SSJPython

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by SSJPython 1y ago
Why is something so essential, so basic, like the weather forecast being privatized? Why is everything becoming so shit?
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by SSJPython 1y ago
I think that is part of the reason. Japanese zoning is very liberal and loose compared to the US.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
There's just something about Japan that makes its simplicity so beautiful. Yes, we all know Japan has dealt with economic problems, lost decades, declining fertility, etc. But they still manage to keep the beautiful simplicity of life
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by SSJPython 1y ago
There's an excellent book by economist Michael Hudson called "America's Protectionist Takeoff" that discusses how the US used tariffs to promote certain industries in order to compete on the world stage. It was part of A
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by SSJPython 1y ago
> Who in their right mind would reject an offer of unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures? Christ Himself rejected various temptations by Satan when he was in the wilderness.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
I should've said the worship of the temporal (material reality, etc.) rather than the spiritual.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
> As Wilson writes in his expansive and somewhat baggily written introduction, now—amid increasingly dire ecological and political conditions—we can see our own world in Faust more clearly than ever before. For Faust, he writes, is “abou
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by SSJPython 1y ago
No offense, but you have to be an idiot to not even consider the possibility that your data was going to be sold. What do they think they were going to do with the data? Just keep it safe in storage?
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by SSJPython 1y ago
Car payments have skyrocketed since the pandemic due to the massive increase in prices and the increase in interest rates.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
The only people that do this are ones that have no understanding of marginal tax rates and progressive taxation.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
Can someone tell me what the point of RTO is? These companies made insane profits during the pandemic and when everyone was WFH. Why rock the boat? Is it just corporate real estate prices? Is that all it comes down to?
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by SSJPython 1y ago
What does that have to do with civil vs. common law? There isn't anything inherent in rule of law based on cases and precedent that should restrict infrastructure projects.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
I am not talking about those with the lowest incomes. I am talking about a universal approach similar to most other OECD countries.
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by SSJPython 1y ago
Why doesn't California actually do something productive with all its economic power? It now has the fourth largest economy in the world in terms of GDP. Why not experiment a little bit by providing public healthcare to California citiz
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by SSJPython 2y ago
> implying that any tech conferences under the Assads didn't count. Why shouldn't it count exactly?
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by SSJPython 2y ago
On the one hand, capitalists and business owners want people to have more children in order to keep the economy functioning. On the other hand, they want to make work as inconvenient as possible and want work to encompass the life of the em
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by SSJPython 2y ago
> To get a detailed lay of the land, Frachetti and Maksudov equipped a drone with remote-sensing technology called lidar (light detection and ranging). Drones are tightly regulated in Uzbekistan, but the researchers managed to get the ne
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by SSJPython 2y ago
There needs to be public funding of elections. That would go a long way. If we really want reform, the system should be changed from a first-past-the-post presidential system to a parliamentary system with party-list proportional representa
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by SSJPython 2y ago
> The Japanese Fifth Generation project was a collaborative effort of the Japanese computer industry coordinated by the Japanese Government > In a sense, Japan's ability to stay the course in pursuit of a long-term payoff-- usual
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by SSJPython 2y ago
> This has historically been the philosophy of English linguists, but for many languages (Spanish, French, German…) there is a central institution that does indeed decide what is officially correct. Their decisions are taken seriously an
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by SSJPython 2y ago
How exactly can you "remove" the profit motive without outright taking control of private educational institutions? If you want public education to become more affordable, then standards must be raised and it must become more scar
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by SSJPython 2y ago
Higher education has become too powerful and influential due to unlimited government loan guarantees. They used that to charge insane amounts and hired bloated administrations. Get the government out of the student loan business and take a
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by SSJPython 2y ago
They don't want to end homelessness because then so many activists and organizations will be out of a job. It's a perverse incentive. The key to tackling the housing crisis is to build more housing, particularly high-density housi
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by SSJPython 2y ago
This might be a naive question but what's to stop a company from telling a city or municipality that they meet the percentage? Not like there's any way the city can verify.
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by SSJPython 2y ago
Yes, I didn't think I needed to add a disclaimer on Hacker News that explanation != justification, but alas.
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by SSJPython 2y ago
> I don't think this is true for every single country in the world, especially those more concerned with their own well-being above their "global security status". That's the kind of black and white view that leads to
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by SSJPython 2y ago
Yes, it's pretty much identical to Russia-Ukraine. And I'm not justifying it, I am just explaining how the US sees it. There is no morality in geopolitics. In the anarchic international system, there is no global enforcement mecha
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by SSJPython 2y ago
I think the US was very concerned at the time that Chile under Allende would become a client state or a vassal of the Soviet Union similar to Cuba. The US still upholds the Monroe Doctrine which states that any intervention in the politics
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by SSJPython 2y ago
I understand that companies need some sort of SAT/ACT-like method to rank candidates. I completely understand that part since there aren't really licenses in software engineering like other engineering fields. But I feel like a be
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by SSJPython 2y ago
Why can't the US treat education seriously the way East Asian countries do? Or hell, even the way Germany does with its emphasis on vocational schooling as an alternative to university? Feels like the US picked the worst of both these

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