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throwaway-blaze
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Someone needs to make an inverse Krugman index like the one they did for Jim Cramer.

You could make an argument that the Yuan could be an alternative to USD as a mechanism of international payments, but you ignore the danger of working in a currency controlled by a country with no rule of law.

Krugman is so blinded by Trump hatred that he can't be objective. You dont have to be a MAGA person to see this post is terribly stilted.
throwaway-blaze
·15 giorni fa·discuss
You assume they won't be able to find anyone to come in at junior, midcareer, or senior levels in a few years (when you say the field is going to "implode violently").

Hint: they will still be able to hire people if they need them.
throwaway-blaze
·16 giorni fa·discuss
Just don't ask it to tell you the events of June 4, 1989.
throwaway-blaze
·16 giorni fa·discuss
The 4th amendment doesn't apply to property of your employer. They can do pretty much whatever they want in terms of configuration, tracking, and auto-loading software on it.
throwaway-blaze
·16 giorni fa·discuss
And all of Apple's products are much more expensive in the EU. In Austria, a MacBook Air starts at EUR1199, and the same device starts at USD1099. At today's exchange rate, that European device costs USD1360, or nearly 20% more.

We can argue about the consumer friendliness of the regulations in the EU but they also add demonstrably to the cost of tech products (and likely other categories).
throwaway-blaze
·16 giorni fa·discuss
I would posit that many EU citizens are still living with the idea of their historic economic outperformance even though it has not been true for many years.
throwaway-blaze
·21 giorni fa·discuss
I dont get this at all...how does the administration or people within it get a "money pump" from headlines?
throwaway-blaze
·21 giorni fa·discuss
What bribery are you talking about?
throwaway-blaze
·21 giorni fa·discuss
You mean like when the Obama administration wasn't petty and didn't jail a journalist for not revealing sources on a story with no real importance and merit?

Every administration is made of people. People are petty. This is why the government should be as big as necessary and no bigger.
throwaway-blaze
·21 giorni fa·discuss
This does not restrict messaging platforms like iMessage, which are the first "social media" most kids really use, and on which they can be bullied, groomed, etc. Parents still need to involved.
throwaway-blaze
·22 giorni fa·discuss
I'm going to get flamed for this, but I think this is one less-focused-on benefit of buying a single family home. You're responsible for the maintenance but if you want to or have to do a retrofit or big appliance replacement (hvac, kitchen appliances) you get to keep them for as long as you want.

Yeah, it sucks that I had to replace my furnace months after buying my home, but I got to pick the replacement. Yes, I chose to replace single-pane glass windows from the early 1900s in my home with newer double-pane and pay for it. But it was my choice and totally under my control to make the house the way I wanted it.

Commence flames about how not everyone can afford to do this, but my point is that SFH living can be superior since it's all in your control.
throwaway-blaze
·24 giorni fa·discuss
At least for meta, its employees, and its customers (advertisers), and its users, you can infer easily why they are involved. Researchers have other motivations like currying favor via an opinion or paper with a particular benefactor, or the tenure game, or 1000 other hidden things you cannot reason about without disclosure on their part.

PS I'm not a fan of Meta.
throwaway-blaze
·24 giorni fa·discuss
I think the EU would prefer wars not happen and that they never have to think about defending their borders or themselves. This is fantasy land, but the cafes and museums and old city squares are gorgeous.
throwaway-blaze
·24 giorni fa·discuss
Dont make the assumption that the laws and regulations in place respect human rights and are a 100% good. They also entrench EU bureaucratic power (and thus the power of the ministers) without regards to future technology.

State regs often fail to grapple with the future, and at best slow it down and at worst smother it.
throwaway-blaze
·mese scorso·discuss
"The choice is rarely "comply or quit." It is often "comply here, and do the fuller thing somewhere else."

Unless the platform is iOS, in which case it's "comply here or gtfo".
throwaway-blaze
·mese scorso·discuss
I don't like needless surveillance either but we have people (and kids!) getting shot all over the city, and juries and judges that won't do anything without video or photographic evidence of the crime. I am literally willing to trade some of my liberty for safety in this case. When crime is under control, let's discuss getting rid of them (which I know is farfetched).
throwaway-blaze
·2 mesi fa·discuss
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throwaway-blaze
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada?

It's concentration of nodes in the graph that makes SV unlike any other place on earth.

Other places that want to be SV need to solve the cold-start problem to build up their local node set, not emulate what SV is like today.
throwaway-blaze
·2 mesi fa·discuss
"teachers should be paid more" isn't an argument, it's a statement. But perhaps I've made your point for you.
throwaway-blaze
·2 mesi fa·discuss
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