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The Chinese government can afford it.

If you want nuclear here in the US, the government has to kick in the lion's share of the funds for it. That's just the situation we're in. Even with no regulation and taxes at all, nuclear is just enormously expensive compared to just continuing to use coal, or just slapping up some windmills someplace.

People have to be willing to take the tax hit, one way or the other, to get nuclear. Witness Vogtie. Where the government has come to the rescue and made a law forbidding residents from buying the cheaper wind or coal power. Literally. No one can switch from using Vogtie power. That's the sort of assistance that nuclear needs. (Yes, I know that Vogtie is late and still over budget despite the unprecedented government assistance. But that only reinforces my point really. Even Vogtie, which now has guaranteed captive customers, still needs semi trailers full of cash to make it work.)
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Add sanctuary status and start busing foreigners in?
Wouldn't those revocation lists be MITM'd as well?
This is so true. I've been using Inkscape for years and it took me a long time to get used to the keystrokes and tools it provides. I recently gave a git talk at work and ended up drawing many, many diagrams for it using Inkscape. Even though I was well-versed in the tool, it still took a long time. So, it's a combination of dedication in time to practice but also dedication in time to create the illustrations.

On top of that, there's the learning of aesthetics along the way: what colors to use, what proportions to use, how much margin to set for better-looking illustrations, and so on. This takes serious practice.
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Where's the point where the simulated entity stops just "acting like it loves you" and starts "feeling love"?
Surely you mean 10^(enormously large number)
It sounds boring but... I don’t know how to bring it into words, perhaps holy? Especially on synths without any other modulation going on, but still rich overtones it feels extremely ‘solid’ and pure. Perhaps primary (as in color). Especially in melody the function of each note is more pronounced.

Still boring though...
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Smoking is a great example because NOW ITS A SEXUAL FETISH TOO

When you make something fringe you invite people to fetishize it. All you do is up the ante. Sure, some normies will stop being racists because there’s no longer a place to be racist. But other guys will fetishize racism and shoot up synagogues.

Is the benefit of subtracting normies from racist movements worth the cost of creating people who fetishize racism??????? HARD FUCKING QUESTION IMO!

I think we’d be better off with a million people who are “kinda anti Semitic but not anti Semitic enough to write books about it” than one Henry Ford.
In your argument to reduce worker protections you seem to ignore the contradictory stance of increased unionization with lower worker protections.

Unions by definition will increase the number of protections for workers and increase the costs of labor.

Personally I take an opposite stance: the problem with the free market is that it has to optimize for infinite growth. It doesn't matter if you make profit, you have to make the most profit or you're a failure. Which means removing insurance for workers, minimizing wages, maximizing unpaid overtime etc. The free market is fundamentally at odds with workers and that's why companies employ lobbying and union busting behavior.
I gay porned an entire company's computers after they refused to crack down on employees watching people being murdered all day. They threatened to fire me so I explained exactly why I had done this and that I would happily explain this at length in any subsequent employment tribunal. I kept my job and the management finally told everyone to stop watching people getting killed on company time.
The power structure in the US is ramping up the messages of division to retake its pre-Internet cold war grip on society's attention. "All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked"

The campaign to colonize Iraq and Afghanistan was too piecemeal. It produced for a while, but was ultimately too narrow in scope so it ran its course and revealed its outcome. And seemingly only a handful of companies were in on that take, rather than a widespread corporate consensus. They're pushing ISIS to continue that theater, but the topic has become tired.

So they ramp up the ominous never ending sources of threats. Is China the bigger threat or is Russia the bigger threat? The Party has been framed, and there is no "if" - pick your team. It might depend on whether you'd rather wear red xor blue. It might depend on whether you prioritize acreage/driving/explosions or density/walking/restaurants. As long as you remember to do your part and assume anyone who doesn't fully agree is on the other team. Fear globally, fight locally.

We are indeed being attacked. Not by the actions of China (or Russia, or etc), but by our "leaders" responding in predictable country-destroying ways out of their own self interest. One need to look no further than USG doing precisely what Bin Laden asked for an infuriating example.
Are you seriously comparing 19th century piece work with today's gig jobs? Are you aware that classic employment is not being deprecated? People will simply choose what they like. Why should you decide for them? I know many people who are significantly happier and richer this way; who are you to deny them this happiness? BTW, IMO it seems like corporations are much more likely and empowered to abuse their employees than a gig economy platform ever could. Every Uber driver that had issues just switched to another platform or got an employment (situation when they can't get an employment and Uber is the only option is out of this topic).
In my own life, I've found the total cultural embrace of "full-time" employment to be a vector for voluminous abuse.

It's specifically because we draw income from one company that they have leverage to abuse us.

It saddens me how this (to me) plain fact is left out of the debate about gig workers and their protections.

I think employee protections are crucial, but I think the notion that gigs are abusive in and of themselves is a misattribution of blame.
My impression is that a Doll's House and Ghosts are much better known in the English speaking world. Enemy of the People too--probably because of the punchy title.
>Unfortunately, all the good editing apps like Sketch and Affinity Designer cost a fortune when you factor in the actual use case.

affinity designer is $30, one time purchase.

How is that a fortune? Compared to Adobe Illustrator it's essentially free.

Compared to Inkscape, the productivity gains are priceless.
>>Housing is a basic necessity, using it as an investment allocates scarce finite resources to you when you don't need it while consuming limited supply thus reducing the available stock for those that do.

Using it as an investment doesn't deprive others from using it. Using it as an investment means renting the property out to earn investment income on it.

And investing leads to that scarce resource becoming less scarce, through construction and expansion of housing supply.

Capital leads to abundance. Combating capital investments in housing leads to more housing scarcity. That's exactly what zoning restrictions and rent control do, and why some places have housing scarcity.
At the time of this writing, at a $996.5B market cap, Microsoft is the biggest publicly traded company in the world.
Piece work is clearly a failing system. At least as far as wanting our citizens to be able to do honest work for honest money.
> Imperfect octaves are pretty unacceptable to any listener

All pianos use stretch tuning.

Also having all completely beatless intervals on perfectly harmonic overtoned (aka theoretical and not existing in nature) timbres isn't the only criteria for "correct" or good sounding tuning. It's not even a common criteria.
Let me be crystal clear: I'm talking about building up a side business in your spare time.

> If you are talking about starting a business on the side and working full time, that means you are sacrificing some combination of time with your family, exercise, and time that you could be putting in getting ahead at your current job or acquiring skills that would help you get a better paying job.

You think you somehow learn nothing attempting to build up a side project? I've yet to see an argument made successfully that you learn absolutely nothing marketable by working on a side project.

But let's say you manage to pull that off: all you've lost is a little bit of time. That's extremely low from a business perspective. Software is rather unique in that you don't need to spend tens of thousands of dollars setting up supply and manufacturing lines. And, the potential payoff is huge.

Now, maybe running a company isn't your thing. That's a fair argument. But fear of failure is a terrible way to go through life.

On a side note, why are you so relentlessly negative? Most of the comments you've made in this thread are needlessly hostile, sarcastic and bitter. Did a side project touch you inappropriately as a child?
Definitely a few post office closures I’m aware of...
Yes, and one of us is right, and another one of us is wrong. That's fine.
It's no skin off my back whatever reddit allows or doesn't. I despise discussing politics, specially online (I'm making an exception in this one comment, which I'm sure I'll regret), so I only follow technical and funny subreddits.

That said, I wanted to point out something that the people saying that this is a win are ignoring with their "fewer recruits" idea: The more you censor someone, the more they're likely to actively proselytize, I think.

I also saw someone saying that censorship could be a tool for the betterment of society and I'm kind of horrified now at this thread so I didn't read any further.
don't loose sleep over inkscape

Just buy affinity designer.
It is not only sad; it is a political call to arms.

If you want to stop the waste of blood and treasure, actively participate. Complaining is free, yet wildly ineffective.
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> the contractors working for gig apps, [...] have chosen not to exercise their rights

It's sad to see this sort of propaganda on HN.

Gig workers choose to take up a gig job in alternative to starvation, in most cases. There are big socioeconomic problems undermining the misguided notion that it might be a rational choice, in the overwhelming majority of cases.

This is why the State, in a modern society, is supposed to step in and forbid employers from taking advantage of workers.

These are lessons that were first learnt in the XIX and early XX century.
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> cyclists tend to break laws in ways that mostly harm only themselves (e.g., running a red light)

Running a red light could easily harm others - a driver could swerve to avoid you, crashing in the process; if a driver hits you because you ran a light, that could also cause a chain of accidents; and if a driver killed you because you ran a red light, that could seriously harm their wellbeing.
> I don think we have any precedent for knowing how the market would respond to such heavy handed regulation.

Of course we do. See Northern Securities v. United States, Standard Oil v. United States, and the many other landmark antitrust cases. Let's not pretend this hasn't been an issue before.
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Only employers who have very low skilled workers do so, for two reasons, one is that skilled workers have more power to negotiate better deals, the other reason is that these gig companies operate on thin margins, in fact most of them operate on loss so every dime that can be saved is worth it. They only survive because they are subsidized by billionaires investors. Eventually most of them will either go bankrupt or find a way out of their loss at which point they will be able to increase their workers salaries (as it is a good thing for productivity and attract more talents). There's a lot of animosity against "evil employers" or "lazy workers" but it usually is a bit more complex than these simple dichotomies.
Yes, there are dozens of adaptive tuning techniques that have been implemented.

One of these, Hermode, has been included by default in Apple Logic since Logic Pro 7 (2004). Steinberg Cubase has also implemented Hermode since Cubase 7 (2012).
They’ll be shipped on an aging vessel to an unknown poor African country to be disassembled by unlicensed, unprotected children, often under near slavery conditions to extract any precious metals. Just so you know for the next Gilette razor you buy.
I would seriously question those studies. You should probably add the increased stress and the lack of leisure time that make people mentally unhealthy.

I am also seriously not okay with the implication that the cities support all other areas. That's extremely questionable.

Lastly, don't forget there have been studies proving fat is bad and sugar is good. Never discount the vested interests that know how to convince people. Apparently you have been influenced by a study.

Not saying you shouldn't believe anything, but maintain a healthy skepticism, please.

I live in the only true big city in my country and truthfully, people are in general happier everywhere else in the country. At least they say so and sound like it.
It makes sense, but people do all sorts of things for many reasons or no reason.

New growth would have to be sustainable "indefinitely" or they'd have to worry about replacing it. In addition, even more revenue growth is then required to maintain the higher market cap.
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Here’s what won’t change: You’ll still be able to go on Google and search like you do today. You’ll still be able to go on Amazon and find 30 different coffee machines that you can get delivered to your house in two days. You’ll still be able to go on Facebook and see how your old friend from school is doing.

The problem is we’ve heard this before. “If you like your Google/Amazon/Facebook, you can keep your Google/Amazon/Facebook.”
Why not just integrate two payment solutions (Paypal + something for cheaper card payments) instead of having a middleman in front of Paypal? That's how we do it in Europe... And we sometimes have a dozen of different payment options.
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> streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen

Already covered that.

We can pay for healthcare for all citizens, but it will mean excluding very expensive things like heart surgery, cancer treatment, joint replacements. We will probably need to be much more forward on euthanasia for the old, to save resources.

We can provide free higher education, but its going to mean no student housing, no athletics programs and restricting college to the top 20% of the cohort academically.

Why should we have to tax the current worker population in order to pay for old people to do nothing? The current retirement system is a flawed ponzi scheme. People have continued to work until death or impairment in the past - why should retirement be considered a human right now?

Cut payroll taxes and income taxes, and the elderly can happily work 1-2 days per week, and businesses will be happy to have them. Store clerks, fast food workers, cleaners, child carers. These jobs can be done well by the elderly, and work keeps the brain active and healthy.

What if I want to work part-time throughout my life, and never retire? Shouldn't I have the ability as an individual to decide how and if I want to retire?
I feel like this is lacking a lot of context. Not that I'm doubting you, I'm just doubting your recounting of things. I doubt transferwise is trigger happy about closing accounts and I've had good support experience with them overall.
Mean, median, and mode...

"Pay Per Month: A median of $155 per month and an average of $364"

Then, there's that "pay" isn't "pay". These are gross numbers rather than net.

"The actual expenses of driving, like maintenance and gas, consume about $4.87 per hour of a driver's income."
The way universal healthcare is implemented in Germany, it does not undermine the gig economy by itself. Freelancing where the employer does not pay for healthcare is still possible and also removes the need to pay minimum wage.

It comes down to stricter rules around employment. Gig-Employers are risking to get sued by there defacto employees and them being granted employment status, which then makes them entitled to receive minimum wage, healthcare, pension payments etc. even in hindsight.

So a "gig" has to be exactly that, it cannot be an actual job.
At least they haven't kept your 35,000€ when en-route to a recipient. They send me an email explaining that my type of wire is "too much of risk for their appetite" (real quote). All good, so just return me back my money. I had to threaten them multiple times with going after them in UK (their legal HQ) for almost 14 days until they returned my money back. Not to mention that a service provider (very good one) that I owed money will not work with me anymore since their invoice was overdue for 2 weeks.

Absolutely stay away from TransferWise - educate yourself (Google is your friend) how much fraud they perform on daily basis, as internet is full of horror stories from people who attempt to use them because of their low fees. Absolute scumbags.
Yes, parts of society absolutely have the right to censor other parts of society. Just as we have the right to imprison, or regulate, or chide, or squelch. None of these things are sacred and inviolable lines. All of them are tools, which we have the moral obligation to use, judiciously, to improve the human condition.
I do like cake. But I think baked goods are somewhat solved problem.
What monoculture?
Is it possible that we are observing effects of mass that is outside the observable universe?
Is the ancient Hindu myth of a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka true?
I think your expectations are too high.
FB's biggest problems are about market saturation and maintaining that position. If they lose the youngest generation then they will gradually decrease in value as their legacy userbase ages. This is why FB constantly has to buy up and coming social media style tech so that they can constantly reinvigorate the youth demographic into the fold. It's a constant battle for FB to avoid becoming obsolete.
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Of course you are going to have good experience with them... until they shut you down. Funny thing is they literally block your incoming emails! I asked them 3 times for what info they keep on me per GDPR and they totally ignored me! They are in violation of GDPR which United Kingdom should be abide by, but they obviously don't care...
> The disruption offered by the "sharing economy" is simply a hustle.

I would say "an evil" rather than "a hustle." Paying a few programmers six figures to write an app that commands lots of other people to work for less than minimum wage as "independent contractors" is evil. Calling it "sharing" or "tech" doesn't make it smell more sweet. Labor laws may not be perfect, but they have been built from centuries of experience, and sometimes blood[1,2]. It's a shame to see them being successfully ignored by a handful of morally bankrupt programmers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacre
I run and maintain a successful open source project which is used by thousands of companies and has a small team of contributors who work for free.
So maybe your definition of leadership is outdated. It should be all about results. All the rest is BS IMO.
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production = rent + wages + interest

production - rent = wages + interest

when productivity grows but wages do not, that means the marginal contribution of any new worker is being entirely eaten by various forms of rent within the economy. Those who collect rent have no incentive to do anything but perpetuate their rent collection and most likely if they were to re invest their gains would probably reinvest them in either acquiring more rent or protecting their existing rent... which is why the government should be funded off of monopoly/pigovian taxes like the land value tax, or removing intellectual property deductions from the corp income tax, as opposed to income or consumption taxes - a philosophy known as georgism.
I'm surprised Zelle isn't mentioned here. It's owned by the major banks and allows for business account transfers without fees. I use it to pay some US contractors. Most free services (e.g. Venmo) don't support business transfers and have low monthly transfer ceilings.
My thing is... How is it that it is now paypals property? How is that legal? I sure hope someone who lost 100 grand sues them for their money back plus lost income due to account freeze. We need to see more legal outcry over what basically ammounts to theft. I may even figure you could sue for defamation depending on the why of your account being frozen. If they claim anything negative. Plus it gives your entire enterprise a bad name without reason.
My google drive said the script needed full permissions over everything in my drive.
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I understand your viewpoint and I too believe you should fight for your viewpoint in order for it to be the winner.

Likewise, the "extremist" too have their viewpoint, to them you are the danger, and they too will fight for it.
Soooo... no.
They said "mostly" and, while your comment is undoubtedly true, it is a little bit disingenuous to suggest those things as likely when cyclists are the most vulnerable road users.
> the problem with the free market is that it has to optimize for infinite growth. It doesn't matter if you make profit, you have to make the most profit or you're a failure. Which means removing insurance for workers, minimizing wages, maximizing unpaid overtime etc. The free market is fundamentally at odds with workers and that's why companies employ lobbying and union busting behavior.

Have you ever ran a company? Most people running a business care about all these things you're enumerating and no one believe in infinite growth.