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by pimmen 7y ago
The justice system in the US is not perfect but the people who are in US prisons had access to defense attorneys, hearings about bail, trials where the prosecution had to publicly present evidence and testimonies to explain why the defendan
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by pimmen 7y ago
Trump has not even nearly as much power as you seem to think. We hear about his abuses of power because hearing ”California government implements reforms to reduce carbon emissions, in spite of Trump” doesn’t generate as much emotions as hi
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by pimmen 7y ago
And for its justice system. And its infrastructure. The difference in transparency between China and the US is hard to overstate.
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by pimmen 7y ago
This is illustrated with the deck Affinity. It sweeps beginner players consistently even if the pilot keeps making mistakes but once you meet tougher opposition all of the options the deck presents become overwhelming and you know that you
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by pimmen 7y ago
Whenever I play poker with friends this is my experience too. I don't do anything really fancy at all, I basically just follow very simple guidelines anyone can look up on the Internet. I just wait for good cards, permit worse cards th
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by pimmen 7y ago
I don't know if this was just the culture and influence from Kalanick, but Uber all around seems like a terrible company. Tehy cover up data breaches, they lie to regulators when they test their self driving cars, they act passively wh
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by pimmen 7y ago
In Sweden, most middle class people live in detached houses. However, most young professionals desire to live in apartments because it's simply more convenient. I hate the garden and I hate driving. This article is about Sweden, rememb
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by pimmen 7y ago
A comment on #2 would also be that you should organize and enshrine your rights when you have the power, not when you're weak. Developers are powerful now, can possibly become weak later.
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by pimmen 7y ago
The issue is far more complicated than simply not having de-regulated rents. De-regulating rents would do something, no doubt, but there are so many more reasons why we have astronomically high real estate prices at this moment (and didn&#x
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by pimmen 7y ago
In Sweden the unions are the ones who will go to court and negotiate for you because they know that if you go it will set a precedent that exposes everyone else too.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Health care, dental care up to adulthood, parental leave protected by law and education through college is definitely not unrelated to standard of living. Neither is mandatory pension contributions from your employer, as well as a guarant
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by pimmen 7y ago
Go back 20 000 years and modern humans didn’t write Kama Sutra either, because just like bonobos we lacked the technology and knowledge to write.
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by pimmen 7y ago
That's like saying humans have evolved radically different behavior compared to 200 years ago because back then they couldn't travel to another celestial body. I would argue jerking off to Internet porn and jerking off to a fantas
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by pimmen 7y ago
Users having multiple addresses is something I've cursed a lot over. I work in a team that does data analytics for a news publishing company, and our print business is still very important. Unfortunately, in our database over print cus
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by pimmen 7y ago
There are also countries that thrived economically after the fall of socialism. Why yes, I'll gladly take an apartment in East Berlin if you're offering me one.
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by pimmen 7y ago
The Swedish company Klarna is a good example. It’s now so common among Swedish consumers to have a Klarna account that it’s probably the most frictionless way for customers to pay online. I have a colleague who worked there like five years
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by pimmen 7y ago
Open plan offices became more frequent because office area is more expensive because real estate has become more expensive. That's at least my guess of how we ended up in this mess that everyone knows is bonkers.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think this will have unforseen effects on real estate. If the population globally is shrinking, that means the likelihood that any given town will increase in size is also shrinking. At first, this might look like the real estate prices a
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by pimmen 7y ago
That would absolutely be a valid reason to build the service like that; the medical community thought that only an excess of opioids would be a problem, and it directly improves the numbers they're evaluated on. However, once the medic
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by pimmen 7y ago
This was a rare occasion when I opened the comments before the link, and it was good that I did.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think this creates an interesting discussion on the part of the designers and programmers. Did they understand that what they were building was going to increase opioid dependence? Did they ask about it? And, the most interesting question
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by pimmen 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer or legal expert, but I think that over the past century the entertainment industry has successfully gotten a myriad of laws and court rulings in their favor which complicates something like that a lot. Data is new and
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by pimmen 7y ago
If you have an app that solves something we take for granted in the West, and the initial cost barrier is very low, you have a great business model for the Indian market. When WhatsApp cost $1 per year it had a terrific business model for t
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by pimmen 7y ago
Universal healthcare doesn’t erase that incentive, nothing does. You need a vigilant medical board that penalizes bad doctors to deal with that, fortunately something like that can be reconciled with the system we have in the Nordics. Of co
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by pimmen 7y ago
That’s the thing about burnout; it feels great because you’re so productive and respected ... until one day your energy is gone. It might take years, it depends on how much support you get from people around at managing your stress, and of
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by pimmen 7y ago
I turn off email and Slack when I get home. My stakeholders has to call me if something breaks. I should note that when they do, my union has negotiated a wonderful overtime compensation where I receive a minimum of three hours pay, at 1.5
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by pimmen 7y ago
In Sweden we have many protections against this in theory, but the fact that people are willing to take shit means it's not very effective. A person I met who is in the video game industry talked about something that happened at one of
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by pimmen 7y ago
A fresh college graduate at age 22 does not understand what 60-100 hours mean. The closest frame of reference they have is pulling an all nighter before an exam or to get a term project done. They can't contemplate their romantic relat
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by pimmen 7y ago
I'm Swedish and yes, it was almost insufferable when this book was the hotness during the past two years, but this is hardly "one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time". It's not even the worst one that got mains
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by pimmen 7y ago
So much damage has already been done by fossil fuels, and unfortunately there is just so much left in the ground which hasn't been exploited yet solely due to politics. Russia wants to extract the fossil fuels in the Arctic which poten

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