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by sershe 6y ago
Ok, let's burn some karma. This is a question of lesser of two evils, or ends justifying the means. Not everyone agrees with the far left (the faction doing most of the rioting); being from an ex-socialist country I quite literally, no
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by sershe 6y ago
Simple boiled potatoes, especially fresh ones, are delicious, with a little piece of butter. They have delicate flavor. However, nobody likes them in the US... potatos have to be at least deep fried and better yet dipped into some crap. Rem
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by sershe 6y ago
Seeing how well corporate IT apps work on my work laptop (slowness, constant updates and general clunkiness), the main reason I'd never install one on my phone is that I'm afraid they'll make the phone completely unusable - n
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by sershe 6y ago
It doesn't work this way - first, you have to prove that these micronutrients actually matter. For some, we know they do. For most, it's more likely they simply don't matter much or at all. There are tons of examples thru his
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by sershe 6y ago
I don't think so; the 3rd-world-like situation is limited mostly to SF, many other cities in the same area are not as progressive and doing better. Ditto for Seattle - the East Side has greater wealth, more expensive housing, is less p
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by sershe 6y ago
I guess Spokane went downhill, I've last been there several years ago and the comments also seem to say the last couple of years homeless population exploded. Still, they seem to be describing abandoned parts of a shrinking city, not t
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by sershe 6y ago
As far as I recall, the studies on happiness were all cash flow, not wealth. It takes quite a bit of wealth to get to the cash flow limit that /may/ stop making you happy (60-80k/yr iirc). Unless you think ~50% of your waking
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by sershe 6y ago
The income distribution, housing ownership, education, etc. stats for the USA would seem to disagree. The 3rd world level dilapidation surrounding rich enclaves is very specific to liberal-run cities as far as I can tell (my favorite quote
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by sershe 6y ago
Money cannot buy you meaning, but my points were not that... they were that: 1) Saying "well sure you have money but money won't buy meaning" is usually just a self-defense mechanism. "Well I don't have the money, b
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by sershe 6y ago
A fairly typical form of exam in Russia is "written-oral", where students are writing a test together as usual, with everyone given different problems to solve/theorems to prove/things to describe, but the time slot is w
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by sershe 6y ago
Every time I see a platitude like this it reminds me of those self-compensating put-downs people use like "well she's so pretty, she must be dumb" etc. that have no reason to be true. I feel like meaning is vastly oversold. P
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by sershe 6y ago
What is your alternative? Those tried so far involved being forced to take a job all the same, except you didn't even get a shot at freedom while doing it.
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by sershe 6y ago
Nobody forces you to rent from him; and why are you comparing yourself-now vs him 30-40 years later, relatively speaking? There are plenty of places in the US where you can buy a house now - housing in the US overall is actually cheaper tha
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by sershe 6y ago
I still have nostalgic feelings from my teens and early 20ies in Russia towards these windows lit up in darkness and cold of the winter night. It's a really nice time to be an introvert, chatting away on some IRC channel or playing vid
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by sershe 6y ago
There are enough people in tech industry evidently passionate about work to work nights and weekends. I've actually seen all combinations on the spectrum of fun work / BS work (e.g. calling your engineers at night because somethi
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by sershe 6y ago
I think this might come from a typical feedback on patches in Apache (or all of OSS) - -1 rejected as is, +1 approved. I've also seen -0 (don't approve but won't block/reject) and +0 (ok with it but didn't review&#x
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by sershe 6y ago
I certainly hope so. Really the only problem I see with this is how the video is shared with the police only (and I trust the police, for now)... What I'd really like to see is ubiquitous cameras everywhere, live streaming online with
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by sershe 6y ago
I am not sure, I think none at all. The parks I am aware of that are still usable are large and/or somewhat away from points of interest like services or density (e.g. Ravenna park that is large and surrounded mostly by burbs, where yo
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by sershe 6y ago
While I disagree with many things, if not everything, in this article (SAT/IQ/.../outcomes connections are well established; I come from a poor but well educated family and grew up surrounded by ethnically homogeneous poor an
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by sershe 6y ago
If you go to a random park in Seattle, you'll see there are two types of parks - the ones where homeless people don't do much (yet?), and the ones where nobody else can do anything whatsoever. So I think that is a plus... saying &
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by sershe 6y ago
What really boggles my mind (I 100% agree with GP and left SF in part because of the actual bad neighbors) is that activists in SF harp on trump and call tech "invaders" or not welcome or whatever and don't see the irony. The
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by sershe 6y ago
You and the original article seem to be making two arguments that sound good in isolation but are incompatible. You are saying that it's no good to advice people with severe mental health issues to do better if they are poor (fair), wh
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by sershe 6y ago
Hmm... The situation is quite the opposite I think. You can buy a car now for, inflation adjusted, 50ies car prices, that will be vastly superior to the 50ies car, especially if you buy used. Ditto for phones. Call-only phones (I have one f
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by sershe 6y ago
I personally think about half or so of both quotes are completely made up straw men, while about half of each are justified. Your approach here is "exhibit A" for the comments above.
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by sershe 6y ago
I think it only looks complex because of halo effect/lack of clarity... you want to call it a civil right because it feels like a good thing. I am not saying it's not a good thing, but I am saying it's not a civil right. Like
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by sershe 6y ago
Personally I'm ready to do all of that right now, wearing a mask indoors (and already go to big box stores; concerts are not happening and I don't need to take transit given WFH). I do outdoor activities and it's crowded ever
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by sershe 6y ago
Hmm... only give it when it suits you? Or if you are desperate to have a job, I guess. Otherwise it's relatively easy to evade and deflect these things. I've been in a late-stage startup where options and RSUs were given very haph
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by sershe 6y ago
There's much more windfall in poverty than in non-poverty; when you have stable and sufficient income, you don't have windfalls almost by definition, and middle-income people don't get stock awards or huge bonuses either. Whe
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by sershe 6y ago
The alternative is that we remove most zoning and let the free market decide. We can even allow covenant-based zoning, but if your neighbors don't want to join and sell to a developer, tough luck.
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by sershe 6y ago
The majority of wealth are financial instruments, land and real estate, maybe vehicles, maybe precious metals/stones, for all of which this problem is already solved or mostly solved. Really the only area of significance I can think of

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