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The justice system in the US is not perfect but the people who are in US prisons had access to defense attorneys, hearings about bail, trials where the prosecution had to publicly …

Trump has not even nearly as much power as you seem to think. We hear about his abuses of power because hearing ”California government implements reforms to reduce carbon emissions…

And for its justice system. And its infrastructure. The difference in transparency between China and the US is hard to overstate.

This is illustrated with the deck Affinity. It sweeps beginner players consistently even if the pilot keeps making mistakes but once you meet tougher opposition all of the options …

Whenever I play poker with friends this is my experience too. I don't do anything really fancy at all, I basically just follow very simple guidelines anyone can look up on the Inte…

I don't know if this was just the culture and influence from Kalanick, but Uber all around seems like a terrible company. Tehy cover up data breaches, they lie to regulators when t…

In Sweden, most middle class people live in detached houses. However, most young professionals desire to live in apartments because it's simply more convenient. I hate the garden a…

A comment on #2 would also be that you should organize and enshrine your rights when you have the power, not when you're weak. Developers are powerful now, can possibly become weak…

The issue is far more complicated than simply not having de-regulated rents. De-regulating rents would do something, no doubt, but there are so many more reasons why we have astron…

In Sweden the unions are the ones who will go to court and negotiate for you because they know that if you go it will set a precedent that exposes everyone else too.

Health care, dental care up to adulthood, parental leave protected by law and education through college is definitely not unrelated to standard of living. Neither is mandatory pens…

Go back 20 000 years and modern humans didn’t write Kama Sutra either, because just like bonobos we lacked the technology and knowledge to write.

That's like saying humans have evolved radically different behavior compared to 200 years ago because back then they couldn't travel to another celestial body. I would argue jerkin…

Users having multiple addresses is something I've cursed a lot over. I work in a team that does data analytics for a news publishing company, and our print business is still very i…

There are also countries that thrived economically after the fall of socialism. Why yes, I'll gladly take an apartment in East Berlin if you're offering me one.

The Swedish company Klarna is a good example. It’s now so common among Swedish consumers to have a Klarna account that it’s probably the most frictionless way for customers to pay …

Open plan offices became more frequent because office area is more expensive because real estate has become more expensive. That's at least my guess of how we ended up in this mess…

I think this will have unforseen effects on real estate. If the population globally is shrinking, that means the likelihood that any given town will increase in size is also shrink…

That would absolutely be a valid reason to build the service like that; the medical community thought that only an excess of opioids would be a problem, and it directly improves th…

This was a rare occasion when I opened the comments before the link, and it was good that I did.

I think this creates an interesting discussion on the part of the designers and programmers. Did they understand that what they were building was going to increase opioid dependenc…

I'm not a lawyer or legal expert, but I think that over the past century the entertainment industry has successfully gotten a myriad of laws and court rulings in their favor which …

If you have an app that solves something we take for granted in the West, and the initial cost barrier is very low, you have a great business model for the Indian market. When What…

Universal healthcare doesn’t erase that incentive, nothing does. You need a vigilant medical board that penalizes bad doctors to deal with that, fortunately something like that can…

That’s the thing about burnout; it feels great because you’re so productive and respected ... until one day your energy is gone. It might take years, it depends on how much support…