_pi

11 ms·

1.
by _pi 2y ago
"enforce political control and nationalistic tendencies of ethnic groups"? This literally means stop nationalist secession movements. Literally no country on earth basically lets their citizens secede dude. Russians were ALSO the
2.
by _pi 2y ago
Yeah because the internet didn't exist.
3.
by _pi 2y ago
> “Internment camps” and “concentration camps” are historical synonyms, the latter has subsequently taken on additional negative loading because of euphemistic use of the term for German extermination camps. This is completely wrong. The
4.
by _pi 2y ago
Okay how about this. Tell me which policies of the USSR were racist, who they were racist against and why you think they were racist.
5.
by _pi 2y ago
This is a semantic argument that I have no real interest in arguing. Call it genocide, call it ethnic cleansing. Genocide as a criminal charge is mostly a political matter. California literally admitted that they targeted citizens of Mexica
6.
by _pi 2y ago
> because everything you cite in support of this describes rather than refutes institutional racism. Please expand on this.
7.
by _pi 2y ago
The Iron Curtain was the barrier erected by the Soviets to prevent American media into the USSR. Not to prevent Soviet media into America. What are you even talking about?
8.
by _pi 2y ago
Uhh Japanese internment and Mexican repatriation were genocidal actions. The US only stopped mass stochastic involuntary sterilization of natives in the 1970's. Some still happen to this day. If you don't know your own country&#x2
9.
by _pi 2y ago
> During the Cold War, ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union were treated just as bad as US minorities. This part is simply not true. > Today the situation is even worse. This part is. The USSR was never institutionally racist. Russia
10.
by _pi 2y ago
Sure. Did they stop punishing people with their "actual meritocracy" metrics for taking it?
11.
by _pi 2y ago
There's some apocrypha that I'd need to dig up the source to but IIRC the story goes that after WWI Keynes was researching the economic impacts of the WWI war economy. His conclusion was essentially that if normal people understoo
12.
by _pi 2y ago
Yeah the reality is that a lot of people think that prior to and after WW2 and/or the Russian revolution the USSR was equivalent somehow to the US. That was never the case the USSR was a backwater and always behind. Tsarist Russia was
13.
by _pi 2y ago
yeah the funny thing about these comments you have a bunch of people conflating a lot of stuff. For people who think the USSR was "more corrupt" they're often talking about a narrow conception of corruption that is defined by
14.
by _pi 2y ago
Behavioral programming is just creating a specific type of rules engine which is very close to a state machine. This example is also really complex in reality because it inherently requries muxing of temporal events, which is really difficu
15.
by _pi 2y ago
Yeah. just don't go on paternity/maternity leave.
16.
by _pi 2y ago
It certainly is an example of the agency problem. However the company itself doesn't want to allocate resources regardless of the actual cost. Because regardless at your $/hr, a contract that protects the company in the same way a
17.
by _pi 2y ago
The issue of legalese in ToS is the same issue of "bad code" or "bad engineering". The law is just another system, another conceptual language of communication, except one filled with way more vaguaries, edge cases and g
18.
by _pi 2y ago
I think it's really funny a lot of these scare pieces intimate that a US based PR guy for a Chinese company would be privy to intimate details about Uighur detention. These grandstanding asks are just McCarthyism. It's like if the
19.
by _pi 2y ago
This is really interesting. I wish their methodology page talked more about accuracy and blind spots in the system.
20.
by _pi 2y ago
My usage of price controls in that way is intentional. The average argument against price controls (e.g. price ceiling sand price floors) is like saying knives bad because I can cut my fingers off. Price controls are tool, it's about h
21.
by _pi 2y ago
Any payment transfer is a complex price control on money. UBI literally means for an individual, for a certain period of time, the first $X of spend cost nothing. That's a complex price floor for a complex commodity (money itself). &gt
22.
by _pi 2y ago
In context you've unlocked the tautology that underpins capitalism. > Pareto inefficiency > almost impossible to know what the “correct” price Yes it's really really hard to price things, but the market itself is Pareto inef
23.
by _pi 2y ago
TIL is an engagement farming subreddit. It's a popular post because it's engagement farming. It's a form of infotainment for consumers.
24.
by _pi 2y ago
> Maybe worst of all are the “snark” subreddits for celebrity gossip and catty bullying. My hobby is better than your hobby.
25.
by _pi 2y ago
HN is literally marketing.... Startups literally "launch" on here whether they're Y Combinator affiliates or not. The content of any forum cannot be mostly marketing, because that literally means there's a lack of organi
26.
by _pi 2y ago
HN's political "neutrality" is predicated on the fact that a lot of this site is rooted in convincing billionaires and multimillionaires to give you money for a passion project, and any kind of redistributive policies means t
27.
by _pi 2y ago
> (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though) I really love it when people think there's a "real" left anymore on Reddit. It was thoroughly decimated in 2016 and most left for Lemmy, Hexbear or Yest
28.
by _pi 2y ago
HN's worst times was at peak free money tech optimism. Plenty of pretending that running a "successful" startup wasn't 90% scamming. The actual tech and programming didn't matter, all that mattered was that your `he
29.
by _pi 2y ago
> price controls really are bad, Citation needed and not from some ooga booga free marketer. Price control schemes exist in almost every country and in the US, every subsidy is a form of price control. Price controls are not just ceiling
30.
by _pi 2y ago
That's because the government's definition of anti-competitive is ticky-tacky and is rooted in bullshit. US anti-competitive policy and enforcement has always been dancing around the double standards of who can do market manipulat

More ›