kaonashi

we've spent the last 50 years basing our currency in foreign manufacturing, seems like a good way to tank the dollar to me

it seems the chinese have figured out a different option, i wonder what institutional arrangements facilitate that?

endowments are the tail wagging the dog in many educational institutions

It's about the western gov'ts NOT being able to control the feed, what evidence is there that Chinese gov't is actively involved in curating the TikTok feed?

easy to cut emissions when you deindustrialize

quite the technical feat I suppose, but the actual result is nightmare fuel -- legs swapping places, people walking into simulacrum of spaces -- just deeply unsettling uncanny valley stuff

Does the study differentiate between strains used?

Got a Klein hat a while back, got a nice picture of Cliff mailing it out along with. If you get one, make sure to hang dry.

you know what else kills productivity? long covid

the main benefit from mergers is increased profitability due to reduced competition; cancelling titles doesn't harm that goal

My dad had to use some warm water in a sealed bag to get his charger to engage and disengage, seemed to work well tho.

it's like someone collected all my least favorite coding styles in a single library

You said that racism against non-whites can be removed by 'not being racist', these are your words.

Oh, can you point to examples where racism has spontaneously disappeared?

What would be a non 'racist against white people' way to reduce race-based discrimination against non-whites?

If you have to completely ignore the historical and present status of racial discrimination in order to make your argument, it's not quite as effective as you might think it is.

If the legislature gives the treasury conflicting instructions, what is the most democratic way to resolve the contradiction?

sounds like an eminently responsible response to potential political sabotage of the economy

> It is actually truly revolutionary to disagree with it, e.g., take the stance that capitalism is an effective way of organizing labour.

Ah, the status quo, truly the highest form of revolution.

There were a couple of deleted tweets in the original thread.

They don't call it "The" cartel because there's one on every corner.

markets aren't features of the land that exist unspoiled until sullied by human hand -- what I see is that markets will always collapse into monopoly absent any countervailing force, for the simple fact that enterprise owners make more profit that way

No, they're trying to make sure that the right people bear the brunt of inflation.

American censorship has long relied on the manipulation model rather than the overt removal model, because the former is far more effective.

mpg wouldn't be as bad as it is if they didn't allow the giant light truck loophole -- regulating on weight would have the same problems if they excepted a class of vehicles that everyone would then flock to

gotta wonder how much mental decline due to covid exposure is contributing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715665/

depends on what you're building, but you could do worse

i've seen a ton of react apps that had no business being react apps

used to use emacs, then switched over to vim -- tried vscode for a stretch, but some functions required mousing, and that bothered me to no end

Until you get get it through the skulls of people with the money to pay that "we have it all drawn up, you just have to build it" is a horrendously bad idea, this will continue forever.

How about just not having a navigator and driver. Having gone through a "wing-it" approach to pairing extensively, it really is an awful experience for those who hate having to fight for control.