
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by sershe 6y ago
No, I don't agree that "this speech" ought to be banned, and also not in this particular manner. First of all, were %%ge of Parler posts contained incitement? I honestly have no idea, but I suspect it's by far not the ma
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, sure, how about access to electricity for the purpose of broadcasting? In some other fork I posted an example where Russian govt has extra-legally shut down a live opposition broadcast by cutting power to the studio. This is not a swi
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by sershe 6y ago
Yep; so someone should have called whatever the Fed equivalent of police is to investigate specific people calling for terrorism. Not unilaterally ban the entire site. Come think of it, in my original analogy, it would be more like cutting
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by sershe 6y ago
Lower levels should definitely be regulated or split up if practical. I think busting monopolies is better in general, but sometimes (like for existing utilities) it makes more sense to regulate a "natural" monopoly. Facebook is n
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by sershe 6y ago
[1] was done as a practical matter by law enforcement, and [2] should not be a thing either.
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by sershe 6y ago
Interesting, what exactly are they going to do if someone doesn't have one? IANAL, but as far as I recall from "what if they want you to unlock your phone/mount your encrypted drive/... on the border and threaten to not
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by sershe 6y ago
Cutting power to a studio is no more likely to harm someone/deprive them of necessities of life than cutting off the cloud access. Why not "needing to run your own generator" then? Maybe the power company just didn't wan
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by sershe 6y ago
I foresee a small, but non-negligible market for swag that says, in tiny letters "i don't work in" and then in regular-sized letters "facebook" ;) I'd wear that (I don't work in Facebook, but don't sh
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by sershe 6y ago
A few years ago, the power was cut to the broadcasting studio of Navalny's organization (a Russian opposition guy), while they were live covering the anti-corruption protests. I guess "this is what happens if you build a platform
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by sershe 6y ago
As someone who makes a boatload of money in large part because tech companies are not regulated, I have to say - it's time to regulate large platforms like utilities. You cannot cut someone's power because they broadcast a death t
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by sershe 6y ago
Doesn't Canada have special immigration programs for specific provinces that are better/offer faster path to citizenship/etc. to try to solve this problem? I am pretty sure I remember Quebec had one that was better than BC (I
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by sershe 6y ago
I can confirm that.. In 2010 I was looking for jobs in Vancouver after working for a US company there for the US-level salary, and the salaries in local companies were sorta ridiculous. I moved to the USA. Btw, it was also really difficult

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