devdas

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by devdas 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange has a whole list.
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by devdas 6y ago
That's not really any different from what the developed world did when they were in the same state of development.
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by devdas 6y ago
In fact, if you want actual free trade, then trade in labour must also be freely allowed. Freedom of movement to everyone, as inside the EU, would make even more sense. Every country is rather protective of that though.
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by devdas 6y ago
South Korea. China. The US. The UK. Singapore has pretty much no manufacturing.
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by devdas 6y ago
It was a lot of luck. Today, you would need access to oil for energy (which needs USD), and far more complex technology, which needs money to acquire. The US could also support massively extractive industries internally. Most countries can&
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by devdas 6y ago
If you perceive tolerance as a peace treaty rather than a moral precept, then the paradox of tolerance disappears. https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1... You don't have to tolerate the intolera
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by devdas 6y ago
That is what trains and buses are for.
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by devdas 6y ago
That border controls the sources of major rivers for both countries. Water is a critical resource.
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by devdas 6y ago
One giant bad event vs generational damage. Quite a lot of difference.
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by devdas 6y ago
After all, why should the city dweller pay for the roads being used by the upstate new yorker?
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by devdas 6y ago
All that you needed to break down was the car failing, or someone falling sick. Minimum wage in the US hasn't kept pace with inflation for decades, and rents, school fees and the costs of medication have kept rising even faster. Banks
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by devdas 6y ago
Having a role based system also makes it easier to move those tasks into a ticketing system.
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by devdas 6y ago
Isn't that exactly the meaning of conservative? They want to preserve the status quo of that time.
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by devdas 6y ago
Rural areas don't offer you anonymity from the state either. If your neighbours don't like you, they are likely to bring the state in. To be able to be that anonymous, you would need to be a few days commuting away from all indivi
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by devdas 6y ago
It's a Stephen Colbert quote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_Wh... Also worth a read https://www.quora.com/Does-reality-have-a-liberal-bias
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by devdas 6y ago
Cities offer privacy and anonymity. Smaller towns lack both. Dense urban areas with reasonably easy access to nature on public transport are fantastic resources which are missing in car oriented suburbs.
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by devdas 6y ago
Voice is substantially slower to consume than text.
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by devdas 6y ago
Software development is the process of writing a complete specification, including every single button and label. If you have a formalised complete design, you could write a compiler to do the work for you.
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by devdas 6y ago
Developers and operations should absolutely have input. They might not make the final decision, but they should have an informed say in the topic.
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by devdas 6y ago
You can literally disallow speech, by restricting what can be said. Or remove your ability to speak to people by shadow-banning you.
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by devdas 6y ago
Or you give people low performance ratings repeatedly.
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by devdas 6y ago
The book is pretty much a thesis on why code is law, and therefore very political.
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by devdas 6y ago
That's not a new strategy.
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by devdas 6y ago
Developers should then be given access to those details so they can make better decisions.
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by devdas 6y ago
The problem with company C style work is when you do really small incremental changes. I have had 40+ commits for a single issue, being very gradually rolled out. The time taken to manage tickets in that case would easily have exceeded the
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by devdas 6y ago
Annoyingly, the higher standard of living comes with a very high carbon footprint. We need to empower women and lower living standards.
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by devdas 6y ago
And from that distance, they are closer to being right. Wikipedia (not the greatest source, but reasonable for a HN discussion) says in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe that linguistic minorities i
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by devdas 6y ago
The US dollar is backed by oil selling nations only being willing to sell in USD.
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by devdas 6y ago
Having wealth does influence the ability to spend money and work on things like regulatory capture rather than productive investments.
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by devdas 6y ago
A wealth tax.

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