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is it expected of skilled immigrants to be able to speak Japanese? getting people to learn the global lingua franca is a much easier sell. reading and writing Japanese at a fluent level takes quite a while and oodles of memorization.

I'll probably be downvoted because this is stupid but I was wondering the other day whether Japan will be the first country to start factory breeding of humans, Brave New World style. If there was ever a candidate for it, Japan is certainly it.

well it's not discussed much because it's handled at a strictly local level. you don't get a national or even state-level conversation about what goes on in town hall public planning meetings.

the article advocates for bringing housing planning under state jurisdiction:

>The hypocrisy itself is galling, if informative. Andreessen might well support legislation upzoning neighborhoods across California. This macro-micro disconnect should push policy makers to grasp that they cannot reason with NIMBYs on a project-by-project basis. They have to eliminate NIMBYism’s veto power by moving decision-making to the state level.

damn wish that got published, i know some people who would love it.

it all started going wrong once those damned horseless carriages started hitting the streets

you can bet your bottom dollar there are some nerds in Sri Lanka who are very happy to own bitcoin right now. they'll be able to spend it as soon as the electricity comes back up.

sure, but one of the authors works for the bank

from the introduction:

>The development of the Lightning Network may have consequences for welfare. First, as Bitcoin becomes a more efficient payments system, users are better off. Their transactions settle more quickly and more cheaply (Zimmerman (2020)). Second, since fewer transactions need to be recorded on the blockchain, less memory and energy are needed to run a Bitcoin node. This saving lowers the cost of maintaining the blockchain, allowing more nodes to participate and making the system more secure against a double-spending attack (Budish (2018)). Third, by reducing fees, the LN reduces the incentive for Bitcoin miners to use large amounts of computing power, meaning less energy use and positive consequences for the environment.5 Fourth, less blockchain congestion may mean lower barriers to arbitrage across cryptocurrency exchanges, thereby improving market liquidity (see Hautsch, Scheuch, and Voigt (2018)).

>While this paper focuses on Bitcoin, the same technology can allow other cryptocurrencies to be widely used, secure, and decentralized. For example, the Raiden Network is a similar netting solution for Ethereum. Other solutions to the scalability problem have been proposed, including sharding, and batching at exchange level.6 If the scalability problem can be successfully addressed, it may be possible for a currency based on a permissionless blockchain to obtain wide acceptance.

very cool to see this coming from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

>Honestly starting to question how much hope there is for mars to happen at all.

i spat out my drink reading this

nobody here is talking about freight vehicles

played it on the gameboy advance, same experience. i can still remember a few of the hand-drawn scenes and (for a child) inscrutable puzzles. something about a runaway floor buffer.

I think the game looks fun :) I hope it gets a linux release, unlike every other Monkey Island game.

you're both acting like people drive less when they get things delivered to their home. this is not true and i'm pretty sure you know it.

they also provide an experience with far larger externalities (e.g. a massive fleet of vans wandering around and polluting all day) that the customer isn't paying for. i wonder why they're so popular

can confirm, a former coworker had just come from Tesla 5 years ago and he had serious ethical problems with his work over there. Tesla is killing people through negligence and greed, it's pretty disgusting, but par for the course

uh yeah, kinda. the following is from 2011.

>In recent years, ETIM has set up bases outside China to train terrorists and has dispatched its members to China to plot and execute terrorist acts including bombing buses, cinemas, department stores, markets and hotels. ETIM has also undertaken assassinations and arson attacks and has carried out terrorist attacks against Chinese targets abroad. Among the violent acts committed by ETIM members were the blowing up of the warehouse of the Urumqi Train Station on 23 May 1998, the armed looting of 247,000 RMB Yuan in Urumqi on 4 February 1999, an explosion in Hetian City, Xinjiang, on 25 March 1999 and violent resistance against arrest in Xinhe County, Xinjiang, on 18 June 1999. These incidents resulted in the deaths of 140 people and injuries to 371.

https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctio...

presumably those smaller companies would be beholden to the jurisdictions they're located in, where the laws are drafted by people who are democratically elected.

so, i guess democracy would have been achieved. or at least a relative increase in democratic control

People literally died fighting for the 40-hour workweek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

if we force the rich use the same system the poor use, wait times will plummet.

even when you keep making new accounts and "losing" the packages!

bitcoin developers have taken a crack at it: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-003...

not to rain on the parade, but this has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234444

ah screw it. these guys suck, keep ripping on 'em.

we make fun of him _because_ he's a billionaire, you rube

loving how the central idiom of this piece was coined because its physically impossible. this author missed something along the way, i think.

https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-p...

>I lived in an illegal rental to save up for a home, then decided to buy out-of-state properties and drive up the rent. I'm aware of how this will be perceived, but I want to feel good about myself despite knowing how what I'm doing hurts others.

lol

funny, i solved this problem by not using google

So you're refusing to take seriously a post that accuses you of not being serious?

The irony is nearly overwhelming.

P.S. He linked to a twitter thread that proffered all of Blinken's remarks on Tapper's program.

>At Ethena, our track record of transparency, open feedback channels and an experienced management team put us in a position to make these types of bold policies that other companies may struggle to operationalize.

Never fails to make me smile watching capitalists advocate for planned economies :)

Right. So when a company has a natural monopoly on a resource or a service, it makes sense to regulate them strictly.

Which company are we talking about again?

I was with you up until "The solution is to have ten CloudFlares so that the path between consumers and websites isn't regulated by a single organization."

This is hardly a solution, it just spreads the pain around. A solution would be a democratically planned organization, or group thereof, which is responsible to all shareholders including users, employees, executives, and investors.