tmnvix

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   by tmnvix 2y ago

   I sincerely believe that one of the fundamental problems of our time is individuals' sense of entitlement. That is, 'if it is is possible, there are no laws against it, I can afford it, and I want to do it, then I will'. Cons
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   Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to profit rather than revenue? They suffered a $6.3 billion dollar net loss in 2023.
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   > The Jews abide by the plan, declare Israel when the British mandate ends. There is a lot to say about this part, but just one point: the plan included the establishment of a Palestinian state which Israel has blocked since its inceptio
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   My one and only experience with booking.com was around 10 years ago. I made a last minute late night booking, only to turn up and be told the room wasn't available. This was followed by a week of wrangling with booking.com to get the r
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   The prices might seem fair to each, until they learn what the other was charged. At that point the sellers likely pays a price in terms of reputation.
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   It's essentially predatory behaviour, exploiting those in need. I think anyone arguing in favour of 'pure' market outcomes is essentially arguing in favour of unethical behaviour.
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   I'm sure people will disagree on the significance, but I think it seems obvious that a society that encourages (and in some cases requires) its members to isolate themselves in mobile metal boxes is going to be more antisocial than one
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   by tmnvix 2y ago

   Is that index inflation adjusted? The chart looks very similar to the non-inflation adjusted price history for NZ ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QNZN628BIS ). The inflation adjusted NZ chart for comparison: https:
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   by tmnvix 2y ago

   Important to remember the process of privitisation that occurred and the opportunities for profiteering that the new complexity allowed. Yanis Varoufakis discusses it at length here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bo-s_OY
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    This makes some sense from a state's perspective. As an individual I am more concerned about the spying that is effectively hostile to me personally. As a Westerner, I am fairly certain that this will be Western spying. I would expect
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    This reality. A typical car produces 250grams of CO2 per kilometre. Edit: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    I agree. Though I would just add that I don't consider removing unfair advantages to be tearing others down.
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    Land. Total value of it is about 25 trillion in the US alone I believe. If I'm not wrong, globally stock markets are around 100 trillion (and that will include a lot of assets in the form of land).
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    Sometimes it's just about inequality. Believe it or not, a lot of us don't like to see those around us go without.
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    Money is obviously a poor proxy for value. A bottle of water might be the same price as a litre of petrol, but the value is vastly different. We don't pay for the value. We pay for the cost of acquisition (e.g. pumping the oil out of t
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    > I can drive nearly 200km on any given weekend to visit friends In a typical vehicle that's about 50kg of CO2. 100kg if it doesn't include the return leg. Not having a dig at you, but this is a big part of our problem. We beli
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    When you boil it all down, the economy mostly is about ownership and use of resources, and those are naturally limited. So if we're talking about doing well in terms of having greater claims to the world's resources, then it essen
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    Ask HN: Is there a good reason many product docs and blogs lack homepage links?

    1 points by tmnvix 2y ago|2 comments
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    Related to this is the issue of imposing sanctions. On the face of it it seems odd that South Africa is both pursuing a case of genocide against Israel while also supplying Israel with most of their coal. What many people seem to be unaware
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    Thanks for mentioning this. I really enjoyed the video and learned a thing or two. Would recommend!
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    I tend to agree with Peter Singer on this one. > The fundamental interest that entitles a being to equal consideration is the capacity for "suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness". It's a high (and sometimes blurry)
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    Also useful is adding a breakpoint in a template using a custom template tag. @register.simple_tag(takes_context=True) def set_breakpoint(context, *args): vars = [arg for arg in locals()["args"]] breakpoi
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    > Building a web application with a UI in a professional context without a frontend build is borderline malpractice. I sincerely disagree. I am not about to add node to a project that gets by fine with Django + HTMX. I'm tempted to
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    Thanks. When I said "steadily declining interest rates causing an increase in demand for investments", I wasn't referring to institutional investment only (for residential properties this is almost entirely insignificant in N
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    > A correction won't occur because there is a housing shortage of between 3-8M units, depending on who you ask. I'm not from the US, and unfamiliar with the statistics, but in NZ the general narrative has been similar - i.e. &q
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    > 78% of people aged 16-24 had used a GenAI tool in the last year. More interesting would be the percentage of people that have used GenAI in the past year with a purpose . I suspect a significant number have just played with it. Likely
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    Depends entirely on price.
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    I often see articles posted simultaneously to Medium and the author's own site. I imagine it helps with visibility. It would be nice if there was a common practice of including a link to the alternative version as the first line of a M
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    I used to believe that this was the reason too. Now I think that this is just a convenient post-hoc explanation. People tell themselves this when the real truth is that they've been manipulated by a bald-faced marketing coup that appea
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    by tmnvix 2y ago

    There are a lot of them here in NZ. Definitely no reputation for being 'crap'. By all accounts they are quality vehicles. The local car share business has a large fleet. I'm pretty confident that once the Seagull lands we wil