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by wobbleblob 9y ago
A friend of mine lives, well lived, on the Isle of Man. He's been in a rehabilitation center on the mainland for the past year, after being hit by a Ferrari driving at entitled velocity. Why do you even need cars there? Everything is w
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
The cost of living in the SF area is about comparable to that in major cities in western Europe. You can't easily make a 1:1 comparison, some things are way more expensive on one side of the Atlantic, and some on the other.
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
Yeah, but are you looking at this from the Silicon Valley point of view, where a computer programmer can expect a 6 figure income straight out of college? Because that's far from the norm in the parts of 'the West' where I li
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
I'm not claiming the job is "easier". Making a website isn't exactly brain surgery. I'm saying the reward is higher in terms of your income and status in society.
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
> They do tech because it provides a way of getting a good life. In the West, where conditions are less harsh, women don't feel the need to go into tech to get a good life. But does it now? All of 'the West' isn't Sil
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
“We can’t make paying taxes pleasant, but at least we can make it simple.” I actually don't mind paying taxes, because I can see around me every day that the money is mostly put to good use. I can imagine if I lived in a place where th
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
They don't make [foo] like they used to. Lamentations like these have been going around in western culture since at least the time of iron age Greece, which people felt was a regression from the bronze age. The observations from the ar
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Short answer is: you don't. You'll mostly be standing still until the kids are a bit older. If your answer is "But [insert famous tech guru] does it", you'll find that [famous tech guru] has a spouse who takes care
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
The EU is designed entirely for internal reasons: to end the cycle of great wars between France, Germany, Russia and Britain over resources and arable land. The basic idea is that you don't need to fight over coal and steel, if you can
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
If you look again, I didn't mention that name at all. The only relation is that, after the changes in London and Washington, outside interference will now not only be coming from Moscow, and they are capable of exerting far more refine
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
On the contrary. People outside of France get to see her through the mainstream media, which makes it look like only xenophobes could be voting for her. From Francophone friends I hear she's actually smart, witty, an excellent debater,
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
After the round of elections in France and Netherlands this spring, and Germany this summer, Europe may or may not start disintegrating, depending on the outcome. Ms. le Pen may not win this time, but she will one day. A correctly timed sca
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
A friend mentioned they successfully petitioned against a sidewalk on their side of the road, they don't want people walking by their property. These are cultural differences that Hollywood doesn't prepare you for.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
You all have so much space, but how you choose to use it is a bit disappointing. There is no shared space. No bike lanes, ok, I understand that, but in most places in town, there aren't even side walks. No town squares, no city parks,
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Not long after I discovered Pandora, they banned me for living in the wrong country. No, they didn't want my dollars. Off with you scum in non-English speaking countries, your money probably smells funny. It's ok, there's Spo
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Is that percentage high or low compared to the products of low skilled labor?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Maybe with their work, labor costs are a relatively small portion of the product price?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Yeah, but what you've learned doesn't effectively rot away at the same rate. Old diseases don't go away, people don't develop new organs as they discard old ones.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Oh cool, he made a webshop with an RPG backend. I last did that about 15 years ago, it looked just as awful, and just like him, I was so proud of my achievement at the time, that I couldn't see what an abomination it really was. It&#x2
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> I'm just a science fiction writer Did you write anything we may have heard about?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
If people see a headline that doesn't reinforce what they already believe, they dismiss it as obviously alt-right fake news, or obviously part of the liberal media conspiracy. Maybe it's a good idea not to unfriend your [Wrong sid
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
You know what happens when a ruler's legitimacy is widely questioned. See the legitimacy question as separate from the question whether the ruler is popular or good. In the past armies have been raised against perfectly fine rulers who
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I think you misunderstand the point of democracy. Democracy is not a mechanism for selecting the best ruler or the wisest policies. Democracy serves as a solution for the succession problem without revolutions and civil war. It is a mechani
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
That's great, but didn't Concorde show that there's really not that big a market for shaving a few hours off an intercontinental flight? Wouldn't it be more future proof to invest in "fast enough" ultra low fue
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
You don't get it. The importance you place on hair and skin color in telling people apart isn't following a set of objective, mathematical criteria, it's a set of priorities based on what you're used to. It is entirely p
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> (Similarly, I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other tha
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I'm telling you, it's not the speed, it's the outfit and the bike. I don't suddenly ride faster just because I'm wearing a helmet and goggles, but other people's attitude is sudden;y totally different.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Is that strange? Are you confident you'll stay completely composed and in control with a live bug in your eye? I lost control while trying to get the source of pain in my eye to stop.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> if car and a bike have an accident, by law, it is automatically the fault of the car, no matter what. Even if the person on the bike is drunk, driving in the wrong direction, etc. Both drivers and cyclists seem to believe this, but it
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Looking before opening your car door is an amazing innovation... what will they come up with next? Looking before turning?

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