zrn900

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by zrn900 2y ago
Under this post and in every single post you referenced, people are taking the largest swipes at entire countries, even peoples/races without any repercussions. > please make sure you're not using HN primarily for political or
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> experience from many other cases shows that economics will take what it wants No such thing. Regulations work. > Scenarios No need to 'imagine' things. Wherever they implemented regulations here, they worked. From rent con
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> Spain is suffering a multi-centralization process. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Malaga are increasing their populations. The rest of the cities are losing inhabitants. Why? Because the job opportunities are not there. The depopulati
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> It's a short term authoritarian bandaid That's unintelligible. With that logic, every law and regulation is authoritarian. > all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the futu
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It got worse now. https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...
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Tourism is lucrative only for a handful of major tourism corporations/agencies, a few local businesses/shops that can cater to locals, and a few among the locals who can use their real estate for things like airbnb. Only 6% of Spa
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Spain is not the US. Barcelona had been building a lot of housing. Its not enough as they get converted to airbnbs or get scooped up by rich foreigners or foreign investment funds.
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> Lol. They foreigners are buying homes like mad because there's no protection Yes and its a major problem. Some locations are already acting out. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-ends-golden
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No. You just tax the living daylights out of the empty houses so that they will have to utilize or rent them. That is ALREADY the law in Spain, by the way. > Forcefully seize their apartment because people need it? The needs of the many
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It would work, but it also requires curbing the extra demand that is generated by foreigners moving into the city and scooping up the housing from the locals. > I might be naive, but I’d assume that the solution is to build more housing
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> You're now trying to change the terms of your original disagreement to be about the tech sector alone I didn't say only tech. I said tech and office work that can be done remotely. And which of the discussions at hackernews i
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> The math don't math. It's a drop in the bucket. The entire impact of AirBnB + all housing built in the last decade does not offset the last half decade of population growth. The population growth is largely due to rich foreig
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> I say a very small percentage of the country works fully remote you link to a tech company just outside of Austin having a lot of remote workers and somehow think you're not living in a bubble? Dell is a traditional company, not a
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Dell is a gigantic, traditional company. If it wasn't able to push RTO, that's significant. > aggregate labor statistics for the country Why would that be relevant? There are still physical jobs that require people to go to pla
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> 1) Chinese Tiktok scaring the US government: Sure OUR corps can mentally rape our citizenry, but someone else? Nononononononono. This may provoke the first real debate on pernicious ubiquitous algorithmic manipulation. It wont: It will
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> I really doubt that. Given the absolutely massive disadvantages WFH imposes on an entire company it's almost certainly going to continue to be considered a unreasonable burden.Comments like these make me realize just how much of a
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> Weird though, most Europeans I talk to complain about extremely high energy prices and actually go out of their way to shut their computers/etc off and buy low value high efficiency computers. I suppose the utilities are not passi
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Bullsh*t. Im not seeing that cheap energy anywhere here. The Economist has become an economic tabloid. Or maybe it always was, and we didn't notice.
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> The compounding problem for Russia is that not only is the war killing a million plus people. The compounding problem is that the said number which doesn't even make sense, is reported by its enemies, who also sold things like the
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> That's very clearly not what the article says. Its key themes are that the world is "fragmented" and "ambivalent" That's what it says, like how Bloomberg does. Except, NYT cannot tell it as Bloomberg tells
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> Open source maintainer is a stressful, thankless job which pays peanuts compared to what you could get for the skills and time Precisely why Open Source must fund itself with things like freemium. Otherwise its impossible to justify th
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> Most of your points are vague, opine or circumstantial and rely on an us-and-them sense of reasoning That's what you did with "Most of the people I know". The rest are literal references from actual Angloamerican establi
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> Even if you're right and I haven't looked at it the specific one cuz I don't really care That. Therein lies the problem that destroys the Angloamerican-led world order and the countries that are under its yoke from withi
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> Everyone I personally knew in Russia has left > People I know Everyone I know in my home country which has absolutely no relation with any of these has also left. The 99.9% of the population have not. Your personal circle and the sp
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>> Russia is sinking despite becoming the 4th largest economy What part of it is 'sinking'? It increased its oil exports. It increased its other resource exports. Europe is still buying Russian gas and oil, except through In
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> There’s an argument to be made that Hollywood is the best propaganda machine in the world at fostering putative or aspirational American ideals if not the reality on the ground Indeed. The circulation of video tapes in the early to lat
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> Russian banks went down en masse Huh? In what world? > the Russian narrative Dont say such things after saying stuff like you just did above. You people live in such a delusional false reality propagated by your establishment that i
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> The horrendous mess that Quora became Its not a horrendous mess for me. It works very well. Everything depends on what content you interact with as the algorithm heavily shapes your content depending on what you interact with. Its no d
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> Russia and China are doing it on a much worse level They arent. The two things that crippled the Eastern Bloc's propaganda efforts was 1) Fear of getting caught lying and losing credibility and therefore not lying 2) Doing propaga
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> There are plenty of solutions which aren’t permitting theft. There are 'plenty of solutions' which arent permitting theft, and NONE of them work ANYWHERE. The only solution is, well, 'theft', apparently. > My ass

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