kaonashi

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by kaonashi 1y ago
we've spent the last 50 years basing our currency in foreign manufacturing, seems like a good way to tank the dollar to me
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by kaonashi 2y ago
it seems the chinese have figured out a different option, i wonder what institutional arrangements facilitate that?
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by kaonashi 2y ago
endowments are the tail wagging the dog in many educational institutions
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by kaonashi 2y ago
It's about the western gov'ts NOT being able to control the feed, what evidence is there that Chinese gov't is actively involved in curating the TikTok feed?
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by kaonashi 2y ago
easy to cut emissions when you deindustrialize
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by kaonashi 3y ago
quite the technical feat I suppose, but the actual result is nightmare fuel -- legs swapping places, people walking into simulacrum of spaces -- just deeply unsettling uncanny valley stuff
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by kaonashi 3y ago
Does the study differentiate between strains used?
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by kaonashi 3y ago
Got a Klein hat a while back, got a nice picture of Cliff mailing it out along with. If you get one, make sure to hang dry.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
you know what else kills productivity? long covid
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by kaonashi 3y ago
the main benefit from mergers is increased profitability due to reduced competition; cancelling titles doesn't harm that goal
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by kaonashi 3y ago
My dad had to use some warm water in a sealed bag to get his charger to engage and disengage, seemed to work well tho.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
it's like someone collected all my least favorite coding styles in a single library
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by kaonashi 3y ago
You said that racism against non-whites can be removed by 'not being racist', these are your words.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
Oh, can you point to examples where racism has spontaneously disappeared?
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by kaonashi 3y ago
What would be a non 'racist against white people' way to reduce race-based discrimination against non-whites?
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by kaonashi 3y ago
If you have to completely ignore the historical and present status of racial discrimination in order to make your argument, it's not quite as effective as you might think it is.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
If the legislature gives the treasury conflicting instructions, what is the most democratic way to resolve the contradiction?
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by kaonashi 3y ago
sounds like an eminently responsible response to potential political sabotage of the economy
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by kaonashi 3y ago
> It is actually truly revolutionary to disagree with it, e.g., take the stance that capitalism is an effective way of organizing labour. Ah, the status quo, truly the highest form of revolution.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
There were a couple of deleted tweets in the original thread.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
They don't call it "The" cartel because there's one on every corner.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
markets aren't features of the land that exist unspoiled until sullied by human hand -- what I see is that markets will always collapse into monopoly absent any countervailing force, for the simple fact that enterprise owners make more
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by kaonashi 3y ago
No, they're trying to make sure that the right people bear the brunt of inflation.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
American censorship has long relied on the manipulation model rather than the overt removal model, because the former is far more effective.
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by kaonashi 3y ago
mpg wouldn't be as bad as it is if they didn't allow the giant light truck loophole -- regulating on weight would have the same problems if they excepted a class of vehicles that everyone would then flock to
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by kaonashi 3y ago
gotta wonder how much mental decline due to covid exposure is contributing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715665/
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by kaonashi 3y ago
depends on what you're building, but you could do worse i've seen a ton of react apps that had no business being react apps
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by kaonashi 4y ago
used to use emacs, then switched over to vim -- tried vscode for a stretch, but some functions required mousing, and that bothered me to no end
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by kaonashi 4y ago
Until you get get it through the skulls of people with the money to pay that "we have it all drawn up, you just have to build it" is a horrendously bad idea, this will continue forever.
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by kaonashi 5y ago
How about just not having a navigator and driver. Having gone through a "wing-it" approach to pairing extensively, it really is an awful experience for those who hate having to fight for control.

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