thomasz

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by thomasz 7mo ago
It's not _universal_. A truly UBI would be handing out a fixed basic income to everyone, irrespective of individual wealth, income or needs.
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by thomasz 9mo ago
You jest, but it took forever to add somewhat intuitive layout mechanism to css which allowed you to do what could be done easily with html tables. Vertically centering a div inside another was really hard, and very few people understood th
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by thomasz 10mo ago
But price elasticity isn't infinite. A large part of the middle class would be priced out of most modern amenities if these would be produced domestically. Import substitution is one of these things that sounds nice in theory but tend
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by thomasz 1y ago
Right, it's collusion.
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by thomasz 1y ago
Ironically, they insisted at a very narrow definition of the question and answer format and consequently failed at creating a good wiki. There is no way to approach broader topics. It’s always „how do I do x“, and the accepted answer since
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by thomasz 2y ago
Import substitution is one of these ideas that sounds great but seldom works out as intended. Bureaucracies instead of markets now pick winners, and their picks tend to be significantly worse. I really hope they are smart about it and treat
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by thomasz 2y ago
No, Europe will not go back to the Stone Age. US services will be substituted for somewhat shittier European services. That’s how it goes. On average, everyone will be worse of. The European customer loses, US tech loses, European tech win
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by thomasz 2y ago
You certainly did not see an activist hauled off by the police for giving a seminar about censorship the other day.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Have you tried mixing up games with daily moves with rapid and blitz? Mixing “do it right” with “do it fast” training is more effective than doing only one of both.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Completely different. Ruby‘s yield calls a block, which is basically an anonymous method with some special syntax tacked on.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Huh. That’s interesting. I can see something like this be useful in certain circumstances. But I would intuitively assume that gen0 collection is probably a better compromise.
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by thomasz 3y ago
They would start with undesirables like political opponents and minorities first.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Yes. But strangely, he always promised wide simulations of worlds with fascinating emergent behavior. But even his truly great games were never like that. But it took journalism roughly 25 years to notice.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Even his greatest successes were never the breathtaking, revolutionary advances he promised. Populous, Syndicate, Themen Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper were nothing but a fairly simple game play idea, executed well. But for some reason,
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by thomasz 3y ago
I never understood the extreme hate. "Pain"? We’re talking about video games, for Christ’s sake.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Why can’t everyone be as productive as Steve? When I assign something to him, it’s done in a week! When I want you to add a tiny feature, it takes three!
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by thomasz 3y ago
That would remove a good percentage of correct answers. The obvious solution is to fix their weird and completely dysfunctional moderation.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Nah, that’s demonstratively wrong dogmatism. Obviously it’s not a good idea to take three times your national GDP in debt to build three oversized airports next to each other because your family owns your nations construction business. But
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by thomasz 3y ago
PPP is meant to account for things like a haircut in San Francisco creating way more economic output than a haircut in rural China, and therefore inflating the numbers. It doesn’t completely solve the problem of comparing the economic outpu
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by thomasz 3y ago
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to print the world reserve currency like there is no tomorrow, and we do not possess the qualities of the US that make them the natural haven for capital in times of global turbulence. That being said, the
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by thomasz 3y ago
Despite all its shortcomings, the USSR did pretty well in areas they really cared about, like tank production. And it’s very difficult to compare the value of a t80 with the value of a m1, especially when there was little trade between both
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by thomasz 3y ago
That’s not really what I meant. Ads rarely get through my Adblock anyways. No, the problem with the dead internet isn’t that powerful entities flooded it with artificially generated bullshit, the problem is that the hyper commercialization
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by thomasz 3y ago
The hyper commercialization of the internet has turned people into spam bots. That’s why todays internet, with billions of users feels less populated than what we had in the early to mid 2000s.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Mental illness is a huge risk factor for becoming homeless, which in turn will escalate any mental health issue to a massive degree. Better access to treatment and better safeguards against homelessness for the affected do actually help a l
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by thomasz 3y ago
Well, I’m sure OP got her job back as soon as it was revealed that the person she was accusing as a war criminal with blood on his hands was indeed an asshole.
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by thomasz 3y ago
I don’t think that there are companies out there making billions while relying on your brother in laws work without paying him a dime.
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by thomasz 3y ago
More control, more data, better tracking.
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by thomasz 3y ago
Reddit largely leeches anyways. I’m not exactly sure why (I suspect the sorting algorithm and the quick turnover of content), but its community is shockingly unproductive in terms of content creation. The only thing it does somewhat well i
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by thomasz 3y ago
It’s your job to tell them if the requirements cannot be met and that something’s gotta give. It’s his job to decide what, and it looks like he’s choosing latency When push comes to shove.
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by thomasz 3y ago
First of all, let me tell you that scratch is a wonderful project. I have only one, but pretty important criticism: The tutorials that are packages with the installer use screenshots that are not translated and thus are pretty much worthles

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