seniorivn (u/seniorivn)

seniorivn commented on My vote on voting systems blog.danielh.cc/blog/voti... · Posted by u/max__dev

FWIW, after living in an all-mail voting state (WA), I never want to go back to voting in person. It is amazing having a couple weeks to mark a ballot at my leisure, do as much research as I want, and then just drop it in a box (or mail it, I guess, but the drop boxes have definitely been more reliable for me).

But it's true I don't have a shrieking neighbor or brutal spouse to worry about.

seniorivn · a year ago

serious question, how do you know your vote is counted and is not intercepted/counterfeited before that?

seniorivn commented on Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry physicalintelligence.comp... · Posted by u/Terretta

simgt · a year ago

That's clearly the "why" no one pushing for innovative products is answering. A couple decades ago one salary could sustain a family in most developed countries, now it seems to be a struggle with two for many, we have mass unemployment, productivity soared but somehow society also can't afford enough cleaners to keep places decent.

Is the solution really to replace even more workers by capital, or do we have an issue with how we measure value that we should fix first?

seniorivn · a year ago

efficiency and productivity is clearly more important for development of all industries than what you value. Political institutions are not very good at preparing for unfamiliar problems, dont count on them doing that. Just push for progress in natural way, and for politicians to adjust to an already happend changes. Thats the best that we can do.

seniorivn commented on Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry physicalintelligence.comp... · Posted by u/Terretta

ktjag · a year ago

Where did the economies get a boost when women joined the labor force? In Germany the post-war economic miracle happened mostly without them.

In the beginning of the 1970s, when women did join the labor force in greater numbers, admittedly the macroeconomic conditions were bad (oil crisis), so it is hard to filter that out.

But still, mostly we have more workers, which lowers wages and leads to the creation of more bullshit jobs. To be clear, also men create and perform bullshit jobs!

Now it takes two salaries to finance a house and a family. Great progress.

At the supermarket, I boycott automated self-checkouts even if the lines are long so the nice cashiers keep their jobs.

seniorivn · a year ago

you should also try to avoid cars and electric lights, grooms and gas light maintainers need jobs too

seniorivn commented on Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging twitter.com/spacex/status... · Posted by u/nynx

lopkeny12ko · a year ago

Off topic: what is up with the persistent anti-Musk crusading in this thread (and on HN in general)?

seniorivn · a year ago

he involved himself in politics, so everyone who have strong feelings against his "side" or for his opponents, project it on him in a form of hate.

Inevitable consequence of the two party system and/or fptp election system

seniorivn commented on Is the Shoplifting "Crisis" Over? marketplace.org/2024/09/2... · Posted by u/paulpauper

sameoldtune · a year ago

There’s certainly something to be said for the fact that shoplifting has entered the Overton window in the last few years. I see on tiktok probably weekly videos of people suggesting that shoplifting is not very serious, how to nick things at self checkout, how stealing from faceless corporations is hardly stealing at all…

I feel like as a whole people are more likely now than in the recent past to see their relationship with corporations as being adversarial and this is just one facet. It is hard to blame anyone for feeling this way, as consumers and employees are becoming more disempowered. Additionally, the shopping experience has become much less personal. It is hard to justify stealing from a shop where the owner goes to your church and knows your dad. But with a multinational company where you can’t even get a real person on the phone, maybe that feels different for some people.

I’m not saying I agree, but the more people who think companies are “evil”, the more types of disobedience will be seen as reasonable.

seniorivn · a year ago

the mind blowing fact is that for any significant percentage of people taking something that is not yours, can be justified by anything. That is not western culture, saying that as someone born in ussr, where stealing from government has never been considered stealing, which to this day the reason for all the corruption and low level of trust on every level of communication.

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snypher · 2 years ago

Is this like forcing a tenant out of a property because you wish to raise the rent?

seniorivn · 2 years ago

its the opposite, its an increase of rent, because you want to increase rent

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markvdb · 2 years ago

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seniorivn · 2 years ago

is it safe from it?

seniorivn commented on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 miamiherald.com/news/nati... · Posted by u/apsec112

ajmurmann · 2 years ago

How is it useful to provoke your much stronger opponent when your own country has the GDP of Greece?

seniorivn · 2 years ago

there is no point in comparing gdps here, what's important is what is the capability of war industry and armies are, and at the moment we can see that industries are not that far off, add nuclear weapons to the picture, and its draw, just as it was in the cold war.

seniorivn commented on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 miamiherald.com/news/nati... · Posted by u/apsec112

input_sh · 2 years ago

Because he's not targeting the west, he's targeting semi-literate part of Russian population. He isn't giving statements like that on CNN, he's giving statements like that on TV programs that no educated person watches.

He's there to blow things out of proportion locally, he just happens to be translated from time to time for clicks. There's no significance to his words. He doesn't speak on behalf of Putin, he's not there to leak some super-secret internal plans for the future, he's just there to yap about how Russia can totally take over the entire Europe.

seniorivn · 2 years ago

education has nothing to do with this, an average university professor in Russia(or for a matter of fact in the west too) is a radical supporter of the mainstream media

seniorivn commented on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 miamiherald.com/news/nati... · Posted by u/apsec112

MaxPock · 2 years ago

Neither does capitalism

seniorivn · 2 years ago

it would help a lot if you all stopped calling the mess implemented in practice without any ideology behind it by a theoretical model name.