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by zanny 7y ago
Public services can be exempt from economic forces if a society deems them worth the cost. Generally in most first world nations you aren't denied life saving treatment on a cost benefit analysis. In the same vein, it seems like its al
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High housing costs are always , without fail, a regulatory problem. If the rents are high because of a lack of available units, you build more units or make more units available. If you are at peak carrying capacity in a given city you nee
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by zanny 7y ago
Since this comment is obviously going to be controversial, might as well nip the scapegoat in the bud right away - No, you are not taking food out of the animators at Disney's mouth by not paying whatever obscene price they want for th
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by zanny 7y ago
Remember Popcorn Time? When it worked, it was amazing. It has better UX than any regular content provider can provide because you don't even need sign in credentials or to enter a credit card. There is also no technical barrier to stre
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by zanny 7y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. No, it is not owed due to the rising nations of the world to let them continue to devastate the climate in the way first world powers have. And continue to. Its easier to point fingers than take responsib
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> how could you trust Bolsonaro's government or the criminals they've enabled and emboldened to respect your property rights? In the same way the US Midwest is still not sovereign French territory after the US bought it, whoeve
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Trump (and the presidency in general) is used as a distraction. Its also probably the only legitimate election that happens - its the only one that the candidates are thoroughly scrutinized by the voters and whose platforms, personalities,
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by zanny 7y ago
I'll be pessimistic in saying that nobody replying to comments on a web forum would actually drive even 15 minutes to have coffee with you and actually be there in a meaningful way but its also an empathic question to ask because most
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> I spent years using drugs to cope If you spent years using drugs to cope, wouldn't your transition be over by now? Oh, wrong drugs... I actually recently discovered theres a whole transDIY thing on Reddit. It never even occurred t
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by zanny 7y ago
A lot of people live their lives without having kids or buying a house. Make sure that anything you do is something you want to do independent of the desires of those around you that are trying to influence you into being the person they
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All for profit business evolves that way. Doctors are working 20 hour shifts. Lawyers get 4 hours of sleep a night during discovery. Service workers get 3+ jobs to keep a roof over their head. There is absolutely nothing about the incentive
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Information has never been this universal and dense before. A half century ago the only tragedy or suffering you were widely exposed to was that between the bounds of your daily commute and whatever the local news station decided to talk ab
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I'd go insane if I weren't optimistic that we can eventually reach a post-scarcity, totally automated, enlightened civilization. The alternative is our destruction anyway. Its going to happen in much the same way as space coloniza
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by zanny 7y ago
Taxing automation is absolutely wrong. We want automation. In the same way it would be wrong to say landlords of condos make too much profit because there are so few condos so we are going to tax condos more. More automation is required t
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I started reading up Ruma sources with the intent to start contributing when I'm done with my current work (and when async lands in stable). Hopefully it (and maybe Dendrite) will be able to provide your 15 years of uptime on the clien
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by zanny 7y ago
Housing is limited by sustainability in ways most commodities are externalized. Here are all the reasons you can't buy a commoditized "cheaply made" house in Nowhere Minnesota: A. There is finite land in the world. Burying it
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by zanny 7y ago
I doubt many on HN of all places are for legally mandated unions, which are the ones that produce true cartel like behavior. Most unions maintain authority through their collective bargaining alone - to abstain from the union would mean the
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by zanny 7y ago
You can have a very tiny website with custom onclicks to load / change elements via callbacks. The bloat of JS frameworks to do everything including generate the actual HTML client side is totally separate from having dynamic page co
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by zanny 7y ago
There is within reason just cause to criticize trademark as it is exists now from an IP abolitionists perspective - trademarks are often liberally given out for nebulous concepts and the process of overturning a generic trademark is, like a
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by zanny 7y ago
Look no further than the Linux kernel for an example of almost every major tech company being invested in the largest software project in history because its in all their individual self interests to not try to reinvent a wheel that big for
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by zanny 7y ago
> does show that their exist people that do not want to pay. Of course not? This entire thread is talking about how IP is a sham. Its totally out of touch with physical reality. The original design of IP to begin with was more to protect
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by zanny 7y ago
Something contemporary American culture has entirely forgot is the principle of a right to repair. Even in a post-IP world you can have it be law that anything sold must include its documentation, manuals, and thus in the case of software o
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by zanny 7y ago
Fortunately America isn't Japan or even in large part much of Europe in that it has a long history of constant immigration from often very culturally disjoint places. Countries like India, Nigeria, etc won't crest their growth for
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by zanny 7y ago
There is substantial wage stagnation in tech. I'm pretty sure average compensation hasn't really risen much in 20 years (50k-75k entry, 125k after 5 years, average dev peaks around 200k). This is while many of these developers are
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> the paper records can be used to run a stop-loss audit to verify the electronic vote count You can't do this. Probably the most fundamental problem with electronic vote verification is that you cannot give someone physical evidenc
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I think this is the OPs point though. You are trusting someone to make sure the ballots are in a locked closet. You aren't personally there to see it, and I personally have never been on scene to witness vote counting by a bipartisan
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by zanny 7y ago
Does Elixer overload IO operations to be async in async contexts? Because that is largely why you cannot just wrap sync code in an async block and call it a day - once it hits a system call the thread is paused but the scheduler cannot tell
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by zanny 7y ago
This only applies now because fundamental aspects of a competent modern language are still being added - it was only recent that you could have a const fn at all, async is only coming at the end of the year, there are still no HKTs, etc. I&
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by zanny 7y ago
There are plenty of Mastodon instances revolving around almost any topic out there to join. Having a successful social space does not necessitate, and I'd argue precludes, having a universal audience of everyone. Also, you are currentl
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I'm not convinced financial institutions access to capital has anything to do with the current economic malaise. The federal rates had little impact on the recovery, their perpetuation at 0% didn't seem to produce meaningful small

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