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by zztop44 3y ago
And you’ll also find that in the past 20 years the link between money supply and inflation hasn’t followed the orthodox model and the macroeconomics textbooks have come under question by mainstream economists. That said, it’s clear there wa
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by zztop44 3y ago
You don’t need to accept the premise. It’s not (generally) the case that Japanese people don’t want foreigners there. A more correct statement would be that some Japanese people don’t want some foreigners there. Which is true of any country
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Yep that’s all great but the key to being good at journalism is being a good journalist. Take Matt Levine. His background as an M&A attorney and investment banker clearly informs his journalism and makes it better. But no one would give
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I don’t think this is as true as you make out. For the vast majority of people (who are born, live and die all in the same country/language community) should it really be their #1 priority to learn English? For example, a street food v
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Not all ESLs have it equal, both due to differences in standardised education, and how close your primary language is to English. For example, a Japanese person probably would find learning English to the level required to publish academic
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Storage was definitely the killer feature, but I remember thread view, good search and AJAX navigation to be significant improvements over eg hotmail at the time
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Glad you found your place. High school wasn’t quite as bad for me but I was constantly sick and battled migraines that stopped as soon as I left. Now I work hard, work long hours, but I’m happy and feel healthy and strong. It’s very diffe
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What are some of the best alternatives you know of? I know Statamic and Ghost both have their strong points.
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This is fantastic, well done. So far it seems much better than anything out there for assisted reading, I can definitely see myself using it every day! I’d mostly ignore the feedback about the subscription. Yeah, having a new subscription f
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I have a philosophy degree (and a good career in a different field). It’s a good thing I didn’t wish to teach it, otherwise modern academia being what it is, that would be a life of serfdom!
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Different owners. As I understand it, the current owners (Automattic) have allowed some, but not all, nsfw content back on the platform
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I agree. Yes, it’s a “framework” but it easily outputs static sites that work fine without JS enabled, you don’t need to know any Svelte to use it (but it’s there if you want it), Tailwind works out of the box, and deploying it to eg Netlif
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Yeah totally, I said one said “one reason”. :) I lived in Brazil for a while, and definitely saw that gangs can get plenty big and plenty violent with plenty of guns even just catering to the domestic drug market and without easy gun import
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Not every drug user is a “junkie”. Anecdotally I know of two past regular cocaine users who stopped precisely because they couldn’t stomach the supply chain ethics.
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One reason is having a giant porous (at least in the north -> south direction) border with the US. They are also a major exporter of illegal drugs to the US (aka the world’s biggest market for illegal drugs), being both a producer and tr
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by zztop44 3y ago
Try to think of it this way… if we had brain transplant technology and you swapped brains with someone so that your brain ended up in their body and their brain in your body… which one do you think would be you ? I’m not sure there’s any c
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by zztop44 3y ago
I think this is incomplete on a number of levels. For a start, to be interesting, “truth” has to be something than just whatever your eyes can see. There have been wars (culture, economic, kinetic, etc) fought to define something as a truth
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This was incredible writing. The voice reminded me a bit of David Foster Wallace. I think I’ll be making my way through these archives :) And I’ll be sure to head to Huis ten Bosch next time I’m in the area. I think soaking in the echo of e
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by zztop44 3y ago
As other have pointed out, this stuff is massive still! Nootropics, keto, mindfulness, microdosing, juicing, crystal healing, the list grows endlessly. But it’s interesting to note how these practices have evolved to meet new cultural circu
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Really? In my entire lifetime I’ve seen maybe five? Including the one hanging up in my childhood home. Even Google Maps uses Mercator by default.
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And then someone else makes another site that also compares prices in different stores. Instead of scraping all the stores they can just scrape the first comparison site and invest the time saved into SEO :)
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Many, many subreddits held polls before deciding what to do. I know that kind of online poll is not scientific, or whatever but do you have a better idea? Not going on strike is also a moral stand that should get consent from the user base.
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I don’t think people who say meat is a problem for climate change are ignoring the utility of meat. They’re just pointing out that meat is a problem for climate change. Which it is, regardless of utility.
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The Australian operation of the Guardian has said recently that donations from readers are now more than 50% of the revenue. And they’re trying to increase that percentage further. Not sure about their UK or US operations.
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Thanks for spelling it out, I appreciate it. For what it’s worth, I agree that more accountability (maybe even to the point of piercing the corporate veil) is critical. But I’m not sure how to get that done without more regulation. Lawyer
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I guess the bit I don’t understand is why zero barrier to entry should prevent some cutting of corners. I’m not really sure I understand the logical link there, and I haven’t really noticed that effect in industries where barriers to entry
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Uh, why? Why is “buying government regulations” that allow you to cut corners easier than just cutting corners where no regulations exist. Like, if there’s a true competitive free market, are consumers of petroleum products going to choose
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I wish! I suspect I’d be good at it, but I have no idea how to get a PM job as a mid-career person with no useful network. I have 10 years experience in marketing, project/team management in nonprofits (good network in that industry) a
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I’m also a happy Postmark customer and also bristled a bit when I read the allegation that they don’t have a good developer experience. Their developer experience is pretty good, actually. BUT their JS library has been a shitshow for years
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I’m so sorry for your loss.

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