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I mean, quite a lot of people want that or think they want it in many Western societies. They want the police to be able to find criminals, they want their kids kept off social med…

Brazil was also right about the levels of competence within the bureaucracy.

You don't need any of them. And that's your personal taste and isn't universal. If you've only experienced those two then it's like you're sticking to black and white when there's …

(If anyone uses it, you'll probably want to give it absolute paths, or you're going to end up making NEWDIR inside OLDDIR And yes, this will do a whole nested collection, not just …

> The average converges on a small positive return for the city that wins. Or a negative return if too many cities are incompetently governed, but your problem in that case is the …

That's pretty cool. I built a barn door on rollers (some suspending it, some rolling on a concrete floor) last year and this would have certainly aided in visualising where I was g…

I haven't used this for years and I don't know if it helped me or not, but the below is a bash script which will duplicate a directory of mp3s and 'notch' everything using the linu…

Very similar to my experience. I just woke up with it one day in my early 30s. It drove me a bit mad at first, I wanted someone to 'cure' it and make it go away. Then I tried all s…

Your scenario there, bidding too low, is a frequent occurrence from what I see. One often exacerbated by exaggerated promises of revenues or employment from the business which then…

Wow I'm out of the loop! I remember Quake, WinQuake, then QuakeWorld for online play, then GLQuake and GLQuakeWorld. Squake on linux showed up in there at some point (non-X11 linux…

You're already describing a race to the bottom there IMHO. Cities or even countries underbid each other to get the golden goose, and then realise they've already bargained away any…

I think it's very easy to make a value judgement here. In this case, at the time they were proposing the project, Adani promised around $22 billion in taxes and royalties, and the …

This has to be one of the most ludicrous, cartoonishly libertarian things I've ever read. No thanks! I'd rather have a functioning society!

Yep, that's definitely one of the worse negatives here, they use this stuff to outcompete small businesses. The tax games directly fuel the enshittification of the British high str…

> If there's no future prospects, it will cease operations. That's the point, there are plenty of future prospects, but the company is playing accounting games to hide the profits.…

They could, but that's not what they're doing, they're moving the profit to a lower tax situation to avoid paying. Pure and simple.

In a convenient amount that somehow just always exceeds the profits it makes, in perpetuity? Pull the other one mate, it's got bells on.

There's a coal mine here in Australia (NT I think) run by a company called Adani. When it was being proposed they did the usual "but think of all the taxes!" song and dance to get …

The small windows thing is real here in Aus as well, we lived in a new build for a while 4 years or so back, that was built like a fortress. Small, high windows in the main rooms a…

> Destroy historic urban centres so we can make money building dystopian hellholes I'm not sure I took that away from this article so much as "Architects and planners need to stop …

When it comes to the UK, I think this diagnosis that people lost trust that new buildings would beautify rather than uglify their towns and cities, is definitely a strong part of t…

You gunna elaborate on that? Because if not, I submit this comprehensive retort - “no yuo!”

In general I'd rather they fester away in secret, with the knowledge that if they were to air their views publicly they would be considered shameful. In places like 4chan they are …

They did, IIRC back in the late 00s they were also paying IBM to port software to HP-UX on Itanium, because I remember I was given a machine to play with and was asked to produce b…

The problem with "ironic" racism in places like 4chan is that it gives cover to, and breeds, very real open racism. "What if someone actually said that?" very quickly turns into pe…