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peacefulhat··on The True Rate of Unemployment
Then you scroll down to their time series showing "True Unemployment" is at historic lows
peacefulhat··on A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
They're not switching to a new apportionment formula that doesn't politically benefit the party in power either
peacefulhat··on The business of check cashing
the experience of being in other countries
peacefulhat··on Tiny-C Compiler (2001)
Best to pick languages anybody has heard of.
peacefulhat··on Tech Progress Is Slowing Down
True. The article is about hardware, though. Luckily, we're getting a lot more use out of GPUs and SSDs at a time when improvement in CPUs and RAM has drastically slowed.
peacefulhat··on Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritism' information
not if they took your seat
peacefulhat··on Conversation skills essentials
Starts off with a teacher demanding to see a student's documentation for their bathroom trip then complaining that kids have no social skills.
peacefulhat··on Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends
Japan's fault for not making much of anything to replace 2channel.
peacefulhat··on Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)
Facebook could have bought Owlchemy Labs or the Rec Room team really early and turn that into "the metaverse." Instead it looks like it was designed by people who have never played a video game. His vision makes sense and the headsets are great.
peacefulhat··on A gentler, better way to change minds
How do you determine who is in the community and subject to the community law?
peacefulhat··on FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
I pitched to an engineer that worked on Facebook newsfeed ranking that they make a setting to let me hide all reposts because my feed was entirely political links and meme images. He didn’t buy that life updates from friends was what I wanted to see, very adamant that if I used the “I don’t like this” button, eventually it would find content I liked.
peacefulhat··on FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
TikTok is so popular I bet banning it would cause widespread social unrest and violence.
peacefulhat··on Apple Removes Flag Icons in Monterey 12.4
It sucks for me because the flags were how I knew which language I’m in when I switch between English and Asian languages. Now they all look the same out of the corner of my eye and I reflexively toggle the language when I don’t need to.
peacefulhat··on How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising
The only solution is removing geographic districts entirely. The focus is on how squiggly the district lines are rather than the underlying issue that your vote is worthless in almost any election.
peacefulhat··on Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to democracy
ok I pick the other side, then.
peacefulhat··on The case for and against analogies
Analogies and idioms are heavily leaned on when you’ve substituted actual expertise for rhetoric.
peacefulhat··on Japanese Philosophies That'll Help You Spend Money Consciously
it won't even make a difference to his finances that he used a coke bottle as a vase. he just enjoys the feeling of restraining himself from buying trivially inexpensive things. maybe he could get a good return if he did that for big-ticket items - "yeah i just stuffed old clothes into some amazon boxes and that's my sofa."
peacefulhat··on Japanese Philosophies That'll Help You Spend Money Consciously
Ancient Wisdom From American English

-satisfied

-good enough

-choose

now you can use a wallet

peacefulhat··on Your code displays Japanese wrong
I'm grateful for han unification because I can search Chinese words I only know in Japanese.
peacefulhat··on “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
It follows from this that you think the future of software companies will be reaping even greater profits from massive payroll cuts. I doubt it.
peacefulhat··on [dead]
https://japanesecomplete.com/777

this is so bizarre. learning in pure frequency order doesn't make sense. e.g. you should learn most of the numbers together instead of spread out like that.

peacefulhat··on Producer of Netflix Three body problem found poisoned
You're absolutely wrong. The book uses the cultural revolution to contrast with the progress of the modern era.
peacefulhat··on Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles
most in 1920?
peacefulhat··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Why should they rise? Maybe they should stay low if it is so productive.
peacefulhat··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
The book Winner Take All Politics claims it’s due to rule changes within political parties such as the presidential primaries, giving far more importance to high earners and shareholders.
peacefulhat··on ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
> Other countries will have to do the same if they want to protect their national interests.

2030: EU bans Google

peacefulhat··on Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
Ok, I read it. At no point does it say Alibaba is owned by the Chinese government. Jack Ma's not even the CEO anymore so dunno what you think this proves.
peacefulhat··on Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
Haven't used Alipay but Wechat is really annoying because they get your Wechat contact info and text you ads. Other than that, yeah it blows away US payment system. Amazon Go store has potential to get us back on top, though.
peacefulhat··on Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
You've fallen for propaganda
peacefulhat··on I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
ok i will read your 1990s chinese language military philosophy book
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