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Guess it’s the same everywhere. Downvotes if you disagree.

> lots of money to spare You can buy stock with just a few hundred dollars ... You of course won’t have much voting power but you aren’t risking all that much money. If you have li…

> The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a smal…

> What do you think of that? We kind of already have that in that democratically elected government officials have the power to unilaterally (without corporations having a say) set…

In the past without online communities, no one is there to egg them on. Most people around them will just see them as crazy and ignore them. Slowly their radical beliefs peter out …

> people control the means of production Technically speaking, Amazon’s shareholders are people too - they aren’t part of the government. Should we mandate that workers own 50% of …

> I play solo which is an anomaly in the genre I know Not as uncommon as you think, https://youtu.be/b2l2ZxNhCSg

I.E. it will only deflate from accidental losses. Deflation brings its own problems.

> As an example my son when he was young he liked carrot juice, so give it to him daily, when we went to the doctor she noticed he had is skin colored and told us to stop, I had no…

Supplements are effectively unregulated in the US if Last Week Tonight is correct. https://youtu.be/WA0wKeokWUU

Unsubstantiated? I even posted links. So all we are suppose to do is sing his praises on this site?

I utterly hate the cult of personality around him. It makes any kind of discussion impossible. Look at the person you relied to, his post is already grey. The guy is kind of a wank…

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If they could I believe they would. They rather not be reliant on whoever is providing their speak recognition.

> Its not "fake news" that has elected these forces, it was the failure of the former mid-left/mid-right government parties to listen to their people and they have been voted out o…

Guess this is one of the inefficiencies of China. The central government has to spend resources / outright kneecap regions to keep them under their thumb. Their mandate to rule see…

> spirituality What exactly is “spirituality”? Dictionary says it’s “related to soul or spirit” - to paraphrase. But if you don’t believe in souls/spirits ... Edit: Nice. No retort…

Heh. First ghost cities. Now ghost bridge.

But why use JavaScript engine as the “base”? Why not a more “general” VM? WASM just skips the JS to JIT compiled bytecode - correct me if I’m wrong. Creating a standardized bytecod…

I believe there have been attempts at integrating GNU Guile (enabling the use of Scheme) into it and replacing ELisp going forward. The project seem dead in the water though.

> They are following the rules, just maybe a bit more aggressively and in ways that the regulators had not expected. Also judges who interpret the laws ultimately decide what the l…

> The other, Often overlooked layer is the fact that running a dystopian state is uneconomical. How so? Only example I can think of is China’s Social Credit system denying loans an…

Trade war or not. This particular move makes sense though. There is no reason to continue giving China - an economic superpower - a discount on mail.

Automation has eliminated a ton of jobs. Look at the steel mills of the early 20th century. They had groups of people hoisting around huge pieces of steel on chains. Look at a mode…

Kind of hard to observe electronic voting. If someone wants to screw with physical votes, they have to access the boxes which hold them. Easily detectable. Electronic ... you can h…