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by shafoshaf 2y ago
There is also a lot of impact from immigration that the US has that Europe has not. Immigrants tend not to be at the high end. The US has had a large influx of immigrants (around 14% of the whole population right now) vs just 6% for Europe.
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
Ths stock market is not considered in GDP. So by that measure it does not directly impact "economic growth." I can see an indirect relation that says that US investors (primarily through pensions and 401Ks) are the primary benefac
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
I wouldn't consider $5,833 a moderate cost rent. ($70k / 12) 3 bedrooms inside the loop in Houston is ~$2,100 / month. https://www.apartments.com/vintage-at-18th-street-houston-tx...
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
I actually find the same issue with prequels, especially for the ones that really hit a chord (like the original Star Wars). After knowing what is going to happen in those stories, I just can't get invested in a character who I know ei
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
I think this is a common misconception of the comparison between "capitalism" and other forms of economic distribution. It's not capitalism that equates everything to dollars, it is how the universe works. This was the beauty
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
And a second for when your main domain gets banned for spam for innocuous reasons.
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
I'm pretty sure your economic terms are not what the consensus of professionally trained economists would say. >>>Locally-owned businesses. That's socialism. There is definitely nothing in the definition of socialism that
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
In GMail, I just forward the email to myself. That way it stays in the thread in the exact position and doesn't clutter my Drafts folder.
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I think I see what you are saying, an I agree that practically speaking, we have to have some common ground to make things work. So at some point there is also a line that has to be drawn. The Holocaust is one of those lines, and I pray tha
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
Who or What I voted for should be secret. That I voted should not.
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
Which could definitely be a problem, but is that worse than being able to harass and bully people with no consequences at all because you don't know who it is? Of course, there could be a lot of bullying just out in the open too, but a
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
>It's still better that they were forced to hide, than a world where they couldn't hide. Agreed. Just like it was better we had some not great laws protecting abortion than the shit-show we have now. That is the challenge I thi
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I think your version of anonymity is more to what I'd call privacy. There is no reason anyone even needs to know that you have a playlist, much less what is on it. Anonymity would be you posting your playlist of songs with the theme of
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I think that depends on the level of disagreement. I think gay people, women, and people of color should have the same rights as everyone else, which includes how they are treated at work. I'm willing to say that is a mandatory part o
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I don't think Anonymity is linked to privacy. Anonymity is the ability to do public things without being identified. For example, writing a death threat online. There is good evidence that anonymity encourages bad behavior. https:&#x2
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I feel like anonymity is just a band-aid. Ideally we would have freedom and accountability. If everyone knew that I watched porn but respected by right to do so, that's the ideal. Without anonymity we would know that account is run by
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
THe low cost of a single song vs. an entire episode I suspect also plays a factor. A lot of artists are one or two song wonders, so once you take out a Taylor Swift, there's no incentive for artists to limit their songs to a single p
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
The other problem is that for every "good" non-mainstream website there are like 4000 that are so much worse than the mainstream. It is a problem with scale. If everyone has a voice, without some metric to say who has authority, h
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by shafoshaf 3y ago
I've tried really hard to understand the outrage of not having a 3.5 mm headphone jack. I have Bose wired headphones and just use a dongle on the plane with my phone and tablet. My Laptop does have a jack, but it would be no big deal t
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
There is no such thing as decoupling when there is a cash equivalent. For example, in the US a lot of welfare funds are handed out in the form of food stamps. This has created a secondary market in food stamps where people sell them to get
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
But I was never able to chase the car with a Pac Man.
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
The only barrier for higher stakes applications is going to be the frequency of errors. Flying an airplane or running a factory has a lot less margin for error, but humans don't do those things perfectly either (Chernobyl, Three Mile I
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
I've heard a lot of argument about the headphone jack. For my iPad, I bought an apple plug (i don't even know what they call it, is it a lighting port?) to 3.5mm phone jack. Can you explain what that solution doesn't work for
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
“I’m not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.” — Will Rogers
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
I'm not sure we could tell the difference. As Yishan states, the proof of the behavior isn't being made public because of the exposure to creating new issues. Without that, you would never know. As for specific platforms, aka Redd
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
Yet. As "real" artists start using these generations to leapfrog their projects, at some point, how is this different from someone studying a style and producing something in that style with that addition of actual "art?&quot
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
If the US could do one thing for race relations, I feel this would be it.
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
As someone who took statistics 30 years ago and promptly forgot most of it, I followed everything except "I want to efficiently draw a name from this distribution". What makes a drawing efficient?
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
It reminds me of "Mel"in 1983 which was in response to "Real Programmers write in FORTRAN." https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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by shafoshaf 4y ago
Obligatory: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981 May finally met its match.

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