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by yongjik 1y ago
I was thinking about buying an EV in the next several years, but I'll never buy a Tesla, until I see Elon Musk in prison. And I don't think I'm alone. Major effect of Trump's trade war is yet to be felt. I think Americ
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If White House enacted a different tax to, say, fund more highways, and Amazon decided to display that, then that might be a different matter. But this is tariffs . Tariffs work by making imported goods more expensive, which makes them le
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by yongjik 1y ago
CA should've just bitten the bullet and built the whole SF-SJ section underground. It's about 50 miles, about the length of one mid-sized subway line in many part of the world, and it would've simplified the issue of acquiri
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I think the differentiating factor is that a rail station is more likely to be in the city center, where you can get to by other means (bus, BART, whatever), while going to SFO is much less convenient.
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Forget security; I used SFO last week and just going from long term parking to where security is took 20 min, and the reverse (around midnight) took 30+ min. A train starting in downtown SF could as well be past San Jose at that point.
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More like a normal cognitive level distribution that let some people put themselves and bystanders in unnecessary danger because they "know" they can handle it.
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by yongjik 2y ago
As an East Asian, let me say that this sentiment is not shared by everyone. In a place like Korea, if you say that freedom of speech and protest is a western thing, you'll be ridiculed as hopelessly reactionary. We fought for (and co
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by yongjik 2y ago
As you said, the difference is that they already control it: it's not some hackers defacing a government website for lulz, the defacement is coming from inside the government.
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A more neutral reading would be that Harvard lets foreign students (paying full tuition) to subsidize education for US-based students. But of course you already know this. You just hate Harvard because you now support Trump and Trump hates
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I think the current regime just hates the idea of the US government and wants to destroy it as thoroughly as possible. If that results in transfer of power to private businesses or foreign countries, that's just a fun side effect for
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Bruh, have you been sleeping under the rock throughout the whole Trump-defunding-NIH saga.
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MAGA loves to say how universities screw over poor hard-working Asian students, and then they turn around and defund universities and fire researchers. Their pity on Asians is not sincere, because they detest higher education in the first
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> This isn't flat land. There are expansive mountain ranges that make it difficult to build and any flat land that is buildable is ALSO prime agricultural land that is worth millions. Japan's Shinkansen started service in 1964,
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I think people are talking about immigration, though it's a thorny issue, partly because Korea has been virtually monoethnic for a very long time. But I think Korea will eventually have to open up more: the current population crisis i
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by yongjik 2y ago
Young people will take less financial risks, because if your bet does not pay off and you lose all your money, you starve. Which means less purchase, fewer companies founded, less demand for existing companies, and worse economy. Even wors
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People keep saying this but California with its technology workers are overwhelmingly against Trump. I don't see why technology should be singled out any more than corn farmers and whiskey makers.
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You'd never guess from reading HN or Reddit, but I have to remind myself that not all who voted for Trump last year are MAGA. My understanding is that America has a lot of low-information voters. They don't watch debates. They s
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by yongjik 2y ago
> the "they suck, but they're the best we've got" people I'm in this camp and I don't think it's "broken" - at least not in the sense that we have a broadly applicable "fix" that imp
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by yongjik 2y ago
Agree. This sounds like the simplistic "billionaires were the problem all along" take, which is, TBF, not that different from Trumpism. The only difference is the choice of enemies who are responsible for all our problems.
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Chinese people would understand that tough times are because Americans elected an idiot. Americans would understand that tough times are because their fellow Americans elected an idiot. It will be a crisis for both countries, but it will un
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...and he's gone!
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s/intimate a rival political party/round up and murder political opponents and citizens/ but otherwise... yeah, there was absolutely no good reason.
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This assumes the difference in tariff stays consistent while you are setting up your multinational supply chain. The truth is that nobody has any idea what Trump will say tomorrow, never mind next quarter.
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Eh.... you think government officers who fat-clicked a journalist into a top secret discussion would care about whether some other three-letter agency has access to a backdoor in Signal? For all we know, whoever US agent who was responsible
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Everything Trump promised but did not do yet is obviously a joke, and if Democrats can't take a joke, it's their problem, or worse, something something Trump Derangement Syndrome. Everything Trump promised (or did not promise) and
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> I would often scratch my head at some decisions, only to later find out it had a really good reason often associated with some high-level incident. But the equivalent in biology is that we scratch our heads at some clearly suboptimal &
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I've seen people saying Trump's floor is at 30-40%, which is depressingly high, but there are the rest who still voted Trump last year - generally low-information voters who don't watch news, aren't interested in all the
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> ... the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits. People can tolerate injustice to others, but they won't tolerate late chec
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"If I cheat I can get high score" does not mean the king has no clothes.
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Similarly, there was a time when Google translated "Japan" in Japanese to "Korea" in Korean... because documents scraped from the web would say "Japan and Korea" in Japanese and "Korea and Japan" in K

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