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European labor regulation and European tax rates have nothing to do with each other. The former is about restrictions on how employers can treat employees. The latter is about fund…

> Because labor protection costs money Labor protection does not "cost money". It is a limit on the degree to which workers can be exploited.

> Because then the question arises: What if the current way of handling labor protection in the EU (as one of many components) leads to destroying yours and everyone elses standard…

I'd rather live in a society with strong labor protections than one that is "more innovative", whatever that means.

There are commuter rails that go from NJ to NYC

I’ve used Adelie, which has its own postscript-like notation to render font and graphics inside a tiny VM. I love it https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html

Perhaps on an individual level, but on a policy level, it makes sense that the safety standards for flying are higher for flying than for driving.

> What's the back of the envelope on whether the 737 Max is more dangerous than driving? Driving is an absurdly dangerous mode of transportation, so it’s probably not the best comp…

Drugs did not cause rents in Seattle to triple over the last 15 years

I recently google searched "80cm to inches" and it gave me the result for "80 meters to inches". I can't figure out how it would make this mistake aside from some poorly conceived …

> This will not bother most people. Most people are willing to use GMail, even though it snoops on their private emails and uses that info for advertising purposes. While I agree w…

80% of people in manhattan have no personal vehicle and I would not say they are "living like it's the 1500s". The problem is that most of America has car-dependent infrastructure.…

This looks very similar to RRDTool's query language. Is this a fork, or was it just inspired by RRDTool?

There is a lot more software that currently exists written in C than in Dusk OS's forth dialect. The C compiler allows Dusk to run this software (once it's ported over)

It does have a GUI. Not much is written for it yet, though => https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/sy...

I would frame it differently, "collapse" can mean any number of conditions that exist in the world today -- internet access that is limited, censored/liable of being shut down, or …